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>> No. 28571 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 1:05 am
28571 Minor Rants and Piss-Offs, Mark VIII Locked
It appears largethreadmodlad has also locked the previous iteration of this thread; Mark VIII it is, then.

I take perfect care of my nails. I don't bite them, I cut in the standard flat formation every 3-5 days, and scrub under them in the shower. So why the actual fuck are my cuticles bleeding? Putting the plaster over to catch the blood means I can't play my bass properly, and that pisses me off.
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>> No. 28572 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 1:24 am
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>>28571
Almost 2 and half years ago to the day I was in a wheelchair and struggling to walk, I battled back to health but I still can't manage to cut my own toenails. It's a bridge too far for me, but it's embarrassing to ask for help so I keep ruining my socks and it annoys me. However, when I do ask my wife also soaks them, uses a pumice stone on them and moisturises them. I've noticed the cuticles and skin in general stays supple for a while.

Try using hand cream, like that Norwegian stuff for sailors.
>> No. 28573 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 2:57 pm
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My brain's shit.
>> No. 28574 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 3:14 pm
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>>28573
This.
>> No. 28575 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 4:38 pm
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>>28571

I'd assume you answered your own question there. If your cuticle are always bleeding you might not be playing your bass properly anyway.
>> No. 28576 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 5:21 pm
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>>28575
They aren't always bleeding; it's just a recent thing.
>> No. 28578 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 5:42 pm
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PornHub's tendency to promote wannabe porn stars unwilling to show their face.
>> No. 28579 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:06 pm
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I'd kill every man here for a Kit Kat Chunky multipack.
>> No. 28581 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>28579
Do you like to munch four down like your'e having a massive regular 4-lane kitkat (that had become disconnected) ?
>> No. 28582 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:53 pm
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I'm okay with the SWP handing out their moronic

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY


Climate change is bad
signs at Extinction Rebellion protests because it's such a transparently manipulative thing to do people are immediately turned off by it, but it creates so much waste as the things break and are discarded at the end of the day. Nobody wants to take them home. Do the SWP stick around to gather them up and recycle them? Do they fuck. If you're going to try to hijack an environmental protest movement as a recruiting tool, at least act like you give a minimal shit about the environment.
Complete shower of cunts.
>> No. 28583 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>28582

What else are you going to burn on your traditional post-protest bonfire?
>> No. 28584 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:58 pm
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>>28583

SWP members.
>> No. 28585 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:59 pm
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>>28579

Double or nothing- Fight me in a duel for a multipack of peanut butter kitk kat chunkys.
>> No. 28586 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 8:25 pm
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>>28579>>28585

I'd splatter the both of you to have Cadbury's Fuse bars back.
>> No. 28587 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 8:48 pm
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>>28585
>>28586
I trained under the First Sword of Wrexham, inherited a khukuri from my Granddad and once beat Skyrim with an Argonian beserker build. It's quite clear I'm the most capable duelist on the board by some margin. If I looked hard enough I might even find the shield I made out of a Tie Fighter wing as a child.

Those Kit Kats are mine.
>> No. 28588 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 8:53 pm
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>>28587

I'm probably just going to drive to Tesco and buy some Kit Kats, if it's all the same to you lads.
>> No. 28589 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 8:55 pm
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>>28588
I declare this illegal.
>> No. 28590 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 9:03 pm
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Why don't we pronounce the "c" in "blancmange"?

>>28588
You are without honour.
>> No. 28591 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>28590

And what is honour without chocolate?

blancmange pretty much literally translates to "white food" so the blanc in there is pronounced mostly how it is in french - without, or at least almost without the C.
>> No. 28593 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:02 am
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>>28588

Bring us some baccy while you're there mate. And some M&M crispies. They're on offer for a quid.
>> No. 28594 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 1:13 am
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>>28588
get us some bacon frazzles m8
>> No. 28595 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:07 pm
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Comment sections that are just references or repeats of whatever the poster has said in the past, only one in fifty is any good. See The Needle Drop and Limmy's Twitter for examples.
>> No. 28596 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:31 pm
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>>28595
Bounced on my boy's dick to this comment.
>> No. 28597 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 1:13 pm
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>>28596
http://www.nicememe.ca/
>> No. 28598 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 8:00 am
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Acid reflux so strong Rennie has no effect. It feels like I've swallowed a cocktail of paint stripper and battery acid. This is fucking excruciating.
>> No. 28599 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 8:26 am
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>>28598
This sounds counter-intuitive and contrary to what you would consider is common sense, but acid reflux is actually caused by too little acid in your stomach.
If your stomach isn't producing enough acid, bacteria and yeast are able to survive, their growth is what upsets the stomach and causes reflux up the throat.

Rennie only treats the symptoms, it lowers the acidity even more so that reflux is less painful, but it's not a cure.

The root cause of acid reflux is usually a salt deficiency. If you start to become deficient in salt, one of the ways your body will try and retain it is to produce less stomach acid.
>> No. 28600 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 11:57 pm
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Why you gotta' be setting your space shit in a whole new galaxy or something? There has to be some dumb wormhole-cum-slipspace-mega-tech for it to happen and our own solar system is easily interesting and diverse enough to support a whole game or film or whatever. And don't talk to me about no stupid aliens; aliens always just end up acting like space Fascists, space hippies or autistic physicists regardless of how big of a universe you put them in. Except the Quarians, they were kind of unique.
>> No. 28601 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 1:45 am
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>>28598
You need ranitidine and Lansoprazole, Pepto Bismol in a bind. Rennies are a complete con job and don’t work.
>> No. 28602 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 8:52 pm
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A couple of parental gripes.

1. They refuse to pay for gift aid when they go places but then complain that this means they don't qualify for an annual pass. Just pay the extra ~10% and return as many times as you want in the next 12 months for free rather than fixating on getting in cheaper on this occasion.

2. For my birthday I've provided them with a list of books on my 'to read' list and stressed that I'd prefer used ones as they're much cheaper so they'd be able to buy a lot more. They bought me two new books when they could have got around ten for that price if they were savvy, plus if I'd known they weren't going to get them all I'd have hinted at other people to get them rather than things I'd have preferred less
I realise giving them a list for my birthday sounds a bit cuntish, but my family always outright tells one another what we want for presents.
>> No. 28603 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 11:56 pm
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>>28602
Bloody parents, acting as if you wouldn't be there if not for them.
>> No. 28604 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 1:55 am
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>>28603
Precisely, they're to blame for everything.
>> No. 28605 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 2:17 am
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>>28603
I fucking hate this shit. When I were a a teenlad, they'd often call me ungrateful, that I wouldn't be there if not for them, etc. While I was probably being a bit of a twat, I never got that argument.

I never asked to be brought into the world, so I don't see why I should be in any way grateful for it. Life is the worst gift you can give anyone.
>> No. 28606 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:20 am
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>>28605

My mother has tried to make me feel guilty or that I owe her something for bringing me into the world, raising me, spending money on me etc. I always tell her I very much wish she hadn't bothered, and it's not exactly like I had a say in any of it. It's daft really, if it was that bad she should have thought about that before she got up the duff, or at least poisoned me as a baby.
>> No. 28607 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:22 am
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My kindle updated itself and I lost all my non-amazon store books. What a fucking cunt on.
>> No. 28608 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 10:11 am
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>>28606
Enjoy your low social credit and not being able to apply for a fishing license.
>> No. 28609 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 12:50 pm
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>>28607
Was it supposed to do that? Mine is almost exclusively used to read "legally acquired" books I've dumped in the /documents/ folder not store purchases, it'd be a pain in the arse if a software upgrade fucked with that. Although I do keep it in airplane mode to maximise battery life.
>> No. 28610 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 3:13 pm
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>>28609

I'm not sure. It was in my pocket at work and must have unlocked as I was moving about, when I next looked at it, it had three different updates done on it and all my "legally acquired" books were gone. I'm starting to think I must have caused it to factory reset while it was jiggling around in my pocket.
>> No. 28611 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 12:43 am
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>>28610
You may want to check your library settings on the website and see if those legally acquired books are registered or not. Most ebook sellers can let their books be used through Kindle directly, via a link that you provide from that service to Amazon. I've bought a few collections from Humble that have worked this way.
>> No. 28612 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 11:47 pm
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Right, I've held off long enough about the weather but this is getting silly now. Its not the heat but the godawful humidity that has had me feeling clammy and disgusting all day. And my hair is in an even worse state!

What preparations have you lads made for the coming months of sunshine-hot-hot?
>> No. 28613 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 1:24 am
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>>28612

Shaved my head, got a job outside, and bought an air conditioner for the shed.
>> No. 28614 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 10:01 am
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>>28612
Bought emergency blankets to cover the windows during the day.
>> No. 28615 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 5:22 pm
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Fucking estate agents fucking me abouT.

We went round, after the estate agent gave us all that about "getting in quick because there's a lot of interest". Bloody tennants gave the game away straight away by telling us we were the first ones to come look. We called up to say we'd take it literally straight away, they said they'd call us back, and what do you know, they've still gone and given it to someone else.

What is wrong with these people. What is their fucking game.
>> No. 28616 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 5:55 pm
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Why the fuck is PC gaming not simple anymore. It seems like so many companies are cutting corners and doing bad ports and badly optimised games for PC now. For days it took me about half an hour to start up one of two games, fiddle about with the settings so that it works THIS time, then I get to play for an hour before encountering some issue. Two games now. Two games I've paid for and can barely play due to updates that have rendered them buggy as fuck. Even did a clean install of Windows recently, nothing is conflicting on my end, a game update happens and fucks everything. It shouldn't be a bleeding chore to relax during some precious free time.
>> No. 28617 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 7:39 pm
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>>28616
This is why you end up at PS4/Xbox instead - I don't want to fiddle with DirectX drivers and debug nine kinds of shit just to play a game; I do that all day at work.
>> No. 28618 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 1:28 am
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>>28615
I'm not sure if you have to be a cunt before you become an estate agent, or the job turns you into one.
>> No. 28619 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 8:18 am
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>>28615
I don't get it - so was there lots of interest or not?
>> No. 28620 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 9:11 am
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>>28619

I think what happened is they basically forgot about us; we phoned first thing Saturday morning, they told us they'd get back to us when they'd spoken to the landlord. Then when we hadn't heard anything by Monday we called back and they said it had been taken. We know we were the first viewers, so unless someone had taken it without viewing we should also have been the first to express interest. Which means we should have fucking got it.

I wish my utter cynicism wasn't always right, but I think it's just one of those cases. I trusted Leanne to ring us back; what I should really have done is trusted my instincts that Leanne is a slack fucking bint and called her back every half hour until she got her shit together.

I normally wouldn't be so annoyed about this but the house was in the perfect location for me and the Mrs to both have a decent commute; all of our other options either leave me slogging through traffic for ages or her getting a long convoluted bus/train route.

>>28618

Both.
>> No. 28621 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 9:41 am
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>>28618
the weasel I'm dealing with for a car lease could easily be an estate agent on the side. He's completely uninterested in actually doing his fucking job, keeps telling me that he was on annual leave again, so another week's passed with him failing to do an easy 10 minutes work. Get the puncture fixed, schedule the delivery. 3 weeks and counting. Cunt. I'm going to have to rent something to tide me over.
>> No. 28622 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 11:51 am
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If there is one thing worse than a train arriving late it is a train leaving early. I regret having not gone to expain the fundamentals of their job to the platform manager whilst waiting for the next one.
>> No. 28623 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 12:02 pm
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Described myself as "ace" to a bunch of alternative sorts online last night, as in a really cool fighter pilot or the best card in a deck.

About half-an-hour later I realised everyone had thought I'd come out as asexual.

http://www.whatisasexuality.com/am-i-ace/teen/
>> No. 28624 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 6:19 pm
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>>28622
Wouldn't happen to be King's Cross would it? The absolute gobshites have tried to catch me out a few times with a train I've pre-booked tickets on arriving and subsequently leaving early.
>> No. 28625 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 7:35 pm
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>>28624
Not him but I have also run into this problem at King's Cross more than once (and not elsewhere).
>> No. 28626 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 3:11 am
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It's the night before an exam and I don't think I have ever felt more awake.

If there is any evidence to sya we as humans aren't created by an intelligent being it would be the fact that sleep, something apparently essential to our existence, is also completely fucking impossible when we need it the most.
>> No. 28627 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 5:30 am
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>>28622
>>28624
>>28625
There are signs up about doors being locked a certain amount of time before departure. I remember they used to say 30 seconds, thought I've seen 40 and 60 elsewhere. I've heard that in some places they've put it up to a piss-taking 90 seconds. As soon as the doors are locked, the driver is free to go as long as the guard agrees and the signals are clear. The timetable already has more padding than a typical England batting line-up, so if you're having to leave early just to not arrive late someone has fucked up massively somewhere.

In fairness, it should be noted that the departure time shown in the timetable is just that: departure time, as in wheels rolling. That said, the working timetable has "advertised to leave X minutes early" (i.e. the public timetable shows an earlier time) as a standard note so I don't know why they don't just use that if delays on starting out are such a problem.
>> No. 28628 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 4:33 pm
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I largely dodged the post-adolecsent problem of embarrassing email handles, but occasionally I'll get a message using a name I chose out of a bad poem, or I'll have to use my back up email which is basically "DelicateUnicornBoy@supernet.co.uk".
>> No. 28629 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 5:54 pm
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>>28628
I've just noticed that my email recovery address is a years old mailbox on a server I no longer have access to. I'd better not lose that 64-character random password I set.
>> No. 28630 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 7:07 pm
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Speaking of emails, I created a new Gmail account on Friday to apply for jobs. I've only submitted my details for a position at a local council and I'm already getting spam; that job application is literally the only thing linked to the account.
>> No. 28631 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 7:24 pm
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>>28630
I had this last time I was looking for a job.
Cunts, all of them.
>> No. 28632 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 8:38 pm
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>>28630
You know how hackers try brute-forcing passwords? Spammers do the same thing with email addresses these days. They know that sbennett@ is a valid address, so they'll start tacking numbers on the end because that's what people do when names aren't available.
>> No. 28633 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 6:08 am
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I have a parcel that is in customs, it's had it it's charges worked out but it seems the fuckers just gave up after that and forgot about it since it hasn't moved since.
>> No. 28634 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 4:16 pm
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Saw a brochure from a business calling themselves "Labradoors, an Electric Garage Door Comapny", with a wee silhouette of a dog for a logo. They stuck with that name so I can only assume whoever thought of it kept their job. Shocking.
>> No. 28635 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 5:13 pm
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>>28634

Well you've remembered it and just gave them free advertising and now I remember it. Seems less stupid now.
>> No. 28636 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 5:33 pm
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>>28635
I knew some smug cunt was going to say that. I look forward to seeing your new garage doors in a future thread.
>> No. 28638 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 4:02 pm
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>>28636
hahahaha
>> No. 28639 Anonymous
9th June 2019
Sunday 1:11 am
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>>28634
Fuck, now I'm thinking of it too. Was it your bloody idea? It was, wasn't it? Is this stage II, the viral marketing campaign targeting Britain's most influential and widespread forums? Jog on, shill.
>> No. 28640 Anonymous
9th June 2019
Sunday 2:41 pm
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Okay, that's it, I'm adding paid advertising to the site. This time next year we'll all be millionaires etc.
>> No. 28641 Anonymous
9th June 2019
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>> No. 28642 Anonymous
9th June 2019
Sunday 6:07 pm
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>>28641

Seeing that image made the jingle automatically start playing in my head.
>> No. 28643 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 8:41 pm
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I've been trying to get into newfangled things like Reddit and Twitter, because I feel old and all the websites I post on are slowly dying.

Everything about it is boiling my piss. Posting restrictions and arbitrary conditions, with posts just getting auto-deleted if you fail to meet them. Fuck me. I mean I can see why it's probably necessary but it's infuriating.
>> No. 28644 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 8:57 pm
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>>28643
I've been trying to get into the UKPersonalFinance sub on Reddit after seeing it mentioned a few times on here, which is my first experience of the place. However, I've seen some dangerous advice given by people who don't know what they're talking about and the threads are largely repetitive; it's mainly either "got a lump sum, what do?" or humble-bragging about how much they earn.
>> No. 28645 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 11:43 pm
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>>28644
It seems to me that reddit is mostly home to youngsters and/or neophytes, with the more knowledgable types congregating on old-style niche forums. Even imageboards are better because they tend to attract obsessive autists.
>> No. 28646 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>28644
>I've seen some dangerous advice given by people who don't know what they're talking about

On Reddit??? Never!!!

Good thing they dont have subreddits about political issues or anything important like that.
>> No. 28647 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 1:32 am
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>>28645

You do tend to see a lot of "hahaha remember (thing)" type memes on Reddit, where the joke is that the thing is meant to have been ages ago but it was only actually two or three years. There's also a lot of that weird "oh man I've seen some SHIT" attitude from people who probably don't even know what goatse, tubgirl or 2girls1cup were.

I just don't like the internet any more, I think.
>> No. 28648 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 1:51 am
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>>28647

Their front page is full of people sneering at people doing stupid things when you get the impression those doing the sneering are only mildly more intelligent.
>> No. 28649 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 1:59 am
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>>28647

When I think about explosive diarrhea, it gives me a stabbing pain in my upper inner right thigh where it meets the groin. Tubgirl is one of two images which causes me physical pain. I can't find the other again but it was a screenshot of someone's facebook status saying she had just learned that cleaning diarrhea off Ben's scrotum was like scraping butter of an English muffin. I assume Ben was a baby.
>> No. 28650 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 2:40 am
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>>28649
>When I think about explosive diarrhea, it gives me a stabbing pain in my upper inner right thigh where it meets the groin.

You are now breathing manually and blinking manually.
You just lost The Game.
You are now thinking of explosive diarrhea.
>> No. 28651 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 6:29 am
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>>28646
>Good thing they dont have subreddits about political issues or anything important like that.

We're not much better in that respect. If you look at, say, the Syria threads or just about any thread on /pol/ or /news/ that are a few years old it's clear that the posters who try to come across as experts and knowledgeable in that field were completely pulling it out of their arse. Some of it is spectacularly inaccurate. In hindsight, the Syria threads seem like we've been infiltrated by Russians or Russian sympathisers.
>> No. 28652 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 3:05 pm
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Feels like a dig when I get told to watch shit like this.
>> No. 28653 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>28651

I think reddit biggest problem is the circle jerk. Opposing position regardless of quality get down voted to oblivion ones that are fundamentally stupid but preach to the choir are promoted into the stratosphere.

What makes this worse is that this is by design. The 'wrong' popular threads are are deleted before they ever hit the front of r/all there are various things that that track this now like r/undelete

There is a secret admin group I think its called something as Orwellian as 'anti-evil' that manages this policy.

So when you see another anti vax are so dumb, next marvel movie great thread it is there by design.
>> No. 28654 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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Parcelforce decided to reschedule my delivery without telling me.

Wankers.
>> No. 28655 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 6:55 pm
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I feel slightly guilty about being slightly shitty to a chugger on my way home. She accosted me in the train station with the line "Are you friendly?". A somewhat curt "no" did nothing to temper her enthusiasm to "just start a conversation", nor did my reply "I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not interested in whatever you're pitching and just want to wait for my train in peace". I backed away, but she started literally following me around the station concourse. I ended up explaining in detail why both the charity she was raising money for and the overheads of street fundraising offer extremely poor value for money to donors and have a detrimental effect on the charitable sector as a whole; she just looked sad and slightly ashamed and didn't know what to say.

I shouldn't have made a stranger's day worse for no real reason, but her sheer persistence really wound me up.
>> No. 28656 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 6:58 pm
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>>28652

I really wish that YouTube would stop promoting conspiracy theory bollocks. A search for "international space station" no longer returns a page full of videos "proving" that the ISS is a hoax, so at least they're doing something, but they don't seem to be trying particularly hard to deal with the dangerous pseudoscientific bollocks that litters their platform.
>> No. 28657 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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>>28656
Bottom line is they don't give a shit unless it gets them bad publicity and threatens their revenue.
>> No. 28659 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 7:50 pm
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>>28653

I've only been using it about a week but I've already come to much the same conclusion. User voting seems like a great idea at first, until you realise that the users are mostly morons, and having them vote just encourages moronic posts to be voted up because they have the right memes in them.
>> No. 28660 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>28656
>Imagine playing a co-op shooter like Fortnite Battle Royale or PUB-G with on a VR headset... in real time, with zero lag
Okay, I'm imagining it. Now what?
>> No. 28661 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 7:58 pm
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>>28653
I like how you've cleverly posted the most obvious, oft-repeated and shallow criticisms of reddit. Very meta.
>> No. 28662 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 8:29 pm
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>>28655
I hope you don't mind me saying but I'd shake your hand if I could. These arseholes come and knock on my door (at least twice just in the past couple of weeks) and if I say "Sorry I'm not buying anything" the moment I can see they have a clipboard or whatever and go to close the door they say "I'm not selling anything", one of them pointed to his t-shirt with the charity logo on it as he said it.

I think people without serious issues around simply ignoring the boundaries of others don't last long in the job or are reluctant to take it in the first place.
>> No. 28663 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:36 am
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One asked me if I was friendly. I said "moderately" and kept walking and that was that. Maybe that's the magic word somehow.
>> No. 28664 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:39 am
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>>28663

I think it's a sales technique where they start with a question you can't say no to. One tried to sell me a dodgy photocopied book of jokes and started with "Do you like a laugh?". I said no and they looked baffled.
>> No. 28665 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:42 am
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>>28664

One was saying peculiar things to me about what we had in common like he used to have the same bag as me and when he asked my hometown he said his fellow chugger was from the same place. I was baffled he thought I was supposed to care.
>> No. 28666 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:43 am
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>>28665

I just typo'd chigger before I fixed it.


>> No. 28667 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 9:52 am
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>>28665
I think these people have a training course which is just being read a condensed to one page of bulletpoints version of How to win friends & influence people. Most likely it's missing the one very important bulletpoint that explains if people can tell even on a subconscious level that you're trying to manipulate them then it'll make them dislike you far more than if you were just plainly asking.
>> No. 28668 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 5:27 pm
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>>28667

I've done a few shit sales type jobs in my time, from cold-calling flogging iPads to door knocking for market research.

The one thing they've always had in common is that the sales training they give you is utterly ineffective, and about twenty years behind what people have already become used to just saying no to immediately. There are two type of people who succeed at sales- Either you're a genuine "people person" with the ability to chat shit to anyone, or you have Derren Brown level powers of suggestion and essentially jedi mind trick people into agreeing with you.

The one most essential thing they never teach is that you really can't rescue a pitch from someone who's flat out not interested. I'm not sure why this obvious fact escapes the people responsible for training, but it's for this reason that you get those godawful jar-shakers who try it on even when you basically tell them to fuck off. The training always tries to tell you it's worth a shot and that you have to be persistent, with some semi-mythical bullshit about landing that massive sale from what at first seemed to be a dead end; but it's simply a waste of time. It's always far more efficient to just cut it off and knock on the next door/call the next person etc.
>> No. 28671 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 7:52 pm
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>>28655
>I ended up explaining in detail why both the charity she was raising money for and the overheads of street fundraising offer extremely poor value for money to donors and have a detrimental effect on the charitable sector as a whole; she just looked sad and slightly ashamed and didn't know what to say.
The correct action here would have been to just say in a slightly raised voice "look, just fuck off and leave me alone". 100% success rate, and shouldn't ruin their day.
>> No. 28672 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>28668
They did when I did cold-calling back in 2010 or so. The word was 'negs'. Negs aren't gonna get you a sale no matter what, so waste as little time on them as possible and move on, checking their house number off the list as you go. The absolute worst thing to encounter were COWS: Cannot Operate Without Spouse. They're really interested, spend ages talking to you (and not in the facetious way people sometimes do with telemarketers) but get terrified as soon as paperwork comes out, at which point they need to consult with the other half who is never present. I was selling TalkTalk packages I should mention, so it wasn't just a case of getting them to part with some cash and then leaving, it involved another phone call to TT themselves.

Absolutely horrible job, I'll never forget it. You're bothering almost everyone who answers the door and it makes you feel rotten after a while, though genuine abuse is surprisingly rare in this country at least. I'm a lot nicer to such people now if they come to the door - I'll at least chat with for a minute about the job while making it clear I'm not going to buying anything. Also it tears your feet to shreds and half the time you'll work 9 hours with 15 minutes for lunch and make absolutely no money at all.
>> No. 28673 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 2:21 am
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>>28672
What is the quickest, easiest way to be identified as a 'neg'?
>> No. 28674 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 2:53 am
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>>28673
"Sorry, not interested" while already closing the door. I don't think it matters on you though, it's about the training the person has gotten. We were told to use our instincts and if someone was clearly not going to budge then move on asap. Seems like many of the above posters are referring to chuggers and such who've been told the key is chirpy persistence. In that case try lobbing a brick.
>> No. 28675 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 3:05 am
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>>28673
A very quick "no thank you" and walk off/close the door. There is no need to be British levels of polite at this.
>> No. 28676 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 8:58 am
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>>28673

Mention it on the Grindr profile.
>> No. 28677 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 1:07 am
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The word "fierce".
>> No. 28678 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 1:47 am
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If you ever feel bad about being single then just look at your bank balance. Fucking hell does pussy put a dent in your finances like little else.

She's in the same boat
>> No. 28679 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 11:36 am
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>>28678
I'm a virgin in his mid 20s and my bank balance is still shit. Student finance will do that to you. That said, I've seen some of my peers working off overdraft for years after uni; thank fuck I'm not in that position.
>> No. 28680 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 2:18 pm
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It's been sunny and dry all morning but within 10 seconds of me leaving the house it starts FUCKING PISSING IT FUCKING DOWN. FUCK THIS FUCKING PLACE. CUNT.
>> No. 28681 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>28680
The sun is out for the first time in days here. Muggy and humid though, could be a storm coming.
>> No. 28682 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 8:34 pm
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>>28678

People always say this but I've never really got that. If anything my girlfriends have saved me money by taking my time and attention away from my many expensive hobbies. I also tend to go out with women who have jobs and are capable of supporting themselves. And back in the day, splitting the rent and bills worked out cheaper too.

I did buy my current missus a car though, now you mention it. Hmm.
>> No. 28683 Anonymous
16th June 2019
Sunday 8:35 pm
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>>28680

It did that here too and I actually went to stand in the rain, it was a welcome change from the horrible humidity. There was a proper nice clear rainbow when it rained too.
>> No. 28685 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 11:17 am
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People who self-identify as "nerds" or "geeks" with their entire personality revolving around buying pieces of cardboard and plastic from Games Workshop, Wizards of the Coast Hasbro, Funko Inc or Disney's Star Wars division.
They're not bad people but it is purely rampant popular consumerism and not the harmless niche hobbies they believe it is.
>> No. 28686 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 11:37 am
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>>28685

I think they are bad people. They adopted the culture of people who were social pariahs, but decided they still wanted to treat them as social pariah. The people who used to be called geeks and nerds when it was a pejorative are now called neckbeards instead, and people still treat them like shit even though they have stolen their identity.

I remember hearing the statement on QI of all places "Counter culture is just out sourced R&D for capitalism" and it's true.

What was authentic is reduced down to a lifestyle you can buy and faking will make you popular.

Mind you it isn't as bad as people who wear not seeing star wars like a badge of honor as if cultural ignorance was an achievement and an identity.
>> No. 28687 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 12:07 pm
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>>28685

I'd agree, but I don't think you'll find many of those people putting in the effort to assemble and paint Games Workshop minis. That takes too much effort and genuine investment, when what these people are looking for is a convenient label and culture to fit into, in lieu of a personality of their own.

You might find them in drop-in DnD campaigns at those trendy little geek cafés that sell imported Pop Tarts. It takes less homework. But mostly they just make sure they have plenty of Marvel posters up around the house and watch Star Wars a couple of times.

>>28686

I also agree with this. Being a geek or nerd hasn't been more acceptable, normal people have simply appropriated the term.

See also: Tattoos, facial piercings, keeping reptiles as pets, pop punk, rockabilly fashion, riding a motorbike when you've only done your CBT... Maybe the circles I move in are just too full of tedious overgrown student hipster cunts, but I've definitely noticed that people just seem to pick whatever "alternative" identity they think appeals to them right off the shelf nowadays.
>> No. 28690 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 12:15 pm
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>>28687

You left off rock climbing it is both the thing to put on your dating profile to seem exciting, and the rock climbing centre is also the place to hang out like it is a coffee shop with your laptop, not doing any climbing.

>motorbike when you've only done your CBT

I didn't think you needed to be into more darker shit than cock and ball torture to be cool enough for a motorcycle but I'll take your word for it.
>> No. 28691 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 12:16 pm
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>>28686

I haven't seen Star Wars (I think I saw the Phantom Menace when I was about 13) but I typically pretend I have, because it's just not worth the hassle. I'm sure they're very good, but I already know what happens and I'm sort of put off by the idea that they're 'important'.

When it comes to hobbies and interests I'm probably an 'actual' nerd by the traditional definition, with interests such as soldering together my own synthesisers, building radio antenna, and reading books with CGI spaceships as cover art and long, vague titles. I try not to mention this stuff to anyone (other than places like here) because I know that rarely people care. I've made the mistake of being asked what I do for a hobby and answering honestly, and by the time you've explained what a Raspberry Pi is any why you have one stuck to your roof with bits of copper sticking out of it, they think you're a murderer. Luckily I have more vague things I can say like 'music' or 'photography' without mentioning modular synthesis or MAX/msp or developing your own film. I suppose there must be a lot of 'sleeper nerds' like this.

Anyway, I know a lad who's never had a Big Mac and likes to mention that at almost every opportunity. People seem to care, too. "oh my god! That's crazy!" fuck off, he's missing out on an quite good, three quid burger, that's just a mistake on his part, not an interesting fact.
>> No. 28692 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 12:20 pm
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>>28687

>right off the shelf nowadays

I suspect it's always been like this, just it used to be a bit more local. My mum didn't invent being a goth, and likely only did it because she knew ten other goths. Maybe she had to dye her own clothes black or whatever but the idea was the same, she was dressing and acting like a load of her mates. I think youth culture must be a lot more diffuse these days, as you can obviously access and assimilate any culture worldwide. Back in the day you might never have been a punk if your city didn't have a record shop that sold punk albums or you couldn't pick up the one radio station playing that sort of thing. Now you can be fully and exclusively into Brazilian acid funk and pretend that's the only thing that speaks to you.
>> No. 28693 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 12:42 pm
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>>28689
>I haven't seen Star Wars (I think I saw the Phantom Menace when I was about 13) but I typically pretend I have, because it's just not worth the hassle. I'm sure they're very good, but I already know what happens and I'm sort of put off by the idea that they're 'important'.

By no means was my comment about not seeing star wars an attack on people who haven't seen star wars. You keep doing you.

Apologies for the following rant you've awakened something in me by your statement.

The truth is there are 3 good star wars films (really only 2 are exceptional cinema but the third rounds off the story very well). But they have been fucked around with both by re-editing, and by expansion of the cannon since in ways that ruin them.

You would be hard pressed now to find a version of the original star wars that hadn't been fucked with in post in a way that ruins the tone and pace without knowing what you were looking for, so if you are happy where you are I wouldn't even start, but they are up there with seven samurai in terms of quality story telling.

As for how the expansion of cannon fucked them, firstly the force and Jedi knights were originally talked about in vague and mystical terms and it really helped sell a meta spiritual idea that 'if you are true of heart you are strong with the force' that the audiance related with but later the force was explained away as a physical property in the blood, and the Jedi knights became interstellar police. Essentially without changing the films in that sense they have fucked the meaning behind them.

The audience didn't understand the difference between what is psychologically exciting and what is visually spectacular so equated them with each other. The light sabre battles are nothing visually impressive in the originals but carry a lot of emotional and narrative weight and some how people have mentally equated what they felt with it being more visually interesting but have ignored the underlying importance. what has resulted in later movies when the people who grew up with them started making them is kind of like how a Michael Bay fight makes you feel bored because you are just watching the fight coordinators and FX team jerk off.
>> No. 28694 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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>>28692
>I suspect it's always been like this

It clearly wasn't back in the days of the Nazis hanging the Edelweiss Pirates, and US riot police coming into Jazz clubs to 'beat up n!ggers', But I could understand you believing these things given what things have been like in living memory.


> My mum didn't invent being a goth, and likely only did it because she knew ten other goths
You've made the fallacy and it is an understandable one of equating fashion and the cultural trappings of culture with culture. You make this mistake because a lot of what you are told about these things are by people who don't care about any sort of underlying ideology, but only want to sell something.

Take for example what we have been talking about geek and nerds. Is there anything outwardly expressive in reading a comic, or molding a railway or sticking a raspberry pi on your roof for reasons I don't pretend to understand? No it is something of a personal journey a hobby, that is what defines a culture even if they look no different from anyone else. When someone starts wearing a t-shirt with Batman on though, we get into an interesting discussion though as to why they are. Are their motives wholly personal expression, is it just something they picked because it looked cool or trendy, or some mixture of both. (I'm currently wearing a pokemone t-shirt it is my fravorite shirt, but the pokemon on it is obscure enough and the design naff enough I don't feel like I'm broadcasting any sort of street cred).

Capitalism will always step in and try sell you the band tour T-shirt like it was the same thing as being there. It is up to us to recognize the difference without being snooty pricks about it to people who show up later.
>> No. 28695 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 2:13 pm
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PAYG phone top-ups at cash machines have just quietly been discontinued. EE gave me no warning at all. I just learned today when I tried it on two different cash machines.

https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-As-You-Go/ATM-top-ups-being-discontinued/td-p/1220499

(Not my photo. Just grabbed it off that forum thread.)
>> No. 28696 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 2:16 pm
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>>28694

It seems we're talking about two different things.
>> No. 28697 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 2:36 pm
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>>28696

we aren't, we were orginally talking about Geek culture and branding, and the idea of selling someone an identity they can pick up and have, and I deconstructed that as to the difference between actually having an identity and merely having the appearance of one. Goth is largely just fashion and art around the macabre so it won't ever really be deeper than that, but there are deeper interests that are co-opted and sold which was the original examples.

Of course if you use an example that is heavily linked to the record industry at a time at the height of their power you are going to find nothing once you dig below the surface your mistake is assuming everything is like that.
>> No. 28698 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 2:53 pm
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>>28697

You're trying really hard to be right, I'll give you that much.
>> No. 28699 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 3:23 pm
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>>28698

Well since you havent expanded your point or explained yourself at all I must presume you don't actually have a coherent one to make. You are just saying no it isn't.
>> No. 28700 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>>28699

I don't have the energy to argue over a point I never made, lad.
>> No. 28701 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 5:15 pm
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You're both getting locked in the shed until you've learnt to get along.
>> No. 28702 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 10:11 pm
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>>28701

I can get along with him just FINE! it's HIM who can't get along with ME!
>> No. 28703 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:19 am
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>>28653
>I think reddit biggest problem is the circle jerk. Opposing position regardless of quality get down voted to oblivion ones that are fundamentally stupid but preach to the choir are promoted into the stratosphere.

>What makes this worse is that this is by design. The 'wrong' popular threads are are deleted before they ever hit the front of r/all there are various things that that track this now like r/undelete.

Visitors to the The_Donald message board, which describes itself as “a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump” and has more than 750,000 subscribers, will be greeted with a message about the reasons for the quarantine before they can click through to the site. The quarantine also restricts the message board, known as a subreddit, from generating revenue and limits its popular posts from reaching an audience in other parts of Reddit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/reddit-the-donald-trump-quarantined-subreddit
>> No. 28704 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:49 am
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I love living in London. It's genuinely given me a new lease of life.

It's busy, it's fun, it's exciting, there's always somebody around, something to do.

The only drawback, and admittedly it is a big one, is that room mates you get are fucking useless. It is absolutely mindblowing the kind of manchildren that inhabit this earth and cannot live like an adult.

Our flat literally has a paid cleaner who comes every other week, leaves the place spotless, so that means for two weeks if you wash up after yourself and wipe up any major spills we're pretty much golden and our flat looks great.

Without failure, two days in, one housemate seems to make it his mission to shit up the side of the bowl and leave it and the other just fucking trashes the kitchen and doesn't wash up. These people are in their mid 30s and it's fucking embarrassing having to ask them to sort their shit.

I only take solace in the fact that they will probably die alone as no self-respecting woman/partner would ever survive them long term.
>> No. 28705 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 8:28 am
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>>28704
My housemate behaves similarly. I don't think he's doing it on purpose but is just oblivious. I made this last night, currently considering the pros and cons of putting it on the fridge. The idea is to put a name and date on there every time I do one of the things on it to draw attention to how much housework actually takes place and how little they're doing.
I wanted to include "Cleaned up someone else's beard hair", "Mopped piss off the floor", "Cleaned oven", "Re-washed dishes that weren't cleaned properly", "Wiped kitchen counter", "Hoovered" and some other things but there isn't really space for it.
>> No. 28706 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:23 am
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>>28705

Christ, the re-washed thing strikes a chord more than anything. When they do finally wash up they basically dip whatever needs washing in and out of water and then leave it to dry, with half of their last meal still on it.

The thing I don't get is it takes no effort at all to wash up and live in a nice place. It takes what, 20 seconds per item max? Maybe slightly longer for big items. Then it's done, don't have to stare at it and eventually has to get done anyway so just o it.

I think your approach might be slightly passive aggressive though, I've had best results by just confronting it and saying 'you need to wash up I don't want to live like this, you're 35'. Basically the shame card.

Having said that the same cycle repeats after a few weeks so maybe you might be right to log it.

I'll revert back to my bitterness, he talks about how when he buys his own flat and shows me pictures of nice flats he uses for inspiration and all I can think is how his will look nothing like that because it will be a fucking mess.

I also find it really annoying two of us pay the rent for a place that isn't particularly great, but it's location is right by work, so it makes sense, this man is paying premium rate and doesn't even work near here, so what's the point?.
>> No. 28707 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:39 am
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>>28706
>I've had best results by just confronting it and saying 'you need to wash up I don't want to live like this, you're 35'. Basically the shame card.
Our chatlog is already just a history of me asking him to clean up after himself. Usually he gets the message but I hate having to nag like this about obvious things that shouldn't need mentioning.
>> No. 28708 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:44 am
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>>28706 this man is paying premium rate and doesn't even work near here, so what's the point?.

He gets a free, slightly moany, cleaner.
>> No. 28709 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:53 am
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>>28705
The graph is enough to display passive aggression, adding dates is just self indulgent .. besides, they might interpret it as a schedule you're willing to begrudingly keep.
>> No. 28710 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:54 am
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>>28707
You have my sympathies fellow tidy lad and good luck.

>>28708
You mock but I actually bought all my own things and keep them in my room.

When nobody else would wash up his mess to use the communal pots he too stopped washing up, confused as to why it wasn't happening, he started just eating microwave meals and takeaway Nandos.

It felt cruel but I enjoyed watching him continuously eat stuff he didn't want to eat all because he wouldn't rub a sponge around a pot a few times and rinse it out.
>> No. 28711 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 6:05 pm
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>>28710
>When nobody else would wash up his mess to use the communal pots he too stopped washing up, confused as to why it wasn't happening, he started just eating microwave meals and takeaway Nandos.

Washing up is so easy though. You just stand in the same place for fifteen minutes listening to the radio and then it's over. Hoovering can be a ballache, but washing up? Even I do it and I'm barely sentient.
>> No. 28712 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:26 pm
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I told my mum I liked rhubarb and custard sweets once and now I occasionally get given a bag of the boiled, red and yellow ones, rather than the squishy, pastel-coloured ones I was actually talking about.
>> No. 28713 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:37 pm
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>>28712

Well it's the thought that counts I guess.
>> No. 28714 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:40 pm
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>>28712
Your fault for not specifying rhubarb and custard chews.
>> No. 28715 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 7:50 pm
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When I wait for the bus in the morning there is a women who catches it from the same spot.
Thing is she comes from a block of flats down the road, crosses the road, walks down a bit then crosses back over to the bus stop.
I dunno if she is trying to pretend she doesn't live in them or something but it just fucking annoys me.
>> No. 28716 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 8:12 pm
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>>28713
I guess.

>>28714
I don't think I even knew there was another kind whenever it was I mentioned it. The worst thing about the boiled ones is that they're too big, they take up about a third of my gob space so I end up eating them.
>> No. 28717 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 12:06 am
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Lads is this possible? I was watching a few episodes of Top Gear on Netflix, on my TV, then later went onto my laptop and went to Youtube. All of a sudden I'm getting car related recommendations and the only reason I've noticed is because they literally never come up for me. But yeah just this creepy future shit in general pisses me off.
>> No. 28718 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 12:30 am
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>>28717
Just wait, they'll stop now you've mentioned disliking them here.
>> No. 28719 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 12:28 pm
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>>28717
Have you run a virus scan on your TV recently?
>> No. 28720 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 12:47 pm
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>>28719
He's going to have to reformat and reinstall the TV.
>> No. 28722 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 7:59 pm
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Why are you berks talking as if TVs haven't been running OSes and being connected to the internet for the last fifteen years?
>> No. 28723 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 10:42 pm
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>>28722

I'm still using a SONY KE-P42XS1. I can't afford to give a fuck.
>> No. 28724 Anonymous
6th July 2019
Saturday 11:36 pm
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>>28722
Dunno what you mean.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48664251
>> No. 28725 Anonymous
7th July 2019
Sunday 9:29 am
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I was on Greenwich Peninsula yesterday and I guess there was a Father Ted thing going on because there were so many people wearing identical t-shirts with "That's nice!" on the front and "Feck off!" on the back. You know that bit in Extras where all the people wearing t-shirts with the shitty slogans on turn up? Like that. Not even better quality.
There's a bridge there which doesn't go anywhere, they claim it's a park but it feels more like a museum with a small number of unimaginative exhibits of plants and trees in places they can't really grow; "Here's what we think nature might have looked like". Endless paving trod by families clutching bags of crap from the M&M World shop passing adverts for exclusive £550,000 one bedroom flats in the glass towers, plump young men in Oakleys and Marvel t-shirts, a crowd gathered to watch a group of dancers who appeared to be there to advertise for Nike.
Have you noticed how featureless so many of these new developments are? There'll be flat pavement intersecting with the building's wall at a sharp angle, no variation in either. It's as though the architects are trying to imitate early Counter Strike maps, as few polygons as possible to create something that vaguely resembles a human construction. The desert of the real.
>> No. 28727 Anonymous
7th July 2019
Sunday 2:24 pm
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It's Sunday, it's really hot, just let me sit around in my pants and watch Star Trek, stop making me garden.
>> No. 28728 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 12:24 am
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I always get thirsty over exes about a year or so after it ended.

I don't know how to stop this. It doesn't matter if I'm single or with someone far better, I just crave fucking them the same way you crave a food you haven't had in ages.

I hate my brain, honestly.
>> No. 28729 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 6:10 am
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>>28728

I suggest having bitter, ugly breakups (or, indeed, bitter ugly exes).
>> No. 28730 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 11:58 am
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>>28729

Neither of those present a serious obstacle. I think it's just a forbidden fruit kind of thing.
>> No. 28731 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 1:01 am
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Maybe I LIKE starchy rice.
>> No. 28732 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 4:28 am
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>>28731

Just wash it you lazy cunt
>> No. 28733 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 7:44 am
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I just cannot be fucked with work. I should quit.
>> No. 28734 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 8:01 am
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>>28733
I'd say post about it in the workplace annoyances thread, but the mods locked it for literally no reason.
>> No. 28735 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 9:00 am
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>>28734

Maybe start a work annoyances thread mk II?
>> No. 28736 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 9:08 am
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>>28735

When that lad tried to start a dream thread mk II he got deleted and banned so there you go.
>> No. 28737 Anonymous
10th July 2019
Wednesday 9:12 am
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>>28735
There's no reason to start a new thread when there wasn't anything wrong with the old thread, especially on a board as slow as /job/.
>> No. 28738 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 7:50 pm
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Watched a few episodes of The Thick of It on the iPlayer and now clips are getting recommended on YouTube, watched it on my TV and everything, totally seperate machine. Hate this shit, makes me feel like a schizophrenic.
>> No. 28739 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 7:59 pm
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>>28737

It was literally fucking massive though.

>>28736

That was only because I'd already made on with Scarlett Moffat's face on it to stare at you all for the next ten years.
>> No. 28740 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 8:03 pm
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>>28739

I don't understand your agenda against long threads. As a mod you should realise that the defining trait of britfa.gs is slow, cumbersome legacy. This is our mausoleum and you're trying to dust it - it ruins the character
>> No. 28741 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 8:29 pm
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>>28739
>It was literally fucking massive though.

So what? It serves as a time capsule.
>> No. 28742 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 12:24 am
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>>28740

I'm not even a mod, just saying. Considering that a lot of us phone post now (I'd estimate a good 50-70% of .gs traffic is from the toilet), so long threads are more of a pain in the arse.

They do keep the old threads around, just locked, right?
>> No. 28743 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 12:27 am
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>>28742

If your argument is about how good GS is for mobile there is a world more concerning issues with this site then the volume of user content.
>> No. 28744 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 5:41 pm
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For the last few days I've eaten spicy food almost exclusively. Enchiladas, spicy beef pizza with jalapeños on, and such like.

I'm regretting it today. It's caught up with me and I'm wracked with agonising gut cramps. I've had about four shits already and they're getting increasingly sloppy and hot on my ringpiece.

How do I make it stop jesus christ.
>> No. 28745 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 6:02 pm
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>>28744
boof milk
>> No. 28746 Anonymous
20th July 2019
Saturday 11:12 am
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I realise this is going to make me sound like one of those MRA loons, but there's been a fair amount of coverage in the news about a man and woman getting beaten up in Manchester. The woman turned down someone's advances and was twatted in the face, which was followed by the twatter and his two mates beating seven shades of shit out of the man. The news coverage has overwhelmingly focused on what happened to the woman, even though the man was attacked far worse; I know violence against women isn't socially acceptable and the media like a story centred on an attractive woman but it's still pretty jarring he's been demoted to a mere footnote.
>> No. 28747 Anonymous
20th July 2019
Saturday 11:17 am
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>>28746
He failed to protect his woman. Nobody likes to celebrate or sympathise with failure.
>> No. 28748 Anonymous
20th July 2019
Saturday 12:00 pm
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>>28747
They were leaving the Gay Village, so I just assumed he was a bumder.
>> No. 28750 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 11:23 pm
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There ought to be a law about doing bread in odd slices. Don't give me all that talk about soup, if I wanted dipping bread I'd use the crusts (which coincidentally are unusually skinny).

It's the cheek of it. Slicing the bread is automated so they've deliberately set out to give the good people of this nation odd slices while knowing full well that people overwhelmingly consume two bits of bread for sandwiches and toast. Is this how they do things in Lancashire?
>> No. 28751 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 11:54 pm
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>>28750

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bread-rolls-in-for-david-cameron-with-pound25000-from-warburtons-zrr5rdcj79g

It's another Tory divide and conquer tactic. They know the average Tory would never buy a mass-produced Chorleywood bread, it's only local artisan sourdough for them, so the only people buying their bread are the plebs. Get them angry about bread slice sizes, and they won't have time or energy to worry about the real issues.
>> No. 28752 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 2:13 am
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>>28750

Well there's obviously summat up wi 'em. Bloody Lancashire.
>> No. 28753 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 2:49 am
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>>28751
>Chorleywood
Are you thinking of Chorley? To be fair, they're both outside the M25, so most Londoners wouldn't know the difference. About 200 miles.
>> No. 28754 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 7:54 am
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>>28753

I'm not him but I don't know much about chorleywood bread except it's mean't to be not real bread somehow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
>> No. 28755 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 7:56 am
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Yorkshire bread > Lancashire bread.
>> No. 28758 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 11:02 am
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>>28753
You fucked the job there, didn't you lad? Don't go around accusing folk of being ignorant Londoners unless you're absolutely sure of what you're on about.

>>28755
Jackson's is like crack. I had to stop buying it because otherwise I'd eat a whole loaf in a couple of days.
>> No. 28759 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 8:35 pm
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Mind you, calling a loaf of bread a "bloomer" is a /101/ on it's own.
>> No. 28760 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 9:14 pm
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>>28759
>on it's own
>> No. 28761 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 2:56 pm
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Why is everyone of my namesake such an utter fucking prick? I'm not being unfair here, I'm one of them, it's just remarkable how uniform the twattishness is. Perhaps "uniform" is the wrong word, because it takes different forms.
>> No. 28762 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 3:03 pm
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I don't know who did the redesign of Vice's homepage, but they should probably be kept under psychiatric observation for the rest of the week.
>> No. 28763 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 3:18 pm
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>>28762
Go on.
>> No. 28778 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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>>28763
It's just a scattershot mess, there's not much more to say.
>> No. 28779 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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>>28778
Given it looks like a fairly normal three column job, you might have to be a bit more specific.
>> No. 28780 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 8:28 pm
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>>28762
By modern standards of news sites, it really isn't that bad; in fact I think I quite like it.
>> No. 28824 Anonymous
25th July 2019
Thursday 2:25 pm
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"I will kill that man. I don't care how many arrows they feather me with, how many spears they run through me - I will kill that STOP BREXIT c*nt before I fall!"
>> No. 28825 Anonymous
25th July 2019
Thursday 2:42 pm
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>>28824
>c*nt

What? What is this? What even is this?
>> No. 28826 Anonymous
25th July 2019
Thursday 3:00 pm
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>>28825
We don't talk about filthy European currency here, m7.
>> No. 28831 Anonymous
25th July 2019
Thursday 4:19 pm
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>>28825
I just copy and pasted from a quote site. Too hot to proof read.
>> No. 28843 Anonymous
26th July 2019
Friday 4:05 pm
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Had a fucking shocker at work.

Ah well.
>> No. 28844 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 12:48 pm
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>>28843
Well then don't touch the light switch when your hands are wet.
>> No. 28846 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 3:50 pm
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>>28844
😬
>> No. 28847 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 4:45 pm
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Unforecast rain. It's being going at umbrella strength for a good few minutes now.
>> No. 28848 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 5:17 pm
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>>28847
I told you mate and people will have you believe they can forecast the weather thirty years from now.
>> No. 28849 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 5:21 pm
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>>28848
Well shit, you could have told me before I booked the garden party for my 60th.
>> No. 28850 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 5:21 pm
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>>28848
Long term trends are completely different to week-on-week events. You can safely assume when the world population will hit eight billion, but that doesn't mean you know how many babies will be born at York Hospital this coming Wednesday. Stop being silly.
>> No. 28851 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 5:54 pm
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>>28850
What do you mean you can estimate how many times out of a hundred any given number on a dice will show up when rolled but you can't tell me which number's going to come up next?!
>> No. 28852 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 5:59 pm
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>>28851
I can tell you with around 17% confidence that it'll be a 4.
>> No. 28853 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 6:01 pm
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>>28852
That's a significantly lower accuracy than even a ten-day forecast.
>> No. 28854 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 6:10 pm
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>>28853
Roll it 20 times and that goes up to 97%.
>> No. 28855 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 6:54 pm
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>>28846

Can't believe I got away wih an emoji response.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 28856 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 7:18 pm
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>>28854
Roll it 20 times and there's still only a 17% chance it'll be a 4 next roll.
>> No. 28858 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 10:25 pm
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>>28856
Look mate, do you want a 4 or not?
>> No. 28859 Anonymous
27th July 2019
Saturday 10:49 pm
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>>28858
What is this, unambitious DND?
>> No. 28860 Anonymous
30th July 2019
Tuesday 6:26 am
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>>28641

I just learned this was a parody of a specific Slinky advert.


>> No. 28861 Anonymous
1st August 2019
Thursday 8:23 am
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I had a dream that took place within in a fictional home this morning, and I liked the design so much I immediately tried to sketch it out, but my drawing skills are so utterly pathetic that I could get more than one wall down before giving up. Looked like a ten year old had done it, a shit ten year old.
>> No. 28862 Anonymous
1st August 2019
Thursday 10:39 am
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>>28861

Try doing something simpler, like a floor plan. Or simply write out the details you remember in words to supplement where your sketching skills are lacking.

I'm sure there's plenty of architects or interior designers that aren't great draughtsmen.
>> No. 28867 Anonymous
2nd August 2019
Friday 4:44 pm
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>>28571
Yet another company in administration using it as an excuse to blatantly run off with customers' money.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49200999

>The group said Super Break hotel-only holidays would be cancelled and people currently on holiday might have to pay again.

>Malvern Group said [...] tickets for entertainment and attractions were no longer valid.

Thankfully not affected myself, but this is becoming tiresome.
>> No. 28868 Anonymous
3rd August 2019
Saturday 11:27 am
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People who don't believe in brevity. I'll admit many of my posts on here are minor essays, but I'm talking IRL, face-to-face, humans who will, on repeate occasions, divulge every single detail of a story, or a thing they watced, or what have you. It's not even the case that I'm not interested in what they're saying, it's that I become uninterested over the fifteen minute long monologue I'm sitting through. However, they do get double bugger bonus points when they have to know it's something I never gave a monkeys about.
>> No. 28869 Anonymous
3rd August 2019
Saturday 12:41 pm
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People who don't believe in brevity.
>> No. 28870 Anonymous
3rd August 2019
Saturday 12:44 pm
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Gasbags.
>> No. 28871 Anonymous
3rd August 2019
Saturday 12:53 pm
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Gas.
>> No. 28872 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 12:19 am
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When you know on a rational level that it is time to take a shit before you go out but feel no urge to go. Then as soon as you leave the house you need to take a fat shit.

Have you ever read about how Octopuses come with a built-in toffee cannon that doubles as a propellant nozzle and ink gun? Meanwhile, despite evolving arses before mouths, our first colonists on Mars will be very unhappy indeed having nothing to wipe their arses with besides sand.

>>28868
I'm of the opposite annoyance. Contemporary language has been broken down in tandem with the rise modern communication platforms as we have come to take the very act of communication for granted. This leads us, in our vanity and fetish for the impersonal, to attempt to live as in a world of mechanical facts where chains of experience only serve as a hindrance.

As a result of this we can only understand others in terms of tropes, have little conception of what it means to be alive and face an utter incapacity to address modern identity politics in dialogue or public policy. Your painfully single woman at work is a classic scapegoat but is her prolixity due to conversational white noise or instead a failure of articulation coupled with deeper insecurities?
>> No. 28873 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 12:37 am
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>>28872
An inability to recommend a film without summarising the whole plot or listing the A roads you took to buy garden furniture just make someone a poor story teller, nothing more. I'm sorry you wasted your time studying philosphy or are currently working under Jacob Reese-Mogg.
>> No. 28874 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 4:31 am
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>>28873
I think he was just high.
>> No. 28875 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 2:07 pm
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This whole bullshit "cyclists vs drivers" war, wherein apparently it's OK to openly say you want to murder cyclists.

Yes, some cyclists are dickheads (and ones who run red lights, etc should be punished just the same as a driver), but so are some drivers. What we really need is a complete change of attitude.
>> No. 28876 Anonymous
4th August 2019
Sunday 11:26 pm
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Moving to Manchester for a job and on top of the fucking absolutely cunting EXTORTIONATE deposit for the place I'm going to rent, my car insurance is going to go up by a fucking grand, minimum. Fucking, brilliant. Where the fuck am I expected to pull £2k from as a recently graduated student? Now I know why people are still living with their parents at 40.
>> No. 28877 Anonymous
5th August 2019
Monday 9:12 am
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>>28876
Why didn't you think these things through before accepting the job?
>> No. 28878 Anonymous
5th August 2019
Monday 9:25 am
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>>28877
Because it's not like there are hundreds of jobs elsewhere. it's not like I won't be able to afford it once the money starts coming in but it's still a fucking pisstake.

For jobs in the field I want to go into, the only other place is London, and it's even worse there.
>> No. 28879 Anonymous
5th August 2019
Monday 10:37 am
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>>28876
Extortionate deposits are illegal now. They are capped at five weeks' rent. If you think that's a lot then you don't know how good you have it.
>> No. 28880 Anonymous
5th August 2019
Monday 4:57 pm
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>>28879
Five weeks rent, plus the first months rent too on move in day is still a lot when you only have 8-12 hours a week working over summer and the dregs of a student loan.

Still, haggled with my insurance company to get it to 'only' go up by £500, which I can just about, if begrudgingly, swallow. When I was living in Manchester city centre, they wanted over £2k a year, so thank fuck it's not that.
>> No. 28881 Anonymous
5th August 2019
Monday 6:15 pm
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>>28876

Lad I moved from a graduate job in Manchester to London actually and to be honest if you have to drive, by the time you've shelled out for cars etc as a young person day to day living costs aren't even that different.

That said if you're not from the north west get ready for the greyest, wettest existence you could ever imagine.

Car insurance is a rip off but even as a sensible driver lad, you can see why young lads get charged so much, nearly everytime I saw somebody do something recklessly irresponsible (not poor driving or a mistake but genuine not giving a fuck 'I know this might kill me and others' move) it has been other young lads.
>> No. 28882 Anonymous
6th August 2019
Tuesday 7:14 pm
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Co-op have discontinued their tricolore fusilli, the utter shits.
>> No. 28883 Anonymous
6th August 2019
Tuesday 7:39 pm
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>>28882
Seems a bit strange to care so much about crafting materials for primary school children.
>> No. 28884 Anonymous
6th August 2019
Tuesday 7:41 pm
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>>28882

Tesco do a tricolore fusilli.
>> No. 28885 Anonymous
6th August 2019
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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>>28884
Shopping at Tesco is truly harrowing, though.
>> No. 28886 Anonymous
7th August 2019
Wednesday 1:13 am
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>>28885
Not if you go late at night when nobody else is there.
>> No. 28887 Anonymous
7th August 2019
Wednesday 1:18 am
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>>28885

Is it? It isn't Morrisons or Iceland. But then you are one of those co-op people so that explains it.
>> No. 28888 Anonymous
7th August 2019
Wednesday 7:04 am
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I just woke up, in my dream I met the girl that was a 10/10 to me and it was perfect.

She isn't real.
>> No. 28889 Anonymous
7th August 2019
Wednesday 7:34 am
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>>28887
I only shop at Co-op because it is the nearest shop to me and they offer 10% student discount.

Asda and Tesco are negative sensory overloads. Tesco in particular seems designed to be as bleak as possible, to suck the life out of you.
>> No. 28890 Anonymous
8th August 2019
Thursday 12:17 am
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>>28889
I don't agree about Tesco's but I do feel the same way about Aldi. I also like the discount and membership at the local Co-op. Also the wine is cheap and good enough to drink.
>> No. 28891 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 7:48 am
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Why the FUCK does my council seem intent on replacing every roundabout, big or small, with a fucking four way traffic light intersection? We're not fucking america, who in the fuck decided this is a good idea? It slows traffic down exponentially and presumably is much more expensive to build and maintain.

I get that it probably stops a couple of accidents a year but who cares.
>> No. 28892 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 8:43 am
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>>28891
In the UK we call it a junction.
>> No. 28893 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 9:59 am
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>>28891
Don't local councils exist more or less solely to funnel cash to their cronies?
>> No. 28894 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 10:01 am
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>>28892
Crossroads m8
>> No. 28895 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 12:21 pm
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>>28892

Yeah, I know, that's my point.
>> No. 28896 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 12:23 pm
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This will inevitably sound racist, but the Asian lads at work seem to be covering themselves in deodorant at least once an hour.
>> No. 28897 Anonymous
9th August 2019
Friday 3:40 pm
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>>28896
You got some sort of problem with smelling with good, bro?
>> No. 28898 Anonymous
11th August 2019
Sunday 6:13 pm
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People who leave the door open a bit while they're pissing.
>> No. 28899 Anonymous
11th August 2019
Sunday 6:35 pm
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>>28898
Not on. Growing up, the door was always a signal. Door closed = occupied, door slightly open = vacant.
>> No. 28903 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 10:15 am
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There's a forum I post on where the moderators are absolutely fucking autistic. They will lock threads as soon as two or three posts start to veer even slightly off topic, as though they don't know how discussion works or just basic human interaction.

One of them literally said this upon closing a 98 page long thread:

>I would also suggest those that have contributed to off topic discussion to take some time to consider their posts.

I've really got to wonder what kind of person can write a sentence like that, on an unimportant internet forum for hobbyists, without having a long hard stare in the mirror to wonder why they're such a massive spod with no friends.
>> No. 28904 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 11:34 am
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Proprietary software. Microsoft's default photo viewer somehow started gobbling up all my memory if I leave an image open for too long, notepad is shit for editing guitar tabs, and Adobe PDF is slow and bloated. I ended up installing irfanview, notepad++, and sumatra pdf and my computer experience is now significantly better.

A while ago I had to use a bootable version of Linux Mint to recover all my files when Windows borked itself, and I would've stuck with it if I didn't need Windows for audio software and videogames. It just felt so pleasantly streamlined and intuitive.
>> No. 28905 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 12:05 pm
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>>28903
Mods are almost universally a funny bunch. The self appointed postmasters are worse; whining about other posts without reporting them or declaring that certain subjects are off limits.
>> No. 28906 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 12:32 pm
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>>28904
Can't you dual boot? That's what I'm doing with my new laptop that had Win 10 pre-installed, stuck Mint on a new partition. It's 2019, high time I started learning Linux.
>> No. 28907 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 1:16 pm
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>>28906
Too much hassle. I don't want to switch operating systems every time I want to noodle around on my guitar while watching a youtube video.
>> No. 28908 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 1:28 pm
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>>28904
I found WMP to constantly communicate over the internet dispite disabling all the options i could find. Installed Foobar2000 and haven't looked back. Takes a little effort to set up but once you're done, it's golden.
>> No. 28909 Anonymous
14th August 2019
Wednesday 2:23 pm
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>>28907

You can install Ubuntu within Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux, or run Windows within a VM on a Linux system.
>> No. 28910 Anonymous
15th August 2019
Thursday 11:40 am
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Waiting all week for a heavy item delivery, I spot the Parcelforce van pull up for a moment then fuck off again. The busy lad left an "attempted delivery" card on the floor of my building's lobby. Didn't even bother using the intercom or posting the card through my door.

If some people got paid what they were worth, they'd starve.
>> No. 28911 Anonymous
15th August 2019
Thursday 4:28 pm
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Fuck's sake.
>> No. 28914 Anonymous
15th August 2019
Thursday 10:57 pm
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>>28911

At least they had the good sense not to replace it with a different product, as anything else would have been insulting.
>> No. 28915 Anonymous
15th August 2019
Thursday 11:13 pm
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>>28914
Joke's on them. This afternoon I went to a competing store and picked up both milk and dark chocolate packs. If Brexit and Scottish independence result in tariffs on Tunnock's Caramel Wafers then I'll be putting my FPS skills to work.
>> No. 28916 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 1:00 pm
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FUCKING ESTATE AGENT CUNTS.
>> No. 28917 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 2:50 pm
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People who won't eat food past it's expiry date.
>> No. 28918 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 2:55 pm
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People who incorrectly use "it's" as the genitive of "it".
>> No. 28919 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 2:56 pm
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>>28915
>I'll be putting my FPS skills to work.

Uh-oh, sounds like someone's writing a manifesto.
>> No. 28920 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 3:00 pm
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>>28918
Autocorrect, innit.
>> No. 28921 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 5:46 pm
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>>28919
Tunnock's is a cause worth dying for, m7.
>> No. 28922 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 10:03 pm
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I've started to catch myself avoiding saying words I can't spell, in physical conversations. It's a little embarrassing which is also one of those words.
>> No. 28923 Anonymous
16th August 2019
Friday 11:50 pm
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Dear people that are better than me at my job,

Please let me know when you're off the market so I don't keep getting rejected with "we found a better candidate".

That is all.
>> No. 28924 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 10:23 am
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>>28923

Keep your chin up lad. I've been rejected from some shocking jobs and I'm working in one now that's better than any of them, they couldn't get me if they wanted me now.

You'll get there.
>> No. 28925 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 9:31 pm
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I haven't shat for three days. Any longer and I'm taking this to /emo/.
>> No. 28926 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 9:37 pm
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>>28925

Eat more fibre, drink more water and take some senna.
>> No. 28927 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 9:39 pm
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I've had the Lincolnshire Poacher ident stuck in my head all day. At least it's not UVB-76.


>> No. 28928 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 10:57 pm
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I don't pay my bloody license fee for shite like this.
>> No. 28929 Anonymous
17th August 2019
Saturday 11:50 pm
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>>28928

You aren't, and you legally don't have to for it. You are paying your netflix subscription for it
>> No. 28930 Anonymous
22nd August 2019
Thursday 5:40 pm
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People are whining about the loan charge again. Tax dodging cunts complaining that they might lose their house or be forced into bankruptcy if they have to pay back all the tax they dodged.
>> No. 28931 Anonymous
22nd August 2019
Thursday 5:49 pm
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The one frame, or too few to read/see what it is, joke. Loads of YouTubers do it, but I see it most on Anthony Fantano's channels. It's just annoying, I have to pause the video and go back to check what it was, it's not like the editor is sneaking something past the network's big hats.
>> No. 28932 Anonymous
26th August 2019
Monday 11:43 am
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It's happening again. A few years ago I remember that whenever I'd pick a film to watch it'd end up being full of rape or child abuse, it got to the point where I just stopped bothering, but now the same thing is happening. It's like my own personal It curse. I know this might sound odd, or not maybe it's totally normal, but I have a very severe aversion to rape. I haven't been raped, I don't know anyone who's been raped and I've never even done a rape myself, but it just makes my fucking skin crawl thinking about it.

I think I appriciate why some people just watch big silly comic book nonsense now. Star Wars might be bland, but at no point did I worry about Rey being under the looming threat of a violent assault from a group of Stormtroopers.
>> No. 28933 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 7:54 am
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>The average parental contribution for homebuyers this year is £24,100, up by more than £6,000 compared to last year, according to Legal & General (L&G).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49477404

Always great to see when, despite having wealthy boomer parents, I won't get a single penny to help.

How am I ever meant to get going when people start off 24k ahead of me? It's taken me years of saving to even get close.
>> No. 28934 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 8:14 am
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>>28933
It's a survey of 1,600 parents; I'd take it with a pinch of salt.

If you look at the actual Legal & General 2019 Bank of Mum and Dad report then you'd see that around a third of it is a plug for equity release; Legal & General want to be a major player in this market.

This is purely a marketing exercise. Life companies come up with all kinds of studies, often ones they can revisit each year, so they can get their name out there. They tend to have a calendar of marketing events, such as releasing a press release about student loans or the cost of university around the time of results day. These are then regurgitated uncritically by the media; for example, the majority of personal finance articles in The Guardian are press releases they've picked up and then padded out with a few rent-a-quotes.
>> No. 28935 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 10:25 am
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Email, reply, email, reply, email, SILENCE!
>> No. 28936 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 10:40 am
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>>28935
You lost. Better luck next time.
>> No. 28937 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 11:43 am
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>>28936
What?
>> No. 28938 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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>>28937
By not responding, the other party either has a credible excuse for just disregarding whatever you were saying, or signalling that whatever it is isn't up for debate.
>> No. 28939 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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>>28938
It was just arranging a phonecall and they got back to me about ten minutes prior to your first response, but hey, better luck next time.
>> No. 28940 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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My job is the most tolerable job I've ever had. By that, I mean that there's never going to be a job I 100% love waking up and going to every day, but this is the closest I've ever been.

If not for the one fucking miserable sad bint who makes it her business to go around maliciously gossiping about every cunt any chance she gets. Her and her handful of little cronies make me loathe every moment. You can hear them gossiping in that bullshit hushed tone, about how so and so doesn't pull their weight, and how so and so shouldn't be allowed to come in at different hours, and how so and so is taking the piss... Why don't people like this just get a fucking life instead of occupying themselves so much with everyone else's?

I would be able to dismiss it more easily is she wasn't a blatant hypocrite who does everything as slowly as possible to LOOK busy, and comes in early on a morning (when there's no work yet anyway) so she can fuck off an hour early and leave everyone else to pick up the slack.

I'm on the verge of anonymously making some sort of accusation of racism or something to get her sacked- She's been in trouble for something similar before apparently. She's harmless ultimately because none of the managers even give her bullshit the time of day, but even so. I could do without the atmosphere.
>> No. 28941 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 12:57 pm
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>>28939
I'm not the one who cried SILENCE, m7.

Though it does mean that around five minutes after complaining about the SILENCE it was resolved. I wonder if that works as a general technique. Let's try:

My salary is around 20% below market rate.
>> No. 28942 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 1:00 pm
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>>28940
>If not for the one fucking miserable sad bint [...]
Oh, you've got one of those toxic cunts. YANBU.
>> No. 28943 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 1:14 pm
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>>28941
The post was made an hour after the previous reply. This thread is labled "Minor Rants and Piss-Offs" for a reason.
>> No. 28944 Anonymous
27th August 2019
Tuesday 1:22 pm
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After meticulously researching market salaries, and pitching a number squarely in the 50-75% range, I've had some cheapskate ask me if I'd "reconsider my expectations". I guess that goes some way to explaining what my contact meant when they said the company was "desperate" for new hires.
>> No. 28945 Anonymous
28th August 2019
Wednesday 4:53 pm
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I really enjoy a Matcha Latte every now and then.

London has broken me.
>> No. 28946 Anonymous
28th August 2019
Wednesday 7:12 pm
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I got a £5 off card for Screwfix today. The problem is, the offer expired on the 26th. What fucking genius do I have to curse for this?
>> No. 28947 Anonymous
28th August 2019
Wednesday 9:56 pm
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>>28946
Mr Screwfix.
>> No. 28948 Anonymous
28th August 2019
Wednesday 10:22 pm
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>>28947
Mr Screwfix, bring me a card
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make it plastic, bendy and hard
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give it a sum, such as a fiver
(bung, bung, bung, bung)
I can put towards a new screwdriver
>> No. 28949 Anonymous
28th August 2019
Wednesday 10:24 pm
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I am sorry.
>> No. 28950 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 8:28 am
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>>28948

You are Joe Cornish and I claim my £5 gift card.
>> No. 28951 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 10:52 am
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>>28950

Cornballs is too busy making films and not putting Adam in them to be posting here.
>> No. 28952 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 11:17 am
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Plusnet just... Forgot to send me my router and also I have no hot water. Great.
>> No. 28953 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 4:02 pm
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>>28952
I've got no hot water either. I twisted the pressure thing, but it just sprayed water at me and then I saw a house spider so I washed myself with a flannel instead.
>> No. 28954 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 4:23 pm
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>>28953
The pressure regulator valve on the tank is fucked (I'm the samelad from the /uhu/ thread). When the plumber came to look at it it went from very low to no hot water at all. I've just had a bath by boiling the kettle 6 times and tipping it into the cold.

Plusnet sent the router in the post, saying it was small enough to fit through a letterbox. That's either a lie or royal mail couldn't be fucked because I just found a missed delivery slip. Fucking hell.
>> No. 28955 Anonymous
29th August 2019
Thursday 11:00 pm
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The music video threads.

I'm convinced it's one or two lads pretending to be about 7 different people.

I never click them and I don't want to listen to what some randomer posts here.
>> No. 28956 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 12:40 am
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>>28955
The 'hide' button exists for a reason, lad.
>> No. 28957 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 10:05 am
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>>28954
OH FUCKING GREAT. "WE'LL NEED TO SEND OUT AN ENGINEER TO PATCH THE FIBRE INTO YOUR LINE. THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE WHEN YOUR PHONE SERVICE GOES LIVE." IT's BEEN FUCKING LIVE FOR 3 DAYS SO WHY THE FUCK HAVEN'T YOU DONE IT YET? CUNTS. FUCK. ANOTHER WEEK OF TETHERING.
>> No. 28958 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 11:06 am
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>>28955

I don't listen to them either. I don't like music the first time I hear it, only after I've heard it a few times so lately I've only been listening to mixtapes from DJs I trust. I don't even bother with albums anymore.

Pretending to be different people how though? Is posting a bunch of videos pretending to be different people? I thought you could only pretend to be different people by having a conversation with yourself.
>> No. 28959 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 11:33 am
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>>28958

You can pretend to be different people while sitting still doing absolutely nothing obvious if you really want.
>> No. 28960 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 12:07 pm
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>>28958
>I don't listen to them either

Me neither, for the most part. I have discovered new musicians here in the past but nothing in years.

Would purps be able to say how many times each YouTube embed on /beat/ is listened to? I'd imagine for many, particularly in the ones that aren't genre specific, it's zero.
>> No. 28961 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 1:11 pm
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>>28960

I suppose at least it's gratifying if your thread takes off. Most threads starting with "please post [such a genre]" get tumbleweeds.
>> No. 28962 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>28960
I go through and listen to a few every now and then. I rarely find anything I like, but appreciate a change of scene anyway.
>> No. 28963 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 10:47 pm
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The term 'foodie' and particularly how it is applied to people who cook or make an effort to eat proper meals. It shouldn't be a valid description that you perform a basic part of looking after yourself or take pride in cooking something nice.

There is a bigger problem I think this highlights that seems acute in the city. Lads my age (late 20s - early 30s) are better for it these days while on more than one occasion I've taught a lass how a cheap packet of noodles can serve as the base for a decent meal or that cupcakes for dinner is unacceptable no matter if you're "being naughty". I know it's cliché at this point but it only seems to be getting worse as 'typical students' become dysfunctional adults.

>>28962
I echo this. Despite living in a time where finding new music should be easy, it is almost impossible to find something out of your comfort zone without music recommendation threads.

We do seem to have a problem with common courtesy i.e. avoid consecutive posts and try to comment on other peoples stuff. That's life though.
>> No. 28964 Anonymous
30th August 2019
Friday 11:08 pm
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>>28963
Perhaps anyone posting in the "What you feeling right now?" threads should add a little comment to qualify their selection and why it is captivating them.

Otherwise it'd be like if the weekend threads were an unlinked stream of consciousness where nobody attempts to have a conversation.

>I'm having Cornflakes for breakfast.
>My feet are cold.
>I better re-hang the curtains.
>The woman across the street is shouting at her kids again.
>That's not my regular postman.

It'd just look bonkers.
>> No. 28965 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 8:04 am
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>>28963

Why are consecutive posts discourteous? if someone asked you to post such-a-thing and you're trying to put them onto something they might like? The poster doesn't really get anything out of doing that.
>> No. 28966 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 8:08 am
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That's when a like/dislike button would come in useful. You're hardly going to feel moved to make a post just to say

>Yeah, that's a good one.

in a music thread.
>> No. 28967 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 8:10 am
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>>28964

I'd be more inclined to play a video which had a little description but I don't know why most songs captivate me. I just like them because I like them.
>> No. 28968 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 12:24 pm
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Please stop telling me how miserable you feel, because I feel it too and I'm trying not to care. Don't burden me with your hopelessness, because I feel it too and I'm trying not to mind. Enough with the melancholia, because I feel it too and I'm trying my best.

I'm utterly fed up with being brought down by people. I'm on the edge of completely packing it in almost constantly so I don't need to hear anyone elses irrational shit, I've more than enough of my own to bear. It's not even important crap and it's definitely not stuff these people want to work through. It's making me think of the "crab-pot" mentally one of you pair mentioned recently, only it's presumably unintentional. I've been very critical of mental health professionals before now, but I've got to give them some serious respect for not just throwing their notes in a patient's face and telling them to do one.
>> No. 28969 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 12:40 pm
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>>28968

Are you me and also are you talking to my girlfriend?

Her sadgirl:exciting ratio is all off.
>> No. 28970 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 2:54 pm
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>>28968

Crab pot might very well be me I bring it up a lot. It sounds like your needs are being neglected, if you want to start an emo thread maybe we can find some practical solutions for your problems if you explain them through. You obviously prefer that to self indulgence and I think that is good. That is how you get better, but a lot of these issues require lateral thinking.

For example my mental health has improved massively since I tricked a bunch of old friends into hanging out more regularly rather than the usual bullshit of never making time for each other. By getting them involved in a regular activity (playing an on going campaign) I get what I need socially and in self actualisation of my will, even though when I was having mood swings and panic attacks that didn't look like it was the answer.
>> No. 28971 Anonymous
31st August 2019
Saturday 3:19 pm
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>>28970
With all respect I've made so many /emo/ threads over the years that I'm only retreading old ground at this point. I don't have emotional problems, I have practical problems that lead to emotional problems.

>>28969
I'm not sure, but I'll check with my GP first thing Monday. No doubt he'll recommend CBT whatever the outcome.
>> No. 28972 Anonymous
1st September 2019
Sunday 4:02 pm
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>>28971

>With all respect I've made so many /emo/ threads over the years that I'm only retreading old ground at this point. I don't have emotional problems, I have practical problems that lead to emotional problems.

No offense taken lad. Sounds like you are on the right path, best of luck to you.
>> No. 28973 Anonymous
2nd September 2019
Monday 9:21 pm
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Pegging, turd-slipping, dildo-same-size-as-cock-ing lad; Can you cool it a bit?
>> No. 28974 Anonymous
2nd September 2019
Monday 10:54 pm
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I haven't had acne on my face since I was a teenlad. Now, the week I start a new job, my face looks like a freshly-baked pizza.

FUCK.
>> No. 28975 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 3:10 am
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>>28973

Pegging lad and dildo lad are two different lads.
>> No. 28976 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 10:05 am
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>>28973

Of all the things we post about on here, my toilet ramblings were too much for you?

I thought us fa.gs were made of sterner stuff.
>> No. 28977 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 11:31 am
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The man fixing the door said he'd be back tomorrow, but I never got a specific time. Whole day's a write-off.
>> No. 28978 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 1:42 pm
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>>28977

Phone him and ask him.
>> No. 28979 Anonymous
3rd September 2019
Tuesday 1:53 pm
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>>28978
I don't have a phone.
>> No. 28980 Anonymous
12th September 2019
Thursday 1:08 pm
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What's with lamps all having their switch a foot or two along the cable? It wasn't always this way. Did designers decide it was embarrassing to have a switch on the lamp itself? All very odd and I'm not a fan.
>> No. 28981 Anonymous
12th September 2019
Thursday 2:48 pm
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>>28980

>Did designers decide it was embarrassing to have a switch on the lamp itself? All very odd and I'm not a fan.

Probably this, plus it's cheaper to whack an inline switch in, I imagine.

I haven't seen or had a lamp with a lampshade in years, though, maybe that's more to do with it.
>> No. 28983 Anonymous
12th September 2019
Thursday 7:00 pm
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>>28981
Finding nice mains-rated switches and somewhere to mount them is a chore, and I design big ugly industrial stuff. I can absolutely see why you'd not bother given a choice. Buy in a lead with a globally compliant switch and move on. If the customer wants the switch near the plug, or wants to stick some zigbee-controlled remote switch, then let them. Replace the switch when it fails, as it's bound to.

Fuck big switch.
>> No. 28984 Anonymous
12th September 2019
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>28983

Big Switch is my username on fetlife.
>> No. 28987 Anonymous
13th September 2019
Friday 2:45 pm
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Going to fancy coffee shops because it's fancy.
Fancy-shmancy.
Their coffee wasn't even half-decent.
Thank fucking god I wasn't the one who paid for it.
>> No. 28988 Anonymous
13th September 2019
Friday 3:31 pm
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I think there's something wrong with my prostate. God, I bet it's cancer, that's just absolutely the level of shit I've come to expect.
>> No. 28989 Anonymous
13th September 2019
Friday 4:12 pm
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>>28988
good luck bro
>> No. 28990 Anonymous
13th September 2019
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>28976
I didn't mean to be rude, was just feeling a little vulnerable. I hope i haven't stifled your expression.
>> No. 28991 Anonymous
18th September 2019
Wednesday 12:22 pm
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>>28571
The bus I'm on was just held up at a stop for 10 minutes because two mums were arguing over which one of them was going to fold up their pram to free up the wheelchair space.
>> No. 28992 Anonymous
18th September 2019
Wednesday 3:10 pm
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I was at this event and some woman walks past asking where the toilets are. I said where they were but she acted like she didn't hear me and opened the wrong door. So I said a bit more loudly "excuse me miss, they're-" and she interrupts with an angry "Yes I heard you". Bitch if you heard me then why are you going the wrong way? This is your fault.
>> No. 28993 Anonymous
18th September 2019
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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Through study of the Italian language football and strategy games I've become so accustomed to saying "Napoli" that whenever someone refers to "Naples" there's a moment in which I think "that's so familar why can't I place it...", before realising my error.
>> No. 28994 Anonymous
19th September 2019
Thursday 2:47 am
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I've got that little scratch at the back of my throat that says I've got a cold coming on. Summer is over, another year is drawing to an end, we all march inexorably towards the grave and, worst of all, I'm getting a cold.
>> No. 28997 Anonymous
19th September 2019
Thursday 6:47 pm
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Half pissed off, half scared NHSlad here.

How the fuck can a SHO not have even attempted to enrol on any training since their induction a year ago? How do I even tell a doctor "oh you shouldn't even be working because you've done fuck-all training with our trust in 11 months"?

This doctor also sounds thick as pigshit and probably doesn't even know how to use a computer. Still, it's not as scary as the surgeon who got struck off for shaving people in the wrong places.
>> No. 28998 Anonymous
19th September 2019
Thursday 6:52 pm
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>>28997

Ex-NHSlad here, I feel your pain. I have to hear these anecdotes if there's anything more to them.
>> No. 28999 Anonymous
19th September 2019
Thursday 7:46 pm
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>>28997

If it makes you feel any better, today I had to talk a pilot through why he couldn't just ignore the aircraft balance changes we'd informed him of, and that he would likely have crashed into a building on takeoff had he not accounted for it. He also wanted me to call his company engineer, and I'm pretty sure it was because he wasn't sure how to make the changes he needed to make.

yes, Ryanair, how did you know?
>> No. 29000 Anonymous
19th September 2019
Thursday 11:18 pm
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>>28997
>Still, it's not as scary as the surgeon who got struck off for shaving people in the wrong places.
Like their crotch, or just the wrong place on their back or whatever?
>> No. 29005 Anonymous
20th September 2019
Friday 3:20 pm
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>>29000
At Woodstock.
>> No. 29006 Anonymous
21st September 2019
Saturday 12:37 pm
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>>28997
Another exNHS lad here

He won't have enrolled on training because of arrogance.
My advice, get someone else to tell him he's not entitled to work as he will no doubt put in a spurious complaint against whoever does in a petty point scoring exercise
>> No. 29007 Anonymous
25th September 2019
Wednesday 7:12 pm
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Two things.

1. Lidl have changed the cheeses they use within their four cheese pizzas.

2. Someone at work keeps sending emails out about things like how we should all send birthday cards to that kid who was in the news because his skin keeps falling off and I still can't complain about it in the workplace annoyances thread .
>> No. 29008 Anonymous
26th September 2019
Thursday 11:46 am
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>>29007
Make another one.
>> No. 29009 Anonymous
26th September 2019
Thursday 1:40 pm
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>>29008
No. It's the principle of it.
>> No. 29010 Anonymous
26th September 2019
Thursday 1:40 pm
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Made you look.
>> No. 29011 Anonymous
26th September 2019
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>29009
Stop being soft.
>> No. 29012 Anonymous
26th September 2019
Thursday 1:48 pm
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>>29011
Fluff him then
>> No. 29013 Anonymous
27th September 2019
Friday 1:14 am
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>89 days until Christmas!

I think Christmas started 100 days early this year going by when I first saw Christmas themed biscuit packaging. At least the mince pies are in shops now.
>> No. 29014 Anonymous
27th September 2019
Friday 12:45 pm
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>>29013
My local Card Factory had their Christmas card display set out in August. At this rate it'll be a straight race between the planet getting fucked and Christmas cards in January, and I genuinely don't know which of the two to back.

Also, I find it hilarious when the mince pies start turning up with Best Before dates in October.
>> No. 29015 Anonymous
27th September 2019
Friday 5:45 pm
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Piss-taking collection times at postboxes. One box near my old office has a last collection time of 9am weekdays and 8am Saturdays.
>> No. 29016 Anonymous
27th September 2019
Friday 8:21 pm
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The new Amazon add to basket sidebar thing is slow as fuck and only seems to work one in every ten times I try to add something, not to mention when it does work, it gives me an unwanted lists of sponsored products. I'm already buying shit, I've already seen these products.

Sort it out, amazonlad.
>> No. 29017 Anonymous
27th September 2019
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>29015

They just changed my nearest one from 5.30pm to 9am. I don't know why.
>> No. 29024 Anonymous
1st October 2019
Tuesday 6:20 pm
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People getting on for twenty stone telling me to be careful of how much fruit I'm eating because of "all the sugar".
>> No. 29025 Anonymous
2nd October 2019
Wednesday 9:53 pm
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Why the fuck do kids these days wear earphones by hanging them over their ears?
Why can't they just wear them properly? Fucking wankers.
>> No. 29026 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 11:57 am
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>>29025
So they can hear the music or not get them tangled while still having directional hearing.
>> No. 29027 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 6:35 pm
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"Lucy is 27 and works in marketing. Her hobbies are playing tennis, travelling and watching comedy shows."

I'm reading the sodding guardian and it feels like I'm on pissing Tinder. Have we fallen down some terrible reality tunnel where everyone's utterly boring because they're totally broke, or have we managed to breed a generation of cunts who are more boring than their own grandparents?
>> No. 29028 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 7:43 pm
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>>29027
The dating bit or the actual Guardian newspaper?
>> No. 29029 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 7:57 pm
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>>29028
He's quoting a BBC article.
>> No. 29030 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>29029
But he said he was reading The (sodding) Guardian.
>> No. 29031 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 8:05 pm
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>>29030
Strange I know.
>> No. 29032 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 8:06 pm
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>>29029

You're right, no idea why I thought I was still on the guardian site.
>> No. 29033 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 8:09 pm
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I'm very confused.
>> No. 29034 Anonymous
3rd October 2019
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>29033

No mate, very is a catalogue for poor people and confused is an insurance price comparison website. It's very simple stuff.
>> No. 29036 Anonymous
7th October 2019
Monday 12:59 am
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It's that most wonderful time of the year where every YouTuber thinks they're uniquely being picked on and demonetised.
>> No. 29037 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 1:45 pm
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Dear Amazon,

I do not want to share my purchase on social media, especially because my purchase was a massive bum dildo.

Kind regards,
A Sexual Deviant
>> No. 29038 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 1:49 pm
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>>29037

What if they had a fetlife share option?
>> No. 29039 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 1:57 pm
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>>29037
How does a bum dildo differ from a fanny dildo? Assuming a bum dildo differs from a plug.
>> No. 29040 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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>>29039

Flanged base. You don't want to lose it up there.
>> No. 29041 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 7:43 pm
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I work with someone who keeps boasting how she's leaving for a job paying more money; around £1,300 which equates to an increase of 3.8%. What she's omitted to tell most people is that she's actually going to be working an extra 5 hours per week so her hourly rate of pay will be going down, especially considering she would have been able to do 5 hours of overtime at time and a half here. There's also the fact that her commute will be much longer.

Do people often make such fundamental mistakes when leaving for a 'better paying' job?
>> No. 29042 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 7:54 pm
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>>29041

She sounds like an idiot.
>> No. 29043 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 10:36 pm
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>>29041
This is one of the reasons I get cagey about telling recruiters my salary. Made that mistake, and when explaining my expectation of a bump of around £6k said she'd already pitched me at £3k, at which point I had to explain that going from working across the road from my flat to an hour away by train was going to cost me almost that much.

Joke's on them. Local train company started playing silly buggers about a month in and so the job came to an end, and now I've landed a job much closer to home for a further £5k bump. In the last 24 months, with two failed moves, I'm now on 50% more than I was. If you're below market, it may take a couple of jumps to fix that, especially if the market is moving.
>> No. 29044 Anonymous
8th October 2019
Tuesday 11:34 pm
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>>29041

Half the population do not have the mathematical ability to calculate a simple percentage. In all likelihood, she couldn't work out the difference in hourly rate even if she wanted to. An awful lot of things are explained by the fact that most people are barely numerate.
>> No. 29046 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 10:13 am
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>>29044

>Half the population do not have the mathematical ability to calculate a simple percentage

A whole 43%?! Seems unlikely.
>> No. 29047 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 1:05 pm
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When I'm Supreme Chairman for Life anyone who drives a van for a living will be beaten in the streets by my teenaged Revolutionary Guards, along with anyone who fills a website with unnecessary bloat and/or clutter.
>> No. 29048 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 1:52 pm
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>>29047
What's your problem with men with ven, edgymiddleclasslad?
>> No. 29049 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 2:26 pm
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>>29048
Always driving on aggro mode, giving people shit for no reason, probably not paying taxes.

>middleclasslad

Go fuck yourself.
>> No. 29050 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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>>29047

Don't knock it until you've tried it, lad. I used to think van drivers were cunts too, until I rented one for my last flat move. The sheer power. The rush of being taller than everyone else. The wild abandon with which you can endanger cyclist's lives.

It is intoxicating. I could feel myself being consumed by the van, and I only had it for a weekend. Imagine what driving one all day does to a man.
>> No. 29051 Anonymous
9th October 2019
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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>>29050

I find that having two large, wide angle wing mirrors in place of a central rear view leads to a certain driving style - you're far more confident about what's to each side of you, but not so much about what's potentially directly behind you, so you do end up swinging across lanes with abandon and utilising the inevitable turbo boost kick every time you do, just in case there's some motorbike about to smash your back doors in, so to speak.

The power factor is there for sure, too. It's no wonder those school run mums in their huge fuck off Range Rovers cause so much hassle.

I also used to drive a defender, and everyone else on the road seems terrified of you - I've almost never been cut off while driving what's essentially a three tonne steel tractor with bull bars, and you find yourself fantasising about just plowing into anyone daft enough to try, or slamming your brakes on when someone's up your arse. It wouldn't even leave a scratch on your motor, most likely, and they'd be mush.
>> No. 29052 Anonymous
10th October 2019
Thursday 9:40 am
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That bit on the Nine o'Clock News when they make the news reader check Twitter and then, even more perplexingly, the BBC website itself is really tragic.
>> No. 29053 Anonymous
10th October 2019
Thursday 12:41 pm
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>>29049
>Sweeping negative generalisations about a firmly working class profession

Lad.
>> No. 29054 Anonymous
10th October 2019
Thursday 1:31 pm
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>>29053
>Sweeping negative generalisations about a firmly cunt-dominated profession

FTFY
>> No. 29055 Anonymous
11th October 2019
Friday 10:10 pm
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Birmingham city centre is one big fucking building site.
>> No. 29056 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 11:16 am
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>>29055

It is a giant maze - another tourist attraction for the hoards of peaky blinders fans that will soon be taking open-top bus rides along the aston expressway.
>> No. 29057 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 12:04 pm
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>>29055
And no one seems to know what's being built or who it's being built for.
>> No. 29058 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 12:19 pm
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>>29055

I unfortunately had to live in Birmingham for a while. It just feels like a giant mess. There's no real discernible centre, just streets on top of streets of nothingness and declining high street chains really.

The shopping centre is alright, but even that had an off feeling about it.

Probably the most depressing place I've ever lived.
>> No. 29059 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 12:49 pm
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>>29056
No need for future tense.
>> No. 29060 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 2:14 pm
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The fact it costs me more to get the train to the airport than it does for some of the flights I catch.
>> No. 29061 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 2:45 pm
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>>29044
>Half the population do not have the mathematical ability to calculate a simple percentage.

I can attest to this after a visit to Iceland. Vegetable fingers are £1 each or two for £1.50. They scanned in three when I'd only got two and it took far, far too much explaining why I should be refunded £1 rather than 75p.

I've also got some of their vegan sausage rolls, so I'll see if they're as good as otherlad says.
>> No. 29062 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 3:07 pm
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>>29058

Nit a brummie myself but I've heard the bit with all the grungy little alternative music venues is slated for demolition, to build some shit modern cathedral of consumerism no doubt. The same kind of tragedy is happening in cities all over the country. There's going to be no such thing as genuine culture left in another ten years, just copy pastes of the same shopping centres, Wetherspoon pubs and middle of the road nightclubs in every single city. Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, they all feel exactly the same.
>> No. 29063 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 3:34 pm
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>>29060
Are you booking the train ticket in advance the same way you are the flight?
>> No. 29064 Anonymous
12th October 2019
Saturday 4:24 pm
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I'm certain other languages do this already, but I wish English would incorporate a way of distinguishing between the hard and soft "j".
>> No. 29065 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 11:46 am
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When someone posts a rather appetizing beans on toast pic, but I can't be bothered to pop to the shops to buy the beans and the toastbread because it's a bit rainy out there.
>> No. 29066 Anonymous
13th October 2019
Sunday 1:22 pm
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>>29065
I feel your pain lad.
>> No. 29069 Anonymous
15th October 2019
Tuesday 1:29 am
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ARE RICO (bless him) tried to make joking reference to a bromance between him in Singapore and Lewis Vaughan-Jones in London, saying they "go together like Moss and Bros". Needless to say, it went down like flight 9525.
>> No. 29070 Anonymous
16th October 2019
Wednesday 9:10 pm
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Accidentally hoovered up a pair of shoe laces earlier.
>> No. 29071 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 11:13 am
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"Toxic".

Not because "ugh, me no like words that are different", but because it's being used wrong. You've got MPs talking about death threats being "toxic", which implies there's a level of death threats that are fine, maybe even beneficial, it doesn't make sense.
>> No. 29072 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 11:21 am
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>>29071
>which implies there's a level of death threats that are fine
There is. That level is zero. There's nothing wrong with this usage.
>> No. 29073 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 11:40 am
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>>29072
Zero death threats isn't a death threat, it's the absence of death threats.
>> No. 29074 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 11:53 am
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>>29073
... which is the acceptable level of death threats in a civilised society.
>> No. 29075 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 12:04 pm
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>>29074

If all death threats are toxic, then there's no need to call certain death threats toxic.
>> No. 29076 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 12:31 pm
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When you make toast, get it all buttered and lovely but then you notice some mould on the corner. Fucking penicillin, what's its end game?

>>29072
>>29071
Politicians are soft these days. It's a celebrity role that brings with it a good deal of controversy so they should expect death threats as part of the job. They've become a cloistered lot for a decades now but the way this is going risks putting us in shackles - remember back when candidates had to give their address on the ballot paper for example.
>> No. 29077 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 12:47 pm
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>>29076

Worse than that, they're trying to cling onto and use the terminology victimhood culture and use it to deflect criticism, which is entirely inappropriate and disrespectful considering the immense privilege that they, as the people literally in charge of country, occupy.

The fact that politicians are scared is a good thing. The fact that we still wield the power to remind them that they, the rulers, are beholden to us, the public, is a very fucking good thing.

If you start sympathising with politicians because the poor dears are a wittle bit fwitened by a mean tweet you're basically allowing a return to absolutist rule, we might as well dispense with democracy and let the fucking Queen make the laws.

Never forget, Otherlad, that the very concept of freedom and democracy we (theoretically) enjoy in the West was earned through bloodshed. You soft cunt.
>> No. 29078 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 1:50 pm
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>>29076
>they should expect death threats as part of the job
u fkin wot m7
>> No. 29079 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 2:09 pm
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>>29076
Well just snip that off and munch away.
>> No. 29080 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 2:12 pm
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Why are you both arguing about whether politicians should put up with death threats in exchange for their do-nothing £80k job? This is clearly the result of stupid people being allowed on the internet.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, it should be hard to get on the internet, at least more than 1 wire required, wireless is the devil, the utility of it should be slow and ungainly, not with all these pretty colours and it should be seen as a place for social outcasts.

No more politicians on our serious of tubes, Ms. Jenner can get back to playboy, ARE BAZZA can go on about the darkies in the pub like a normal person and the glut of middle of the road, average idiots who shit up our elite hangout circles can revive the telly.

Mass internet was a mistake.
>> No. 29082 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 2:16 pm
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>>29074
One of you's talking about the quality of the death threat and the other is talking about the quantity. There is no acceptable level of quality for a death threat, it's a death threat regardless. The acceptable level of quantity of death threats is zero. You're just talking at cross-purposes. If the politician is receiving death threats and that they're toxic ones, then he's talking nonsense as that poster said, because obviously there is a quantity above zero and the politician is talking about the quality.
>> No. 29083 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 2:23 pm
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>>29080
>Why are you both arguing about whether politicians should put up with death threats in exchange for their do-nothing £80k job?
I know, right? It should be obvious that nobody should have to put up with death threats as part of their job. Also stop threatening to kill people you have no intention of actually killing, and just kill already.
>> No. 29084 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 2:44 pm
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>>29083

It could also be argued as obvious that nobody should have to put up with being told what they can and can't say in any given situation.
>> No. 29085 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:01 pm
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>>29084
It could, but it would be obvious that anyone that did so would be wrong.
>> No. 29086 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:06 pm
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>>29085

I'm not sure I like your tone.
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19th October 2019
Saturday 3:08 pm
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>>29079
Mould doesn't work that way. The visible patch you see is a bloom much like a mushroom but the organism/organisms reach deep into the loaf and as a rule you should at least toss out the two neighbouring slices.

But yeah, I couldn't be arsed and just cut it off risking an upset tummy.

>>29080
I do wonder why the hell Politicians thought twitter membership would be a good idea. It's not even just that they cry to twitter when things don't go their way but there's so little to gain from so much risk that they will say something crazy.

>>29083
>It should be obvious that nobody should have to put up with death threats as part of their job.
>>29085
>it would be obvious that anyone that did so would be wrong.

Awfully keen on talking about your feelings, aren't you?
>> No. 29088 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:08 pm
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>>29086
It should be obvious that you don't have to.
>> No. 29089 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:13 pm
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>>29088

Now I'm not in any way berating you or implying that your inflexible stance on such a trivial and overblown issue is unnecessarily divisive, all I'm saying is you probably don't get invited to many parties.
>> No. 29090 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:16 pm
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>>29089
I'm sure that used to be Tim, not Tom. I remember sending it to a friend named Tim because it was his name. It's that there Mandela effect.
>> No. 29091 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:17 pm
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>stooooop IIIWW
>For the umpteenth time

Fucking hell, the news needs to stop filming outside Parliament.
>> No. 29092 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 3:20 pm
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>>29090

Your mate Tim was probably sat there thinking "why the fuck has he sent me this? Does he think I'm Tom? Should I change my name to Tom so he notices me?"

Poor Tim.
>> No. 29093 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 4:28 pm
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>>29091
If they'd just hurry up and stop it already he wouldn't need to be there shouting in the first place.
>> No. 29094 Anonymous
21st October 2019
Monday 11:45 pm
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I'm about 1/20th of the way through my journal and pages are already starting to come away. Not happy.
>> No. 29095 Anonymous
22nd October 2019
Tuesday 6:05 pm
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>>29091
There's bloody two of them now. By my calculation, we have until Christmas until audible communication becomes impossible thanks to rude interruptions.

>>29093
Not until Laura Kuenssberg gets her tits out for the lads.
>> No. 29096 Anonymous
22nd October 2019
Tuesday 7:22 pm
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>>29094
As opposed to them stacking a wanton pile, or is it more a reference to things left undone?
I'm of the latter. Wood working designs and projects i need to pick up on.
>> No. 29097 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 12:18 am
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When you rock up in one of your favourite multiplayer games after years away and find it deader than UKIP's electoral chances.
>> No. 29098 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 9:03 am
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My kitchen scale has seperate modes to display grams and millilitres, both showing the same value of course.
>> No. 29099 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 9:13 am
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>>29098
> both showing the same value of course.
Only for things with a density of 1.
>> No. 29100 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 9:36 am
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I went for a run last night and for some reason it's completely fucked my knee and I can barely walk.

I can't bend it wthout extreme pain.
>> No. 29101 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 1:38 am
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Sometimes I will spend a good hour typing up a fairly detailed and insightful post only to accidentally close the window. It's especially annoying if I'm talking about my life where I dredge up things that bother me but never get to hit submit so I just go to bed feeling unsatisfied and surrounded by unwanted feelings.
>> No. 29102 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 7:14 am
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>>29101
By the tone of your post this isn't a one-off issue. Perhaps use something like Word or Google Docs to actually type it up and then copy it over when you're done?
>> No. 29103 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 8:04 am
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If it's a sizable post I'll often copy the entire thing so if "brain" eats it or I refresh the page I've still got it.
>> No. 29104 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 9:53 am
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This rugby lark is a bit dull. It's just lots of kicking the ball. If I wanted to watch that I'd put the footy on.
>> No. 29105 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 10:11 am
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>>29104
England are winning so like with the cricket I'm now heavily invested.
>> No. 29106 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 6:14 pm
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I can hear fireworks.
>> No. 29107 Anonymous
27th October 2019
Sunday 9:53 pm
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>>29106
It's okay, doglad, you're safe indoors, you can stop barking now.
>> No. 29108 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 12:15 pm
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This sounds like an utterly pathetic humble brag, but I really don't mean it as such, I just want to make this clear from the top.

For all my life I've had to deal with people online falling in love with me. It's happened far less since MSN shut down and I stopped being 16, but people still don't know how curated an online interaction, at least from me, is nor do they realise just how unseriously I take everything I do on the internet; it's about the same level as a Skyrim playthrough, meaning that while I'm invested, I might alt-tab out and start watching the iPlayer at any moment. Also it's never an independently minded, outgoing, millionaire with an interest in current affairs, it's usually someone with a burgeoning mental health crisis who hates their parents and really wants to talk about that. I do not.

I don't know, maybe if I had a nine inch penis to wave about on a webcam it wouldn't be so bad, but I don't and you live in Colarado City, you dumb idiot.
>> No. 29109 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 1:04 pm
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>>29108

Once upon a time a bird from Denver fell in love with me over the Internet. I only have a seven inch cock to wave about on webcam, but nevertheless she wanted it badly enough to spend money on flights. Then, when it all came down to it, she had eyes rather considerably bigger than her vagina and couldn't manage it. We tried to stay on good terms but she quickly proved to be, as suggested, quite mental.

Which was a shame, still the fittest lass I've ever shagged, even if it cost me four hundred quid and she was holding back tears the whole time.
>> No. 29110 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 6:51 pm
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My new job is well paid and the people are nice enough but its so boring.
>> No. 29111 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 7:10 pm
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NHSLad here, I had a huge rant typed up, but the details could well get me a bollocking. In summary: people need to stop being ill / on annual leave close to a Corporate Induction; emails ARE an effective way of letting us know to expect things; everyone in our IT department needs a slap; anyone in charge of ESR needs a kick in the ribs; and I've swigged half a bottle of Scotch already since getting home.

The only thing stopping me being more surly is the discovery that hot buttered crumpets are fucking excellent with a dusting of real parmesan, black pepper and a dollop of egg mayonnaise wiv a bit o' dill.
>> No. 29112 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 7:14 pm
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>>29111
Eat them with smoked salmon, nothing beats smoked salmon.
>> No. 29113 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>29111
>anyone in charge of ESR needs a kick in the ribs
This is definitely true.

I worked as a 5, alongside a 6, reporting to a 7, who himself reported to an 8b. At some point someone decided that my leave requests should actually go to the 6 instead, without telling us. Obviously, nobody gets an email to notify them that they have a leave request to approve, so the first anyone notices is when I've asked my line manager to approve a request in ESR (after having approved it IRL) and he can't find it. Only then do I look and see my request is waiting with the 6. Apparently the 6 can reassign to the 7, or the 7 can seize it from the 6. The 8b can't do anything about it, as we discovered when both 6 and 7 were off for two weeks, at which point local HR sorry, Workforce, and trust ESR support started playing the Parent Game.
>> No. 29114 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>29112

Good call, especially since I already have the dill to complement it. I'm just far too refreshed to swagger to Asda right now.
>> No. 29115 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 7:36 pm
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>>29111
Nice shoes lad.
>> No. 29116 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 8:22 pm
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>>29111

Our union rep went on a right bender last year when they stopped issuing paper payslips in favour of staff printing them off from ESR manually.

I mean that's why the NHS is about to get bummed over a barrel really. People like her who don't lift a finger when they dissolve and merge entire departments, but throw their shit out of the pram over paper payslips.

Ah well.
>> No. 29117 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 8:25 pm
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>>29116

Bring back imperial measurements, capital punishment, and good old-fashioned paper payslips
>> No. 29118 Anonymous
1st November 2019
Friday 10:01 pm
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I like fireworks really, but they're getting so fucking obnoxiously loud.

I've got double glazing, thick curtains, and the fireworks three houses down are still so loud that my ears are ringing from them
>> No. 29119 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 1:07 am
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>>29117
If you're going to go that way, go the whole hog and pay everyone in cash; good old fashioned pay packet.
>> No. 29120 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 12:45 pm
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The cold has brought a mouse into my flat and made evident that the traps behind my fridge needed re-baiting. Unfortunately, I didn't read up that the peanut butter I bought has all the consistency of a shart.

It literally looks like liquid shit and I got it all over the place. I blame the removal of palm oil for this, it's ruined peanut butter and I can imagine in 10 years it will be all we can buy.
>> No. 29121 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 2:50 pm
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>>29120

Stir it a bit first, you tit.
>> No. 29122 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 4:00 pm
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>>29120

I don't think I've ever seen peanut butter with palm oil in it, I don't really understand why they'd need to do that, when they have an abundance of peanut oil to use instead.
>> No. 29123 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 5:09 pm
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>>29121
Trust me m8 - I know all about stirring my nut butter. This isn't an oil separation problem and if you think I'm talking bollocks then it's on sale right now at Sainsburys.

>>29122
It gives it a better consistency and you don't have to do any stirring. Fuck knows why but it's what I've noticed from the brand who don't use it.
>> No. 29124 Anonymous
2nd November 2019
Saturday 6:27 pm
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'Yes I am using this exercise machine there is only one of in the gym. I may just be standing looking at it for 5 mins, but look I put my drink on it. I assure you I am using it, see I did 5 reps before stopping for another 3 min break and pace around the machine, can't you see THAT! how dare you ask if I am done, are you questioning my masculinity, this is my machine no one else may look upon it.'
>> No. 29125 Anonymous
5th November 2019
Tuesday 2:04 am
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Nothing like a nightmore after five minutes of sleep to snap you out of it and get you in the mood for a chilly Tuesday.
>> No. 29126 Anonymous
5th November 2019
Tuesday 2:57 am
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>>29125
Why are you still engaging in your mind's melodrama? Just realise that you and your thoughts have a subject-object relationship: your thoughts are simply ephemeral objects with you/your awareness being the subject. You can view your thoughts and feelings in the same way you can view the shades of a cat's fur.

I got high and read a pamphlet on buddhism once so I'm pretty much an expert on being enlightened now.
>> No. 29127 Anonymous
5th November 2019
Tuesday 7:41 am
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>>29123

Whole Earth brand peanut butter uses sustainable palm oil and is the best peanut butter on the market currently, at least according to my tastes. They don't sweeten it at all which is what I like. I can also only account for the chunky version because I'm not a toddler.
>> No. 29128 Anonymous
5th November 2019
Tuesday 8:36 am
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>>29126
I'm glad I never read that before finally falling asleep last night. I hate Buddhists.
>> No. 29129 Anonymous
5th November 2019
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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Oven trays too big for the sink, can't wash them without getting greased water everywhere

>:|
>> No. 29130 Anonymous
6th November 2019
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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It's a shame the chocolate itself is a bit naff, because the fruit and especially the nut in Asda's own fruit and nut milk chocolate is a roaring success.
>> No. 29131 Anonymous
6th November 2019
Wednesday 1:02 pm
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Speaking of chocolate, I haven't seen a chocolate orange Twirl anywhere.
>> No. 29132 Anonymous
6th November 2019
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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>>29131
Twirls tend to hurt my mouth. It must be the substitute sugar getting into my damaged teeth.
>> No. 29133 Anonymous
6th November 2019
Wednesday 6:17 pm
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I got a few new bottles of e-liquid in the post today. All of them have that shit menthol/cooling agent flavour, when the descriptions only said they were fruit flavour.

I'm fucking pissed off, it's mid November and I don't need to be inhaling fucking arctic wind every time I go out for a nicotine break.
>> No. 29134 Anonymous
6th November 2019
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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It's fucking difficult to find ones without menthol in. The people in the vape shops give me weird looks when I specify not that.

Iceland do some £1 bottles at the moment. Weakest is 0.6 but the bubblegum and raspberry ripple flavours aren't unpleasant and have no menthol.
>> No. 29135 Anonymous
7th November 2019
Thursday 12:26 pm
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Poor show, really.
>> No. 29136 Anonymous
8th November 2019
Friday 5:49 pm
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I got myself a smart bulb to go with my smart assistant.

I'm really happy with it and it's handy saying 'goodnight' and my alarms being set and the light being turned off and everything else like that but my gf now wants me to go over for Chinese and I kind of want to just sit saying 'lights to green, lights to red, lights to blue.'
>> No. 29138 Anonymous
8th November 2019
Friday 8:04 pm
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>>29136
See, this is what Idiocracy got wrong. The idea that the dumb people would take over by out-breeding the smarts isn't what's going on, what's actually happening is everyone finding their own kind of dumb and letting that ruin everything for them.
>> No. 29139 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 12:22 am
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I'd occasionally get drunk to accentuate the immersion of a legitimately great videogame, then when I finished that game I continued with the habit thinking I was doing the same thing, but in retrospect I was just trying to make a shit game more tolerable. Quite a nefarious little trap to fall into.
>> No. 29140 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 9:44 am
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>>29138
Bit cringe - it's just about playing with a new gadget, hardly becoming mega dumb drones and ruining everything.

Oh no somebody wanted to stay at home and play with a new toy, society is failing.
>> No. 29141 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 11:46 am
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>>29140
If you don't want me to poke fun, don't spend your evenings turning lights on and off while GCHQlad touches himself to the intercepts.

>"Bit cringe"
The shame of it.
>> No. 29142 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 12:56 pm
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>>29141
Wow you're so smart and everybody around you is so dumb, however do you cope being around these mere cavemen who ruin their lives by playing with a smart bulb?
>> No. 29144 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 1:27 pm
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>>29142
I get by.
>> No. 29145 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 1:41 pm
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I've got a vibrating buttplug you can control with an app. Still wouldn't catch me letting Alexa run my house, though.
>> No. 29146 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 2:01 pm
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>>29145
Hook it up to tinder and set it to go off whenever you get a match or a message, explain that in your profile and see what happens.
>> No. 29147 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 2:07 pm
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>>29145
Nobody who uses this site, or others like it, should have an Alexa.
>> No. 29148 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 2:23 pm
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Why's the new Attenborough series got to have so much music and sound effects?
>> No. 29149 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 2:32 pm
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The same lads thinking they're super private, anti listening device masters, are 99% guaranteed to have a smartphone that does the same but is with you always.

(I know some lad will say how he uses a mobile with no signal from 1998 now to prove a point).
>> No. 29151 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 3:27 pm
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>>29149
Give it a couple more years, and internet sites the world over will have smug, "I, for one, do not own a mobile telephone" posts.
>> No. 29152 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 4:02 pm
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>>29151
Not from Canada they won't.
>> No. 29153 Anonymous
9th November 2019
Saturday 5:14 pm
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Whenever I go out I seem to end up with something stuck to the bottom of my shoe. I'd love to know who these bastards are that keep spitting gum everywhere so I could write them a sternly worded letter.

It's a London problem from my experience and maybe that speaks about how the local culture here is one of abandoning social standards.

>>29148
I've noticed this as well. I think there is a good deal that has gone wrong with the new series along with my more general gripe that I wish his documentaries spent more time with animals.

Blue Planet 2 might've been the peak.
>> No. 29154 Anonymous
11th November 2019
Monday 10:59 pm
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I confess that my little fingers are littler than most, but I was trying on gloves today and there was little to no difference between the size of the index and pinky fingers on most pairs.
>> No. 29155 Anonymous
12th November 2019
Tuesday 11:25 am
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>>29151

Maybe that's not a bad thing.
>> No. 29156 Anonymous
15th November 2019
Friday 1:03 pm
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Why do they almost always try to hide the buttons on monitors these days? What's the big deal? Just stick them on the front so I don't have to fumble about like I'm trying to unhook a bra one handed. I'm buying a new PC monitor, you know it's a skill I lack.
>> No. 29157 Anonymous
15th November 2019
Friday 1:10 pm
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>>29156

Genuine mirth.
>> No. 29158 Anonymous
15th November 2019
Friday 2:46 pm
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>>29156

The best solution I've seen is the little four way joystick thing. It's hidden away but intuitive and effective. It only seems to be on the more expensive brands like LG and Samsung though.

Speaking of monitors I just ordered one of those big ultra wide ones. I'm enjoying the triple monitor setup at work, but it's a bit of a hassle to do at home in my small study. So I just bought one monitor that is roughly the size of three, but one stand, no bezels in the middle, it should be good. It better be, it cost more than my car.
>> No. 29159 Anonymous
15th November 2019
Friday 7:41 pm
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>>29157>>29158
The follow up /101/ is the monitor I was going to buy didn't have Freesync, despite me having convinced myself as such, so I'll have to save my dinner money for a little while longer to afford the newer model.

I hope you CHOKE on that ultrawide, richlad. Not really, have fun with it!
>> No. 29160 Anonymous
15th November 2019
Friday 11:50 pm
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>>29159

I too was set on buying a second hand one from eBay, but then convinced myself I need freesync. Then Amazon worked their magic and a voucher popped up so I went with a new one.

If it makes you feel any better, I've only just realised I'll probably need to buy a new graphics card if I actually want to play games at 1440p ultrawide, and that will definitely be a battered, probably ex-miner 1080/1080ti.
>> No. 29161 Anonymous
16th November 2019
Saturday 12:09 am
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People in the office have been coming in sick the past week and now that it's Friday I can feel the start of it for me. Fuck sake, I foolishly thought it was the same cold from a couple months ago that battered me.
>> No. 29162 Anonymous
16th November 2019
Saturday 12:51 am
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Speaking of monitors, is it normal for the edges of a white background to have the appearance of having a slightly darker shadowing, with the shadowing disappearing if you move your head so you're directly in front of it? I bought the cheapest 27" IPS 1440p monitor I could find and I'm not sure if I'm only noticing it because of the size of the screen. My old 24" 1080p does the same thing but I guess I eventually got used to it and didn't find it as noticeable because of its smaller size.
>> No. 29163 Anonymous
16th November 2019
Saturday 9:11 am
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>>29162

I think that sounds normal, that just sounds like you reaching the limits of the viewing angle of the screen. Although IPS monitors have far better viewing angles than most other panel types, you'll still see minor shifts if you're not more or less looking at it head on.

I think that's what you mean, anyway.
>> No. 29164 Anonymous
16th November 2019
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>>29159

Me again, if it makes you feel any better I've had a change of heart and cancelled the huge 49 inch ultrawide because I really don't have that much space, or need to spend that much, and also I accidentally won a curved 34" samsung on ebay for £260. No freesync but I'm not even sure I'll notice.
>> No. 29165 Anonymous
20th November 2019
Wednesday 7:40 pm
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People who announce their holiday on social media and include the phrase "OUT OF OFFICE : ON!"

I can't pinpoint exactly why I fucking hate it. I think it's because only useless fucking HR birds use out of office responses anyway, and certainly it's usually that type that announce it. To that point, I also hate anyone who even sets an out of office reply. Anyone I'm emailing with something important enough that I need an instant response, I would already know if you were on holiday, and if you were important enough to have emails you needed to reply to instantly, whoever was covering for you would be answering them anyway. So when I email fucking Brenda to ask about why she's started my paper payslips again without me asking for them, I can stand to wait until she's back from fucking Tenerife, and a robot telling me that Brenda is not going to reply for a week is not useful information, particularly because that's usually how long it takes for her to reply anyway.

I think this might just be about Brenda.
>> No. 29166 Anonymous
20th November 2019
Wednesday 8:00 pm
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>>29165

It's always fucking Brenda.
>> No. 29167 Anonymous
20th November 2019
Wednesday 9:47 pm
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>>29165
>I can't pinpoint exactly why I fucking hate it. I think it's because only useless fucking HR birds use out of office responses anyway, and certainly it's usually that type that announce it. To that point, I also hate anyone who even sets an out of office reply. Anyone I'm emailing with something important enough that I need an instant response, I would already know if you were on holiday, and if you were important enough to have emails you needed to reply to instantly, whoever was covering for you would be answering them anyway. So when I email fucking Brenda to ask about why she's started my paper payslips again without me asking for them, I can stand to wait until she's back from fucking Tenerife, and a robot telling me that Brenda is not going to reply for a week is not useful information, particularly because that's usually how long it takes for her to reply anyway.

I strongly disagree with this.
Inside of a small company, yes it's pointless HR wankery, but if part of your job involves any communication at all with people outside of the company (whether you are important enough to have someone cover for you or not), setting an out of office message is absolutely something you have to do.
>> No. 29168 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 12:02 am
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>>29167
Seconding this.

Even if you're dealing with people in different offices they won't necessarily know and probably don't get in touch unless they need something. They shouldn't be emailing me when I'm on holiday anyway, I hope they choke on my out of office replies.
>> No. 29171 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 12:17 am
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>>29167

The company I work for operates in 50 countries and has 70k employees, and we exist only to provide things to other companies - yet I've never once needed to know if someone was out of the office. To be fair though, what you're saying might well be true in many or most other large businesses, and I'm only looking at it from a critical service oriented business that couldn't operate at all without almost all deskbound/management positions covered at all times, save for the entirely extraneous roles like HR and compliance. So in my world at least it's hard to imagine anyone needing it, even though I do frequently communicate with people all over the globe.

It's probably also worth admitting that I'm a sad cunt and will quite happily answer emails on holiday anyway, though I certainly don't expect anyone else to do that, it probably further explains why I find it frustrating when I suddenly find out my question might not be answered for a week or two.
>> No. 29172 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>29168

Thirding. I currently work for a company that has a number of people who, unfortunately, single points of failure for multiple projects. When they're going to be out of office (and not reply to email) then they are required to let people know in advance via a mailing list and to provide ideally three alternative project managers / service directors who people working on those projects can contact for help. They also have to set OOO auto replies containing that exact same contact information.

The reason for this is if some poor goober like me just spent ~30+ hours flying halfway around the world followed by 10 hours at a client site where the 3g was unusable and I coudn't get onto their corporate wifi then goes back to their hotel, emails their project manager and simply doesn't get a response, for days, they wouldn't just be all kinds of pissed off, they'd possibly be utterly fucked - a situation which would be a disaster for all involved.

The same thing happened where by (ex) missus used to work. The business operated 24 hours and so people worked shifts, and instead of weekends you got two days off per week on a rotating basis. If managers had simply told whoever had happened to be on their floor at that moment that they were going on holiday it would have been chaos.

Hell, I've worked for banks where there were several thousand people in a single building, never mind the ~20 or so offices around the city and the 50+ around the country. There's nothing quite so frustrating as chasing someone up on an action item for two weeks only to finally get a reply saying "sorry I was on holiday". Well organised businesses make sure this doesn't happen.

Honestly, if you can't see the value of Out Of Office announcements then I can only imagine that you work somewhere that occupies half a floor of a rather small building and that the highlight of your most stressful of your work-related responsibilities involves making sure the chocolate covered hob-nobs don't run out.
>> No. 29173 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 12:59 am
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>>29172
>the highlight of your most stressful of your work-related responsibilities involves making sure the chocolate covered hob-nobs don't run out
This is my kind of job. Stress can get in the bin.
>> No. 29176 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 2:02 am
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>>29172

My job is so high stakes that it would be ludicrous for any* email inbox (except Brendas) to go ignored for more than ten minutes at a time, 24 hours a day. Any operational role left unfilled would be genuinely dangerous. I see now that most businesses don't run like that, suppose I hadn't really thought about it that much.

*maybe not any, but certainly anyone handling our service provisioning
>> No. 29177 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 7:54 am
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>>29176
Ignore the mailbox for more than 10 minutes and people die. Sounds like a really boring version of Speed.
>> No. 29178 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 8:06 am
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>>29176

I've seen surgeons in high-end hospitals get caught wandering off to take a shit when their patient is due to move from theatres to intensive care. I'm genuinely curious what your industry is that you aren't allowed to be away for ten minutes.
>> No. 29179 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 8:19 am
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You lot's autistic bickering about e-mails has rather tickled me. I don't work in big high flying business where millions of pounds depend on me answering an e-mail, but I do know this.

If I ever need to actually genuinely get hold of someone for something that actually matters, I'll fucking phone them or their department. Sending an e-mail is by its very nature a "this can wait" method of communication, and getting annoyed over it or your perceived importance of it only suggests to me that your businesses are daft as fuck or you have a poor understanding of what's actually important.

It's all too common for people with middling status to overestimate the importance of their role, after all. An out of office reply is a polite courtesy, not a life or death issue of essential precedent.
>> No. 29180 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 9:38 am
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>>29179
>I'll fucking phone them or their department

You sick bastard.
>> No. 29181 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 9:51 am
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>>29179
This guy's got the biggest dick itt.
>> No. 29182 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 10:17 am
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>>29179
BOSSLADM8
>> No. 29183 Anonymous
21st November 2019
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>29176

> My job is so high stakes that it would be ludicrous for any* email inbox (except Brendas) to go ignored for more than ten minutes at a time, 24 hours a day.

I find it curious that your job is so "high stakes" yet your company apparently doesn't have personal email boxes or use personal pgp keys to verify email contents and sender. Do you just have big shared email addresses rather than using an alias to forward an email to e.g. helpdesk@ to all the relevant people? If there are no personal email accounts and no verifiable PKI, how on earth is there any responsibility for exactly which person sends what and when? The setup sounds bizarre.

>>29174

Me too mate. Me too.
>> No. 29184 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 12:07 am
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>>29183

>The setup sounds bizarre

I hadn't even considered it to be this odd, but clearly it is, or I'm just not explaining it well. I suppose the simplest way to explain it is that there are desks that need to be manned 24/7, and each desk has an email address. I don't mean to say that we organise critical emergencies via email, but constant monitoring of the emails (and phone and many other more specialised communications tools) is vital for continued operation. A missed email probably wouldn't kill anyone (though I can imagine extremes in which it could) but it would certainly cause a huge fucking mess that you'd probably hear about. There's non-operational people with personal inboxes (I have one for my managerial duties outside of my active ops role) just as you'd expect, but the majority of the communication is essentially sent to desk1.location@company.com, and so on.

I'm probably making this sound a lot more complicated than it is.
>> No. 29185 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 12:47 am
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>>29184

So what you really mean by important is that you'd risk breaching one of your SLAs, and the bosses would go mental because it might hit their bonus. Am I far off?

>other more specialised communications tools

Like what, do you have emergency semaphore operators or something? Instant messengers are a subgenre of e-mail.
>> No. 29186 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 1:05 am
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Are any of you hiring?
>> No. 29187 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 1:12 am
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>>29186
Yes, but no dogs, blacks or Irish.
>> No. 29188 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 1:16 am
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>>29179
> your businesses are daft as fuck or you have a poor understanding of what's actually important.

You'd be surprised how seat-of-your-pants pants-on-head-retarded the internal workings of even billion dollar companies can be, but I generally agree. In our case if there's a single point of failure they are either important enough to have a PA who handles their comms and coverage (and they do enough cocaine that they are always up if not working anyway) or they're not as important as they think. Or, in rare cases, about to be fired for hiding the operational failures they're responsible for; company's "fix first blame never" culture does a very good job of avoiding this.

A workflow where someone's job is to watch their inbox is believable but I lack the imagination necessary to come up with a scenario that both requires them to be on their inbox like a hawk and also take meaningful action in response while still watching their inbox. Every scenario I can come up with is either a glorified bash script or a text to speech system wired to a loud speaker.
>> No. 29192 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 3:11 am
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>>29185

>Am I far off?

Yes, sorry. We're talking about tangible services that millions use per day, not ethereal business applications. Our SLAs are largely concerned with safety even at the expense of performance. Our fuck ups (in a general sense, not just my workplace) tend to make the news.

>do you have emergency semaphore operators or something?

Not quite but also not that far off - it's really rather analogue. Some of the systems we use are very old indeed, in terms of technology.

>Every scenario I can come up with is either a glorified bash script or a text to speech system wired to a loud speaker.

Before email, this inbox would have been instead served by a TELEX printer, or at least something very much like it. Simply a channel to be monitored with information to be passed throughout the operation, or replied to. Perhaps a human text to speech system is not too unfair an analogy, though it still requires decision making and is only a very small part of the overall workload.

I should probably just explain the job less vaguely at this point as I feel like it seems like I'm just trying to be mysterious now, but I'm not actually allowed to fully explain certain procedures so I'm not entirely sure what I can and can't say at this point. I also realise saying this will only further muddy the waters, I can assure you it's a lot more mundane an industry than I'm making it seem. I think you're all just trying to imagine the wrong sort of business.
>> No. 29193 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 3:34 am
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>>29192

I was specifically imagining you're some sort of IT subcontractor holding up networks and services for the NHS or a bank or something of that sort.

Either way I've worked and have friends who work in that sort of field. Anything where an SLA is involved means it's not that catastrophic in the real, physical Earth world, but does incur a big fee and therefore gets made to seem like a big deal in office space.
>> No. 29194 Anonymous
22nd November 2019
Friday 3:56 am
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>>29193

It's not that, though I see why you'd guess that. It's more of an active service than technical maintenance.

We do have SLAs as we provide services to companies, but alongside the SLAs we have actual, proper regulations to follow while providing said services. Breaking the SLA would just cost money and time, failing to follow the regulations would be physically, actually catastrophic. Brenda not replying to my email straight away would be neither.
>> No. 29195 Anonymous
23rd November 2019
Saturday 9:49 am
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I've recently renewed my NUS card, rebranded as Totum for some reason, but it wouldn't work in Co-op this morning so I couldn't get my 10% discount. Fuck sake.
>> No. 29196 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 8:50 pm
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I'll keep a browser tab about gravitational waves or the Czeckoslovakian security services during the Cold War open for literally months, but something important like the a parcel price calculator or my online banking I'll close just as soon I look away from it for a second.
>> No. 29197 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 9:12 pm
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>>29196
Don't you ever turn your computer off?
>> No. 29198 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 9:37 pm
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>>29197
Why would he want to do that?
>> No. 29199 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 10:11 pm
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>>29197
Not him, but no. I never turn it off. Is it bad?
>> No. 29200 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>29197
I'm also not sure why you'd ever need to turn a computer off, or also why you think browsers magically forget what was open if you do.
>> No. 29201 Anonymous
24th November 2019
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>29197
Why on earth would you do that?
>> No. 29202 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 8:54 am
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I always turn mine off when I'm not using it, I'm pretty sure there are reasons for it beyond habit. Not leaving machines running 24/7 tends to extend their useful life. Plus I have to pay the electricity bill.
>> No. 29203 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>29197
I do, but as far as I know every single modern browser saves your last session so the tabs don't go anywhere just because I shut the machine down.
>> No. 29204 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 3:47 pm
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Is putting it to hibernate acceptable?
>> No. 29205 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 4:24 pm
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>>29202

Things might have moved on since I last cared about the hardware level of a consumer PC/Laptop but it was generally considered that the overall "stress" of running one 24/7 was less than the stress of repeated boot-ups.

I figure with SSDs and what not these days there's probably less overall wear and tear with reboots than what there used to be.
>> No. 29206 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 5:09 pm
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>>29205
From https://computer.howstuffworks.com/powering-down-computer.htm

>Modern PCs are built to handle 40,000 on-off cycles before failure [source: EnergyStar.gov]. If you shut down your computer at night and start it back up in the morning, you should be good for the next 109 years.

>If anything wears down your computer, it's leaving the machine on. Computers build up heat when they are actively processing data and running software. Heat itself can damage internal components, but it also causes your computer's fan to run longer [source: Greenemeier]. The more the fan runs, the quicker it will wear out its bearings [source: Gwinn].
>> No. 29207 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 6:03 pm
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There's a house on the street behind me with their Christmas tree up.
>> No. 29208 Anonymous
25th November 2019
Monday 11:52 pm
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>>29207
Well... It is almost December... I have mine up.
>> No. 29209 Anonymous
26th November 2019
Tuesday 12:22 am
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I applied to volunteer for Labour this morning but haven’t heard back. If I hear nothing by 10AM I’m voting IIIWW Party.
>> No. 29210 Anonymous
26th November 2019
Tuesday 2:19 am
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Why is rye bread a luxury item? Finland lives on that stuff.
>> No. 29211 Anonymous
26th November 2019
Tuesday 3:27 pm
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>>29209
The mods clearly intended this as an awkward acronym for Third World War, but every time I see it I just read it as International Workers of the World.
>> No. 29212 Anonymous
26th November 2019
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>29211

>awkward acronym for Third World War

Is there a less awkward alternative?
>> No. 29213 Anonymous
29th November 2019
Friday 7:21 pm
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I've got texts from Virgin Mobile and I don't like the fake pally-ness of them. Things like sending "Alright?" after a message with instructions from them.
>> No. 29214 Anonymous
29th November 2019
Friday 7:31 pm
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>>29213
I was thinking recently about how stupid the pretend matey attitude you get in error messages on websites or crash screens these days. Much prefer the all caps, top secret style of my bank's texts.
>> No. 29215 Anonymous
29th November 2019
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>29213

I use one of those 'smart banking assistant' things for savings, and while the service itself is great and very effective, I'm absolutely fucking sick of it sending me emojis and saying "Wowzers! You've saved soooo much this month!". Wish there was a "not fun" mode.
>> No. 29216 Anonymous
29th November 2019
Friday 8:17 pm
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>>29215
It's not Monzo, is it? I'm planning on moving to them but if they pull any shit like that they can fuck right off.
>> No. 29217 Anonymous
29th November 2019
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>29216

It's Plum. From what I can tell, Monzo is much better, though Plum isn't a proper bank, they just do savings. I'm probably going to move to Monzo too as Plum just don't seem that reliable in general, despite getting a positive review from me.
>> No. 29218 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 1:20 am
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Getting drunk at home. I thought about going out to see where the night might take me, but I have somehow managed to ascend past the booze-induced myopia and from a third person perspective I remember that my past drunken excursions have never met my expectations. In the past I was hoping to find meaningful connections on both the platonic and romantic level but for some very mysterious reason I only ever found other drunks whose quest for the same thing was both depressing and insulting because it wasn't on my obviously elevated and superior wavelength.

I don't even know why I started typing all this out in the first place. /101/ for the mind perpetually trying to create melodrama.
>> No. 29219 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 1:35 pm
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>>29218

It's like money, or jobs. It's easier to find Friends when you already have them.

Going out and getting into a drunken chat with a randomer is fine as long as you're with some mates and you're clearly just floating off for a smoke or they're all busy playing pool or something. But if you're out on your own and start talking to strangers it's hard nit to come off as creepy.

That said I went on a coke bender in a well known provincial town not too long back and woke up the next morning with about six new Facebook friends. Instead of a feeling of accomplishment for making new friends, I actually wanted to die of shame and embarrassment the next day.
>> No. 29220 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 4:06 pm
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I've just got a new phone, the Huawei P30 Lite, and the back of the case is so smooth that I can't rest it on my thigh when I have a poo because it won't keep still and starts sliding off. This is a worrying development. I didn't realise I had to factor this in to my choice of phone.
>> No. 29221 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>29220
Just put some tape on it
>> No. 29222 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 6:15 pm
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>>29220

If you don't want to use any kind of case, stick a skin on it.

https://easyskinz.com/collections/huawei-p30-lite
>> No. 29223 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 6:51 pm
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>>29220
The matt back panel of googles pixel phones is one of the subtle things about them that makes a big difference to the useability, but every other wanker just goes "but gloss looks better".
>> No. 29224 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 7:02 pm
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>>29220
You could just rough up the surface with some sandpaper or a scouring pad.
>> No. 29225 Anonymous
30th November 2019
Saturday 7:15 pm
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>>29222
I am planning on getting something like an Otterbox for it, but I have no real idea what are the best things to buy.

>>29223
My last few phones have all been Moto Gs, so I just assumed all phones were a bit grippy like them.
>> No. 29226 Anonymous
1st December 2019
Sunday 2:39 am
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>>29225

My preferred post-Nexus phones are the Google Pixel XL range (I'm happy with a 150 quid pixel XL off Ebay to be honest). The Otterbox for the Pixel XL is the bee's nuts lad, you could easily beat a mugger to death with the cunt and still call and the police to come pick up the fucker's body afterwards.

When I can't get a Pixel for geographic reasons (I lost my last one in the middle east and needed a phone quick-sharp) then I always go with a Motorola G-something.

I was on a G5-something-play, currently on a G8-something-play.

No idea if you can get Otterboxes for them but if you can I'd recommend it.

The missus always buys Samsung and I always feel like beating myself to death with the bastard thing within minutes of trying to use it. Stick with the Motorola / Lenovo brand as a commodity phone and the Google phones as a higher tier "don't lose this in an Arab taxi unless you're really drunk" kind of phone.
>> No. 29228 Anonymous
1st December 2019
Sunday 1:56 pm
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>>29226

>The missus always buys Samsung and I always feel like beating myself to death with the bastard thing within minutes of trying to use it.

Why? They're nearly indistinguishable from stock android.
>> No. 29230 Anonymous
4th December 2019
Wednesday 5:39 pm
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>>29220 here again.

It slid out of my pocket whilst I was standing up and now the screen has cracked in the corner. Welp.
>> No. 29231 Anonymous
11th December 2019
Wednesday 10:50 pm
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Went and got an Asda pizza, but I've bought a deep pan one instead of a thin crust. I'm gutted, and perhaps a bit more frustrated by this than perhaps a man of my age should be. I still have a pizza, it'll still be good, but fucking hell, I much prefer the thin ones. I'm more embarrassed by my reaction, I think I'm about 4/10ths of the way to a tantrum, which is a bit much for an adult. I suppose I'm hungry, but that's no excuse.
>> No. 29232 Anonymous
12th December 2019
Thursday 6:53 am
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>>29231
Slice it in half and you've got two thin pizzas.
>> No. 29233 Anonymous
16th December 2019
Monday 7:43 pm
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Messaging between me and my parents

>Parents: what do you want for Christmas?

>Me: Well I do want this thing but they can be quite expensive

>Parents: Will pay for whatever thing you want you always ask for so little unlike your sister*

>Me: Well they cost x

>Parents: oh that is a lot more than we though they cost, we were thinking Y

fyi Y< X/2

>Me: lol, I thought you'd say that, here [spend an hour researching online] are some more marked down alternatives not perfect but I'd be happy with that match your budget, typically the ones cheaper than this aren't fit for purpose.

>*3 hours later*

>Parents: so we've been rummaging through the metaphorical online bins and found something wholly unsuitable discounted cheaper knock off versions they are just as good right?


Why do people do this? I get gesturing that the sky is the limit and then going, 'oh turns out it isn't' when reality appears, that is fair enough, but then to go from that to - seeing how much of a bargain they can get buying a knock off brand, seems like some sort of mental illness. I fucking hate this Del Boy mentality, It taints the entire gesture to begin with.

Imagine asking a date to go see a film in the cinema and instead they turn up with a a bootleg DVD where the screen flickers, the camera shakes the sound is so awful and you can see people in the Chinese theatre getting up to take a piss occasionally and then them treating it like 'what's the difference'?

why do people weasle out of what the thing actually costs, I feel like I regret having asked for it in the first place, because rather than just getting the thing I have to deconstruct why the knock off isn't good enough.

I'm not a selfish person, or one to be ungrateful I just want the thing given to actually be the thing asked for, rather than a position where I might as well replace it immediately.

I feel like if someone is more concerned with 'the best deal' then if it would make me happy, at that point I feel it ceases to be a gift and becomes some sort of ritualistic annual tithe.

*bonus points for weird unprovoked attack on my sister.
>> No. 29234 Anonymous
16th December 2019
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>29233

When I was about 14 my parents got me one of those naff eBay "MP4 players" that were designed to look like a iPod Nano of the time. It was pure shite but I pretended it wasn't because I'm not a spoiled cunt.

I miss MP3 players being a thing, by the way.

Anyway this is why I don't ask for anything from my parents any more. I just ask for money and then I get to just find out directly how much I'm worth in solid numbers.
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16th December 2019
Monday 9:14 pm
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>>29234

> I miss MP3 players being a thing, by the way.

Same. I miss being able to get on a twelve hour flight and know I could listen to a whole audiobook and not worry about the battery running out.

All I'd want for Christmas would be a high battery life MP3 player with exact seek, but every time I ask any online forum for advice on if such a thing even exists any more they just tell me to stop being such a weirdo and to use a smartphone like a normal human being.
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16th December 2019
Monday 9:40 pm
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>>29235

I'm sure there must be some sort of phone built for energy saving that has a SD expansion card slot and the ability to play music you can dig out from the last 10 years of tech that would fit your purpose?
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16th December 2019
Monday 10:01 pm
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>>29236

Most likely, but there's also likely an actual purpose-built MP3 player with exact seek. The problem becomes one of needles, haystacks, and the amount of time I can spend on google before I neck myself.
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16th December 2019
Monday 10:02 pm
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>>29234
>Anyway this is why I don't ask for anything from my parents any more. I just ask for money and then I get to just find out directly how much I'm worth in solid numbers.

I mean I really don't care about the cost of the thing itself. If they set a budget I would match it or find something else for that budget. What I can't stand is once they have set their limit and I have met it, seeing if they can get it on the cheap. It isn't like they can't afford it, I would show sympathy for that. It seems more pathological, like they can't comprehend the idea of paying for quality. I'm sure if I had asked for something different they would happily pay as much as the price of the good version of this thing is, but that would of course be the lowest grade version of that thing. To frame this, their favourite restaurants are all you can eat buffets when they have a discount day. Doesn't matter if it tastes like shit because you are getting your monies worth in quantity after all.
>> No. 29239 Anonymous
16th December 2019
Monday 10:17 pm
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>>29235
They still exist, but mostly cater to the high-end audiophile market.

A company called "cowon" make a lot, including a quite decent one which is around £110 for the 64GB model, and they do pretty much everything you want.
Fiio are also quite good, but less provision of physical buttons on their players, but maybe that'd suit you for audiobooks. They have one that's about the size and shape of an apple watch, and rated as 10 hours playtime.

https://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/Digital_Audio_Players.463/Cowon.609/COWONHIFI/Cowon_iAudio_HIFI_Digital_Audio_Player.15385.html?am3sid=3ul8fbb2eibdjeesmmpnds7k00

https://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/Digital_Audio_Players.463/FiiO.406/FIIOM5-BLACK/FiiO_M5_Portable_High-Resolution_Music_Player.15367.html?am3sid=3ul8fbb2eibdjeesmmpnds7k00
>> No. 29240 Anonymous
16th December 2019
Monday 10:19 pm
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I wish my dick was fatter.
>> No. 29241 Anonymous
17th December 2019
Tuesday 1:39 am
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>>29240
You're in luck, it gets fatter as you age.
>> No. 29242 Anonymous
17th December 2019
Tuesday 1:50 am
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>>29241

My dick is the only part of me that's not got fatter as I've got older. I feel robbed.
>> No. 29243 Anonymous
17th December 2019
Tuesday 1:54 am
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>>29239

Nice one, lad. That first one looks really nice.
>> No. 29244 Anonymous
17th December 2019
Tuesday 2:30 am
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>>29239
I used to use a Fiio headphone amplifier in secondary school, the build quality was fairly shite but it did what I wanted it to do. Hopefully they've improved since then.
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17th December 2019
Tuesday 10:32 am
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>>29241
Is that why my foreskin's getting bloody marginal these days? Weird tear-y stretchy sore bits couple of weeks back, quite annoying...
>> No. 29246 Anonymous
17th December 2019
Tuesday 9:10 pm
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NHSLad / Officemonkey here.

I just spent too much time trying to get our Estates department to fix the numeric keylock¹ (fucked latchplate, the sort of thing I could fix myself with some epoxy and a plus-head screwie) for my department, but the job request was cancelled twice (low priority, "duplicate of another job"). My department resides within a portakabin which is on a slab of land shared with two other Trusts; one of which provides "secure mental health facilities". The latter facility has been demonstrated as not being adequately secure, as in such recent examples where some garok from next door regularly swaggered in to our department and announced their presence with the clarion call, "I'm the Boss, where's [REDACTED], I need to see 'im", and demanding "chocolate". Or when a ST2 who looks like a scared young boy just wanders into our department, bypasses reception and starts snooping around the desk of our PGME Admin before asking us where our PGME Admin is (she's on Maternity Leave). We often get visitors for the other Trusts wandering in too, but it's usually easier to tell them to fuck off to where they should be via intercom rather than when they are hovering over our shoulders and looking at what we are doing on our computers arrrrrgh fukkk offfff

¹ Such numeric keylocks with numbers 0-9, letters XYZ and a C (clear) key are extremely exploitable and not very secure - as long as you know the keys that need to be pressed, they can be inputted in ANY order. Attempts were discovered in my previous workplace to glean codes to restricted areas by applying permanent marker to the very edges of the buttons and seeing which of those buttons had more of the marker ink worn away. Attempts were FOILED by some busybody with a funsize bottle of Purell hand gel. FUCK ~ YOU. The only needles I need to find should be in yellow buckets with red lids.
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17th December 2019
Tuesday 9:56 pm
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>>29246

Ah well. This wouldn't be a problem if you had the wonders of PFI.

They repainted every wall and handrail in our lab the same shade of grey/blue it already was last week. Didn't need it at all, but they have to justify the contract price somehow don't they. Unplugged half our incubators and freezers in the process, probably jeopardised the integrity of half our samples, but it does look nice.

Then they had to rescue a crow off the suicide nets at the top of the main hospital, but they bottled it and got the fire brigade in.
>> No. 29248 Anonymous
18th December 2019
Wednesday 1:50 am
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I tried to make a hexmap of local authorities in Wales. I can't get it to make sense. The North looks right, and the South looks right, but they just don't look right together. Fucking Powys.
>> No. 29250 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 5:49 pm
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I hate it when you buy a product online and the company subsequently asks you to write a long review with the promise of a BOGOF offer. The lads I bought mousetraps off emailed me 3 times asking for a review with a picture of one in action. When I bought underwear it was the same deal only presumably they wanted me in my undercrackers.

You can see why they do it because online reviews make or break businesses but it just seems like returning to the days of bent professional reviewers getting freebies.
>> No. 29251 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 6:41 pm
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>>29250
>returning to the days of bent professional reviewers getting freebies

I think we're already well into that era. I used to know a few technology journalists, back in the day - the sheer amount of kit, software, tech tools that you could get sent to you (on a motorbike courier, that day) in return for a thousand words was astounding at the time. Feels to me like many of the instagram influencers are already well into that territory.
>> No. 29252 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 8:25 pm
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>>29250

Instagram, youtube, even just big name Twitter accounts, they're all up to their necks in this.

Presumably not ones you watch personally, because you have an adblock ad select videos about nerdy things like the intricacies of 240p analogue signals. But the ones kids and regular plebs watch where it's basically just people taking shit out of boxes have formed a very solid business paradigm over the last ten years or so.

You know, sometimes I really wish I could go back in time and just tell myself to set up a bloody Twitch account. Imagine all the real things I could do when my time wasted on videogames, is actually my working day.
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19th December 2019
Thursday 10:02 pm
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>>29252

It goes way futher then big name accounts my Ex just has an instagram with a few hundred followers and she has had people send her free make up on the vague hopes that she might make a promotion or take a picture wearing it.

The issue I've heard is that ultimately it is a shitter con than you'd want, no one sends you anything of real use, like money, so you end up with just promotional crap and nothing of actual worth anything to your survival.

>You know, sometimes I really wish I could go back in time and just tell myself to set up a bloody Twitch account. Imagine all the real things I could do when my time wasted on videogames, is actually my working day.

You could do that, like, right now.

The bar for entry as a twitch affiliate is shockingly low (50 followers, 8 hours content a month, average 3 viewers, stream 7 days a month), not that I think they pay anything meaningful, I imagine the the level of viewers per online video you have to get to make anything livable off of, probably cuts all but maybe a thousand top channels out of the running, and a thousand is probably generous.
>> No. 29255 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 10:17 pm
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>>29254

Well, that was rather my point, lad. For the big names like your PweDiePies, GameGrumps and whoever, it was a case of right place, right time- They weren't actively trying to tap into the new viral trending market or whatever they want to call it. They just happened to be doing it when it all took off around them. The people who have built up a following since then have had to essentially swim against the tide.

Basically I just mean if I'd have been some dick who spends his evenings playing Stalker mods and doing my silly Russian voice for 50 followers in 2012, by now I'd be a moderately well known streamer and probably keeping the bills paid with it- But there's very little realistic possibility of me breaking into it now the lighting has already struck.
>> No. 29257 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 10:55 pm
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>>29255
>Well, that was rather my point
It really isn't

>Basically I just mean if I'd have been some dick who spends his evenings playing Stalker mods and doing my silly Russian voice for 50 followers in 2012, by now I'd be a moderately well known streamer and probably keeping the bills paid with it- But there's very little realistic possibility of me breaking into it now the lighting has already struck.

I doubt there was then either. You would have gotten bored by now. It is a bit like saying I can't be a [insert any job that requires training] to do that I would have to have started working on it years ago. The market is about as open as it ever has been you are fooling yourself it was somehow easier, it in real term has probably never been easier, equipment is cheeper and you can buy the up votes to bring you to the front page of reddit then you are set.

>For the big names like your PweDiePies, GameGrumps and whoever, it was a case of right place, right time

You seem to have picked the most absurd expectation of success. It would be like going into acting with the expectation of being Arnold Schwarzenegger. Every arsehole with a web cam would like to be them and has been trying for the last decade, they clearly have more going on other than getting there first otherwise they would have long since vanished into memory having been replaced by someone better like the others that you don't remember have.
>> No. 29258 Anonymous
19th December 2019
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>29257

Except that really isn't how it works with streaming/youtube etc, no. If you listen to what the people who do it themselves will tell you, it's more fighting with the discovery algorithms than anything else. Sure it's still possible to make it into a living nowadays, but it's more or less a saturated market and became one incredibly quickly compared to traditional businesses.

Equally I'm not saying I'd have been an overnight success by putting in zero effort whatsoever- But the examples I gave are precisely because they really weren't intentionally, and they say the same thing themselves, doing anything beyond not being shit. Now they're household names.

The best comparison that comes to mind is with MMORPGs fifteen years ago. WoW captured the lightning in a bottle, and a litany of other developers tried to chase the same success. But ultimately it was a one off, and once the main players in the market were set up there was little unseating them. Only natural entropy eventually took it off the throne, and nowadays it's everyone trying to make a Fortnite imitator.
>> No. 29259 Anonymous
20th December 2019
Friday 5:16 am
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>>29258

There's streamers like Tfue that started streaming with fortnite a year and a half ago and now have astronomical viewerships. How much of that is just fortnite and how much is them, I don't know. But there's plenty of streamers that made it big during the most saturated period of streaming.

I get that you'd rather have started five years ago, but the twitch bubble isn't bursting anytime soon (the youtube one might, and that'll help streamers, mostly likely). In five years time you can post here again saying you wished you started streaming at the start of 2020, or you can just do it. If you're playing games anyway you might as well, if it's something you're interested in.
>> No. 29260 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 1:44 am
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The fight against Kazuya on Tekken 7. What an infuriating load of wank that is.
>> No. 29261 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 2:58 am
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>>29255
Arin Hanson from Game Grumps cultivated a following long before YouTube by creating "memeable" Flash animations on Newgrounds.

Let's Plays also predate YouTube going back to the days of yore on Something Awful and RPG Codex where people would - and I know this is going to sound mad - actually play the games!

Creators like Civvie11, MandaloreGaming, Tyler McVicker, and others have managed to come in seemingly after the gaming channel bubble had burst yet are doing well for themselves. It's about the quality and USP you bring to the table, not just your gimmick. Civvie and Mandalore are well-versed in '90s shooters and shovelware in particular. Tyler McVicker is the go-to for Valve/Steam news.

"Right place, right time" is so pathetically reductive.
>> No. 29262 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 4:42 am
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>>29261

>"Right place, right time" is so pathetically reductive.

I admire that you so earnestly want to believe that, but it's true. Not just of streaming, but most businesses. Of course individuals and their level of dedication make a difference, but a greater deal than you'd like to admit is just down to sheer fortune. The iPod could have come out at a different time and totally missed the boat. Bill Gates could have bought another piece of software instead of DOS and be a nobody.

I think the point being made here is that if you're in the right place at the right time, you have the entire market for the taking, but very few people are prescient enough to seize a moment like that, and they almost invariably do it by accident. If you get into the game any time after that, you know what needs to be done, but your work requires exponentially more effort.

We like to pretend your Jeff Benzoses and your Elon Musks were smart and insightful businesspeople after the fact, when in reality, the best you can say is that they didn't make too many bad decisions.
>> No. 29263 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 8:23 am
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>>29262

>Bill Gates could have bought another piece of software instead of DOS and be a nobody.

Gates freely admits that his success is largely due to a chain of outrageous good fortune. His private secondary school bought a teletype terminal in 1968, making Gates one of the first teenagers in the world to have computer programming experience.

At the time of the IBM/MS DOS deal, the dominant business operating system was CP/M. Gates had been hired by IBM to provide a BASIC interpreter for the PC and recommended that they license CP/M from Gary Kildall. That deal fell through, probably because of a fit of pique on the part of Kildall, so Gates was brought in at the last minute to provide a vaguely CP/M compatible OS.

Windows (and Mac OS) was stolen wholesale from the Xerox Alto prototype. Xerox were years ahead of the rest of the industry and would probably have become the dominant computer manufacturer if it wasn't for the fact that Xerox were terrified of killing off their own photocopier business; similarly, Kodak invented the digital camera but failed to commercialise it for fear of destroying their film business.

You need to be talented, you need to work hard, but the difference between good and great is usually dumb luck. There's almost certainly a bona-fide genius somewhere in rural India or sub-Saharan Africa who would be a billionaire if only they had been lucky enough to be born in the west.
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21st December 2019
Saturday 9:41 am
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TIL inventing the modern operating system is directly comparable to being the one of the hundreds of thousands of game streamers that succeeds. Survival of the fittest was clearly in full effect when gamer grumps got big unlike Bill they made their own success.

>>29262

You are one of those people who believes the way we treat women and minorities as equals is by holding them to a lower standards than white men, aren't you
>> No. 29266 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 10:58 am
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>>29262
I agree with your point but the iPod isn't a good example of this.
MP3 players already existed and even the concept of an iTunes-like store had been patented in the past.
Apple were far from the only people to see the potential of the MP3 player market. They weren't lucky, they just strong-armed the market in a calculated way, by pushing as far ahead of the technology curve as they could to get out a high-capacity player with an intuitive interface, combined with locking people into iTunes using copy-protection.
>> No. 29267 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 12:15 pm
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>>29265

>You are one of those people who believes the way we treat women and minorities as equals is by holding them to a lower standards than white men, aren't you

No, I'm a vocal opponent of modern identity politics and it's detrimental effect on social discourse and the left's ability to counter genuine economic inequality.

The fact you have made this assumption entirely reveals your own bias though. Haven't you got a sign to be making for your new estate agency start-up?
>> No. 29268 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 12:35 pm
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>>29265

It's almost like you didn't read the post about Gates at all.
>> No. 29269 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 4:25 pm
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One of the disks in my NAS failed. I've replaced it, and now mdadm thinks it's going to take an entire month to rebuild the array.
>> No. 29270 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 4:42 pm
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>>29269
I feel your pain. It's not until you see a disk fail and a full array rebuild, that you learn the most about NAS/RAID and see how shit most of them are.
>> No. 29271 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 5:30 pm
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>>29262
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/0141031484

One hundred percent agree - this is a very good book on that exact topic; luck, chance plays a much higher role in success than many want to believe. Life isn't fair.
>> No. 29272 Anonymous
21st December 2019
Saturday 11:01 pm
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I don't generally like female sports commentators. I don't mind them on the snooker or golf, but they detract from watching football because their voices aren't suited to when the tempo increases.
>> No. 29275 Anonymous
22nd December 2019
Sunday 5:37 pm
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I'm changing my name. I hate my current name, load of shite, means nothing and it's awkward to say.

>>29272
Shut up, you bumder.
>> No. 29277 Anonymous
23rd December 2019
Monday 9:10 am
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Used this for a verruca. I think I've managed to peel off every single layer of skin on part of my toe because it's just red, extremely tender and there's blood on my finger if I touch it. Don't yank too hard, lads.
>> No. 29278 Anonymous
23rd December 2019
Monday 11:28 am
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My neighbour's TV is so loud it sounds like Anjem Choudary and Adolf Hitler are having a massive row just next door.
>> No. 29279 Anonymous
23rd December 2019
Monday 12:04 pm
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>>29277
Bazooka that verruca.
>> No. 29280 Anonymous
23rd December 2019
Monday 3:32 pm
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Feckin' trains.
>> No. 29281 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 2:44 pm
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>>29279
This is actually my favourite bazooka of all.

A range of between 2km and 4km - that thing on the end is a W54 nuclear warhead, a 20 ton nuclear bomb; not a massive one, but will kill everyone with a lethal dose of radiation in a 500m blast diameter. You'd need balls of steel to fire, and not then get killed by it.
>> No. 29282 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>>29278
It would suck to have either of them as neighbours.
>> No. 29283 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 5:30 pm
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>> No. 29284 Anonymous
25th December 2019
Wednesday 3:41 am
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>>29281

>Not massive.

>20 ton

Your expectations have been wildly distorted by the sheer power of the nuclear bomb compared to everything else.

What is pictured is the mother of all bombs, GBU 43 MOAB

Pretty modern weapon (2003) and at the time the largest conventional weapon the US had. It is the largest conventional weapon ever used in combat, and the largest built since the second world war and needs a cargo plane to carry and launch it... It is half the Yeild of the Davy Crockett.
>> No. 29285 Anonymous
25th December 2019
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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I was going to moan about my UCAS account getting binned for some unknown reason, but actually I'm moaning about myself for trying to sign into the wrong bit of the UCAS website, then finally realising the UCAS website is daft for having eleventy-six different things to log into.

The transcendent moan.
>> No. 29286 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 2:18 am
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>> No. 29287 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 10:58 am
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The BBC released a four hour mix of music from across the decade and opened with Maroon 5’s Moves Like sodding Jagger, a track that potentially marks the pop music low point of the last ten years. Poor show.
>> No. 29288 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 12:09 pm
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>>29287

Pop music and by extension. that mix by definition is the lowest common denominator. I don't know what you expect. The BBC isn't seeking the approval of your sixth form friends. The fact that you've heard the song before is the justification that it belongs there.
>> No. 29289 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 1:25 pm
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>>29288
What a vapid and smug way of thinking about music, music culture and just things in general. Hopeless, terrible, gormless post. Call Me Maybe is a banger.
>> No. 29290 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 2:52 pm
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>>29287
It was the first tune my eldest sang and danced to, so I kind of forgive it anything.
>> No. 29291 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 3:08 pm
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>>29289

You seem to have things back to front other lad is the one being smug about music. I for one hold no judgement, and don't whinge when someone likes something I don't like. If you think pop music isn't lowest common denominator, you either don't understand what the term means and assume I'm just being critical, or don't understand the industry at all.
>> No. 29292 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 3:17 pm
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People who don't have slow closing toilet seats.
>> No. 29293 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>29292

I had slow closing everyone my old flat. Toilet seat, drawers, cupboards, you name it, it closed slowly.

It's a proper headfuck going back and trying not to make it sound like I'm slamming everything now. I've just become accustomed to slow closing.
>> No. 29294 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 6:02 pm
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The bit where my toilet seat attaches to the toilet is all rusty and disgusting, is it difficult to replace? It's going to be a nightmare if I take it apart and can't rebuild it.
>> No. 29295 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 6:19 pm
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>>29294
Last time I had to replace my toilet seat I ended up having to saw the fittings off because they'd fused together over time.
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27th December 2019
Friday 6:26 pm
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>>29294

You mean the hinges, right? They're a fucking pain in the arse unless you:
a) Manage to get the exact same ones as before and they fit nice (I didn't, and had to drill new holes)
or
b) Just get a whole new seat

The hinges themselves attach with a threaded bar which goes through two handy holes in the pot and there may be nylon wingnuts or similar to secure everything. You may want to superglue / bloclube the threaded bars into the part where they screw into the hinges before fitting, otherwise the seat will start sliding about and the fuckers will constantly need screwing back in.
>> No. 29297 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 7:12 pm
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>>29296
Yeah the hinges. They're made of some shitty metal that's corroding now the chrome covering has cracked. Can't clean that part of the toilet properly as no matter what they just shed more corroded metal. I don't mind getting a whole new seat as the one that's there is similarly shitty wood coated with some sort of plastic that's also cracking and coming away.
I won't have to drill holes in the ceramic will I? I can't see that working out without me accidentally destroying the entire toilet and having to shit in a bucket until I save enough money to replace it.

>>29295
I may have to do this, fuck's sake.
>> No. 29298 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 7:36 pm
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>>29297
>I won't have to drill holes in the ceramic will I?

A new seat should fit right into the same holes as the current one - there's usually enough room to adjust in the event that the hinges are a little bit closer or further apart. Don't forget to put your (black) rubber gloves on before attempting anything. Good look and happy morning newspaper time.
>> No. 29299 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>29298
>Good look

Good luck, even. Fuckin 'ell.
>> No. 29300 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 9:35 pm
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>>29297
You shouldn't have to drill any new holes so long as you're happy bodging a few larger washers with rubber or stiff plastic. I've found the holes to be a little large than the bolts anyway - it's been the tightness of the nut that's kept the seat in position.
Put the lid down and just lean your chest across it while looking beneath, toward the back. You'll see some plastic nuts or something similar fastened to a long threaded bar on each side of the toilet. Turn them and off comes the seat. Be ready with hot water and soap - there'll prbably be a concentration of dried piss.
>> No. 29301 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 9:14 am
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>>29300

That's not too tricky then, cheers.
>> No. 29302 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 10:15 am
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A few weeks ago I stayed up all night to watch The Dublin Murders and I haven’t been to sleep before 3AM since. It’s a great show but still regret my decision.
>> No. 29303 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 10:49 am
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I rarely use Facebook, but the sheer number of "new year, new me" posts I've seen by a lass who is the mentalist of mental slags is ridiculous.
>> No. 29304 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 10:57 am
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>>29284
"Proper" nukes are measured in kt, a "mere" 20t does seem "not massive" in context.
>> No. 29305 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 3:32 pm
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>>29303
That stuff is entirely performative; there'll be books about it, no doubt.
>> No. 29306 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 6:10 pm
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>>29304

Sure. I just think there is an element of us just readily accepting in a dismissive way because it has been established for 70 years what is by many magnitudes the most terrifyingly awesome force we have ever created. I think it is at such a scale people don't even process the implications because the lizard brain was never built to cope with that level of force.
>> No. 29307 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 7:51 pm
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Said I had an item "in the mail" earlier. No bastard even noticed. The state of this country.
>> No. 29308 Anonymous
28th December 2019
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Come home for Christmas to the parents - my father has degenerated to quite literally sitting in front of the TV from about 8am to about 1am in the morning and doing fuck all else all day.

I don't really care what he does with his time to be quite honest but he plays it so loud it's unpleasant to be in the room with him and it wakes you up because it's so loud despite being on a different floor across the house from him.

It's depressing and I want to go home.
>> No. 29309 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 1:51 pm
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>>29308

This is why don't spend much time at home with my family. My dad has always loved just veging out in front of the TV with a beer, while my mum sits and reads some magazine or other and drinks a glass of white wine. But it makes them such boring people.

I try not to think less of them for it though. It's hardly abnormal, and my generation is barely any better spending all its time sat in front of the computer. The only difference between me and my dad, really, is that my version requires you holding a controller.
>> No. 29310 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 2:07 pm
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>>29309
>My dad has always loved just veging out in front of the TV with a beer, while my mum sits and reads some magazine or other and drinks a glass of white wine. But it makes them such boring people.

I think this is a large factor in why I have fairly poor social skills, particularly with new people. My parents would spend every evening in front of the TV and if someone tried having a conversation my dad would start chuntering if he'd missed something that was said on the telly.
>> No. 29311 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 2:46 pm
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>>29310

Probably a class thing innit. This is why middle class people shun big tellies and all that; they're much more focussed on all the etiquette of entertaining guests and so on, which rubs off on their middle class sprogs. Those of us of a less fortunate upbringing only know how to socialise after several pints.

I remember one of my mate's house when we were younger when you weren't allowed to go into the kitchen at times, because it would mean walking in front of his dad who was watching the football on the telly and he'd play hell if you made him miss something. Nobody was allowed to sit in his seat either.

I wonder how messed up of an adult he is.
>> No. 29312 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 3:00 pm
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>>29311
I don't think it's a class thing; I know plenty of paupers who come from large broods who would spend a lot of time with their cousins whilst the parents had a few tinnies.

My dad is still terrible when it comes to conversing; once he's run through his three conversation topics of the roads, the weather and how the local football team are doing he's pretty much fucked.
>> No. 29313 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 3:07 pm
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I definitely think it's a class thing. One of the weird things about leaving my hometown and befriending the other half and being invited into their homes was the little things (not the obvious ones like their big fuck off houses or organic shit) like the fact their dads sit at the table not Infront of the TV and they don't just shuffle round the TV but they play boardgames or do genuine, thoughtful bonding.

I remember one of them discussing the Economist quiz over breakfast and so much fell into place.

I'm not ashamed of my working class background or my family but I know how I'd like to bring my family.up.
>> No. 29314 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 3:33 pm
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>>29310
>if someone tried having a conversation my dad would start chuntering if he'd missed something that was said on the telly.

Not to start a cunt-off but I hate when people talk to me when I'm engrossed in something. There's balance but I bet hell has saved on staffing by just putting the lazy and chatterers together.

Then there's people who answer the phone but don't go into another room. Animals.
>> No. 29315 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 3:52 pm
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>>29314
>Not to start a cunt-off but I hate when people talk to me when I'm engrossed in something. There's balance but I bet hell has saved on staffing by just putting the lazy and chatterers together.

My girlfriend is the worst for this. She always manages to time it so she starts talking to me at the exact moment I need to pay the most attention to what I'm watching.
>> No. 29316 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 5:59 pm
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>>29314
>>29315


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoSu6AUC-7k

the first 7 mins.
>> No. 29317 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 7:52 pm
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My dad and his wife are very middle class, and just sit around all evening drinking wine and reading instead of watching telly. Maybe books are better than TV but it still makes them boring cunts.

I can definitely spend an evening watching youtube while posting on here so I have no room to judge.
>> No. 29319 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 8:04 pm
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>>29317

I've found myself watching more YouTube and less TV I'm not really sure why. I tend to find 90% of drama dull as dish soap which is probably a key factor, and my sense of humour seems to have largely died as I've become more understanding and tolerant of others. I tend to watch a lot of YouTube reviews/critiques of things which are largely completely misinformed rants. But I find someone presenting an argument (even a crap one) more stimulating. I guess I like critical thinking and analysis, and smugly looking down on them more than yelling at characters to hurry the fuck up and get to the point.
>> No. 29320 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 8:11 pm
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>>29319

Modern TV operates on the assumption that the audience aren't really paying attention. It's visually flashy and intellectually vapid, for the benefit of viewers who are chatting and looking at their phones and generally fannying about.

Much of YouTube operates on the opposite assumption - that you're an engaged and active viewer. They can present an hour-long video that's just a bloke talking about a film or a gadget or some episode from history, because the casual viewer just doesn't matter; either you're not interested and you won't click on it, or you are interested and you want loads of detail.
>> No. 29321 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 8:16 pm
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>>29320

I'm interested in your premise about the nature of TV, as much as it makes me despair. Do you have any basis for this other than your own observations (like a declaration from some tv insider)?
>> No. 29322 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 9:49 pm
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I've just seen an advert for Harvey's on the telly. Do they say 50% off and then an extra 25% off to dupe people into thinking they're getting 75% off rather than 62.5%?
>> No. 29323 Anonymous
29th December 2019
Sunday 10:00 pm
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>>29322

Presumably what it means is that there's sale items with 50% off, but also 25% off everything, including non-sale items.

It's a more attractive way of saying there's a sale but at two different discounts.
>> No. 29324 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 2:53 am
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>>29323

There is nothing more attractive about it. Look at the sign it is written in gibberish. They stuck the words on there in no logical order it reads like it was written by a schizophrenic.
>> No. 29325 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 4:36 am
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>>29321

It's common knowledge in the industry. "Not really paying attention" would be the diplomatic way of phrasing it; most people in the industry regard their viewers as total morons.

The demographics of linear TV are increasingly fucked, because younger and more educated people are spending more of their time online, watching streaming video or playing computer games. Linear broadcasters are powerless to recapture this audience, because they object to the mere concept of a schedule chosen by someone else. The demographics of peak-time viewership is slowly converging with that of daytime viewership, i.e. mainly pensioners and the unemployed. These viewers are much less attractive to advertisers, so revenues for commercial broadcasters are being badly affected. Netflix and Amazon are pushing towards more ambitious long-form content, but the established broadcasters are going in the opposite direction.

Watch a peak-time factual programme like George Clarke's Amazing Spaces and count the number of times that something in the episode is teased and later revealed to the viewers - the televisual equivalent of "x did y and you won't believe what happened next" clickbait. Watch a recent quiz show format like Pointless or The Chase and keep track of the ratio of quiz questions asked vs aimless banter. A format like The One Show is basically indistinguishable from a daytime format like This Morning. A lot of daytime programmes are being commissioned on the basis that they'll be re-versioned for early peak scheduling or vice-versa. Contempt for the viewer isn't anything new in television, but the mass exodus of younger and more educated viewers is just pouring petrol on the fire.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/featured-24817
>> No. 29326 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 7:10 am
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>>29323

It's an up to 50% off sale withup to 25% off everything. I suppose you'd be lucky to get 62.5%.

I'd prefer "In-Store Arbitrary Discounts!"
>> No. 29327 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 11:57 am
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Updating Facebook on your actual wedding day.
>> No. 29328 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 12:27 pm
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>>29325
Over Christmas my mum and my brother were looking at their phones, so as no-one was watching TV I stuck on a YouTube video for myself (one of Hbomberguy's video essays). After a bit my brother told me to turn it back to live television because he "couldn't stand" YouTube content even if he isn't watching it. Terrestrial TV is apparently preferable to "have on in the background".

Now I'll admit Hbomb can be somewhat hit-and-miss, but my brother's criticism comes from someone who religiously watches the output of Red Letter Media, and it isn't like they are comedic geniuses themselves or Rich Evan's laughter isn't obnoxiously loud.

It just annoys me that he considers the shit babbling of Greg Wallace to somehow create a better atmosphere than the shit babbling of a sincere YouTuber. I don't want the TV on for 'atmosphere', I want it on to actually watch. Stick on some music if you want atmosphere.
>> No. 29329 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 1:18 pm
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>>29313

My parents had an apparent phobia of silence. They had to turn on a TV at extremely high level, often on commercials or things they did not care about. They always complained about TV, but they went extremely angry when somebody tried to turn it down. I think it is a common thing in chavy houses, several TVs making so much noise to make conversation impossible. I remember my father having to shout to be heard, but going angry whenever I turned down the TV. When he heard that I live on my own without TV he was surprised, for him it was impossible to live without that background noise. He always thought that I was acting snobbish and pretending to be better than him, he could not understand that I genuinely did not like that. Burn in hell, Dad, I hope that your fire pit is the only one without a TV.
>> No. 29330 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>29329

Well that took an unexpected turn in the last sentence. Are you okay lad. Do you want to talk about it?
>> No. 29331 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 8:24 pm
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>>29286
Friend complains about low battery capacity while simultaneously leaving 30 odd apps open and running in the background. Every time.
>> No. 29332 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 8:43 pm
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>>29328
>Over Christmas my mum and my brother were looking at their phones, so as no-one was watching TV I stuck on a YouTube video for myself
That's mental. You can't just "put a YouTube video on". Maybe in 50 years, but the social contract of the here and now is very firmly on the "not allowed" side of the argument. Also a friend of his from school told me HbomberGuy has a massive rape fetish and did all his GCSE courework about what it would like to rape someone, apparently.

And if I ever hear you talking about Rich Evans like that again I will ruin your life. Also the apostrophe should have been after the "s", I think.
>> No. 29333 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 10:13 pm
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>>29332

>That's mental. You can't just "put a YouTube video on".

A "50 best nutshots" compilation or a playlist of music videos, sure. If you're going to put on an hour-long Media Studies lecture, you'd better be damned sure that it'll be well received.
>> No. 29334 Anonymous
30th December 2019
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>29333
If it's just background noise to everyone else who's just looking at their phones but your main focus and they complain about it then you have just as much a right to complain about what they're looking about on their phones. Fuck 'em.
>> No. 29335 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 12:17 am
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>>29333

He is definitely a 'ranting to the crowd' Youtuber. I'm not saying he is as bad as Paul Joseph Watson but imagine if a family member had put Paul Joseph Watson on 'in the background' how people might react if they were being polite.
>> No. 29336 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 12:57 pm
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I like to put street cooking videos on in the background. You've got the generic buzz of the street, snippets of conversation and the constant kitchen noises to keep it grounded. Who doesn't like standing around in the kitchen while someone cooks?

>>29333

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4rjUBygIdQ
Nut shots are retarded but some of these are insane.
>> No. 29337 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 1:06 pm
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>>29336

Probably still would've gone down better than hbomberguy.
>> No. 29338 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 1:49 pm
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>>29334
Are you being daft? You can't hear what's on someone's phone screen.
>> No. 29339 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>29338
Speak for yourself.
>> No. 29340 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 2:09 pm
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>>29336

Nasty The Horse, king of the nutshot:


>> No. 29342 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 2:40 pm
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>>29338
>You can't hear what's on someone's phone screen.
Well we can input sound to microphones using lasers and we can record sound using just the image from a video camera, so that claim of yours might not be as safe as you think.
>> No. 29343 Anonymous
31st December 2019
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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>>29330

There is not much to say. He was a chav and a bastard. He managed to get a good job, but his mindset never changed. He got an enabler wife and he battered her like a punching ball. She protected and enabled him in every way possible. Now they are dead. Nobody came to visit or pay respect, everybody hated them. I had them cremated and flushed down the toilet after taking a crap. I hope that they are burning forever in hell.
>> No. 29344 Anonymous
1st January 2020
Wednesday 5:28 pm
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Using the Gregorian calendar over ISO 8601.
>> No. 29345 Anonymous
1st January 2020
Wednesday 6:47 pm
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>>29344

Isn't ISO 8601 just a standardised way to express a gregorian date? What do you mean?
>> No. 29348 Anonymous
1st January 2020
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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>>29345
Much of it is, but I was talking about the part that defines a different calendar, specifically ISO week dates. You're right I shouldn't have called it that.
>> No. 29349 Anonymous
2nd January 2020
Thursday 11:48 am
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Anyone else have terrible bedtime habits where they'll watch YouTube in bed before doing something necessary like setting your alarm? I'll often fall asleep before getting to the necessary thing, potentially draining my battery also.

I just woke up at 11:30 to find a message from my manager asking if I'd forgotten work. I think I'm more pissed off than they are since I can just book it as leave retrospectively, but god damnit I'm a moron.
>> No. 29350 Anonymous
2nd January 2020
Thursday 11:55 am
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I thought I'd lost a tenner, which was disappointing. But then half-an-hour later I found it in my shirt pocket, which annoyed me more than thinking I'd lost it because of how daft you have to be to misplace something in your shirt pocket.

I hate my goo brain.
>> No. 29351 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 9:47 am
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People saying '[X person's] silence is deafening.'

It just doesn't make sense nor is it any good, I'm sick of seeing journalists use it.
>> No. 29352 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 11:51 am
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People on Reddit who see a picture of a Full English and all become world renowned breakfast chefs and make the same, predictable cringey comments about 'I might want to mix with the beans but I want it to be my choice. 7/10.'

Fucking annoying.
>> No. 29353 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 12:15 pm
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>>29352
A real Full English is cooked by a couple of Turkish lads and has been since at least the 1980s.
>> No. 29354 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 12:26 pm
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>>29352
>People on Reddit

That's all you needed to say, really.
>> No. 29355 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 1:22 pm
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The new Dracula on BBC started out so promisingly but the last episode and ending was a load of fucking shit. Why do they always fuck things up like that.
>> No. 29356 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 1:40 pm
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>>29355
>> No. 29357 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 1:42 pm
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>>29355
Thought this too, I was enjoying it but then it just seemed like they really rushed an ending in.
>> No. 29358 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 3:12 pm
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>>29355
Nothing Moffatt has had his grubby hands on has ever been particularly good, doubly so when Russell T. Davies was involved.

Sherlock was only saved by the inclusion of Mark Gatiss (though he hasn't been able to save Dracula thus far) and the acting chops of Cucumberpatch, Freeman, and the like. He's a hacky fanboy with delusions of grandeur about being able to modernise classic fiction with shlocky bollocks.

Sage because I don't pay my TV license fee anyway.
>> No. 29359 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 3:12 pm
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>>29355
Ah ha, I bloody knew it. Everyone was like "have you watched Dracula yet?" but I wasn't bothering with it after I heard "from the creators of Sherlock" on the second ad they ran for it. Then the final episode goes out and they're all "that was shite that was". I don't know what it is, but I could probably count the amount of TV shows that really pin down their ending on one hand. I think I'm a movie watcher from here on out. Tired of dedicating hours and hours to a show only for some bone head writer to realise they've run out of time or budget. Not that this explains how someone messed up a three parter mini series. This might though >>29356
>> No. 29360 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 4:08 pm
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>>29358
>>29359

I was skeptical too; but the first two episodes were genuinely fucking great. Nailed down all the right Hammer Horror tropes and some sharp dialogue.

Then it comes to the ending and he just can't keep edging himself anymore, and comes everywhere with THE POWER OF LOVE WON THE DAY UUUURGHHH FUCK
>> No. 29361 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 5:02 pm
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>>29358
>the acting chops of [...] Freeman

HEH.
>> No. 29362 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 5:57 pm
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I've just been tailgated for around 2½ miles by a couple of chavs in a Corsa, which was nice. Well, when they weren't tailgating they were dropping back before rapidly accelerating and braking sharply or trying to pull next to me at traffic lights and then swerving so they could keep following me. I can't think of anything I did that might have provoked them, other than slowing down to 27/28 when they were right up my arse. Time to get a dashcam.
>> No. 29363 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 6:40 pm
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>>29362

I've had this a couple of times, and I reckon they're just trying to scare people. I'm always torn between blasting away in my much faster car in the hope they try to follow suit and lose control and die, or slow down to 10mph to piss them off, or slamming the brakes on so they hit me then getting out of the car and stoving all their heads in with a breaker bar.
>> No. 29364 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 6:43 pm
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Needed to send a friend some money, I asked her to send me her bank details via our conversation on WhatsApp and she said "I don't trust WhatsApp, I'll text you" and thus sent her bank details in an SMS message.
>> No. 29365 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 8:12 pm
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>>29364
Did you link her to an excellent Computerphile video explaining the Signal protocol etc. Perhaps this one:

&vl=en-GB
>> No. 29366 Anonymous
6th January 2020
Monday 3:26 pm
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People on social media posting "call to arms" type stuff. Saying to vote one way or another, to take action on such-and-such a thing that everyone they're friends with is clearly on board with already. Who are they talking to? Nobodyeverybody cares. They don't need persuading.
>> No. 29367 Anonymous
6th January 2020
Monday 3:48 pm
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>>29366
Most social media is entirely performative.
>> No. 29368 Anonymous
6th January 2020
Monday 5:11 pm
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>>29366
Virtue signaling. I thought we knew this already?
>> No. 29369 Anonymous
6th January 2020
Monday 6:09 pm
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>>29366
Love a good political Twitter poll because they always amount to "are you in agreement with me, the person you've chosen to follow? Or are you AN IDIOT-TWAT?!"

>>29368
Shut up.
>> No. 29370 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 10:58 am
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>> No. 29371 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>29370
On a related gripe, youtube recently changed how the recommendation algorithm works. As a result my recommendation feed has gone from being totally about music to filling up with clickbait and nonsense from idiots.
>> No. 29372 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 1:09 pm
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>>29371
Mine is still just playing two tracks over and over in a loop.
>> No. 29373 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 12:25 am
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>>29371

I think it is more down to 1) how people get paid now, they changed it so that you get paid by the minute; and 2) US copy right law, you can show footage of something else as long as it is for criticism, and therefore you can have a more polished video and more content for a lower effort, because it shows another thing in it.
>> No. 29374 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 12:35 am
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Why are gifs autoplaying now?
>> No. 29375 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 5:13 pm
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Beginning to think I'm never actually going to marry Winona Ryder.
>> No. 29376 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 6:02 pm
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I need my local metro to enforce standing on the right on escalators. Fucking sick of being stuck behind a small jamboree or some cunt with a tiny case which needs to sit beside them, while I can hear my connecting train squealing into the station.

People who clog up the passageways to the platforms with their ridiculous useless bodies can piss off too.
>> No. 29377 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 6:04 pm
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>>29376
That kind of thing is enforced by normal ordinary people, you know the ones that don't stand on escalators at all like gormless freaks. The metro staff aren't going to do it for you.
>> No. 29378 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 6:18 pm
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>>29377

I refuse to believe that there isn't a single oddball using the London Underground. There has to be more to it than simply painting footprints on the right of each escalator step.
>> No. 29379 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 6:25 pm
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>>29378
It's societal pressure and culture. You have to tut and verbally admonish the morons (though in less-developed cities you might want to try being polite first).

It's like how drink-driving massively fell over the course of a couple of decades. The police nor courts can even contemplate claiming the credit for that.
>> No. 29380 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 7:14 pm
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>>29379
That analogy isn't quite right because standing on the wrong side of an escalator is an actual crime in contrast to piloting a vehicle after ingesting the wrong molecule.
>> No. 29381 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 8:33 pm
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>>29376>>29378
You stand on the left, overtake on other peoples right. You massive septic knobends.
>> No. 29382 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 8:40 pm
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>>29381

You walk on the right of stairs, escalators etc because most people are right handed and instinctively want to place their right hand on the safety railings.
>> No. 29385 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>29382
People who have a genuine need to stand rather than walk on an escalator are more likely to require the safety rail.

>>29381
wat
>> No. 29386 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>29383
He just misspoke and agrees with you.
>> No. 29387 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 8:59 pm
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>>29381

Drunk driver spotted.
>> No. 29388 Anonymous
8th January 2020
Wednesday 9:08 pm
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>>29385

Assuming you're a deleting reposter and >>29386 was originally aimed at you, he is correct. Allow me to rephrase my post.

>You use the right of stairs, escalators etc because most people are right handed and instinctively want to place their right hand on the safety railings.

I had stairs in my head rather than escalators so "the left" is full of people walking in the opposite direction, but to them they're also using the right side of the stairs.

[X] Whine because I'm not even sure how to categorise this type of conversation, while I enjoy it I'm not sure it's something that should be done.
>> No. 29389 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 4:42 pm
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I ended up working through my lunch break and I feel so drained and knackered now.
>> No. 29390 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>29389

It's at times like these that I like to have a pint or two after work.
>> No. 29391 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 6:21 pm
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>>29390
Dry January.
>> No. 29392 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 6:28 pm
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Boomers at work hating on me drinking Huel for lunch.

>It's just a manly slimfast
>It's a diet drink
>Diets don't work Anon, you're being fooled
>Huel?, more like Fool.
>Are you on a diet?
>It only has X amount of carbs and a can of coke has nearly as much.

They will of course demolish the shared biscuit tin and eat shite sandwiches but this seems to have really set them off for some reason. It's like they were not just curious, but they're offended by it.

Second week in they still discuss it every day I get it out to drink.
>> No. 29393 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 7:31 pm
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>>29390
That would have just made me fall asleep. At least I can chalk it up as overtime.
>> No. 29394 Anonymous
9th January 2020
Thursday 7:37 pm
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>>29392

Not sure if serious or part of the already tiresome in-joke, but I used to get all of that and far worse when I used to take protein shakes into work. If you can't handle the bants just go drink it in the bogs and tell people you've stopped eating because you've developed a sizeable heroin hobby.
>> No. 29395 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 12:17 am
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>>29392

>It's like they were not just curious, but they're offended by it.

People really, really don't fucking like it when you try to look after yourself when they don't, or try to eat in a way that they can't/won't. Try telling your average office you're going vegan, they treat it as a personal attack.

I don't really understand why, other than that they want to be healthier too but can't be arsed, and so just get angry when someone else appears to manage it. When I lost loads of weight back in the day, many people were fucking livid. Telling me that I looked ill or that I'm going to die or that I've done serious damage to myself, seeming not considering that being morbidly obese was probably a slight bit more damaging.

Slight tangent put people are weird with food choices.
>> No. 29396 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 1:43 am
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>>29395

Misery loves company.

I'm a teetotaller and some people get really fucking angry that I won't have a proper drink. I've seen moderate drinkers who stop after one or two get just as much stick. It's usually quite obvious that the angry twat is an alcoholic, they can't admit it and they just want the justification that everyone else is at it. Seeing someone who can go out for the evening without getting shitfaced makes them feel weak, so they direct their negative feelings outwards to avoid confronting their own powerlessness. They're not an alkie, you're a boring bastard who doesn't know how to have fun, you're just doing it to make everyone else feel bad, you're just a stuck-up self righteous cunt.
>> No. 29397 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 1:48 am
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>>29395
>>29396

I know how you feel lads. I don't like curry, but bloody hell you should hear the reaction when work is planning a night out to an Indian and I say I won't bother, you'd think I'd just shot someone's kid.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T LIKE CURRY? HAVE YOU TRIED JUST A KORMA OR SOMETHING? IT'S NOT ALL SPICY YOU KNOW.

Nobody seems able to comprehend that I'm perfectly capable of eating spicy food, and indeed enjoy it a great deal, but that I just don't like bloody curry. I think it's either the cumin or turmeric.
>> No. 29398 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 5:08 am
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Whole lot of people with really strongly held, complex opinions on prince ginger and miss murgle and how they've betrayed the royal family or something. What century is this?
>> No. 29399 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 5:18 am
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PUUUUUUURPLE!
>> No. 29400 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 8:15 am
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>>29397
What do you mean you don't like curry? Well have you tried one without cumin or turmeric?
>> No. 29401 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 8:22 am
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>>29392 Try telling your average office you're going vegan

How about not?
>> No. 29402 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 8:54 am
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>>29398

Evidently people get a weird hard on for the institution of the monarchy. I don't understand it, and there is a good deal of projection, but then there are people who professionally read into what it means that a flower is in a particular place and what colour it is on the queens hat which is a level of over analysis usually only reserved for reading holy books.

I never thought about it as a cult before now, but I guess it is, I mean historically and in other cultures the tie has been more obvious the link between religion and royals, but it is weird when royal topics come up in the modern media because there really are people who think the royals are somehow fundamentally different and better than the rest of us, and a lot of them.
>> No. 29403 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 9:32 am
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>>29394
Entirely serious.

>>29396
>>29395
Very true lads, is this a UK thing or does this happen in other places too?

I note everything, both about gym (ohhh you're fine as you are you don't need to improve, never improve), about drinking (just have a beer mate, just spend all your money and feel like absolute shite the next day, go on do it), and things like Huel (Just eat shitty meal deals like us and eat loads of chocolate!!).

It's interesting and depressing simultaneously. I can take the Huel one because I have suddenly started drinking space food to them and their only comparator is slimming drinks, but the drinking alcohol one annoys the living shit out of me.

It's like they can't cope with the fact you won't be spending the next day feeling dire so they have to try and make you suffer too.
>> No. 29404 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 3:35 pm
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>>29403

I guess that lad that's always on about the bucket of crabs was right.
>> No. 29405 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 4:44 pm
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>>29404
It’s a chilling allegory. Crabs could all escape the bucket if they worked together, first time I ever seen it referenced was in a Pratchett book during a scene in the Ankh-Morpork fish market where the city was described as such by one of the characters and it immediately made me think of the council estate I grew up in and I decided to move away 6 months later; accusations of getting ideas above my station be damned.
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10th January 2020
Friday 6:02 pm
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>>29405
>it immediately made me think of the council estate I grew up in and I decided to move away 6 months later; accusations of getting ideas above my station be damned.

Sounds like something a Tory would do.
>> No. 29407 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 6:18 pm
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>>29403
>Very true lads, is this a UK thing or does this happen in other places too?
I have a feeling that it happens a bit everywhere but it is a big British thing.
I've been round companies in Europe, there is definitely a culture of self-improvement that we don't have. Like people talk proudly about cycling to work, or about going hiking at the weekends. Here outside of London and some gentrified places, cycling means you're poor or just barmy. Many companies in Europe are much more proactive in getting their employees to do more training and personal development than we are. (1/2 day go-karting and pen that down as the team-building exercise done for the year)

Last christmas party I walked 5 miles home from the train station, and told everyone I got a taxi because last year I got the piss taken out of me for the same thing. Meanwhile my colleagues are sitting in traffic for an hour every day, then doing 10 minutes on the treadmill at the gym and calling themselves active.
>> No. 29408 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 6:46 pm
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Maybe you lads have just worked in weird places. I've worked in Hull, Leeds and Wakefield and it's been quite common for people to do things like cycling for pleasure without having the piss taken out of them. Quite a lot of the office I'm working at now tried Burger King's vegan whopper the other day and there were no funny comments again, either.

All I can think of is that you're either Southern or work with a lot of middle aged women.
>> No. 29409 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 7:00 pm
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>>29407
Your very specific story is so similar to many of mine where I find myself being mocked for stuff that isn't actually that bad, but frowned upon because others feel threatened by it.

I really hate people like that.
>> No. 29410 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>29392
>>29403
I'm all for laughing at you for drinking "Human Fuel", but I'm also totally on board for the ire aimed at fat sods who constantly have a Twix hanging out of their mouths making out like they're dietitians. It's strange how making little changes that only effect yourself get looked at under a microscope by some people and extrapolated into major personality traits, even though all you wanted to do was try a new haircut or lose a couple of stone. You drink your Huel. I was going to dismissively call it Soylent Green at the end there, but then I remembered that the OG company for all of this stuff is named Soylent. Irony, one of the 2010's greatest casualities.

>>29408
It's not universal, and I know plenty of people who aren't like this, but are still working class. However, for far too many people they still have this secondary school-esque attitude to change and difference that I just don't understand. In fact I wouldn't even say it's a class thing at all thinking about it, it's a mentality you can probably find anywhere; the variable is what it is that's perceived as too unorthodox. It's an insecurity, in my opinion.
>> No. 29411 Anonymous
10th January 2020
Friday 8:29 pm
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>>29410

The truth is the majority of people just never grow up. Mostly we're all just bigger, hairier teenagers.

There's a couple of people at my work place in their 40s who knew each other in their school days. Decades separate them from that time, but I always sense that the banter they give each other in the corridor walking past is much the same as it was on the school bus in 1986.
>> No. 29418 Anonymous
13th January 2020
Monday 9:28 pm
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I assumed the independent opticians located next to the grim looking tech shop in town would be just another opticians, but when I got in the there I noticed it had the decor of an expensive hotel bathroom and every pair of glasses cost at least £140.
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13th January 2020
Monday 9:53 pm
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Sometimes I talk to folk about films and it's seemingly all perfectly normal, then someone starts saying what a great director Zac Snyder is and it's like the pillars of reality are shifting around me.
>> No. 29420 Anonymous
13th January 2020
Monday 10:47 pm
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Tapas can fuck right off if you ask me. You're essentially dealing with overpriced nibbles to be eaten in one of those godawful London restaurants where you sit back to back and side to side with strangers.

It's the fruity cocktails of food, something you end up having because your bird likes the idea.
>> No. 29421 Anonymous
13th January 2020
Monday 11:32 pm
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>>29420
And then you end up getting far too pissed because you haven't had a proper dinner.
>> No. 29422 Anonymous
13th January 2020
Monday 11:34 pm
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>>29421

Stops you from having tapas twice though, no proper dinner means proper drunk means telling each of her mates exactly what you think of them. You're never going out for tapas with them again.
>> No. 29423 Anonymous
14th January 2020
Tuesday 7:38 am
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I'm really fed up of reading about the Royal family at the minute. It's ubiquitous.

>>29420>>29421>>29422
I once went on a work's night out where we went for tapas. I ate politely until everyone else had finished but they left loads so I fucking gorged on it. Got to love going out with women too concerned about how much they eat and not looking like a pig.
>> No. 29424 Anonymous
14th January 2020
Tuesday 7:55 am
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>>29423
>It's ubiquitous.
Oh fuck. I've forgotten the meme. I guess it was just me keeping it alive for some years, but we used to purposely conflate that word and another. I think it had its root in some online spelling game or something. Is the memory now completely dead?

I trust that the loss will be solemnly mourned.
>> No. 29425 Anonymous
14th January 2020
Tuesday 8:33 am
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>>29424

It was ubiquitous vs obligatory. I don't remember which way around it was, but I remember that someone had a teary at me calling the weekend thread one of the two, and everyone else decided I had used the correct one. At least I think it was me. I'm pretty sure. We were amused by such simple things, weren't we?
>> No. 29426 Anonymous
14th January 2020
Tuesday 9:08 am
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>>29424>>29425
Sounds baffling.
>> No. 29431 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 10:41 am
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Taint in reference to the arsehole. Common lad, stop that.
>> No. 29432 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 1:59 pm
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>>29431
I thought the taint was the gooch? Am I mistaken?
>> No. 29433 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 3:07 pm
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>>29432
It's the gooch.
>> No. 29434 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 4:42 pm
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>>29431

'Taint the arse, and 'taint the other bit.
>> No. 29436 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 6:33 pm
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>>29433
>>29434
Google seems to confirm this but it also defines taint as "a trace of a bad or undesirable substance or quality", which would suggest shit from an arsehole. Besides, you hear it in American cultures (or is it catholic?) within references to sex and shame, which i recokon fits better with arse than it does gooch.
Although, thinking about it, perhaps the 'trace of an undesirable substance' is follow through or drippings from a poorly wiped arse upon the gooch.

Who knows?
>> No. 29437 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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>Who knows?
The two of us who have correctly identified it as the perineum, obviously.
>> No. 29438 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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>>29437
I thought taint meant perineum. What the hell is a gooch?
>> No. 29439 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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>>29436

Different etymology. It ain't the balls and it ain't the ass.
>> No. 29440 Anonymous
15th January 2020
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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>>29438
Yet another name for the perineum.
>> No. 29441 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 12:35 pm
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We've just been told that nobody can wrote the date with an abbreviated year because if you just wrote 16/01/20 someone could make it 16/01/2018 etc to forge a backdated document. The logic is sound and there is a very slim chance someone could do something very bad, though it's perfectly valid to correct this paperwork by crossing stuff out and signing it anyway, so a bit of a scribble is all that's required regardless of the year.

Anyway, there's about 500 documents that need a 20 written on the end of their dates now.
>> No. 29442 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 12:47 pm
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>>29441
We had an email at work a couple of weeks ago saying we must always date things 2020 this year.
>> No. 29443 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 3:32 pm
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I've been training a machine learning algorithm to de-pixelate the genitals in Japanese porn. The algorithm works surprisingly well, but it gets very confused by transsexuals and keeps giving them vaginas. Is the algorithm more woke than me? I am confused.
>> No. 29444 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 3:50 pm
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>>29443
Could you post some examples on /x/?
>> No. 29445 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 5:00 pm
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>>29443
Another fine use of ML.
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16th January 2020
Thursday 5:17 pm
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>>29443
Fascinating.

To your average layman, how does one do this? Do you feed it pictures of pixelated and non-pixelated genitals? Do you submit as many pictures of cock and vagina as you can find into it so it can unpixelate them?

Very interested how you get the machine to accurately predict what the cock behind it might look like.
>> No. 29447 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 7:07 pm
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>>29443

Honestly this is the best use of ML since sticking celebrities faces on porn stars. I eagerly await reading your research paper.
>> No. 29448 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 7:22 pm
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>>29446

>Do you feed it pictures of pixelated and non-pixelated genitals?

Pretty much. There's a bit more to it obviously, but the computer is doing the heavy lifting. This video series is a superb introduction to the basics of machine learning and requires no mathematical background.



The interesting bit in my current project is the use of transfer learning. Normally, we'd start off with a completely randomised network that spits out completely random data and slowly evolve it by giving it feedback on how close it is to our desired output. My neural network borrows from (and is partly trained by) existing networks that are very well trained on general-purpose image tasks.

The network that identifies the pixelated regions in the image started out as a face-recognition network. That network is already very well trained to identify specific regions within an image, so I just trained it on a bunch of crops of pixelated cocks and fannies. With just a few hundred training images and a few hours of training time, it was giving better than 99% accuracy - training an equivalent network from scratch would require vastly more data and processing power.

The network that tries to reconstruct the blurred bits is a bit more complicated, but it's based on two networks - one that was trained to upsample low-resolution video and another that was trained to fill in missing sections of an image. Each network in isolation would do a pretty crappy job (the resolution is too low for the upsampling network and the "missing" section is too big for the infill painting network), so I pit the two against each other to train a third network, which learns from the best results of both.

>>29444

Not yet, but if all goes to plan there'll be a public beta within the next few weeks. The copyright situation surrounding ML models trained on copyrighted material is complicated and Japanese censorship laws are weird, so I need to be a bit careful at this stage to avoid tainting the legal status of the codebase. There's an existing model called JavPlayer that's in public circulation, but it's a crude bodge job and the output is riddled with artifacts; you can see some samples from it at the link below.

https://kissjav.com/search/video/?s=javplayer
>> No. 29449 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 8:22 pm
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Fucking landlords. Quarterly inspection, not a moment in and they're already commenting "Oh you've had a change around". No shit, how'd you like it if i requested access and become familiar with your home? Damn it i hate when people come into my home.
>> No. 29450 Anonymous
16th January 2020
Thursday 11:43 pm
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>>29449
That's a bit shit. Quarterly is excessive; annual is normal.
>> No. 29463 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 5:30 am
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>A two Michelin-starred chef who has been in the UK for 23 years says he now feels “unwelcome” after his application to remain in the country after Brexit was refused. French-born Claude Bosi, 47, who runs Bibendum restaurant in London, said the system was “inhuman” and made him feel like leaving the country.

>He received a letter from the Home Office saying his application was refused after mistakenly seeking permanent residency and not the special route open to EU citizens only – the EU settlement scheme.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/24/renowned-chef-refused-residency-after-living-in-uk-for-23-years

It's been almost four years and the Graun's continual stream of "person denied residency after not filling in the application forms correctly" articles is really wearing thin.
>> No. 29465 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 12:26 pm
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>>29463

Even still, why was he refused permanent residency? As I understand it you qualify for that after 5 years.

Immigration stories make me angry and bitter about the really fit Yank bird I was destined to be with as a teenlad, but had to let go because the feasibility of us ever making it through the hoops of either country's immigration laws seemed too remote. The world really is a cold uncaring place and sometimes you just have to accept that you get the shit end of the stick.
>> No. 29466 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 12:46 pm
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>>29465
The Home Office said he didn't actually supply the evidence to prove he met the criteria. I think I read somewhere that his work means he's spent a fair bit of time out of the country.
>> No. 29467 Anonymous
25th January 2020
Saturday 10:08 pm
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>>29465
He didn't supply his 5 year history of P5s.

Home office bureaucracy is a complete farce though.
This guy went there in person, he discussed his application with staff, paid fees, waited a very long time, and then got told his application wasn't good enough.
And what's more for a simple omission that should be able to be solved quickly, the application is scrapped entirely and you have to start over again from the very beginning.
There's similar stories from people who employ specialist lawyers to assist with applications to the home office and still get caught out.
>> No. 29468 Anonymous
26th January 2020
Sunday 1:19 am
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>>29467

>Home office bureaucracy is a complete farce though.

It's a legacy of Theresa May's "hostile environment" policy. The Home Office developed a culture of trying to catch people out, because they were under pressure to reduce net migration despite a lack of policy changes that actually reduced the number of people who would be eligible to live and work in the UK.
>> No. 29471 Anonymous
27th January 2020
Monday 12:45 pm
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Water chestnuts; not okay.
>> No. 29472 Anonymous
30th January 2020
Thursday 3:18 pm
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I have an email for stuff like banking and card statements which I am dead careful not to give to anyone for any other reason than stuff like that, but I've just started getting fake PayPal phishing emails. For fuck's sake, has HSBC been selling my email?
>> No. 29473 Anonymous
30th January 2020
Thursday 4:58 pm
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>>29472
I think the megacorps are more likely to get hacked than sell your email addy.
>> No. 29474 Anonymous
30th January 2020
Thursday 5:29 pm
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>>29472
>For fuck's sake, has HSBC been selling my email?

I would say very highly unlikely - I can't see any banks' compliance team approving that nowadays - I also work in a bank. Is the email address guessable - ie a proper name?
>> No. 29475 Anonymous
30th January 2020
Thursday 11:44 pm
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>>29473
>>29474
It's more likely a service like Eventbrite or something on which I've bought festival tickets to this email. Still, annoying. Interestingly the spam is primarily coming from the same domain so I've blocked that and hopefully it'll stem the flow for now, but once your email is compromised then it's game over.
>> No. 29476 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 12:41 am
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>>29475
There's zero reason to give the same email address out to more than one party.
>> No. 29477 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 1:22 am
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>>29476
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-the-infinite-number-of-email-addresses-gmail-1609458192
>> No. 29478 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 1:26 am
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>>29477
I find that vaguely alluding to helpful information in such a way that allows you to maintain a sense of smug superiority is better than being genuinely helpful, but each to his own.
>> No. 29479 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 11:51 am
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>>29477

Thanks. I wish I'd been aware of this much sooner, and wonder why it isn't made more obvious in the Gmail features.

>>29478

This is probably why you have no friends.
>> No. 29480 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 5:49 pm
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A few minor annoyances from today.

1. I found cat shit in my garden. This is an unwelcome development as this is the first time it's happened in almost five years of living here.

2. My daughter's nursery school class have sent a message around to remind parents to only fill the bottle their child takes to school with water rather than fizzy drinks. This is a class of three and four year olds.

3. My waterproof coat feels horrible if I've recently sweated whilst wearing it.

4. I went to the tip today and there was a family chucking away loads of toys in good condition. Some of it relatively expensive like houses for Sylvanian Families. Take it to a fucking charity shop.
>> No. 29481 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 5:51 pm
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>>29479
I'd rather have no friends than have a spam-filled mailbox. Sucks to be you!!

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 29482 Anonymous
31st January 2020
Friday 8:26 pm
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>>29480
Cat shit multiple times a day, every day, right beneath my kitchen window. Fuckers.
>> No. 29483 Anonymous
1st February 2020
Saturday 2:47 pm
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The past couple of days I've been hungry. No reason for it, I'm just absolutely ravenous at the moment.
>> No. 29484 Anonymous
1st February 2020
Saturday 2:48 pm
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>>29483
Eaten any tapeworms recently?
>> No. 29485 Anonymous
1st February 2020
Saturday 2:55 pm
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>>29483
Me too. But I've lost 5kg this month, so there is that.
>> No. 29486 Anonymous
1st February 2020
Saturday 7:17 pm
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>>29481

I hope this was a joke ban. I felt rather bad about the no friends joke alone.
>> No. 29487 Anonymous
1st February 2020
Saturday 7:26 pm
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>>29486
Would you like to serve his sentence in his place?
>> No. 29488 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 11:51 am
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Sad I'll probably never get to see capes and cloaks make their into contemporary fashion. So much better than stupid coats and jackets.
>> No. 29489 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 12:02 pm
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>>29488
>So much better than stupid coats and jackets.

They aren't though. Coats and jackets are a lot more practical.
>> No. 29490 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 12:05 pm
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>>29489
No, you are wrong.
>> No. 29491 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 12:19 pm
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>>29490
Show your working lad, I've used both, cloaks are cumbersome and a right faff compared to a lightweight, packable and well insulated coat/jacket. Also, pockets.
>> No. 29493 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 2:01 pm
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>>29491

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8cYd3poIk
Comfortable
Impromptu blanket
Autism
>> No. 29494 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 2:58 pm
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>>29488
There is a girl who lives in my area (a council estate) and I see every other day on my commute who wears a forest green cloak. She seems pretty happy.
>> No. 29495 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 7:10 pm
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>>29493
I saw a vicar/clergy/man of the cloth wearing a black one the other day and it was in fact very fetching.
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4th February 2020
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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>>29495
Don't call me a vicar, you little prick. I'm a bishop!
>> No. 29497 Anonymous
4th February 2020
Tuesday 10:20 pm
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>>29496
>> No. 29498 Anonymous
5th February 2020
Wednesday 1:43 am
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When you accidentally open your blocked contacts and your ex has a new profile photo with what looks like an engagement ring on her left hand.
>> No. 29499 Anonymous
5th February 2020
Wednesday 6:56 am
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>>29498
If you like it then you should've put a ring on it
>> No. 29500 Anonymous
5th February 2020
Wednesday 3:03 pm
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>>29499
Audible mirth. Thanks lad.
>> No. 29501 Anonymous
5th February 2020
Wednesday 4:55 pm
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It's the wrong cleaners at work this week. The usual cleaners are what I'd classify as happy paupers; jolly and docile. When they're on holiday their replacements are the sort of paupers that offend most of my senses; haggard and smelly.
>> No. 29502 Anonymous
6th February 2020
Thursday 2:09 am
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I don't really want to be without a PC for another week or more, but I've had my new video card for less than ten days and the fans have already started making very loud noises that they weren't before.

Good night.
>> No. 29503 Anonymous
6th February 2020
Thursday 12:55 pm
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I don't know what else I expected from an Americano in a can, but it was definitely cold black coffee.
>> No. 29504 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 12:18 pm
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Apparently Phillip Schofield announcing he's gay is a really big deal.
>> No. 29505 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 12:26 pm
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>>29504
Well now we know Holly Willoughby has fewer miles on the clock than she might otherwise have had.
>> No. 29506 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 12:29 pm
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>>29505
Willoughby? Maybe it's wishful thinking nestled in a hidden part of a man's mind, or maybe it's the last stop in the vast design of things—or perhaps, for a man like Mr. Gart Williams, who climbed on a world that went by too fast, it's a place around the bend where he could jump off. Willoughby? Whatever it is, it comes with sunlight and serenity, and is a part of The Twilight Zone.
>> No. 29507 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 12:53 pm
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>>29505
Holly Willoughby is married to a TV producer; her ability to bounce on his cock is a very large reason why she's presenting almost everything on ITV.
>> No. 29508 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 2:30 pm
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>>29504
You mean this guy's gay?
>> No. 29509 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 2:48 pm
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>>29504
>>29508

My girlfriend and her mum's reactions:
>OMG wow I can't believe it

My girlfriend's mum's boyfriend and my reactions:
>I had no idea he was supposed to be straight in the first place
>> No. 29510 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>29509
Pretty much the same reaction at my work. I'm assuming he's decided to come out now as one of the papers were threatening to publish a story about him getting bummed by a Venezuelan toyboy or something like that.
>> No. 29511 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 4:39 pm
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>>29506

I remember when her boob popped out on live TV, some saturday morning kids show. I must have only been about 14, highlight of the year for sure.
>> No. 29512 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 4:40 pm
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>>29509

Someone at work says "He's gay? Who cares, he's still a fucking cunt"

Which is about how I feel too.
>> No. 29513 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 6:30 pm
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I was more shocked that he was supposed to have been straight this whole time, frankly.
>> No. 29515 Anonymous
7th February 2020
Friday 9:47 pm
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Now you're a man!
A man, man, man,
Now you're a man!
A manny, manny man,
A man, man, man,
You are now a man.
You're a man!
Now you're a man!
>> No. 29516 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 11:00 am
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So far February has involved two accidental deaths, an attempted suicide and the anniversary of someone's daughter dying. Only 21 days to go! Fuck this month.
>> No. 29517 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 11:13 am
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>>29512
I struggle to understand how someone can call a man who radiates inoffensiveness on the scale that Schofield does a "fucking cunt".
>> No. 29519 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 4:27 pm
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>>29517
There's been quite a few stories on Mail Online for a fair while about him being a bit of a cunt off screen.
>> No. 29520 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 4:38 pm
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>>29517

Some people can sense disingenuousness.
>> No. 29521 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 4:42 pm
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>>29519
He's on the telly. Of course he's a massive cunt.
>> No. 29522 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 4:49 pm
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Imagine having an opinion on Phillip Scholfield, Jesus.
>> No. 29523 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 6:16 pm
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15 at the time, allegedly.
>> No. 29524 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 8:32 pm
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>> No. 29525 Anonymous
8th February 2020
Saturday 10:51 pm
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>>29523
He was 18 in 2014 so that tallies up.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/hyde-actor-meets-morning-phillip-7506214
>> No. 29526 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 1:59 am
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>>29525

Yes Andi Peters may or may not confirm this.

There's been quite a bit of bumdering going on for a while.
>> No. 29527 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 3:10 am
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How are some people so attractive? It's unfair.
>> No. 29528 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 3:33 am
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>>29527

Have you considered getting a job in media and casting heroic figures that resemble yourself to change the public perception of attractiveness to vaguely resemble what you look like over the course of decades?
>> No. 29529 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 9:40 pm
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I was served by an angelic bartender yesterday and tried to store her perfect angel face in my wank bank, but when I try to masturbate her face is a blur.
>> No. 29530 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 10:00 pm
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>>29529

Go back to the bar with a gopro on your head.
>> No. 29531 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 10:13 pm
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>>29530
Maybe I could buy some spy glassses instead.

I've toyed with the idea of getting a gopro or some cheap Chinese copy of one. When I go on holiday I'm often compelled to take photos of the nice places I visit, which is annoying as fuck because I'd rather enjoy the moment instead of staring at it through a smartphone screen. Turning on a gopro and fuggetingaboutit at the beginning of a hike would nip that behaviour in the bud.
>> No. 29532 Anonymous
9th February 2020
Sunday 11:39 pm
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>>29531

>Turning on a gopro and fuggetingaboutit at the beginning of a hike would nip that behaviour in the bud.

I do this, it's great, though not really the same as composing a proper photograph.

When I'm in a new place I like to explore it via bicycle, so sticking a gopro on the front is a natural choice. It's good to keep track of where you've been for later research/your own knowledge, particularly on the modern ones that do GPS recording, but sitting and watching three hours of gopro footage is even less compelling than grandma and grandad's slides from tenerife. If anything, it makes you realise that remembering the experience is a lot more fulfulling than recording it.
>> No. 29533 Anonymous
14th February 2020
Friday 5:45 pm
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>> No. 29534 Anonymous
14th February 2020
Friday 6:16 pm
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>>29533

BUILD THE WALL
>> No. 29535 Anonymous
16th February 2020
Sunday 9:10 pm
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What an absolutely awful shit I've just had. Diarrhoea wanting to force its way out of my body but finding its way blocked by solid shit not ready to come yet. I had to put a finger up to pull the solid chunks out in order to open the floodgates and release the unbearable pressure. Would not recommend.
>> No. 29536 Anonymous
16th February 2020
Sunday 9:27 pm
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>>29535

That's what you get for eating chicken soup on pasta.
>> No. 29537 Anonymous
16th February 2020
Sunday 9:30 pm
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>>29536
I don't know if I'm getting a bit of an intolerance to milk. Can this creep up on you in your thirties?
>> No. 29538 Anonymous
16th February 2020
Sunday 9:34 pm
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>>29537
Yes.
>> No. 29539 Anonymous
17th February 2020
Monday 9:52 am
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>”If China can build a hospital in a week, why can’t... ?”
>> No. 29540 Anonymous
17th February 2020
Monday 11:27 am
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>>29539

Heard that a lot this week; the usual answer is "because white people are dossers".
>> No. 29541 Anonymous
17th February 2020
Monday 11:36 am
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>>29540

Surely it's just a matter of numbers? Chuck 1000 people on a job and it'll get done pretty quick.
>> No. 29542 Anonymous
17th February 2020
Monday 11:53 am
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>>29541
Spoken like a true project manager. Nine women can make a baby in a month and all that.
>> No. 29543 Anonymous
17th February 2020
Monday 3:42 pm
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Got a job, nearly choked to death on a cheese and onion slice on the way home; easy come, easy go.
>> No. 29544 Anonymous
18th February 2020
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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I plugged my headphones into the front port on my computer and all my USB devices, mouse, keyboard, gamepad, SD card reader, went apeshit and began rapidly turning on and off. I unplugged them all and plugged them back in one by one and now they are fine. Well, except the SD card reader, but only because I don't want to know if the data on there is FUBAR right now.

Stupid computers.
>> No. 29545 Anonymous
18th February 2020
Tuesday 10:59 pm
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I resent how much lip the self-service checkouts give me when I take a few seconds to put away my shopping. Not enough to use the human tills but still pretty annoying.
>> No. 29546 Anonymous
19th February 2020
Wednesday 12:17 pm
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>>29545

THAAANKS, THAT SCANN-
THAAANK-
THAAANKS, THA-

All because I didn't put each item in the fuckin bag within one second.
>> No. 29547 Anonymous
19th February 2020
Wednesday 4:55 pm
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The woman in Co-op only pretended that my NUS card had scanned. Fucking 60p she's cost me.

At least Fultons was stocked up with stuffed crust Chicago Town pizzas, veggie Rustlers burgers and I've also got some Alpro oat milk to try on the recommendation of you lads.
>> No. 29548 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 6:13 pm
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I'm getting really tired of people purporting to be socialists bemoaning the fact that the proposed changes to our immigration system means that wages will have to go up for cleaners and carers instead of being able to continue treating certain foreigners like second-class citizens by hiring them to work in conditions that aren't tolerable to British people.
>> No. 29549 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 6:50 pm
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>>29548
>the proposed changes to our immigration system means that wages will have to go up for cleaners and carers
Sorry what?
>> No. 29550 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>>29549

No him, but if people can't underpay immigrants any more and British people won't work for shit wages then presumably either wages will have to go up or there'll be a lot of unfilled jobs.
>> No. 29551 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 9:27 pm
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>>29548
It's hard to tell if it's naivety or cynism, but I lean towards the former. In so much that they aren't really thinking through the implications of what they are saying. I also think the amount of people who are of the Marxist mindset that the class war's already started and we didn't fire the first shot, is actually very small, so a lot of them might not self-identify as "socialists" anyway. In fairness most of the folk saying this were very likely advocating for a higher minimum wage at the last GE so it's not like they want to bring back an underclass of serfs or anything.

Bit rambly that, but I'm sick so clear off.
>> No. 29552 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 9:34 pm
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>>29548

Most of them are probably the kind of Guardianista who thinks they're on the left because under the prevailing political consenseus, free-market neoliberal economics are an immutable unchangeable universal constant, and as a result what we call "the left" has been appropriated and distorted into performative identitarian essentialism that inherently upholds the interests of capital, instead of genuine class struggle.
>> No. 29553 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 9:49 pm
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>>29549
>Growing skills shortages in the UK jobs market are starting to drive up wages, according to a survey, as more companies across the country report difficulties finding staff.

https://theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/18/skills-shortages-uk-pushing-workers-pay-survey-brexit

>Employers have had to ­increase wages and offer more benefits to compete for ­British workers as European migrants shun the UK in the run-up to Brexit.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/05/13/wages-rise-attract-british-workers2/

>Average pay in Britain is rising at the fastest rate in nearly a decade, amid a record fall in the number of eastern European workers ahead of Brexit and business complaints about a shortage of qualified staff.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKCN1NI115

>A fall in people coming to Britain from other European Union countries has aggravated a shortage of workers and forced employers to raise starting salaries at the fastest pace in nearly two years during August

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-jobs/uk-employers-raise-pay-as-brexit-skills-shortage-bites-recruiters-idUKKCN1BJ005

>Construction pay rises as EU workers weigh up leaving UK

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/24/construction-pay-rises-as-eu-workers-weigh-up-leaving-uk-survey-brexit

It's really quite simple. If the pool of labour shrinks then employers have to raise wages to not only attract staff but retain the existing ones they have.
>> No. 29554 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>>29553

So what I am reading here is that Brexit is a good thiing for the common man.
>> No. 29555 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:06 pm
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>>29552
This post gave me an opiate addiction.
>> No. 29556 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:16 pm
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>>29555

I know, the truth is very depressing isn't it.
>> No. 29557 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:22 pm
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>>29554
It's always daft to view things in absolutes. Things about Brexit will be shit. Things about Brexit will be good. Things about remaining would have been good. Things about remaining would have been shit.
>> No. 29558 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:39 pm
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>>29556
It's not even that certain aspects of what you said are untrue or not, it's that you talk like a bellend and it makes it far harder than it needs to be for you to be convincing.
>> No. 29559 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>29557

Things about chopping my cock off will be shit. Things about chopping my cock off will be good.
>> No. 29560 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 10:51 pm
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>>29559
Exactly. Think of all the attention you can get on Britfa posting about it.
>> No. 29561 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 11:10 pm
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I stumbled across this poster today and it made me deeply perplexed.

Can someone explain to me how this is anything other then buzzword bingo for the person who smugly hates themselves for being a westerner?

These people surely know that colonialism didn’t create hetronormality nor did it spread or perpetuate the dogma of it, and are just being edgy they couldn't be that ignorant.
>> No. 29562 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 11:29 pm
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>>29561
It might just be a very well produced shitpost. Like "horse girl rights!" or something.
>> No. 29563 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 11:30 pm
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>>29562
Personally I'd be more interested in some horse girl wrongs, IYKWIM.
>> No. 29564 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 11:36 pm
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This is peak Web 2.0.
>> No. 29565 Anonymous
20th February 2020
Thursday 11:45 pm
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>>29558

I mean that was intentional to be honest, I wanted to sound like as much of a smarmy intellectual as possible for a sense of irony.
>> No. 29566 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 12:56 am
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>>29563
Don't say you weren't warned.
>> No. 29567 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 1:43 am
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>>29562
You could well be right, but I could also imagine it being real. Heteronormativity is strongly ingrained in Abrahamic religions whereas for at least some parts of the world it wasn't. I can imagine those places capturing the imagination of woke anthropology students.

I do think those places are fairly rare though. I've never bought this argument that homophobic laws persist in Commonwealth countries as a legacy of the empire, as if we imposed such ideas against the will of the locals and they're yet to unshackle themselves from it.
>> No. 29568 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:16 am
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>>29567

Idpol weirdos want to believe that all non-white/native societies are somehow more enlightened and progressive by default, that's why they have to tie themselves in knots to get over things like the misogynistic practices of hardcore Islam.

It's funny how even as they try to plead their guilt, they're still racists. In the most patronising way, it's basically saying foreigners wouldn't even have their flaws if it weren't for whites giving them them.
>> No. 29569 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:47 am
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>>29567
>but I could also imagine it being real
It is real I found it by tracing back the statement in a web search after seeing it in a picture of a ’woke’ cafe shop window to the creators website some New York artist blogger. I removed the creators name from the poster to deny them the satisfaction.
>> No. 29570 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 1:49 pm
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Every paragraph of this story descends to a new and maddening low.
>> No. 29571 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 1:56 pm
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>>29570
What?
>> No. 29572 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:17 pm
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>>29571
don't get me wrong her story is awful and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but there is no possible survival reason I can think of to do that.
>> No. 29573 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:21 pm
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>>29572
Shouldn't the newspaper have mentioned that, in case someone who's read it and is getting dehydrated in a real life or death situation thinks the best way to stay hydrated is to force themselves to vomit 40 times?
>> No. 29574 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:41 pm
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>>29573
For anyone that matters it goes without saying.
>> No. 29575 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:46 pm
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>>29571

I suppose this will prove one way or the other whether Bear Grylls browses here. If there's an episode about drinking your own vomit in the next few months I fully expect a guest appearance on /iq/.
>> No. 29576 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:56 pm
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>>29572

Everyone knows that the best way to combat dehydration is to repeatedly vomit.
>> No. 29577 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 2:56 pm
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>> No. 29578 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 3:49 pm
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>>29570
>oh my fucking shit. What the fuck?
Oh my fucking shit. Who actually swears like this? What the fuck?
>> No. 29579 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 4:20 pm
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>>29570
>"I live next to a 92-year-old man whose deaf."
>whose deaf
Somebody got paid to write this.
>> No. 29580 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 4:51 pm
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>>29579

According to MuckRack, the author filed ten articles that day between the Derbyshire Times, the Sheffield Star and the Doncaster Free Press. He also has regular bylines in the Worksop Guardian, the Sheffield Telegraph and the Buxton Advertiser.

Local news is fucked.
>> No. 29582 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 5:39 pm
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That's not the worst bit. This journalist apparently can't even remember whether it was her left or right arm even though he's got a photo.

It's a bit confusing about the bed too, the story starts off with her apparently keeping her mp3 player under the mattress like some weird nutter, but by the end of the story it seems to be suggesting that it does actually have a storage compartment inside.
>> No. 29583 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 6:02 pm
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I just got ID'd trying to buy some non-alcoholic beer from Sainsbury's. I'm 32. Nothing about this makes sense.
>> No. 29584 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 7:02 pm
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>>29583
I'm the same age and depending on whether I have a bit of facial hair I still don't know whether I'm going to get carded at the supermarkets. So long as I actually have my ID I quite like it.
>> No. 29585 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 7:04 pm
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>>29583

Thank "Think 25". I once got ID'd in my local Tesco metro on my way home from Heathrow in a fucking £300 suit (not that I paid for it, work made me wear it). I'll admit that I had a bit of a wobble while I dug my passport out of my laptop bag and might have screeched "do seventeen year olds regularly come in here and try to buy red wine wearing suits?" at the bemused bint behind the counter. To be fair this was before the Inbetweeners dressed Simon Bird up like a Haradi Jew, so, yeah.

Sage.
>> No. 29586 Anonymous
21st February 2020
Friday 9:21 pm
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>>29585

>I once got ID'd in my local Tesco metro on my way home from Heathrow in a fucking £300 suit

Perhaps if you'd been wearing a proper suit you wouldn't have been mistaken for a schoolboy?

Anyway, grow a beard or go bald, or both, and you'll not have to worry about ID any more. Sometimes you'll even get "oh no, I don't need to ID you" with a chuckle.
>> No. 29587 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 3:22 am
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>>29586

Mirth. I was 24 or 25 at the time and the fact that the company wanted to give me several hundred quid for to buy a decent whistle really inflated my ego for some reason. The fact that I was flying all over the world from Saudi Arabia to Ukraine on a weekly basis just tipped my ego over the "I can't be having with pricks from Tesco" edge, I guess.

Humorous factoid: as a chubby teenlad I was basically androgynous and a 14 year old me once got hit on by a lesbian in a club who though I was a butch uni lass. I basically grew a beard as a gender signifier (and it didn't always work).
>> No. 29588 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:04 pm
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>>29583

I've been flagged by the self checkout for buying glue before. To stop glue sniffing they said. It was PVA.
>> No. 29589 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:11 pm
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>>29588

I've been flagged for buying plastic cutlery (like for a picnic). Never underestimate the roll on effect of employing the sub 90 IQ to work in a supermarket.
>> No. 29590 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:21 pm
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>>29589

Except it's nothing to do with the thickos who work in the shops, you berk. If anything, blame the law itself for lacking specificity.

That was obviously done on purpose so the coppers can nick black kids for carrying anything vaguely pointy, but the knock on effect is businesses have to ID you for buying anything sharper than a spoon or they leave themselves open.
>> No. 29591 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:29 pm
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>>29590
> That was obviously done on purpose so the coppers can nick black kids for carrying anything vaguely pointy

And doesn't that even vaguely worry you, you cunt?
>> No. 29592 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:37 pm
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>>29591

It should be fairly obvious I think it's daft as fuck, you big nonce.
>> No. 29593 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 5:50 pm
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>>29592

No you're daft as fuck, you Epstein Evangelist.
>> No. 29594 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 7:26 pm
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I hate taking pictures of myself for dating profiles because the same process happens again and again. I continually look and feel like a twat in every photo until I get self-conscious and frustrated enough to settle for the pictures where I look semi-normal.

Once I've done that I never remember to be in pictures or take any because it never crosses my mind.
>> No. 29595 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 7:45 pm
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>>29594

I'm the opposite. I can take 100 pictures in a mirror and find at least one where I look at lease semi-human. However, in the pictures that others I take of me I either look like a pedo or a rapist, or both, .
>> No. 29597 Anonymous
22nd February 2020
Saturday 8:59 pm
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>>29594
The only pictures I've got of myself that I think make me look at all good are where I've been out walking in the hills.
Good lighting is really the key, and a bit of wind does wonders to hide crappy £9 haircuts.
>> No. 29598 Anonymous
23rd February 2020
Sunday 6:10 pm
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>>29595

I feel like posted this while blackout drunk last night.
>> No. 29599 Anonymous
23rd February 2020
Sunday 7:12 pm
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>>29598
That post did come from your IP address, yes.
>> No. 29600 Anonymous
23rd February 2020
Sunday 10:33 pm
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Those fucking tables they make with the resin "rivers" poured into them, especially the ones where they fucking drop fishtank decorations into the resin.

Absolutely horrific and remind me of the perspex furniture that was trendy for about three weeks in the 90s. This shit will not age well.
>> No. 29601 Anonymous
23rd February 2020
Sunday 10:58 pm
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>>29600

I find the videos of people making them very relaxing though.

And very amusing when they invariably fuck up the resin pour and end up with a wonky table or bubbles stuck in the middle for life.

I learned from making wargaming terrain, resin isn't to be fucked with lightly.
>> No. 29602 Anonymous
23rd February 2020
Sunday 11:05 pm
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>>29601

I do also enjoy the videos, I appreciate the craft of doing it right but I still think it looks naff. As you say, it reminds me of model terrain.
>> No. 29603 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 12:28 am
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>>29600
I think you're all being a bit mean. That looks dead classy.
>> No. 29604 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 12:30 am
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>>29603
Yes well purp's wall can only keep the foreigners out, not the lower classes.
>> No. 29605 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 2:05 am
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>>29604
Hardly my fault you've got, like, no taste.
>> No. 29606 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 11:28 am
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>>29605
I'll have you know my Live, Laugh, Love cutout was bought at Waitrose.
>> No. 29607 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 12:15 pm
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>>29606
A particularly oblivious client of mine used to have that on a printout. She'd chosen Impact or something similar as the typeface.
>> No. 29608 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 12:19 pm
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You lads are very smug for people who just spent their collective weekends' arguing about digital storage.
>> No. 29609 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 2:36 pm
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People who don't understand how tax bands work. If you're a higher rate taxpayer it means the next £1 you earn will be taxed at 40%, not your entire taxable income.
>> No. 29610 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 7:18 pm
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Someone is stalking my Reddit profile and replying to various posts I've made over the last week or so.

I think that's enough of that place for now. Could you lads do me a favour and start posting more than once every three days?
>> No. 29611 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 7:59 pm
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>>29610
>Could you lads do me a favour
No.
>start posting more than once every three days?
Absolutely not.
>> No. 29612 Anonymous
24th February 2020
Monday 8:19 pm
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>>29610

Reddit really is a kind of digital hell. If you offend someone insane enough and with enough time on their hands in one, rather inconsequential, sub then they can march through your entire posting history and shit up your reputation in subs where you actually have one / actually care about.

Basically you need a bunch of accounts for different subs you intend on actually posting in and remember to never get blackout drunk and post in the wrong sub as your Fursona.
>> No. 29613 Anonymous
25th February 2020
Tuesday 7:58 am
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>>29612

The wierd thing is they weren't even trolling me, they just appeared to agree with a lot of things.

I always post as my fursona, especially here.

>>29611

Aw, please?
>> No. 29614 Anonymous
26th February 2020
Wednesday 12:29 am
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I've torn my arsehole again.
>> No. 29615 Anonymous
26th February 2020
Wednesday 7:14 am
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>>29614
Try a bit of frozen potato.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/20/dont-treat-piles-shoving-frozen-potatoes-bum-12274281/
>> No. 29616 Anonymous
26th February 2020
Wednesday 8:45 am
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>>29615

I prefer to stick chips in at the other end, which may explain the dismal state of my arsehole.
>> No. 29617 Anonymous
27th February 2020
Thursday 4:46 pm
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>> No. 29618 Anonymous
28th February 2020
Friday 1:20 am
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Can someone please stop this epidemic of websites done entirely in fucking JavaScript so when one little thing goes wrong you get no content whatsoever?

Ger'aff moi lawn!
>> No. 29619 Anonymous
28th February 2020
Friday 6:14 pm
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I had to take a couple of long train journeys this week and thought I'd pass the time working remotely watching movies on my laptop. Unfortunately, every film has some degree of raunchy scenes which makes it look like I'm watching porn.

I'd also like to complain that you end up eating total crap and it's not even enjoyable. I can see how the stereotypical naughty capitalists get so fat.
>> No. 29620 Anonymous
28th February 2020
Friday 7:57 pm
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On the commute home from work earlier, I instantly caught a smell of skunk at one of the stops as the train doors opened. A gaudy olfactory fanfare preceded The Lad With The Strange Gait, reverently supporting his Tesco Chicken and Bacon pasta with his fingertips as if his cheap meal were a precious stone in a prong mount.

I thought "You had better not fucking sit near me". He sat opposite.
I thought "You had better not tuck into that pasta". He spent a good minute trying to bite the plastic fork out of its wrapper. An object with the ability to pierce, and the goon never thinks to just push it out.

I was never this stupid when I smoked weed!
>> No. 29621 Anonymous
28th February 2020
Friday 11:48 pm
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>>29620
Is it designed to be eaten cold?
>> No. 29622 Anonymous
29th February 2020
Saturday 12:23 am
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>>29621

Not him but I've always assumed so. Supermarket lunch deal pasta salad things are basically just a tub of pasta in mayonnaise with with a few scraps of whatever filling swirled around in there.
>> No. 29623 Anonymous
29th February 2020
Saturday 12:46 am
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>>29621
Weird question. If there's a plastic fork in there, then yes, obviously it is designed to be eaten on the spot.
>> No. 29624 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 1:33 am
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I decided to watch Uncut Gems at 11:30PM. Good film, but I may as well have taken speed and spent an hour lifting weights before bed.
>> No. 29625 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 8:53 am
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Saw an advert for milk today. Not any particular brand, just milk. The poster said it was from the Department of tasty beverages or some other made up nonsense rather than the dairy industry. Creepy.
>> No. 29626 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 9:12 am
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ACCRINGTON STANLEY
>> No. 29627 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 9:25 am
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>>29626
That video seems very off without hearing the constant crashing sound of that many hundreds of milk bottles bouncing off the concrete.
>> No. 29628 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 10:48 am
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>>29625
>> No. 29630 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 11:56 am
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>>29625

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9PPQO6hAo
Could be worse.
>> No. 29631 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 12:24 pm
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There are some blokes replacing my front door and one of them seems to be spending half the job talking to his daughter over Skype or something. It's very perplexing.
>> No. 29632 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 3:15 pm
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>>29631

Many years ago, I took motorbike lessons from a bloke who was having a nightmare with his tearaway teenage daughter. I probably should have found an instructor who wasn't constantly pulling over to take phone calls, but it was just so entertaining to listen to this bloke slowly losing his mind.
>> No. 29633 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 6:24 pm
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>>29632
I used to have a morbidly obese boss whose marriage was failing, in no small part due to their teenage son's rebellious ways. I remember her losing her shit completely, in an open-plan office, screaming down the phone at the top of her lungs. The rest of the time we bore the brunt of her frustrations and that was not entertaining in the slightest.
>> No. 29634 Anonymous
2nd March 2020
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>29633
The older I get the more I reckon that having a complete shit for a child is luck of the draw. Not just one who does the simple things we all did like have a bit of puff and skip school but one who actively makes life hard for everyone around them.

I'd like to have kids one day but thoughts like that bother me.
>> No. 29635 Anonymous
4th March 2020
Wednesday 10:05 am
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I was annoyed about something when I woke up this morning, but I've forgotten so I'm putting myself in /101/ forbeing fickle.
>> No. 29642 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 9:26 am
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Online payment processors / handlers and the stupidly arbitrary rules over which documents they'll accept and in which format(s). Anyone want to try to guess how much fun it is trying to turn an eight-page bank statement into a readable jpeg? It's not fun. At all.
>> No. 29643 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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Tried using Argos online today to pre-order a game and the purchase wouldn't go through, I then tried to contact their online customer support, after a 10 minute wait I got through to someone who it was apparent was answering other calls based on their lack of response speed, after 10 mins of asking questions that I answered immediately they told me what I already knew like it was a revelation (that it was a pre-order), and that I would need to call a particular team (which they didn't give me a number for) and then stopped the discussion before I could ask what number.

Suffice to say I won't bother trying to use them again, I tried to be nice and go the extra step to buy from them, and they wasted my time for it, it is like they don't want me to buy things from them.
>> No. 29644 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 7:10 pm
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As much as I really don't want to speak out against what some of the women in the office choose to put on show: if you're coming into the office in winter showing more skin than is hung up in a butchers window, you don't get to complain about being fucking cold and turn the heating up to full blast.
>> No. 29645 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 7:23 pm
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>>29642
Are you aware that you can print to PDF? It's not an intuitive way of doing things but works pretty reliably. PDF is usually ok for that sort of thing.
>> No. 29646 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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>>29645

I already have everything in PDF format but they only accept jpeg images, go figure. My solution was to import the PDFs page by page into GIMP and paste each page into a .jpg collage. Worked for one document so far, waiting for the last one to be accepted or denied.
>> No. 29647 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 10:12 pm
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>>29646
What a nuisance. There are free tools for batch conversion but if it's just a few pages then maybe "the slow way is the fast way", as the old saying goes.
>> No. 29648 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 10:15 pm
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>>29642
I don't need to guess. It's a few clicks in Acrobat. You just did it in a boneheaded way.
>> No. 29650 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 10:21 pm
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>>29648
Acrobat by the way is a shockingly badly designed program. When you try to save a PDF as a non-PDF the resulting dialogue reads "Save as PDF". And the main program supports less source file types than its Windows context menu option "Convert to PDF". Just two examples.
>> No. 29651 Anonymous
10th March 2020
Tuesday 10:25 pm
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>>29647
> but if it's just a few pages then maybe "the slow way is the fast way", as the old saying goes.

Pretty much. It's just enough of a pain in the arse to moan on here that they don't accept PDF files but not enough of a pain in the arse to download / purchase Acrobat (presumably >>29648 means the paid version not Acrobat Reader) and read a tedious software manual.

And yes, out of the all solutions I found on google this was the least annoying.
>> No. 29652 Anonymous
11th March 2020
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>29650
The free version of acrobat is a massive pain in the backside too. Considering it only has 1 function as a reader, it's horrendously cluttered and clunky, and leaves you with regular intrusive messages urging you to install the latest update to fix yet another gaping security hole.

At work I use the paid version of a pdf editor program called nitro. It's so much better in every way imaginable.
>> No. 29653 Anonymous
11th March 2020
Wednesday 7:25 pm
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>>29652

I wish I could recommend a decent alternative to Acrobat Reader on the Windows platform but Foxit is the only one that comes close in terms of functionality and because of that feature it's just as insecure if not more so.

Your best bet for either reader is to simply disable javascript which will guarantee you Pretty Good Security on any OS version more recent than 7. I mean why the fuck do PDFs need embedded javascript anyway? The answer to that is that at some point some idiot at Adobe thought they could compete with Access/Excel by having magic forms with buttons and fucking macros. .
>> No. 29654 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 2:07 pm
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>> No. 29655 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 3:50 pm
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Not drinking:

Pros: Getting to sleep earlier, waking up earlier, losing weight, waking up every day realising that even if you've not been getting drunk or having hangovers that you were still operating at way less than 100% thanks to alcohol.

Cons: Randomly remembering all kinds of awful things you'd either repressed or forgotten from ten, twenty, or thirty years ago as brachronic masturbatorls suddenly no longer under constant gabaergic fusillade start waking up and getting back to work.
>> No. 29656 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 3:52 pm
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>>29655
> brachronic masturbatorls

Fucking top word filter lads.
>> No. 29657 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 4:13 pm
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>>29656

BraSARAH MILLICAN'S SQUELCHY FANNY CUSTARDls?
>> No. 29658 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 6:18 pm
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Phwoooar.
>> No. 29660 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 7:00 pm
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>>29658

Is this what a few months on an all-SARAH MILLICAN'S SQUELCHY FANNY CUSTARD diet would do for ARE SARAH?
>> No. 29661 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>29660

ARE SARAH used to be a skinny little slip of a thing. I somewhat suspect that she put all the weight on as a career move to make herself more relatable.
>> No. 29662 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 7:43 pm
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>>29661
I think her being slimmer just draws attention to her large schnozzer.
>> No. 29663 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 7:53 pm
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36H.
>> No. 29664 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 9:37 pm
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>>29662
>her large schnozzer.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
>> No. 29665 Anonymous
13th March 2020
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>29661

I wonder if her nunny got tighter or baggier when she gained the weight. I happily volunteer myself to find out. For science and that.
>> No. 29666 Anonymous
14th March 2020
Saturday 1:23 am
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>>29665

I don't know about ARE SARAH, but Lily Allen has made her downstairs situation quite clear.
>> No. 29667 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>29666
Is this what Bagpuss was about then?
>> No. 29668 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 8:08 pm
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>>29667

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring

>> No. 29669 Anonymous
16th March 2020
Monday 10:22 pm
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Not drinking milk anymore. I'll stick with dairy, I'll use it in other things, but I'm not drinking it straight. It's just sick, not right at all.
>> No. 29670 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 12:16 pm
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Love my work's intranet.

"Tips of the day...

Feed is unavailable. Error Message: Remote name could not be resolved:"
>> No. 29671 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>29669
Welcome to veganism lad.
>> No. 29672 Anonymous
17th March 2020
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>29670

Sounds like a particularly cryptic fortune cookie.
>> No. 29673 Anonymous
18th March 2020
Wednesday 10:59 am
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There was one microphone for sale in the whole of this miserable town and it had RGB lighting on it, so I've had to order one online. Fingers crossed it arrives before THE EVENT takes full effect.
>> No. 29674 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 2:35 pm
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Okay, microphones just don't work on this PC, brilliant. At least not 3.5mm ones, I don't know if it would be different with USB based devices. Fuck sake. It makes the little static sound when you plug/unplug it and everything, what's the fucking problem?

I just wrote all that, finally thought to check the manual and was reminded it needs a small battery. I'm posting it anyway in the interests of transparency. This is why online anonymity is important, someone show this to Angela Rayner.
>> No. 29675 Anonymous
20th March 2020
Friday 2:48 pm
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It comes with a battery. It was in the little pouch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seP2DPqd0o8
>> No. 29676 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 4:43 pm
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YouTube keeps defaulting to 480p because of the 'rona and it looks like shit. I've got a 4k screen for fuck's sake, I don't want 480p.
>> No. 29677 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 4:47 pm
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>>29676
Just get the "default to 4K" plugin, mate. Or whatever it's called.
>> No. 29678 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 9:26 pm
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Ordered a takeaway. Stated clearly in the delivery notes that I'm self-isolating, that my intercom doesn't work and gave instructions on how to get to my flat to leave the food outside.

Driver called to say he's outside the main gate and can't get an answer on the intercom.
>> No. 29679 Anonymous
21st March 2020
Saturday 9:28 pm
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>>29678
Most drivers won't read the delivery notes, some aren't even able to access them should they want to. Depends on the app.
>> No. 29680 Anonymous
22nd March 2020
Sunday 1:53 am
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>>29678
Dumb NEET.
>> No. 29681 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 9:14 am
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I know you'll call soon, we organised this call last week, why are you pre-texting me about the call?
>> No. 29682 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 12:37 pm
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>>29681
Quite obviously because not everyone is as organised as you.
>> No. 29683 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 2:22 pm
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My teleconferencing setup is either the shite tiny webcam on my laptop, which is awkward to use on a desk and as it's a 13" laptop it means the angle shows everyone the contents of my nose, or a a DSLR and expensive condenser microphone connected to my PC, which is a bit cumbersome but more importantly looks like I'm trying way too hard.

It's not that easy to just buy a normal usb webcam anymore - either because nobody buys them at all these days, or perhaps there's been a rush on them in the last two weeks, it's hard to tell.
>> No. 29684 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 2:31 pm
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>>29683

>either because nobody buys them at all these days, or perhaps there's been a rush on them in the last two weeks

The latter. All the decent webcams are out of stock everywhere.
>> No. 29685 Anonymous
23rd March 2020
Monday 3:01 pm
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>>29683

I have tape over my webcam like any paranoid lunatic sensible human being should. If other people want to turn their webcams on they're welcome to (although I have no idea what it adds to anything at all) but all they're getting of me is a blank screen.
>> No. 29686 Anonymous
26th March 2020
Thursday 11:53 pm
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My neighbour is drunkenly singing Travis at the top of his voice.
>> No. 29689 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 1:51 am
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>>29686
So this is the way the world ends.
>> No. 29690 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 11:20 am
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Microsoft Teams is a fucking shitshow and keeps breaking my audio drivers.
>> No. 29691 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 11:32 am
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I wish people would stop pinging my work phone the moment I've left it out of earshot.
>> No. 29692 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 3:14 pm
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>>29690
Oh is that what that stuttering sound is.
>> No. 29693 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 8:13 pm
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The one guy in the office who has shit internet that disrupts every meeting and makes them a chore to talk to. Fair enough you don't want to spend your own money on work but it's not like you can't phone in.

>>29690
I don't understand why Teams even ended up as the default for offices. Surely if you're doing the procurement you will see Microsoft and already know the product is a bloated and intrusive mess.

Google might have it's drawbacks when you have to convert to word documents on drive but nobody has ever pinged me an urgent notification on google's chat or had me pay attention to a team forum full of bollocks.
>> No. 29695 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 8:44 pm
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>>29693

Microsoft = Closed Source = Single point of blame to hold upside-down by the ankles.

I probably missed a few things here, like how OpenOffice is still not better than MSOffice despite the latter gradually getting worse.
>> No. 29696 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>29693
>I don't understand why Teams even ended up as the default for offices. Surely if you're doing the procurement you will see Microsoft and already know the product is a bloated and intrusive mess.
If you're doing the procurement you see microsoft and you know that you already get absolutely everything else of note from them, and it's a nice shiny new product and you just tick this one box and everything will work brilliantly.
There are better products but by and large companies only choose non-microsoft options when someone in the company is clued-up enough to make good case for it and is perhaps prepared to offer their own time making it work.

But at least it's not skype, eh

>but nobody has ever pinged me an urgent notification on google's chat or had me pay attention to a team forum full of bollocks
Could be worse. In the current work-from-home fiasco I've had people sending me notifications on Teams telling me to join a conference on Zoom.
Zoom is an absolute sack of turds.
>> No. 29697 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 8:57 pm
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>>29696
You lucky thing. Just remember, it could be so much worse. WebEx exists.
>> No. 29698 Anonymous
27th March 2020
Friday 9:20 pm
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>>29697

Lucky me gets to use both Zoom and Webex.
>> No. 29699 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 12:06 am
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>>29695
>OpenOffice is still not better than MSOffice
I remember reading about how OpenOffice is on life support and most of the development has moved over to LibreOffice... which admittedly is also not as fully-featured as MS Office, but does have a slightly less dreadful interface. It's been over a decade and it still feels to me like the interface Office '07 introduced was designed by a bored committee of sociopaths.
>> No. 29700 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 12:48 am
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>> No. 29701 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 1:47 am
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>>29698
Oh dear. Should I hand-etch or laser-cut your name into the bullet?
>> No. 29702 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 7:57 am
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Jesus Fucking Christ
>> No. 29703 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 3:29 pm
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I'm so sick of Agile.

For those who aren't familiar, it's' a way of structuring workflow in software development. Basically each morning you have a little meeting called a 'scrum' where you each go over what you did yesterday, what you're doing today, and if there's anything getting in the way of your work which needs to be addressed.

Except my kind of work doesn't fit neatly into this program and our meetings just feel unhelpful. It ends up being 20 wasted minutes of my day, where I patronisingly have to prove that I am in fact doing my job. One such scrum a week would suffice for our team.
>> No. 29704 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 5:06 pm
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>>29703
Couldn't you just mention this to your manager along with a few possible solutions?
>> No. 29705 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 5:22 pm
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>>29704
I don't think my scrum master (yes, they're actually called that) would appreciate me telling him that his job isn't particularly necessary. I might moot changing it to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday structure, but we have client-side people who sporadically join in and I think they like knowing they can check our progress on any random morning.

Besides, while I'm a specialist, I'm still the newest joiner on my team. I'd rather not rock the boat since I have no interest in office politics and prefer to just do my work.
>> No. 29706 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 5:39 pm
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>>29705

>I'm still the newest joiner on my team

Maybe that's the problem, this seems more like a system for programmers.
>> No. 29707 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 5:55 pm
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We read out sales from about 10 different areas every Monday to Wednesday. The best part is that most of the people doing the reading are reasonably shy or not wonderful at English. It tends to be quite enduring to stand through and I stand far away so I often don't hear anything. There are days when people read out the figures entirely wrong and we all just let it happen.

I can see the potential for 1-2 morning meetings a week but they really should be short and sweet.
>> No. 29708 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:01 pm
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>>29707

There's a thing in aviation like that, where everyone gets on a conference call once a week just to read out the number of delays they've had that week and why. They're stopped because of this bollocks and I hope they never come back - they make no sense. The delays are already common knowledge and fed back to the airline's operations departments by email, movement messages, and ACARS feeds daily anyway, so these calls are, I assume, literally there to shame people, or because upper management are too lazy or thick to look at the reports.
>> No. 29709 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:11 pm
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>>29705
>I might moot changing it to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday structure

Never organise catch-ups on a Monday. You won't have much of an idea of how your weeks going to go and therefore the whole team is so focused on not looking a dosser that they don't listen to other people. Likewise, nobody wants to do a meeting on a Friday - don't be a dick.

I don't work in programming but I do work in an industry with too many managers. What worked for me was to moan about it with other people so that when you send the email it has some weight to it without naming names. Then you convince them to make the meeting on a Tuesday afternoon when everyone is so busy that it never happens again.
>> No. 29711 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>29703

I worked on a scrum team in 2005 and it was fucking awful. The entire development methodology is broken and I'm surprised it's still around now. What pissed me off the most was that anyone could call a stand-up meeting at any time, as long as that person was the team leader. Anyone else got told to wait until that cunt was ready.
>> No. 29712 Anonymous
28th March 2020
Saturday 6:48 pm
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>>29709
> Likewise, nobody wants to do a meeting on a Friday - don't be a dick.

In my experience Friday afternoon just after lunch is best time for a weekly meeting. Everyone can have a pint of five for lunch, meet from two to four for a coffee and doss then doss from four until half past when it's time for everyone to go home chuffed that they got away with half a day of work.
>> No. 29714 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 8:53 am
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Fuck's sake, largethreadlockmodladm8, I only wanted to respond to a post from 2018.

>>27545 This book just bubbled up to the top of my reading pile.
Thanks for the link, it's really quite good so far, but will need another go through.
Completely unlike my usual fare - to the point that the Mrs was quite put out and accused me of having an affair with a theatre luvvie. I figured I'd let that lie, rather than showing her this place.
>> No. 29715 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:20 am
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>>29714
Having to type that number out or click another number must have really burdened you. That half the threads barely open on my old but £2000 PC anymore is no problem at all, huh?
>> No. 29716 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:44 am
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>>29715 I'm probably just /101/ing that the post box opens fine, but informs you the thread's locked when you click submit.
>> No. 29717 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:58 am
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>>29712
>In my experience Friday afternoon just after lunch is best time for a weekly meeting.

The unspoken rule where I work is to avoid any meetings or deadlines on Fridays. This is explained to the newbies as being considerate of people with care commitments but, really, it just means that everyone can "work from home" on Friday rather than having to doss at work.

I suppose it depends on whether working from home is practicable in your profession but meetings give the impression that you should come in which is a waste of everyone's time.
>> No. 29718 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>29715

My i3 Thinkpad can handle those threads just fine, when exactly did you spend this £2k? 1998?
>> No. 29721 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 1:52 pm
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>>29718
2010

Your "just fine" might be my "barely opens". We don't need to get the benchmarks out.
>> No. 29722 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 2:02 pm
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>>29721

My "just fine" is "no discernable difference compared to short threads".

I'm not really having a go, just bored and more interested that there might be some issue affecting your setup specifically.
>> No. 29723 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 2:09 pm
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>>29722
Okay, I might break out the DevTools when I don't have 179 tabs open. I also think one of the corona power cuts did knock out my overclock.
>> No. 29724 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 2:16 pm
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>179 tabs open
>> No. 29725 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 3:43 pm
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I don't believe that >>29723 is the same poster as >>29721. It has to be some trolling, because no cunt's thick enough to argue about web browser performance when they've got 179 tabs open.
>> No. 29727 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:10 pm
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>>29725
Mate, i'm fed up of telling my mother to close the 30+ tabs on her iphone whenever she complains her battery is always low.
>> No. 29728 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:15 pm
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>>29727
I'm not sure if that makes any sense at all because Steve Jobs was a cunt and I won't use any of his crap but I doubt it. I have >100 tabs on my Android as well and it barely uses any battery. The tabs get suspended.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:51 pm
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>>29724
179? Is that all?
>> No. 29730 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>29729
Aren't you using some plugin that suspends the tab? You're basically talking bookmarks at that point.
>> No. 29731 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 6:07 pm
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>>29730
It's not the castle from Beauty & The Beast.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>29731
>> No. 29733 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 6:54 pm
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>>29732
>You're basically talking bookmarks
>> No. 29734 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>29733
You might be overestimating our familiarity with Disney movies.
>> No. 29735 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:11 pm
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>>29730

I believe* even Chrome suspends tabs now.

*assume with no evidence
>> No. 29736 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:17 pm
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>>29734
It's not as though I'm referencing the finer points of Frozen 2, lad.
>> No. 29737 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:19 pm
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>>29735
Yes, I have made the same observation but pointing that out didn't aid my rejection of the attempt to one-up me.
>> No. 29738 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:23 pm
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>>29736
If I'd seen the Frozen movies I'd stand a better chance of remembering them. As it is I remember roughly what the Beast looks like and that's it. Most of my childhood has gone.
>> No. 29739 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:36 pm
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>>29738
I don't remember actually ever watching it but it's something that most people should know about through cultural osmosis.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:42 pm
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>>29737

I meant on desktop, it certainly does on Android.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 7:46 pm
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>>29740
I know.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 8:53 pm
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>>29740

Afaik the "suspension" of tabs in Chrome is entirely based on free ram. - if the process starts running low it'll suspend tabs and reload the pages when you reopen them. I've currently got a shitty Motorola phone and tabs get suspended all the time but last time I had a decent Nexus that never happened, even with > 100 tabs open.
>> No. 29743 Anonymous
2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:33 pm
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My girlfriend has just asked me if dragons used to exist, you know like the dinosaurs used to. Jesus wept.
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2nd April 2020
Thursday 11:44 pm
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>>29743
Carpet bagger.
>> No. 29748 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 12:07 am
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>>29743

The Chinese used to say there were 3 types of knowledge, that which was observed that, which was known spiritually, and that which was decreed by the emperor.
A British Natural philosopher tried to teach them the difference between then and that 1 of them was known as it had physical evidence and the other 2 were merely belief or opinion.
When he asked for an example of something they knew to be real from evidence, they said dragons were real. They were very insistent that they knew that dragons exist, the Natural philosopher scoffed told then this was merely a claim of the emperor (the link between the emperors and dragons as a symbol of them being well known), and demanded physical evidence before he believed it.

So they got permission to take him to the imperial palace where they showed him what was quite clearly a dragon skeleton. He returned to England to declare dragons to be real. It was only later that 'we' discovered them and started calling them Dinosaurs or if you don’t speak Latin, terror lizards. So really it is purely a matter of name as to what is a dragon and what is a 'terror lizards' the Chinese clearly called them the former.
>> No. 29749 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 12:17 am
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Microsoft Teams must've been designed by a narrow-minded curtain-twitcher with absolutely no trust in the workforce. I'd rather be using Slack than this absolute corporate dumpster fire of software and the only reason I can see someone selecting this over it's rivals is a reluctance to move on from outlook. It even fails to be seamless with outlook and you can't even do simple tasks like set a reminder in the calendar.

The planner app let's your manager set tasks without the trouble of talking to you (or an emailing) which just seems like a terrible management style to me. You can't give these instructions in a technical job because there actually has to be an understanding on both sides on what's being asked and approaches - this is without getting into the impersonal nature of it. Once a task is assigned you get a progress bar that everyone can see and the app will send you little reminders calling you a naughty boy if you don't mark it as done by the deadline. Needless to say, I've ignored this bullshit and I think everyone else has but I can see the big boss is getting grumpy about it.

Sharepoint equally has a corporate surveillance feature where you can watch what everyone is doing at any particular moment. I assume the implied peer-pressure feature is there by design but it also gives a nice excuse for management to looking over my shoulder all hours of the day.

>>29743
There's many reasons you can say dragons technically were real based on the human experience. Like owls and grey aliens, snakes and dragons are hypothesised to be connected as a primal fear which explains their existence across human cultures.
>> No. 29750 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 1:32 am
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>>29749
I'm finding it okay so far, but then again I'm currently contracting for an Irish company and the person I'm working with is very Irish.
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3rd April 2020
Friday 5:13 am
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>>29748

>So really it is purely a matter of name as to what is a dragon and what is a 'terror lizards' the Chinese clearly called them the former.

If you go to China, you will find that bread is sold as 'toast'. The words 'bread' and 'toast' are used interchangeably, to the point where it's hard (or not important) for them to understand the difference between the two. They quite literally put 'toast' in the toaster. As a language and culture, it's vague.

>and started calling them Dinosaurs or if you don’t speak Latin, terror lizards

Interestingly, this does reverse with medical things. If you don't know latin, you won't understand your condition without explanation. But, if I tell you I have sugar-piss disease, it's quite easy to work out what is wrong.
>> No. 29753 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:20 am
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>>29751

>They quite literally put 'toast' in the toaster.

Maybe in Cantonese, I dunno. In Mandarin, you put 面包 (bread) in the 烤面包机 (roasted bread machine). You're right that there's no specific word for "toast" and the term "烤面包" is used fairly loosely, but that's because western-style bread is a relatively new thing in China - traditional Han Chinese breads are steamed or fried rather than baked. Toast and baked bread is still a strange foreign food to the vast majority of Chinese people and isn't really popular enough to get a proper name.

The food served in most British Chinese takeaways and restaurants would be utterly unrecognisable to most Chinese people. If you ask for a "latte" in a cafe in Italy, you'll get a glass of milk and a slightly quizzical look.
>> No. 29755 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:33 am
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>>29753
So at the risk of asking a fundamentally stupid question, what is real Chinese food like? Can you give a few examples? For Britain we'd say fish and chips, bangers and mash, full English (with lovingly-home-grown tomatoes obviously), etc etc.
>> No. 29757 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 8:35 am
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>>29750
>the person I'm working with is very Irish

I've only worked with one Irish person. She ended almost every sentence with "so I did" or "so it was" or some other variation. I loved it, so I did.
>> No. 29758 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 10:10 am
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>>29755

The thing is saying "real Chinese food" isn't the same as saying "real British food", it's more like saying "real European food", which could mean anything from jellied eels to baklava to paella. The regions all have their own cuisine.
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3rd April 2020
Friday 10:30 am
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>>29758
The regions of Britain also have their own cuisine. I know things like eel pie, beef wellington and Cornish pasties all share a certain sameness of pastry but they are distinct.
>> No. 29760 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 11:11 am
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>>29758
I know that, it's a billion people, they're not all going to eat the same stuff. I was asking for your opinion on classic dishes. I guess I could search online, just thought a .gs perspective would be interesting.
>> No. 29762 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 11:31 am
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>>29753

吐司 is the loanword for 'toast' and is used a lot in the republic of China, it might not be common in 祖國. 吐司 means 'white Hovis-style bread' despite being a transliteration of 'toast' (much like your latte example). That might not be common in the people's republic, but 烤麵包 is used too.
>> No. 29763 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 11:53 am
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>>29760

Starfish, Chicken's feet, duck tounges, sheep penis, various species of bats, crickets, Dogs, Cats Spiders, Centipedes, Scorpions, silkwork shit, live Oysters, live prawns, live snakes, live monkey brain, live deep fried fish.

remember the mantra
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
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3rd April 2020
Friday 11:59 am
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I can highly recommend tu dou si (土豆絲) as a quick, easy and vegetarian Chinese meal that isn't well-known in the west.

It's basically thin strips of potato fried in chilli, soy, and vinegar and it's fucking delicious.

https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/spicy-and-sour-potato/
>> No. 29765 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 12:15 pm
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>>29760

Genuinely delicious.
>> No. 29766 Anonymous
3rd April 2020
Friday 12:43 pm
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>>29765

Are those virgin piss eggs?
>> No. 29768 Anonymous
4th April 2020
Saturday 1:06 am
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>>29764
Cheers mate, that does look interesting.
>> No. 29769 Anonymous
4th April 2020
Saturday 1:18 am
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I've probably had my stupidest day on record. Cocked up a work email half-a-dozen times, spent an hour trying to print and scan something, then had to do it again anyway, for some reason the new disk drive I got isn't showing up in My Computer, just everywhere else, and then to round off the day I made my friend rehost his multiplayer game three times because the password wasn't working before I realised I had capslock on. It's a good thing I can't leave the house or I'd likely have gotten myself hit by a car or collapsed a series of shopping aisles like bit dominos.

If I don't improve tomorrow I implore one of you to take me out Lenny-style and be done with it.
>> No. 29770 Anonymous
4th April 2020
Saturday 8:27 am
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>>29769 'salright, m80, I've had a fuckwit week. Done more damage than progress at work, completely forgotten a few things.
Fucking hayfever hasn't been this bad since I was at school. How I got any exams done back then still baffles me.
All because trees spend their time spunking into the air. Come on, you bastards, at least get together and jiggle your bits inside each other like proper organisms.
>> No. 29771 Anonymous
4th April 2020
Saturday 9:26 am
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>>29770

The amount of incest plants get up to is terrifying. They're all filthy wrong 'uns, and people just invite them into their gardens where they let their kids play.
>> No. 29772 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 5:31 pm
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How the fuck do you design a kettle that vents steam onto the handle area? How did this happen, you useless pricks?
>> No. 29773 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 6:58 pm
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>>29772 I'm not calling you a prick, but... I once had a kettle that my prick housemate would take the lid off completely unnecessarily, and if it wasn't put back on properly, it'd both vent steam over the handle, and not blow steam over the turny-offy-thermostat.
It was obviously a shit design to allow this, but my housemate was an utter prick for doing it every pigfucking time he used it.
>> No. 29774 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>29773
Mine has the lid attached on a hinge, so I couldn't engage in such swinebuggery even if I was so inclined.
>> No. 29775 Anonymous
6th April 2020
Monday 11:02 pm
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Blue LED in my Q key has died, so I've had to trick it into displaying as near to white as possible by modifying it to a specific shade of lilac that still looks white enough to match the rest of the keys which are set to a very light yellow.

Not that I ever use the fancy RGB effects, and in fact by modifying it this way I've got closer to a true white than it was before, which was far too blue; but still. I know it's there. I know it's not perfect any more. And I'll always hate that Q key for it.

Also the iron halo had snapped off my terminator captain when I came to paint him. Can't find the fucker anywhere. Had to order a new one off ebay for a whole tenner.

Bastard. Why can't I ever have nice things.
>> No. 29776 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 8:53 am
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STOP BUYING ALL THE FUCKING COMPOST I NEED SOME TOO
>> No. 29777 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 2:58 pm
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>>29776

I need it more than you.
>> No. 29778 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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I hate the "away" setting. Does that mean you're reading the news at your computer? Are you in another room, making dinner perhaps? But then why aren't you "busy"? No ever uses "busy" though so I have to assume some of the people who are "away" are in fact busy. I wish I was away.
>> No. 29779 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 5:48 pm
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>>29778
Away = not at the computer
Busy = at the computer, but doing something else.
Do not disturb = Oh christ not you again, let me screen your calls with plausible deniability.

Or at least that's how I use it.
>> No. 29780 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>29779
Appear Offline. All day 'erry day.
>> No. 29781 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>29780 I also book my WFH days as 'out of office' in the shared calendar, to deter people from inviting me to meetings while I'm actually getting work done. It's working surprisingly well.
>> No. 29782 Anonymous
8th April 2020
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>29776 There's loads in the foyer at my Tesco. Probably wildly overpriced and mostly made of marginally composted green bin contents, but it's there.
>> No. 29783 Anonymous
12th April 2020
Sunday 11:05 pm
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My friend always takes artsy pictures of her son and posts them on social media. I don't think I've ever seen a natural photo of him as every single one is carefully managed, staged and edited afterwards. Anyway, she's posted a picture of him for Easter, surrounded by a dozen eggs, five large chocolate bunnies and shitloads of Creme Eggs and bags of Mini Eggs. No child needs that much chocolate at Easter, let alone a two year old.
>> No. 29784 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 3:29 am
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"Sorry, only people who've signed up to our shitey little forum can view threads."

What is the point to this? I'm only trying to find out how to force anti-aliasing in an old game or look at some photos of old racing cars, give me a break.
>> No. 29785 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 5:48 am
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My foot really fucking hurts. I think it might be gout but it's gone from my big toe being tender and feeling like there's needles in the joint to feeling like I've broken the entire toe and most of the foot.

It's not pleasant, and there's almost no visual evidence at all, other than very slight swelling on the joint, so it's hard to diagnose and I'm also not getting the sympathy I clearly deserve.
>> No. 29786 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 8:01 am
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I forgot to put the bin out last night. Usually that's not a problem as the binmen don't come around here until just before lunchtime but ever since the lockdown started they've been coming at about 7am.
>> No. 29787 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 10:21 am
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Every piece of Windows branded software is just worse than other available options, but I'm stuck using it for work and it's awful.
>> No. 29788 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 12:58 pm
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I live next door to a hotel so they have one of those ashtray boxes outside for putting fag ends. Because we can't have nice things, some twat always pries it open to get at the ends and makes no effort to put it back how it was which means leftover ends are blown all about outside.

Do you reckon I could just push the flappy thing back in without a key? I'd rather not touch it and incriminate myself as being a tramp.

>>29787
I feel your pain. My old office used google for everything and the difference has been like night and day in terms of functionality even the copy and paste function seem less responsive. I think Microsoft is a symbol of America in general, securing dominance and then doing progressively worse to the detriment of everyone.

You really have to wonder how Japan manages to function where even internet explorer is still compulsory for internet use.
>> No. 29789 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 2:06 pm
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>>29787
I'm sensing this as Teams pain. But even if its not, I agree with you.
>> No. 29790 Anonymous
14th April 2020
Tuesday 2:57 pm
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It's mostly Microsoft Edge. Teams definitely follows the unhelpful and vague design aesthetic of the Windows brand, but Edge is on another level. Why does right clicking need an animation? And why does right clicking elsewhere just close the previous menu instead of immediately opening a new one, like how every other instance of right clicking works even on other Microsoft applications? It's a dozen little things like that which make it bad for no good reason.

Anyway, it's nearly three, I should do some work.
>> No. 29791 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 11:30 am
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(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 29792 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>29791

If that was the looks of the sort of person I know I would have no objection to getting randomly flashed in PMs.
>> No. 29793 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 1:50 pm
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>>29791
>your not aloud
>> No. 29794 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>29791
It's sad that you can tell the person who made this rarely reads.
>> No. 29795 Anonymous
15th April 2020
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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>>29794

There has been some frankly shocking homophone misuse on the .gs lately. I blame the lockdown bringing in the riff-raff.
>> No. 29796 Anonymous
16th April 2020
Thursday 12:45 pm
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>>29795
The blatant homophonia has definitely been worse of late.
>> No. 29797 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 6:52 am
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Given the current situation, I feel that it'd be a sensible decision to track down everyone who still watches Freeview in SD despite owning an HD TV and publicly execute them.

Bastards.
>> No. 29798 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 7:50 am
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>>29797 Have you tried buying an SD TV recently?
How is this 101worthy? Explain your reasoning. Use pictures if helpful.
>> No. 29799 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 11:10 am
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>>29798
I'm not sure if thatlad's point is 101 worthy, but my parents have an HDTV and HD Virgin Media, yet still INSIST on watching the SD broadcasts of most channels because they know the channel numbers - it really does amaze me that 101/102/etc are still the SD broadcasts and the BBC1HD is at some silly channel number like 156.
>> No. 29801 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 2:07 pm
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>>29799

This. The HD broadcasts are pretty mediocre quality to begin with, the SD broadcasts look like absolute shit, but a lot of people just don't seem to care.
>> No. 29802 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 6:34 pm
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>>29801

I can understand HD porn and sport but why would you care about the resolution of the majority of TV content? Do you really feel the need to be able to see every craterous pockmark and pore on Eamonn Holmes' enormous face in glorious 1080p?
>> No. 29803 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 7:16 pm
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THEY DELIVERED MY FUCKING GLASSES TO THE WRONG ADDRESS AND I CAN HARDLY GO KNOCKING CAN I!?

Fuck sake, fucking shits. I know for a fact they aren’t going to get posted by the cretins on this street. Fuck.
>> No. 29804 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 7:33 pm
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>>29802

Watch better telly.
>> No. 29805 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 7:37 pm
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Why is YouTube recommending me a video called "Casualties and Losses of the Black Mesa Incident"? What have I become?
>> No. 29806 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 8:32 pm
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>>29805

hello darkness my old friend...
>> No. 29807 Anonymous
17th April 2020
Friday 8:51 pm
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>>29803

Post a note through their letterbox.
>> No. 29809 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 4:43 pm
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Come Dine With Me is sponsored by Galbani cheese, and their adverts before and after each part are based around the idea that Galbani is hard to pronounce, which it isn't. So it's 15 seconds of people saying Galbani wrong but it's such a shit concept for an advert.
>> No. 29810 Anonymous
18th April 2020
Saturday 5:04 pm
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>>29809
It's got you talking about it.
>> No. 29811 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 1:14 pm
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>>29810
And i for one would have been blissfully ignorant otherwise.
>> No. 29812 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 8:36 pm
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Shopping websites that give you a list of filters to choose from, but instead of being able to click multiple filters in one go, it automatically reloads the whole page every time you check a box.
>> No. 29813 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 9:21 pm
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>>29812
Debenhams?
>> No. 29814 Anonymous
19th April 2020
Sunday 9:57 pm
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>>29813

Haven't they gone bankrupt again?
>> No. 29815 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 12:57 am
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I've filled up all my hard drives with 4K grot, but hard drive prices have gone up because of the 'rona.
>> No. 29816 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 9:42 am
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In an effort to isolate myself from the FUCKING CONSTRUCTION CUNT FUCKS I've been sleeping with earphones in and now I've really hurt my inner ear - it hurts to even open my mouth.

More excruciating than the pain is the thought now I'll have to go to sleep without any hearing protection in and be woken up by the ABSOLUTE CUNT FUCK BELLEND SHIT CUNTS tomorrow, and probably for the next few days.

FUCK CUNT SHIT FUCK. WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY EVEN STILL WORKING CUNTS FUCK THEM.
>> No. 29817 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 3:50 pm
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>>29816
Sorry for your struggles, I hate noise pollution but what shocked me the most is how passive people are about excessive noise ruining your quality of life and how defensive people get.

I've looked (and posted) a handful of times about noise pollution on the internet and the response is always 'get a life man'.

Building work has to be done but excessive noise at all hours is enough to drive a person mad.
>> No. 29818 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 3:58 pm
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I gave up fizzy drinks in a bid to be more healthy in 2018 (you may remember my monthly update posts). I've now given up chocolate and nearly all processed sugar and I'm fucking exhausted and constantly have a migraine. Big sugar has done a number on me for so long my body can't cope without it. I had a mint imperial before and the headache shifted for an hour.
>> No. 29819 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 4:29 pm
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>>29817
Yep, the amount of people who have just told me to change my sleeping schedule so I'm getting up before 6.45am. I ask them if they'd do that and generally they get quite defensive.

That, and I get told to "man up" or whatever. There's a reason they use excessive, constant noise in torture prisons.


On a side note, I don't think it's the earplugs that are the cause of the pain - it's spread down my jaw into my throat, so I think it's an ear infection. Fucking great.
>> No. 29820 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 4:31 pm
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>>29819
There are also real, tangible physical health effects to noise pollution, not just mental.
>> No. 29821 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 4:43 pm
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>>29819

I have found wearing earplugs for a long time has triggered an ear infection in me before, too.

I have a fucking box full of ear defenders if you want a pair. Probably not the best to sleep in.
>> No. 29822 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 5:31 pm
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>>29816

Have you considered taking up industrial sabotage? If nothing else it'll keep you busy.
>> No. 29823 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 6:19 pm
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>>29819
You could try playing some pink or brown noise to drown out the construction sounds. It works pretty well at drowning out the shuffling about and reality TV of my flatmates, but I guess it might need to get excessively loud to cover up the sounds of a building site.
>> No. 29824 Anonymous
20th April 2020
Monday 9:00 pm
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>>29821
I have some 32dB industrial ear defenders from an old job, and I have tried sleeping in them, but they aren't the most comfy to lie down in.

>>29822
I have a feeling prison is probably louder and I don't fancy finding out.

>>29823
I've got a Bluetooth speaker on order to try this.
>> No. 29825 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 12:15 am
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Just got pulled over by some bored coppers for running a couple of red lights on a totally empty road. What's the point of riding a bicycle if you have to be a stickler for traffic laws? It's always been my understanding that being able to flout them (within reason) was one of the major appeals of riding a bicycle.

They weren't bored enough to issue me with a fine, but how would they even be able to if I don't ride with a form of identification? Couldn't I just give them a false address and be on my merry way?
>> No. 29826 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 12:53 am
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>Couldn't I just give them a false address

You could, but you'll get nicked if they look you up on the PNC and figure it out.
>> No. 29827 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:11 am
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>What's the point of riding a bicycle if you have to be a stickler for traffic laws?
>> No. 29828 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:37 am
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>>29827

Out of interest, I'm not on the electoral roll, I'm not registered as a homeowner or tenant anywhere and I don't pay council tax. I'm not registered as the payer of any gas/electricity or utilities. What information does the PNC have on me that could verify or not that my name is real?

What if I just pretended to be my cousin?
>> No. 29830 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:56 am
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How do they know what dead people were expecting?
>> No. 29831 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 1:59 am
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>>29830
Presumably if you're in the water without proper bathing attire, you weren't expecting to find yourself there.
>> No. 29833 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 8:39 am
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>>29828
AFAIK the PNC mostly holds a record of your dealings with the police. I don't think it ties in to any of the databases you refer to. I think a beat bobby would need approval and paperwork to obtain all that stuff. They can query the PNC at will.

If you had no ID and you were so inclined it may well make sense to pretend to be someone else, someone that is known to but not wanted by the police. Then they'd know you weren't constructing a false identify on the fly and they're unlikely to suspect a largely innocent person went to the trouble of memorising a real alternate identity. It's a slightly dangerous game because lying is more serious than flouting traffic law (which as we know in reality cyclists are exempted from anyway), but probably not that serious. It's a fun game you can play if you like. Just be sure you can sell the lie.

Yours,
Pub Wisdom
>> No. 29834 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 10:57 am
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Lumps have started to appear on my face, about half the size of a pea. I tend to get great big yellow spots just on the surface after eating Heinz soup, so I'm wondering if it's a side affect of the UHT milk I've been drinking recently. It's either that or my pillow case, which appears clean despite I've been using it for 2 weeks.
>> No. 29835 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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>>29831
So you've never done anything spontaneous in your life?
>> No. 29836 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 9:26 pm
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>>29835

>So you've never done anything spontaneous in your life?

Spontaneously going for a swim in a canal at 1am in December while fully clothed generally rates as a poor life decision.
>> No. 29837 Anonymous
21st April 2020
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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Seems like the cool thing to do now is ride your bike with no hands on the handlebars whilst tapping on your phone. I'm not too surprised that teenagers are stupid enough to do this since they are effectively mentally retarded at that age, but I do find it bewildering that lads who appear to be closer to 30 do it too.
>> No. 29839 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 12:07 am
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>>29837

While I agree it's probably not a great idea to be staring at your phone while operating any sort of vehicle, riding with no hands on the bars is, once you've been riding for a while, really not difficult at all. You don't really steer with the handlebars unless you're at very low speeds, it's all about leaning, so balancing upright without constantly twitching the handlebars is, I would say, a fundamental skill of proper bike riding. I definitely won't defend someone doing it on a public road for any length of time, and certainly not while fucking texting, though.

Imagine being enough of a cunt to do it while also pulling a wheelie, though :


>> No. 29840 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 2:50 am
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>>29839

I might just be being a soft old sentimental sod, but I think that the wheelie kids reflect a profound aspect of the soul of London. Some combination of bravery, insouciance, stupidity, elegance and just being a bit of a tit that can't be precisely replicated anywhere else in the world. You can't ride like that without feeling utterly at home in chaos.
>> No. 29842 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 3:17 am
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>>29840

I do feel that way about regular fixed gear riding in London, I always considered the wheely kids as a bit of a fad, but I suppose that is just because of my age - it was fixies and skids that were the new fresh trend when I was impressionable. I think the DIY, don't give a fuck way of life of a messenger or even just someone who is willing to weave through heavy traffic on one wheel or with no brakes is the closest thing to punk we still have.

Watching an actual bike messenger bombing through the city is lovely. This lad has a load of this stuff on his channel, he's based in New York and they do it even better over there. You might say that it can't be replicated anywhere else in the world, but I'd say the spirit lives just as much in NYC.


>> No. 29843 Anonymous
22nd April 2020
Wednesday 6:27 am
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>>29842

>I'd say the spirit lives just as much in NYC

Fair.
>> No. 29844 Anonymous
23rd April 2020
Thursday 9:01 pm
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Two highly political /101/'s here, but please bear in mind I'm not having a go at any of you lads nor am I trying to start anything.

Firstly, why does the Saint George's flag someone's hung up down the street have a massive fucking Carlsburg logo emblazoned over it? You wouldn't see a French tricolour with a Ginsters logo on it would you? Either that flag says "I care about England as much as I care about a reasonably priced tin of ale" or "I only care about England enough to fly this flag I got for free before the 2006 World Cup".

Secondly, what's with people who, understandably in my view, think Tony Blair is a war criminal, but also think we should ghettoise the whole of Birmingham and glass every metre of land from Morocco to laplanderstan? I can't think of any PM in modern UK history who did more to kill Arabs than Blair so shouldn't he be their number one guy?
>> No. 29845 Anonymous
23rd April 2020
Thursday 10:21 pm
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I saw one of them fall off backwards last month. I feel like it's one of those bingo things you have to see at least once in your life.
Luckily there was no traffic, I did wait to see that he could stand up and wasn't paralysed or brain damaged before walking on.
>> No. 29846 Anonymous
23rd April 2020
Thursday 10:33 pm
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My girlfriend has started binge watching Grey's Anatomy. Now she watches a lot of shite but this one has set a new bar for shitness. Absolutely fuck all happens and there is no reason to care one about any of the characters and what happens to them. It's just... nothing.
>> No. 29847 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 9:55 am
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If you didn't send my fucking email on Tuesday, Outlook, why didn't you show me a massive pop up with a bell ringing sound effect like you do when literally anything else happens on my PC, you fucking cunt.
>> No. 29848 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 11:11 am
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>>29847 Outlook is amazingly relaxed about receiving, sending, showing or sorting emails. I'd never used it before moving to a new job a year ago, and sweet fuck, is it incompetent.
>> No. 29849 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 11:27 am
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>>29848
The in browser version is fine, but the stand alone one is arse. Also if you press a notification that pops up on Windows, it opens a different kind of stand alone email application. Baffling.
>> No. 29850 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 12:06 pm
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I've ordered some vans since my current ones are looking a bit worse for wear.
They've only gone and used Yodel for the delivery.
Fucking Yodel.
>> No. 29851 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 12:19 pm
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>>29850
You can get Rick & Morty trainers for £25.

https://www.footlocker.co.uk/en/p/diadora-camaro-x-rick-morty-intergalactic-men-shoes-78534

https://www.footlocker.co.uk/en/p/diadora-game-low-waxed-x-rick-morty-men-shoes-77530
>> No. 29852 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 1:55 pm
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Ah, nice one, my handheld vacuum just dumped its contents as I was hoovering the worlds tiniest cobweb directly above my PC.
>> No. 29853 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 5:38 pm
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>>29851
Those are better than I expected, but I'm still not happy they come in adult sizes.
>> No. 29854 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>29853
He turns into a pickle. A pickle!
>> No. 29855 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 11:22 pm
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The song "Must Be" by J Hus is the singularly most irritating piece of music being played on the radio in our current timeline.
>> No. 29856 Anonymous
24th April 2020
Friday 11:41 pm
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>>29854
Funniest shit I ever saw.
>> No. 29857 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 12:44 pm
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This website sucks.
>> No. 29858 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 1:03 pm
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This shitposting is of very low quality.
>> No. 29859 Anonymous
25th April 2020
Saturday 1:14 pm
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>>29858
Well you've clearly raised the bar with your pissy moaning.
>> No. 29860 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:47 pm
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Getting really sick of Frankie Boyle. I know he's basically irrelevant and easy to ignore these days, but it still boils my piss when a fat, old, white, middle class millionaire cunt's entire shtick is getting all high and mighty about austerity and racism.
>> No. 29861 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 6:57 pm
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Everyone seems in a cross mood today.

Even me.
>> No. 29862 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>29860

Is he even a millionaire? I find it hard to imagine he's the type of person to keep shitting out articles for the Graun and putting in half-arsed stand up appearances if he could afford to live comfortably without bothering.
>> No. 29863 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:15 pm
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>>29862
His old Gentlemen Artist company had assets of about £1.76million as at August 2014.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07709228
>> No. 29865 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>29862

He's had a messy personal life and keeps on churning out recycled tours that he obviously hates to pay off his divorce settlements and child support. His articles are getting less and less funny as time goes on. He's basically churning out pseudo-political shite for graun hand-wringers and student types for the payouts, but you can tell his heart isn't in it.

He owns a few houses, which already makes him a millionaire and as >>29863 points out he's not exactly asset-poor either. As long as he drags his carcass out for a new tour every three to four years he can probably keep paying his bills and retire very, very comfortably.

In his first book he already talks about how rich he is, and by this third one he's obviously entirely distanced from the realities of working class life. All of this only makes his "fuck the Tories" ranting even more absurd.

Sage for getting bottom-aggrieved over a D-list celebrity has been who's too scared to get on a plane and gets people kicked out of his gigs because after twenty years doing stand up he still loses his rhythm if someone gets up to go the bogs.
>> No. 29866 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:38 pm
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>>29865
>All of this only makes his "fuck the Tories" ranting even more absurd.
God forbid someone stick with their principles despite being able to afford not to if they so chose. What a total bastard.
>> No. 29867 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 7:41 pm
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Why am I still getting emails rhetorically asking me if I'm "stuck at home?" Is it a philosophical thing? Are they trying to get me to think about the fact we all have "natural freedom" and that if I wanted I could do anything I'm physically or mentally capable of doing? Would I be free if I had done what I most desired, regardless of whether or not I ended up in the back of a police car? What if what I most desire is not to infect myself or others with COVID-19, what then?

Basically shut up emails.
>> No. 29868 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>29866

If the government he claims to want to be in power were actually in power his "fuck the rich" rhetoric would have him living back in a council house and paying his baby mothers £10 a week off his JSA.

The irony of his rants isn't that he sticks by his principles, it's that he claims to have principles while living a life totally at odds with those principles.
>> No. 29869 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 9:35 pm
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>>29868
>If the government he claims to want to be in power were actually in power his "fuck the rich" rhetoric would have him living back in a council house and paying his baby mothers £10 a week off his JSA.
It wouldn't, but lets imagine it would: So what?

>The irony of his rants isn't that he sticks by his principles, it's that he claims to have principles while living a life totally at odds with those principles.
This could be a valid point but seems completely unrelated to the other part of your ranting and raving.
>> No. 29870 Anonymous
27th April 2020
Monday 9:56 pm
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>>29868

I think the question you're really begging here is would Frankie Boyle mow his own council grass, or would he moan about it on a community facebook page?
>> No. 29871 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 12:54 am
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>>29870

I think he'd write shitty article for the graun's comment is free section bemoaning both the fact that no one has cut the grass and that Morag from next door has been moaning about it on Facebook.
>> No. 29872 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 1:01 am
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I've never liked the guy, but he's spot on about this one at least.

The Graun has been begging every reader for a quid like a smackhead outside Sheffield train station for years, so it's not even that hypocritical of him
>> No. 29873 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 1:15 pm
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You can be a socialist and still exist and even thrive in a capitalist state. Being successful in our current system doesn't preclude you from having issues with it. I get annoyed every time the tories propose I pay less tax - I categorically do not need it.
>> No. 29874 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 2:11 pm
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Is there a definitive list of jobs in which one will never be expected to use Excel. I fucking hate this shit.
>> No. 29875 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 3:01 pm
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>>29874

I don't think I've ever held a job where I didn't have to use excel at least some of the time. I think if you work anywhere near a computer you will eventually have to use the fucker, or similar spreadsheet software.
>> No. 29876 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 3:05 pm
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>>29873

J.M. Keynes was fucking minted.
>> No. 29877 Anonymous
28th April 2020
Tuesday 3:05 pm
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>>29860

He has every reason to be angry with racists, they destroyed his niche.

Shock comedy doesn't really work when the worst he can do is make a few half-hearted rape jokes and maybe one about downs syndrome but shitty kids on the internet can say nigger to their hearts content. Doing jokes about Katie Price's son is one thing but in an age where it's easy to find communities of nutjobs who think Action T4 was a good idea (which is pretty ironic all things considered) those jokes lose a lot of their punch.
>> No. 29879 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 2:27 pm
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I'm sure it's helping someone, but must every single video game tutorial assume it's the first time I've even turned a computer on? It's not 1989, we can assume WASD is in full effect.
>> No. 29880 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 2:32 pm
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>>29879
>I'm sure it's helping someone
>> No. 29881 Anonymous
29th April 2020
Wednesday 2:42 pm
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>>29880
But if you've managed to install a game then you must know how to scroll, right?
>> No. 29883 Anonymous
30th April 2020
Thursday 9:07 am
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>>29881
Is the game teaching you how to scroll, or is it teaching you the function of scrolling in the game?
>> No. 29885 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 2:24 pm
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I take it all back. Python isn't the worst language, it's merely the ninth circle of hell. The pit of rage, the true depths of depravity and the reason why God abandoned us long ago lies in R. Why the actual shitting FUCK has it been 4 days and I still can't plot a single graph in a language designed for visualising data?

Python's error messages are fucking useless at the best of times but R takes it to a whole new depth of useless errors and even more useless documentation with pathetic examples that don't tell me what FUCKING TYPE OF DATA A SHITTING FUNCTION IS FUCKING CUNTING EXPECTING. FUCK ME. I'm going back to Excel.
>> No. 29886 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 2:46 pm
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>>29885

Hi lad. I've been messing around with python with various degrees of seriousness for well over a decade now, while it's not exactly a great programming language in "real" terms I find it's usually the best option for the kind of quick and hacky off the cuff scripting that I tend to do.

I've never programmed in R but I have a bunch of mates who've programmed variously in everything from TCL through to fucking F# and Rust; if you want to bring up what ails you in /g/ (assuming you haven't already, I'm still working my way through /*/) then I'll be happy to try to ask the right people the right questions if you can elaborate on it enough.
>> No. 29887 Anonymous
2nd May 2020
Saturday 3:20 pm
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>>29886
For the safety of items in my room and my own blood pressure I've uninstalled R and deleted everything to do with it from my PC.

I just wanted, as a small personal project, to nicely animate some data as a function of time. I couldn't even get a static plot. Every single StackOverflow answer was a very specific answer telling the ask-er exactly what to input without explaining what any of the commands do. In other SO zones that's practically a bannable offence but not in the godforsaken wastelands of the R one, evidently.
>> No. 29888 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 7:37 am
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>>29885
R is for people who want to be programmers, but can't be fucked putting the effort in. I've seen some things.
>> No. 29889 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 9:32 am
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>>29888

R is perfectly tolerable if a) you use Jupyter and b) you've got a background in Lisp and/or a maths degree. It totally confounds a lot of programmers, because it's written by and for mathematicians and the docs assume a maths rather than CS background. Julia is miles better (particularly for HPCish stuff), but R is the accepted linga franca for stats.
>> No. 29890 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 9:39 am
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Because lockdown means I can't get to my gym I've been focusing my efforts on my running in its place, a bit obsessively.

I was in the excellent category and have been breaking myself trying to get into superior. I thought I'd be elated but now I've broken the barrier it kind of ruins the fun. It's the thrill of the chase and I've just ruined it for myself.
>> No. 29891 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 9:42 am
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>>29890
That's really good. I have been thinking of upgrading my Garmin to one of the running watches. Which one do you have?

I find the more data/graph I have to look at every day on fitness, the more likely I am to go and do a session. Stupid, but works for me.
>> No. 29892 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 11:20 am
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>>29891
What Garmin do you currently have?

I went for the Forerunner 245 (Music) because it was on offer and for about £260 all the stats were enough to get me seriously into my running. I've always been a casual runner but never took too heed of my times or distances or anything else, but getting a proper Garmin has completely changed that.

I was actually using a Fitbit given as a present years ago, but having the freedom of inbuilt GPS, spotify saved int the watch and all the other amazing stats was too much.

I completely agree on the data/graph point by the way. I'm obsessed with it and it really encourages me to do better and you can tell the difference between that and just running for the sake of it, makes it feel much more worthwhile.

Probably one of the top 5 purchases I've ever made.
>> No. 29894 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 11:54 am
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>>29892
I have one of the Vivofit step trackers, mainly because it has a normal watch battery and therefore lasts over a year. I easily do my 10k steps most days, but again, I like the data, and it talks to my HRM when I'm on the bike/machine.

I was tempted by the one that can detect your running gait, foot contact time, that running telemetry stuff. Forerunner 745 I think - was on special at Amazon a while back. Over the last couple of years, I have re-learnt how to run, and no longer heel-strike, so it would be nice to get/have that data in graph form.
>> No. 29895 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 12:09 pm
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>>29894
Ah fair, the 745 will definitely be better as Garmins go, but my 245 also has all that stuff built in.

Spent a lot of time trying to get my stride length, cadence etc in order but it's quite hard.
>> No. 29896 Anonymous
3rd May 2020
Sunday 12:18 pm
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>>29892
>Took too heed of my times
Still not sure what I was going for here either.
>> No. 29897 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 12:29 am
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I've been waiting nine days for a parcel that is being sent from a computer shop that's only 40 miles away. The tracking status is still "on route to your local depot". It would literally have been faster if they had sent it on the back of a tortoise.
>> No. 29898 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 6:46 pm
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I can't smoke outside the house at the moment without some crackhead trying to bum a ciggie off me. I hadn't even stepped out of my door this morning when I was already being accosted by some lad who happened to be walking passed.

Probably more concerning is that there's crack dealing going on in broad daylight only meters from my home. I've snitched like a good boy but I don't see what the police can do beyond car patrols.
>> No. 29899 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>29898

Can you not just stick your head out of the window? I've always considered the windowsill fag to be one of life's great pleasures.
>> No. 29900 Anonymous
4th May 2020
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>29899
The problem is one of the neighbours in my building has bad asthma and, going by the passive aggressive note last time, he's liable to go to the landlord. I really should move out of this shithole now that I think about it.
>> No. 29901 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 1:52 am
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Multiscreen wallpaper handling in Windows 10. Why is it so gosh darn hard to assign a wallpaper to each screen and not have it cycle? Linux, macOS, FreeBS, even OpenBSD has no trouble sorting this, while the solution on Win10 apparently requires thid party bullshit. IT is not that hard.
>> No. 29902 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 4:06 am
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>>29900

Fuck off, nobody has asthma that bad they get set off when somebody smokes out the window in an adjacent flat. Living anywhere near a road (which is pretty much anywhere) would be ten times worse for him than that. I say this as an asthma sufferer myself.
>> No. 29903 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 8:01 am
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>>29901
Don't get me started. Teams is like, a product made for people collaborating, that was designed by a team of people who had never collaborated with others ever.
>> No. 29904 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 12:19 pm
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Demon Tweeks sent me the wrong spigot rings for the wheels I bought from them. They emailed asking for the make and model and year of my car, and I replied with the centre bore diameter, 56.1mm, and an assurance that I had bought wheels with the right bolt pattern, because that's what they were after, and the reply was "no we need the make and model and year of the car" so I replied with that information and they sent a fairly snarky "thanks for your cooperation" type reply, but of course managed to send 57.1mm spigots anyway.

It's four free pieces of plastic that I probably have spares of anyway, and can buy for four quid on ebay, but I'm definitely going to complain anyway because that's just the mood I'm in today. I'm half expecting them to tell me the 1mm won't make a difference, and if so then I'm going to email them posing as my bereaved mother in a week or so and tell them I died when all my wheels fell off on the motorway.
>> No. 29905 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 12:19 pm
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Those fucking bastards at amazon finally got me to accidentally subscribe to prime by changing the order process screens. I've cancelled it but rather than doing it immediately they have decided that it will cancel in June.

According to Which 28% of people accidentally subscribe and only notice when they get surprise payments. How is this even legal?
>> No. 29906 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 12:30 pm
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>>29905

>How is this even legal?

It's probably not, but they just refund anyone who complains hard enough and good luck suing them anyway.
>> No. 29907 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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Is there a way I can massively wind them up on this such as using my trial membership to order a shedload of free air? Maybe I will call Jeff Bezos a wanker on twitter and tell him Blue Origin is just old space with a bad paint-job.
>> No. 29908 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 1:39 pm
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Very hard not to have a siesta when you're working two feet away from your bed and you can lie directly under the Sun like the world's least cute cat. It's worth it though.
>> No. 29909 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 1:53 pm
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>>29905
If it's the trial, your subscription ends at the end of the month. If you actually got charged for a month, you'll get the month you've paid for. Not that Prime delivery is worth anything right now.
>> No. 29910 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 1:57 pm
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>>29909

I'm still getting next day delivery on just about everything.
>> No. 29911 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 3:56 pm
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>>29909
Ordered a couple things recently with free delivery and it gave me a 2 week delivery window. Turned up in 2 days.
>> No. 29912 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 7:17 pm
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>>29911
I ordered a face mask recently as I suspect wearing one is going to be a requirement to do certain activities as restrictions loosen up and I want a stylish one in my colour because I'm a bit of a fanny. Delivery date is expected in June but already shipped from China.

What do you reckon the chances are that this hasn't been shipped and they're just waiting for prices to fall in whatever local factory they're sourcing from?
>> No. 29913 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 7:28 pm
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>>29912

I can't be certain, but I would be very sceptical about anything being shipped from China right now. I have a package on its way from Singapore and it's massively delayed as SingPost are apparently only sending a plane out roughly once or so a month.
>> No. 29914 Anonymous
5th May 2020
Tuesday 7:45 pm
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>>29913
I was just about to do a big BangGood order and you've saved me a bit of ordering anxiety. Thanks!
>> No. 29915 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 8:34 am
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I moved home for some reason from my career to be with my parents when Coronavirus was kicking off. It's bizarre when you grow up and realise your parents can be severely flawed and very, very wrong on a lot of things.

Returning as an adult with my own life I realise my dad is a functioning alcoholic, drinking copious amounts of beer each night, eats shit, is a terrible people person, has no friends, has no social skills and is generally an angry awful person and a lot of the things I grew up with are most definitely not normal.

You know no different as a kid but christ looking at him as an adult is something else. I'd feel sorry for him if I wasn't bitter about how nasty and awful he is. His son has now grown up and passed him and is asking him to turn off the tv and sit and eat dinner with the family, or join in a family activity like cards or a boardgame, or even just go for a walk or something. I genuinely have no idea how my mum copes living with him.

I realise so much of how i am is not normal but inherited from him, I will do my best to stop letting it influence me from now.
>> No. 29916 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 11:37 am
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There was a deceased bee on my bedroom carpet this morning, which is a little strange. However, when I tried to hoover it up it didn't budge, then what I noticed was that had apparently bitten into my carpet while it lay dying meaning I pull its body from its head when I tried picking it up. Strange way to go out.
>> No. 29917 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 11:48 am
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>>29915

Lots of people have a functionally alcoholic emotionally stunted and socially alienated dad. It's not abnormal because the conditions which have left your dad that way were, for a great many years, absolutely normal and expected. Your dad's not a shit person, he has just been left behind like a great many men of his generation.

It's just the way of things. You might work at your fancy office job and go out for exercise and eat avocados. Back in his day any of those things made you a poof, you drank at the working men's and your wife looked after your diet and the house. Don't give yourself daddy issues over it lad, it's not a good look.

In general I think our parents teach us how not to lead our lives more often than the opposite.
>> No. 29918 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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I agree to an extent, but he knows his behaviour is wrong and a lot of the time it's just unnecessary. I was never taught to be nice doesn't mean you never have to make the effort to be.

Great point at the end, I think you're right. I couldn't be more different if I tried. It's a shame too because my mother gets it, my dad doesn't and then he gets upset when nobody wants to bother with him when he wants to play happy families at Christmas etc.
>> No. 29919 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 2:59 pm
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>>29917
>he has just been left behind like a great many men of his generation.

This saddens me. If you're living your life the exact same way as you did 20-30+ years ago have you really lived? People like this seem to be so stuck in their ways they will reject anything new, sit in the same chair day after day and year after year while the entire world changes around them. Anybody can adapt with the times, try new things and develop themselves, it always just seems sad to me that some people get stuck.
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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>>29919
>People like this seem to be so stuck in their ways they will reject anything new, sit in the same chair posting on britfags day after day and year after year while the entire world changes around them.
>> No. 29921 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 3:21 pm
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>>29920
>sit in the same chair

Don't.
>> No. 29922 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 4:04 pm
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>>29919

If adapting with (SIC) the times and developing myself means turning off the television because it's dinner time or being forced into organised "fun" activities like card and board games with my family I'd choose alcoholism and an eventual end hanging off the light fitting by my belt every time.

>>29915 sounds like a spoiled whiny tosspot who should take care of his own life and let his dad take care of his.

Sage for being a cunt in /101/ due to my own parental bitterness.
>> No. 29923 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>29922
God forbid people spend quality time with their loved ones instead of vegetating in front of a tv.
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:12 pm
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>>29923

God forbid that people be allowed to do what they want rather than being forced into spending time with people they demonstrably don't love very much.
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:18 pm
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>>29924
You are so edgy and dark you have really shocked us all with your edginess over these posts about how you drink lots of alcohol and don't want no happy family unit, thank you for contributing. We are really again shocked at how tough you are.
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:18 pm
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>>29919

I feel like you're being a bit harsh, or at least just failing to empathise properly. When it's all you've known, it's a lot harder to break out of a habit. Our parents come from a generation where they weren't exposed to everything the world offers them through the internet, and they may very well feel intimidated to step outside of their comfort zone.

Or you know, for all you know the guy just enjoys drinking his tinnies in front of the TV, and probably wishis his ponce of a son would stop trying him to go jogging or play fucking Monopoly. I think there's more than a whiff of pretentiousness about assuming your life is any more enlightened; we're all going to end up rotting in the ground just the same.

I know my dad is a lot like that anyway. He loves TV. I can imagine him as a kid, sat on the floor in front of a big boxy 60s TV, absolutely entanced by some black and white Flash Gordon serial or something. I can see how he'd think it was the most amazing invention ever and never let go of it throughout his adult life, like me and videogames. He loves nothing more than a quiet night in with a few bottles of Stella, the dog sat next to him, and some crime drama or other.

Difference is I leave my old man to it, and so what if my parents are boring cunts. I have other people to socialise with and I'm not expecting my rapidly approaching pension age parents to fill that hole. Why is it so important to have a wholesome picturesque family dinner or whatever anyway? Why the fuck does it matter?
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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>>29926
Because it's the nice thing to do? Are we going to boil this down as always to 'why do anything nice ever any time ever because we all die anyway?'
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:26 pm
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>>29925

Sorry lad, not even trying to be edgy but if your dad's sat in front of the telly drinking beer and refusing to play silly games with you then chances are he's not exactly over the moon about you.
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6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:27 pm
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>>29926
> Difference is I leave my old man to it, and so what if my parents are boring cunts. I have other people to socialise with and I'm not expecting my rapidly approaching pension age parents to fill that hole. Why is it so important to have a wholesome picturesque family dinner or whatever anyway? Why the fuck does it matter?

>>29927
> Because it's the nice thing to do?

Trying to force someone to do something they obviously aren't interested in isn't nice. It's selfish and childish. Grow up.
>> No. 29930 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:29 pm
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>>29927

That's not what I was asking. Why is it so important to you? Why does it matter so much?

As an adult, it's generally accepted that if someone doesn't want to do something, you leave them to it and do the thing you want to do with the people who also want to do it. Would you be this offended if a mate declined an invitation to the pub?
>> No. 29931 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:32 pm
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>>29928
Yes, that's the point of the original post I made. It's sad and very depressing that none of the foundations for bonding (such as fun family activities of whatever variety, just having them) are missing and it's replaced with eating shit and watching the same shit day in day out.

>>29929
Nobody is forcing anybody, the point is merely it's sad it doesn't happen, at least to me. I'm sure many others would see it similarly.

If you lads want to argue to the point of obscurity about how you shouldn't do anything productive, eat a good diet, moderate alcohol or spend precious time with your family and how it doesn't matter anyway you can do, but it's not really convincing to anybody not being obtuse for the sake of it.
>> No. 29932 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:34 pm
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>>29930
Because despite our differences I cannot choose my father like I can choose a mate and it is a shame to see him make himself vulnerable physically and not have anything to bond with him over when my mum is perfectly capable.

I've seen friends with their parents who do these things and they hve a much more natural, much stronger relationship rather than merely associating with each other because we are family.

Only on here would people act like they can't grasp why you'd want to spend happy time with your family. I know we're all locked down and you might not enjoy it personally but this is some serious cunt-off desperation so this is my last post on it.
>> No. 29933 Anonymous
6th May 2020
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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>>29931

I don't know if you're the person who originally posted it, but there's at least one lad getting very defensive about the replies that initially were sympathetic, but told him not to lose sleep over it. It was the defensiveness resulted in people starting to say he sounded spoiled and so on.

Yes, it's sad that your dad is a miserable borderline alcoholic cunt, but millions of people's dads are miserable borderline alcoholic cunts, that was the blueprint of a working class man for an entire generation. I'm pretty sure there are as many people who share that situation with you, as don't.

My ex had a very middle class extended family. Once we went to spend christmas as her dad's (who had seperated from her mum years before) and it was the first time in my life I've witnessed a family actually play board games and not end up having a row in the street. That was utterly alien to me, I didn't know it actually happened. But you can't change your family, can you, so there's absolutely no point getting upset about it.
>> No. 29935 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 10:44 am
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Playing board or card games with my family would be about as far from "fun" as I could imagine. It'd be awkward at best, aggy at worst.

It seems that the lad here just assumes that they are always "fun".
>> No. 29936 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 11:13 am
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If you're in a Zoom meeting and you ask "does it have to be work related?" the answer's yes. Always.
>> No. 29937 Anonymous
7th May 2020
Thursday 12:48 pm
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>>29936
It takes more than a millisecond to mute and unmute and if one person doesn't give me a 3 second window whilst I unmute and asks 'Are you on mute?' as I begin to speak I'm going to throw my laptop out the window.
>> No. 29938 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 12:03 am
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I ordered something online with UPS guaranteed delivery but the tracking email I got from them has shows an incomplete delivery address. I'm trying to figure out if some idiot filled out a form wrong when creating the shipping label or if the shipping label is fine and it's UPS' email/website systems that are cutting the address short. I won't know until they reply to my support ticket which they've ignored all day today. This has left me quite almost unreasonably annoyed.
>> No. 29939 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:03 am
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Someone spat gum on my porch and as I was coming in I not only stood in it but also only noticed once I'd hit carpet. What bothers me is the sheer senselessness of this attack, whoever did it probably didn't see me get cross and I've done nothing to warrant such a warning from the gumshoe massive.

I guess there will always be that person who just exists to make life worse for other people.

>>29938
My tracking email has the full address fellow fleshlightlad. The website just lists the city and country which, I assume, is a security feature.
>> No. 29940 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 1:22 am
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>>29939

If you make an account on the UPS site you can see the whole address there too. My problem is that one of the lines of the address seems have been cut off at the end. What I'm trying to figure out is if the numpty filling out the form reached the max number of characters they could type into in the text box and then just stopped typing (leaving the parcel totally undeliverable) or if they managed to input the line completely but the UPS system only shows up to N characters before cutting off.

Basically I'm grasping at straws that some cunt didn't completely botch my address when creating a UPS shipping label.
>> No. 29941 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:46 am
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With a lot more time spent on the internet than usual because of quarantine, I've noticed a hell of a lot of people out there keep using the internet words troll and trolling completely incorrectly.
Is it just me it winds up when someone chips in that someone who's just being abusive for the sake of it's a troll, or even someone who disagrees with someone else on anything is a troll?
I know journalists have repeatedly missed the point of the word and just lumped everything negative online in with trolling for some boneheaded reason, but that the misuse of the word was this bad? It's only been recently with pissing time away on twitter that it's become apparent.
>> No. 29943 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:07 am
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>>29939>>29940
Looking forward to the unboxing videos lads.
>> No. 29944 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:32 am
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>>29941
Try arguing about politics, see how long before someone accuses you of being a bot.
>> No. 29945 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 10:22 am
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>>29944
I did my political arguing in niche online fora between 2002 and 2006 (no, one of them wasn't a high and low energy air system colliding), I think that was more than enough for a lifetime and a decent education in what trolling actually is, and furthermore enough of a disincentive to do so again. I'll just stick to posting special interest music, culture, animals and gaming related stuff as the thought of an Eternal September with people chipping in bollocks about CV-19 is pretty much enough to put me in an early grave.
>> No. 29946 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 12:16 pm
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An ebay seller declined my offer on their item seemingly to message me to ask if I lived close enough that they could hand deliver it, then asked me to resubmit the offer either way - you can't resubmit offers on ebay once they've been declined.

I've now bit significantly less than my original offer. Hope I fucking win now. Cunt.
>> No. 29947 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:35 pm
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I wish this place was a little more active.
>> No. 29948 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:39 pm
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>>29947
>> No. 29949 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 8:42 pm
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>>29947
>>29948

Should I message those /Britfeel/ lads who stopped by that time and ask them to come back?
>> No. 29950 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:01 pm
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>>29949
Where should we actually try recruiting? How do people even find this place?
>> No. 29951 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:05 pm
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>>29949>>29950
Are you cunts trying to give me an embolism?
>> No. 29952 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:08 pm
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>>29951
We just need to invite the right kind of person.

I've just had a thought. How long do you think the newest regular has been posting here? It honestly wouldn't surprise me if everyone here had been a regular for 5+ years. I know we get the occasional alt-right newchap but they seem to get fed up after a week or two of shitposting.
>> No. 29953 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 9:57 pm
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>>29952
We need to merch the fuck up.

Sticker-bomb uni campuses and co-working spaces with our decade worth of forced memes and a wee URL. Watch the curious boffins roll in.
>> No. 29954 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 10:04 pm
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>>29953
Sticker Mule do samples of 10 custom stickers for about 80p now and then. If someone creates the design I will order a set and spread them around.

https://www.stickermule.com/uk/samples
>> No. 29955 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 10:10 pm
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"Do you not identify with your working class roots nor your middle class colleagues? Do you like fat girls with enormous bellies? Do you not understand how counting works during the corona virus? We've got the place for you"
>> No. 29956 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 10:14 pm
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>>29955
>Do you like fat girls with enormous bellies?

Stop misrepresenting what I say! I like a fat lass to have a round and full belly rather than one that divides into numerous rolls. It's the shape that matters, not the size!
>> No. 29957 Anonymous
8th May 2020
Friday 11:15 pm
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>>29956
I bet you drink fruit and veg too. You sicken me.
>> No. 29958 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 6:55 am
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Maybe there's a fruit and veg cross collab in there somewhere to get the numbers up?
>> No. 29959 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 9:34 am
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>>29957
Is there something wrong with drinking fruit juice?
>> No. 29960 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 9:38 am
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PlThe nice weather can just fuck right off now; it's taking the piss. I know the nanosecond things get to a state where we can enjoy it it'll piss it down for six months straight.
>> No. 29961 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 9:47 am
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>>29960
You can still go outside. You don't have to be a complete martyr.
>> No. 29962 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 9:52 am
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>>29950
I knew it would be completely stupid to do so and contrary to what I believe to be basic internet etiquette, so I didn't, but I mused yesterday on the merits of posting a link on various social media. Even if one of the ten or so people who actually read the shite I post clicked the link, I reckon they wouldn't have stayed.
The worst case scenario would be an brief, yet intolerable, surge in users for a month. That would be enough to disturb this little oasis on the internet, even though it has more than its fair share of cunt offs and chubby chasers. We'd have to be very specific in who we target if we want to expand the userbase, unless there's already a significant crossover, I reckon the chaps on b3ta would be a good standard.
>> No. 29963 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 10:59 am
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>>29961
Hence why I said "a state where we can enjoy it". I'm not particularly enjoying my 50th walk around a shit local park and council estate, and to get anywhere nice would mean walking for hours on end which my fucked joints won't let me do.
>> No. 29964 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:43 pm
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>>29954
>> No. 29965 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:51 pm
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>>29964
The text is fine, but I'm not sure about super imposing it over a cup of rusty piss.
>> No. 29966 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 12:53 pm
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>>29965
That's from the front page.
>> No. 29970 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:14 pm
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Final version now I'm going to sit in the garden.
>> No. 29971 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:32 pm
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>>29970

I'd print this out and post hundreds of copies around town, but that would be highly illegal.
>> No. 29972 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:42 pm
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You're overthinking it. You just need to write 'Britfa.gs: Britain's #1 imageboard' in a font made out of toast.
>> No. 29973 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 1:44 pm
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Perhaps 'Britain's #3 imageboard.'
>> No. 29974 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:04 pm
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>>29949
>>29953
>>29962
>Should I message those /Britfeel/ lads who stopped by that time and ask them to come back?
>Sticker-bomb uni campuses and co-working spaces
>the chaps on b3ta

Lads, you're scaring me.
>> No. 29975 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:11 pm
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>>29974
As soon as lockdown ends and I can get my hands on some stickers I will do it. Not at universities though, Christ.
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9th May 2020
Saturday 2:23 pm
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>>29973
>> No. 29977 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:42 pm
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I already made these a while ago...
>> No. 29978 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 2:43 pm
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>>29976

I think this is perfect and would really only attract people who would fit in here.
>> No. 29979 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 3:47 pm
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Fish sauce smells like my gooch after three days of oven hot bedroom wanking and power gaming.
>> No. 29980 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 3:53 pm
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>>29976
Not nearly sneaky enough.
>> No. 29981 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 4:15 pm
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>> No. 29982 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 4:37 pm
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>>29981
A bunch of things that happened on Britchan is a great way to advertise Britfa.gs.
>> No. 29983 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 4:57 pm
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When I was 6 years old I was taught the mini-beast parade song as part of a topic on creepy crawlies. The one that goes "we're the mini, we're the mini, we're the mini mini-beast parade, come and join us, come and join us, we're the mini mini-beast parade". As you can see, a quality education was provided in which we were taught all the important facts of life instead of just having a shit-ton of small creatures being inconvenienced at best by young children.

It's been stuck in my head since spring arrived and I find myself whistling the tune when I go out. What bothers me most is the lie the song is based upon as everyone knows full well that they can't join the minibeast parade as they're not arthropods. I'd get out more only that would be a crime.
>> No. 29984 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 5:24 pm
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>>29982
It's all the same at this point.
>> No. 29985 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 5:38 pm
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>>29983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJYuujW0d4

>an action song with percussion accompaniment

bombombombom


>>29964
>>29970
>>29976
>>29981

These are all wonderful. Real mirth.

thads
>> No. 29986 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 5:54 pm
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I think stickers are a bit dated. If we really wanted to show how out of touch we are, we'd release a rap.
>> No. 29987 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 6:07 pm
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>>29986
We don't want to attract the kind of people who listen to rap music.
>> No. 29988 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 6:27 pm
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>>29987
Sorry, but the guitar is dead and it was a suicide.
>> No. 29989 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 6:29 pm
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>>29986

Weeeeelllll my names purp-ill and I'm here to say
I'm here to cunt off in a major way
>> No. 29990 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 7:27 pm
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>>29989

My girl's got a great big belly
I bet you're jelly while I claim my bennies
In my living room with my 50" telly

>>29987

This is actually a reference to that time that the Tory party opened their annual conference with a rap, a key comment of which was that it showed how out of touch with reality they were at the time.

Also, I am the kind of person to listen to rap. So now you know who's behind all the posts you hate.
>> No. 29991 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 7:35 pm
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If we're doing a terrible rap I've just spent about half an hour beat boxing the Thomas the Tank Engine theme without really even noticing, so just hit me up if you need anything like that.
>> No. 29993 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 7:59 pm
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>>29991


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfiUYij5UE?start=20
>> No. 29994 Anonymous
9th May 2020
Saturday 8:01 pm
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>>29993

The urbans putting honest imageboard lurkers out of work again. Disgraceful.
>> No. 29995 Anonymous
10th May 2020
Sunday 6:05 pm
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>> No. 29996 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 7:13 pm
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I really really want a Thai green curry and am far too shit to make my own.
>> No. 29997 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 7:28 pm
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>>29996

It's basically just a jar of thai green curry paste and coconut milk. I'm quite confident you could manage.
>> No. 29998 Anonymous
11th May 2020
Monday 7:30 pm
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>>29997
I'm a really shit cook, so whenever I try recreating small things it comes out dire.

Last time I did it, I even scoured Sainsburys for some very expensive lime leaves, and it was just shite.
>> No. 29999 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 12:23 pm
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The weather to the front of the house looks like Mordor but the back, where my washing is, looks like Barbados, so I think I'll go to sleep. Good night.
>> No. 30000 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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When you empty water out of the washing up bowl and the cutlery takes this as a cue for a pool party in the plughole (holy guacamole!). Normally there will be a dinner plate I can use as a dam but those teaspoons are slippery fellas who like to have me fish them out.

Before you chastise me, they were soaking. That's a thing.
>> No. 30001 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>30000
>the washing up bowl

Paupers do the darnedest things.
>> No. 30002 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 2:48 pm
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>>30001
IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, DOES IT!? WHY PUT A BOWL IN A THING THAT ALREADY HOLDS WATER!? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT?!
>> No. 30003 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 2:56 pm
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>>30002
It's just one of those things that paupers do, like owning the largest telly possible.
>> No. 30004 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 3:46 pm
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>>30003
Alright, we had our fun but if you say paupers again I'm going to stab you in your cunt face and stomp on your neck.
>> No. 30005 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 3:53 pm
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>>30004
They don't like if you refer to them as povvo, though.
>> No. 30006 Anonymous
12th May 2020
Tuesday 3:59 pm
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>>30004
FITE!
>> No. 30007 Anonymous
13th May 2020
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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There's no £5 voucher in my Lidl magazine. There's always a £5 voucher in the Lidl magazine. Broken Britain.
>> No. 30008 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 2:59 pm
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Cunts ringing me at work when I'm about to bed down for my 2pm Friday nap.

Every fucking time.
>> No. 30009 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 8:51 pm
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I am in love with a girl who is a background dancer in a music video.

I once did some sleuthing years ago and found her name and now tried to do it again and can't.

Any ideas where I could find detailed music video cast lists?
>> No. 30010 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 11:45 pm
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>>30009

There aren't really a huge amount of dance agencies knocking about especially if you can work out where it was filmed.
>> No. 30011 Anonymous
15th May 2020
Friday 11:55 pm
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>>30009
You could try Yandex's reverse image search. It's far more advanced than the one on google, to the point where you can can upload pics of people you know and use it to find porn of people who look remarkably similiar to them. Wouldn't recommend jumping down that particular rabbit hole because it's pretty much bottomless.
>> No. 30012 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 1:11 am
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Every single one of the photos in this article is portrait orientation from a phone. Putting that blurry zoomed in border isn't cutting it any more, it's supremely irritating. News organisations need to find a better way to format these things for pages.
>> No. 30013 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 1:11 am
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Oh, it was this article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52682460
>> No. 30017 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 10:05 pm
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>>30012

News organisations also need to stop bylining the most mundane occurances as "THIS is the [adjective] moment [some mundane event occured]", but as long as I'm the only fucker moaning about it, nothing will improve.
>> No. 30018 Anonymous
16th May 2020
Saturday 10:11 pm
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>>30017
Playing up minor news items by billing them as something like "Watch as [person] [slams/destroys/obliterates] [person 2's] argument!" is equally annoying. I've yet to see any journalists suplex a backbench MP.
>> No. 30019 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 12:06 am
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>>30018

It took me embarrassingly long time to realise that a lot of online news articles are the tabloid and gossip stories of yesterday dressed in different clothes, somehow I was tricked into reading things I had had the good sense to avoid most my life.

Online news seems to be an endless cycle of people building up a reputable brand for a while then performing a bait and switch to producing complete trash.
>> No. 30020 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:28 am
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>>30019
From what little I've gathered, the production of stories for popular online news outlets is a series of high quotas with little time for the staff writer to verify sources. It has to be one of the side-effects of the changing of the news cycle from daily publication of a paper, perhaps a couple of updates via radio news bulletins and the evening news on the telly, to a never ending melee to get the hottest take, i.e. one that generates the most clicks and ad revenue, that this sort of shite has become all the more common.
I ultimately blame rolling news.
>> No. 30021 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 8:49 am
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>>30020

What you are talking about being first to report, no one wants to read the same news story twice after all, and people aren't playing by the old rules of waiting to the morning to tell everyone or even the day after that so no one has time to confirm anything.

That is a different concept from what I am talking about, which isn't new but bypassed my normal mental block by putting it online of gossip about who is feuding with who and 'celebrities behaving badly', or some other 'raunchy' bullshit.
>> No. 30022 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 9:17 am
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>>30021
People have always had an element of prurience about them, we're all guilty of it to some degree, even some wizened old ascetic living in the desert probably is. We are social creatures after all, and there's little reason to suggest people felt differently a thousand years ago, gossips, pub bores and fishwives are nothing new. I think it's that barrier of access to this sort of thing has well and truly come down, rolling news probably isn't to blame, it's more of a symptom than the pathogen itself. The gossip, pub bore and fishwife have simply been given a bit of access to what goes on behind closed doors at the elites' houses, scratching an itch they never thought they had.
Technologically mediated and manufactured instant gratification? Which would beg the corollary: is this the best possible society?
>> No. 30023 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 5:57 pm
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I've been thinking a great deal lately about what I want to do in the future and the answer is "I don't have a fucking clue".
>> No. 30024 Anonymous
17th May 2020
Sunday 7:03 pm
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>>30023

I'm torn between rat farming or picking through landfill sites for tin cans. I might get a little sideline in grassing up people who speak out against The Party.
>> No. 30028 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 9:01 am
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I went shopping at 7am today, the supermarket has a maze of barriers on the entrance for people to queue.
It being 7am, there was nobody so I squeezed between a gap to avoid walking around the maze.
Some security guard took offence and thought to give me an earful.
>> No. 30029 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 3:15 pm
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People who refuse to believe weather forecasts because they've seen a cloud and as a result act like they're a Phoenician sailor with a sixth sense for the soul of Mother Earth even though they spend 22 hours a day indoors.
>> No. 30031 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>30029
I live 60 miles West of my Dad. If the weather is sunny here and cloudy there then he takes that as evidence that in the next half an hour or so the skies will clear up over him.
>> No. 30032 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 7:23 pm
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What irks me is the people who think that everywhere in Britain has to have the same weather at the same time, and who are utterly incapable of understanding that a forecast of "scattered showers" means that they might get rain and 5 miles down the road could be dry all day.
>> No. 30033 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 8:12 pm
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Cunts at my work who like to think they're always the put upon, over-stretched hard worker rushing around at finishing time; when in reality it's just because they have piss poor time mangement skills, and shouldn't have taken on a task that takes 20 minutes in the most optimistic estimates, at quarter to fucking 6, without even accounting for the time it takes to pack down and clean up.

Then wondering why no cunt likes them, as if genuinely oblivious to the fact everyone can see straight through their self-appointed hardest worker schtick and see they're actually the dickhead who takes the longest to do anything, and never helps anyone else.

I'm going to print an Employee of the Week poster and put this dickhead's name on it every week, with recognition for something really trivial like "made sure everything in the stock rom was equally spaced out" or "cut the edges of all the perforated slips (which we put in a drawer and shred after a week) so they were uniform".
>> No. 30034 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 8:29 pm
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>>30033
Take it to the workplace annoyances thread on /job/.
>> No. 30035 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 9:45 pm
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>>30034
You mean the one that was locked for no good reason?
>> No. 30036 Anonymous
18th May 2020
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>30035
Yes.

RUDDY MODS.
>> No. 30037 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 12:48 am
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The new facebook avatar feature that everyone is spamming annoys me. This annoys me in turn because it's such a tedious thing to be annoyed about "you don't need an app to show everyone a cartoon self-perception of yourself, your profile does that job already" I smugly think to myself as I slowly turn into Brian from Family Guy. Technology is hard.

You can't make laughter lines without additional lines to show your old. How dare they do this to me. The only clothes that look nice are a suit too but that would imply I normally mostly leave the house to go to work.

>>30033
I feel attacked. Most of my best ideas happen when I'm idle or otherwise procrastinating on a tedious task. If you want to see people do jobs early then ask them to do things they like doing or get a graduate to do all the monkey work.
>> No. 30038 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 9:28 am
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>>30035
What? What? This is an outrage. Mods should get faster computers if they can't handle a few thousand posts.
>> No. 30039 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 9:57 am
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>>30038
The thread is slow enough that there's no reason not to use the last 50 posts function, unless you want to go on a nostalgia trip and read a post from about five years ago complaining about the smell of hot meat pies and piss on the floor.
>> No. 30040 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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There's quite an interesting family that's moved in at the bottom of the street.

Every time I try to have my lunch time nap I hear her shouting at her kid for cycling too far away into the road. She bellows her name repeatedly as the kid ignores her and cycles into the road and gets angry and shocked despite this happening every day.

This means that every day I have to hear their stupid fucking ritual. What is wrong with some people?
>> No. 30041 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 2:33 pm
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>>30038

The mods got perfectly good computers that cost £10,000 in 2010. It's the entire internet that's clearly wrong.
>> No. 30042 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 5:51 pm
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I seem to go through stages in life where I get told I look like certain actors (it's never fucking Brad Pitt either) and everytime somebody says it I always fluff my response in never knowing what to say back.

What do I say back? Thank you? Oh really? That's great? Do you think so?

Fuck knows
>> No. 30043 Anonymous
19th May 2020
Tuesday 7:45 pm
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>>30042

"Oh, really? Wierd, people normally say Tom Hardy, haaaaa!"

You can replace Tom Hardy with whoever is the fittest male actor du jour, the joke is the same.
>> No. 30044 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 11:17 am
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It's much too hot to be working from home. I actually feel a bit damp after a meeting.

The problem is that every cunt in the world is making noise because they've been furloughed so I have to close my window when I'm on a call. When that drags for an hour it becomes quite unbearable as the heat builds. I feel like I might turn into the Pol Pot of noisy people, stick 'em in the fields with a gun in their back for a bowl of rice a day.
>> No. 30045 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 11:35 am
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What the fuck is it with people in suburbia and mowing their lawn to within an inch of its life or finding noisy house work to do?

They seem to coordinate too so you never get more than ten minutes peace before the next lad kicks up.
>> No. 30047 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 3:11 pm
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>>30045
>seem to coordinate too

Those utter bastards, all waiting for the good weather before they do their lawn. Wake up people - is this another BIG MOWA conspiracy?
>> No. 30048 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 3:29 pm
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>>30047
It's more the fact they all do it one after the other rather than in sync so instead of having lawn mower power hour we have several delayed ones.
>> No. 30049 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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It's been absolutely fucking sweltering today. Changing oil on a car was not a clever move, I've never sweat so much in my life.

I really need to hire a nice workshop or warehouse with a nice cold concrete floor, or an industrial HVAC already installed. I'd probably end up sleeping there if this jobshy summer continues.
>> No. 30050 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:19 pm
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>>30049
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/19/2020-to-be-one-of-hottest-years-on-record-met-office-says
This year was already expected to be the hottest year on record and that was before we reduced all the GHG emissions 17% due to covid-19, so now it's expected to be as hot as we were expecting 2025 to be, or something. What I just said doesn't make a lot of sense but I'm just half-remembering an article I was looking at before I went and sat in the sun for too long.
>> No. 30051 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:31 pm
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>>30050

GHG emissions cause long term heating, but the economic slowdown has meant that a lot of particulate pollution (soot, basically) has been reduced which lets more heat through to the ground and gives us short term temperature increases.

Which isn't to say 'keep burning stuff otherwise we'll all cook' as the longterm impact of CO2 is far, far worse than losing the particulates blanket.
>> No. 30052 Anonymous
20th May 2020
Wednesday 5:33 pm
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>>30051

That's the thing I meant, thanks.
>> No. 30053 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 8:05 am
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There's a headteacher being interviewed on the Guardian's "Today in Focus" podcast and he won't stop saying "absolutely". I'm usually saguine about the vocal ticks of others, but he just said "I absolutely believe that children need to be literate" and I don't think we needed that additional level of confirmation. Then again Mrs Pugh never seemed that bothered so perhaps I am in the wrong here.
>> No. 30054 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 10:10 am
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>>30053
They really do. They really do.
>> No. 30055 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 9:44 pm
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The burgers I bought from Morrison’s were filled with black pepper, they weren't labelled as being 'with black pepper' I have a mild allergy to black pepper. I can still feel the burning in my mouth, and now I have to cook a different dinner.
>> No. 30056 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>>30055
Let me guess, the ingredients are on the other side of the label, so by the time you've read it, you've already opened and spoiled the burgers.

I've seen that with quite a few cellophane wrapped products that completely goes against the point of having ingredients on display, if not clearly, but there.
>> No. 30057 Anonymous
21st May 2020
Thursday 11:05 pm
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>>30056
And yet they have the cheek to put "new improved recipe" on it. Yeah, recipe that will kill people like >>30055.
>> No. 30058 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 1:29 pm
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>>30057
>>30055

Where's cheflad when we need him. He told me allergies don't exist and that people like you are pathetic, even worse than well done steak eaters.
>> No. 30059 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 2:18 pm
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Alright, wind, calm the hell down.
>> No. 30060 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 3:09 pm
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>>30059
Yeah what the hell's going on, just kicked in out of nowhere.
>> No. 30061 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 3:53 pm
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>>30060
It's been like it all night and all day where I am.
>> No. 30062 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 5:14 pm
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Why is the National Health Service using an emergency messsaging service to wish me a happy desert warlord day?
They never wished me a happy Jewish zombie day, or any of the other religious events that have occurred since the wu-flu started. Surely the same so-obvious-it-hurts advice applies to every religion?

Anyway, what really gets my goat is the fact they have spent literally £billions of taxpayer's money on NHS IT systems. But they can't even send text in a format compatible with standards set in the mid 1980s.
&amp;
>> No. 30063 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>30062
Asians tend to have more difficulty with authority and following rules. In addition Eid tends to be a lot more communal than traditions such as Christmas. Throw in that they have weaker health due to their love of cousin marriage and ghee and you can see why the NHS is sending out a reminder during a pandemic.
>> No. 30065 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 5:42 pm
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>>30062
I'm impressed that you managed to shoehorn three flavours of racism in the same post.
>> No. 30066 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 6:18 pm
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>>30065

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5483440/
>> No. 30067 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 6:41 pm
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>>30065

It's only racism when it's not true. The British Asian community genuinely has cultural... Let's call them eccentricities, that warrant the NHS taking pre-emptive action at times. Half of the NHS's staff are asian anyway so it's not like it comes from a place of superiority or ignorance.
>> No. 30068 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 6:55 pm
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>>30067

>It's only racism when it's not true

That has never mattered in the court of public opinion what matters is if people say their feelings are offended and if people care that they were.
>> No. 30069 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 9:03 pm
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I just realised /sfw/ hides about 90% of the really crap posts on .gs and I feel like a right mug for not using it the whole time.

And then I just looked at this thread and have, as a result realised that this website is just another /pol/fag shithole the mods don't give a fuck about anymore.
>> No. 30070 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 9:09 pm
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>>30069

Alright, fuck off back to the guardian comments section where you belong then matey.
>> No. 30071 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>30070
I'm not the cunt constantly moaning about shit all the fucking time, fucking baby. Sorry, I have a functioning brain, but there are plenty of websites you could piss off to or better yet fucking kill yourself and spare everyone your endless moaning about nonsense.
>> No. 30072 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 9:22 pm
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>>30069
>I just looked at this thread and have, as a result realised that this website is just another /pol/fag shithole

Marrying your relatives is likely to lead to birth defects and health issues. This isn't a controversial statement and you shouldn't start shrieking /pol/ because people are posting facts you'd rather bury your head in the sand about or have a knee-jerk reaction to.
>> No. 30073 Anonymous
22nd May 2020
Friday 9:23 pm
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>>30069
>this website is just another /pol/fag shithole

Those cunts on Kohl were bitching and moaning the other day that this place is more 'leftist than reddit', so I presume you to be talking out of your politically polarized bum.
>> No. 30074 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 12:38 am
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Imageboard poster in "internet is serious business" shocker.
>> No. 30076 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 1:41 am
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>>30069
Imagine thinking an internet imageboard of all places is bad because the content of individual boards is topically relevant and "nigger" isn't considered the zenith of witty retorts. Bizarre.
>> No. 30077 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 2:00 am
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>>30072

BBC Three did a documentary about it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p056gvhm
>> No. 30081 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 8:16 am
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>>30072

There's a massive problem in Bradford amongst the mislum community. Around 70% are married to their first cousin and child mortality is the highest in the country. Diversity aficionados shout racist whenever you mention the belief system that leads to this. Diversity doesn't reach out to genetics apparently.
>> No. 30082 Anonymous
23rd May 2020
Saturday 10:08 am
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>Diversity

From what I've heard about Bradford if you went back to the 80s and 90s it would have been very rare to see an Asian woman wearing a burqa; it's mainly the past 20 years or so where things seem to have regressed, which I've seen blamed on a rise in the number of first generation immigrants from laplanderstan who've managed to bring with them a shift to a more conservative following of Islam. It reminds me a bit of when you see pictures of Iranian women before and after their revolution.
>> No. 30083 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 6:04 am
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I've had a new set of tyres on the car for ONE FUCKING WEEK and I've already got a puncture. And it's almost exactly on the threshold for whether it can be repaired with a plug or not. And it's bank cunting holiday so my preferred garage is shut, so I have to wait until Tuesday to argue with him about whether or not he can repair it. And if he can't/won't, I'll still have to order the tyre in to be replaced.

FUCCCCKKKKKKKK
>> No. 30084 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 8:19 am
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>>30083
That'll teach you for driving during lockdown.
>> No. 30085 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 2:18 pm
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>>30084

But your prime minister, Churchill 2.0, told me I could drive any distance for recreation.

Also, what if I'm a key worker? What if I got the puncture while on my way to save lives or pick up your bins?

You'll be lynched next clap, traitor.
>> No. 30086 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 2:33 pm
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>>30085
Why the fuck would someone drive around in their own car picking up bins?
>> No. 30087 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 3:57 pm
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>>30086

I was driving to the bin lorry depot.
>> No. 30088 Anonymous
24th May 2020
Sunday 9:57 pm
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Someone somewhere nearby is blasting out Copacabana ridiculously loud.
>> No. 30089 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 12:16 am
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I keep locking myself out of my flat. It's always when I come back in and go out right back out again, just now for example when I took the bins out after a run. I live alone so when I do lock myself out I have to call the landlord and pay £115 and wait around for an hour.

Any tips on making sure I never again forget to take my key with me? Do you think if I ask the letting company for a spare key they will be cool with it? I'm contemplating getting a copy cut and leaving it in my wallet but it's not a standard key and says quite clearly imprinted on it 'do not copy' with a security companies number. I'm unsure if the key cutter will therefore do it.
>> No. 30090 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 12:25 am
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>>30089

Your post implies you don't forget your wallet when you go out. Can you not just place your keys next to your wallet whenever you come back home?

I'm not sure a copy will really solve your problem, as you can still forget to take your copy.
>> No. 30091 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 12:32 am
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>>30090
I put my keys near my fags. The problem is that I come in after unlocking the door and, as I then have my keys in my hand, put them down somewhere. Then I forget to check my pocket as I leave. You can see why it's only a problem if I come in and then out again.

Wallet is fine meanwhile as I always carry it in my pocket. I have never forgotten to take my wallet out with me.
>> No. 30092 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 1:13 am
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>>30089

Get a very bright or large keyring and hang the key directly on the door in your eyeline. That's what we did for my senile grandparents.
>> No. 30093 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 1:17 am
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>>30091

Get a wallet with a chain?
>> No. 30094 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 1:28 am
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This is clearly a fucking goose.
>> No. 30095 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 2:16 am
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>>30094
No, it's a duck. Hence the name.
>> No. 30096 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 2:20 am
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>>30095
Have you ever noticed that all ducks wear dog masks?
>> No. 30097 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 2:22 am
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It's a goose, end of.
>> No. 30098 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 10:20 am
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It's clearly a bottle of fucking toiler cleaner.
>> No. 30099 Anonymous
25th May 2020
Monday 11:39 am
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I'm being triggered by a post in /nom/.
>> No. 30100 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 10:39 am
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Tried to get a sub 50 minute 10k, got lost on my route, carried on running, got surprisingly comfortable with time to go and little distance, picked up my pace, still somehow was out by 15 seconds then fucked up my route so bad had to then run an extra two miles home after I'd finished.
>> No. 30101 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 11:10 am
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I just lost the last of my teabags by filling up the caddy with hot water instead of my cup.
>> No. 30102 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 1:05 pm
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>>30101
You absolute mentalist.
>> No. 30103 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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Working from home is all fun and games until you realise it's 3 o'clock the council deside to anihilate some nearby trees. I may as well be in a steelworks with all this noise.

>>30101
Drink it and become a god.
>> No. 30104 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 2:35 pm
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>>30103
I've had construction across from mine this whole time. I've slowly taken up a liking for drum 'n' bass, as it's fairly effective at drowning out the noise - a low dynamic range means there really aren't many quiet bits where you get reminded of the pneumatic drills and chainsaws.
>> No. 30105 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 3:25 pm
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>>30103
My neighbours are taking it in turns to get the weeds out of their paved front gardens so all I can hear everyday is metal scraping on stone.
>> No. 30106 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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Obviously I meant to say "decide to annihilate" and I was just testing the mods, who have clearly gotten slack.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 30107 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 10:20 pm
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>>30105
Couldn't they just arrange to have people living in odds go out for scraping weeds, then evens going out afterwards?
>> No. 30108 Anonymous
26th May 2020
Tuesday 10:34 pm
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Steak cut chips. They are, by some margin, the worst form of chips.
>> No. 30109 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 4:24 am
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I'm awake at silly hours because I dreamt about the ex again. She doesn't even respond to me anymore and honestly I feel I'd give anything just to have a fun phone call with her again. Life sucks and I'll be tired for work tomorrow. Well, today.
>> No. 30110 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 8:36 am
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>>30108
Agreed. Awful.
>> No. 30111 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:31 am
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>>30108

They are the worst oven chip, they are visually the most like deep fat fried chips. Which I think is why they exist, people want those but don't want to fry chips and these look right.
>> No. 30112 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:48 am
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>>30108
I just can't eat oven chips for some reason.

They just taste grim to me, skinny, fat, steak cut, whatever it is they just taste nasty.
>> No. 30113 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:20 am
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>>30112
Come on now.
>> No. 30114 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:34 am
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>>30112

How do you feel about wedges?
>> No. 30115 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:37 am
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>>30112
You want chunky chips.

My girlfriend always undercooks chips because she's worried she will burn them.
>> No. 30116 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 3:23 pm
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>>30113
Delicious.

>>30112
I used to be the same - you have to pay extra for McCain and I think the skinny ones taste better than the thick ones.
>> No. 30117 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 5:03 pm
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>>30115
Burn them? Fuck me, oven chips need about half an hour past the directed time in order to even approach getting properly crispy.
>> No. 30118 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 5:45 pm
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>>30117
I use an air fryer and it seems to do a good job with anything potato based, I have to agitate and move things about half way through mind, which is a pisstake as opening the unit loses loads of heat. I should've saved up a bit longer and gotten one of those that spins the food as it cooks.
>> No. 30119 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 9:12 pm
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>>30117
I learned today, to my horror, that she doesn't rinse the starch off pasta once she's cooked it. I'm living with a barbarian.
>> No. 30120 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 9:27 pm
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When you send a girl a like on Hinge with a question to one of her prompts, a fun question that would get the conversation going, but in response she presses that button that invites you to start a chat. Essentially putting you back into the position of thinking up another opener.

It's been awhile so there's now a tug-of-war between my pride and lingering urge to show a girl a nice time. I know there's an opposite side of the coin here but it's annoying.
>> No. 30121 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 9:34 pm
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>>30119

>I'm living with a barbarian

Is this a troll aimed at the italianlads or do you actually think you're supposed to rinse pasta?
>> No. 30122 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>30119
>rinse the starch off pasta once she's cooked it

I regret to inform you that you, sir, are being the arsehole. Nobody fucking rinses pasta. In fact, one usually saves a mug of the "starch" water to mix in with the sauce.
>> No. 30123 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:03 pm
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Cook pasta, pour into colander, rinse in hot water. Otherwise you get gloop.
>> No. 30124 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:19 pm
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>>30123
No, just stir it in the colander and it won't stick.
>> No. 30125 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:33 pm
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>>30123
Add a bit of oil. The "gloop" is starch, which is half the fucking flavour.
>> No. 30126 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>30123

Even putting it in a colander is unnecessary. Just strain off most of the water then dump it all into the sauce. Give it a bit of a stir while it's still in the warm pan before you serve it. Helps it all bind together nicely.

I hate a plate of plain pasta with sauce unceremoniously dolloped on top. It might look nice but why bother when you're going to stir it in as you eat; and you end up with the water coming out underneath.
>> No. 30127 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:40 pm
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>>30123
You're thinking of RICE which should be treated how you describe.

NOT PASTA.
>> No. 30128 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:44 pm
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Rice shouldn't be rinsed either, Jesus Christ.
>> No. 30129 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:44 pm
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>>30125
>which is half the fucking flavour

No, lad. That's what the sauce and seasoning is for. Weird starch addicts.
>> No. 30130 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:46 pm
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>>30129
The pasta doesn't hold the sauce if you rinse off the starch.
>> No. 30131 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>30126
So I'm meant to make a lovely sauce but then ruin it by watering it down and adding starchy gloop to it.

Do you eat paste by any chance?
>> No. 30132 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 10:56 pm
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>>30131

I really can't tell if you're taking the piss or not. Adding pasta water (and by extension not rinsing the pasta) to sauce is categorically the correct way to do it - there is no debate here, it's simply part of the process. If you don't do it you're making objectively worse pasta, much like if you didn't use the fat drippings from your roast to make the gravy.

I try to be magnanimous when it comes to cooking, I think everyone should be allowed to like what they like, but since this is /101/ and you already kicked off about it, I just need to tell you that you're a tasteless idiot.
>> No. 30133 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:02 pm
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>>30132
I've learnt by now not to trust anything you lot say. Why would I add pasta water to my sauce? You're just watering down the flavour of it.
>> No. 30134 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:04 pm
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>>30133

Have you not ever read a pasta recipe, though?
>> No. 30135 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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Why would I read a pasta recipe? That'd be like reading a recipe on how to boil an egg or toast bread.

Put the pasta in boiling salty water, drain, rinse, mix with the sauce serve. Simples.
>> No. 30136 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:13 pm
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>>30135
You're correct that it's quite difficult to fuck up the cooking of the pasta itself, which makes your managing to do so all the more impressive.
>> No. 30137 Anonymous
27th May 2020
Wednesday 11:18 pm
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>>30135

Does the back of you, I assume, knock off Dolmio tell you to rinse your pasta? I bet it doesn't.
>> No. 30138 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:28 am
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>>30133

> Why would I add pasta water to my sauce? You're just watering down the flavour of it.

The starch in the cooking water helps the sauce stick to the pasta. A proper tomato-based sauce should be cooked down to a thick consistency to concentrate the flavours, so it's not meaningfully watered down by a small amount of cooking water.

If you feel the need to rinse your pasta, then a) you're not cooking it in enough water, b) you're using crap pasta, c) you're massively over-cooking it or d) all of the above.

Don't buy pasta unless it says "bronze die" on the packet. The dry pasta should have a powdery white appearance, not shiny and yellow. Look for Di Cecco, Garofalo or Barilla Collezione. Use at least a litre of very salty water for every 100g of pasta. The pasta should be cooked al dente bordering on undercooked, so it'll absorb some of the sauce when you stir it through.

If you opt for a jarred sauce, take a close look at the label - you want to see a very short list of familiar ingredients. Lots of supposedly "premium" pesto sauces are made with sunflower oil and cashews rather than olive oil and pine nuts.

It really isn't hard to make your own pasta sauce though. A lot of traditional recipes are absolutely piss-easy.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETyhmgxupv93Ix4VnIiQJQ
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28th May 2020
Thursday 8:11 am
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>>30138
>Look for Di Cecco, Garofalo or Barilla Collezione.

If they're all made with 100% durum wheat what difference does it make? Are you simply paying three times as much simply to wank off over how Italian sounding and authentic the name of the brand is?
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28th May 2020
Thursday 8:55 am
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>>30139

Durum wheat varies substantially in quality, but the key difference is being extruded on a bronze die. Bronze dies cost more and wear out faster than stainless steel dies, but they produce a rougher surface texture that holds on to sauce better and provides a more evenly cooked pasta.

High quality pasta doesn't have to cost a fortune; Costco have various brands of bronze die pasta for less than a quid a packet and some of the supermarkets have very good premium own-brand pasta. Even if you're paying full price for branded pasta, it works out to pennies per portion for a much better product.
>> No. 30141 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:07 am
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The pasta cunt off has to be one of the most dire I've seen, and I've seen some dire ones.
>> No. 30142 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:16 am
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>>30141
My wife kept serving me pasta she hadn't drained properly. In the end I had to get a re-straining order.
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28th May 2020
Thursday 11:08 am
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>> No. 30144 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 11:30 am
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>>30142
I'm afraid that story just doesn't hold any water.
>> No. 30145 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 12:04 pm
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>>30141
I'm quite enjoying it and still can't decide if the lad rinsing his pasta is taking the piss or not.
>> No. 30146 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 12:18 pm
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The presidential elections are some of my favourite things to follow and get into as they roll around with all their fanfare.

Covid's ruined that, we've got two terrible candidates and the debates are going to be dire. What a shame.
>> No. 30147 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 12:41 pm
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I wrote a scathing satire about grifters in that thread that was deleted, but by the time I hit post it was gone.; gutted. My Opus Magnus, obliterated.
>> No. 30148 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 12:54 pm
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>>30146
>we've got two terrible candidates

I honestly don't understand how people can treat the two as if they are remotely comparable.

Unless your desire is to bring about the end of the United States as an institution so you can trigger those libtards I would assume it would be immediately apparent that Biden would be the obvious choice.

Every election the republicans make up some sort of fear mongering innuendo that the democrat is a rotter, and every time it is demonstrated to be unfounded yet people keep falling for it. Where as we have watch the rule of law objectively erroded over the last 4 years and people will just not give a shit.
>> No. 30149 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 12:58 pm
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>every time it is demonstrated to be unfounded
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28th May 2020
Thursday 1:03 pm
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>>30149
Given the choices in 2016, were I American, I would've spoiled the ballot. Magenta, 3 pubes per bollock.
>> No. 30151 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 1:05 pm
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>>30149
I feel like you think you are making a point and you absolutely haven't.

>fear mongering innuendo
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28th May 2020
Thursday 1:08 pm
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>> No. 30153 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 1:33 pm
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>>30148
Just because they're both terrible, and one is less terrible, doesn't mean they're really the same.

I would vote for Biden but I do believe he's got something wrong cognitively, the debates are going to be a shit show.
>> No. 30154 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 1:38 pm
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>>30153

I don't think anyone is pretending, at this stage, it's anything other than chosing the lesser of two evils.

The argument remains the same however, about if it's better to have a moronic arsehole like Trump bumbling around like a pantomime character, or a more competently malicious kind of politician who would at least run the show more smoothly.
>> No. 30155 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 2:22 pm
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>>30154

> moronic arsehole like Trump bumbling around like a pantomime character

This description is downplaying the threat of Trump. We have reached a point where the lying of the Whitehouse press office or the sudden backstabbing of Allies, or the obvious corruption, or the abuse of power is ignored so readily that it has become normalised.

This is in contrast to Obama where he once wore the wrong colour suit and the right wing press winged about it as a scandal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrTf6CaTTc0
>> No. 30156 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 2:26 pm
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>>30154
Again, I would vote for Biden but this hysteria around Trump is what I think lets him get away with so much. He's a very adept operator and it works.

I also think Biden is lacking somewhat and is becoming a bit of a character himself. Threatening to fight people who don't agree with him, his policing of what communities should feel like depending on how they vote etc, none of it is great optics.

I don't believe he will win either. I will be betting on Trump when the time comes.
>> No. 30157 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>30155

Unless I am mistaken, our friends across the pond do not have the option of voting for Obama this year, nor did they have that option in 2016. So I'm unsure what he has to do with the matter.
>> No. 30158 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 4:39 pm
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>>30157

The point should be obvious lad, it's a direct comparison of the right wing media response to two consecutive presidents while in office.
>> No. 30159 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 4:50 pm
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>>30158

So what's your point other than right wing press shows bias to right wing leaders shocker? Does America even have a left wing press? I'm not being a smarmy bastard, I'm just not really sure what exactly that demonstrates.

The fact that the press were busy lambasting Obama over the colour of his suit rather than drone striking laplanderstani children kind of supports the idea that Trump doesn't need his buffoon act, if indeed it is an act, to get away with anything. Prior to taking office most of the mainstream media still tried to paint him as the bad guy, against Hillary of all people.
>> No. 30160 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 5:40 pm
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>>30159
Did you simply never learn the difference between right and wrong or were you hit over the head at some point.


The point is I can direct your attention to multiple erosion of the checks and balances of power and multiple criminal scandals of Trump where he violated the rule of law of the United States and the Republicans chose not to give a shit because they had power they can do what they want, and the right wing media glossed over it. And the best they could come up with for the guy before is that he wore a tan suit that makes him unpresidential. It is immediately obvious they are not even close to being held to the same standard.
>> No. 30161 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 5:42 pm
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>>30159

There is nothing wrong with Hillary stop with the weird innuendo. Is this some sort of gas lighting technique?
>> No. 30162 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 6:25 pm
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I don't know what I was expecting but somehow it was worse.

>>30161
Pull the other one, lad.
>> No. 30163 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 6:26 pm
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The tan suit was a non-issue, and so is a bunch of the stuff that rules the more frenzied anti-Trump people, like when serving maccy Ds to kids in the White House was some mark of national shame. Aside from that, Obama murdered American citizens without trial and did dick all to close Guantanamo. Habeas corpus died on his watch, fuck off with that rule of law shit.
>> No. 30164 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:00 pm
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For all trump's faults saying Obama got a bad ride because of his suit is ridiculous. Obama faced huge oubts of racism merely because of who he was.

That said trump has his hair blow in the wind and it's all over social media and left wing papers, I think people just feel their side is always the victim.
>> No. 30165 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:09 pm
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>>30160

Did you never learn how to think or are you just being thick on purpose?

If you think wearing a tan suit is the only thing Obama got shit over in the press then you're either cherry picking with extreme prejudice, or you simply weren't paying attention between 2008-2016.

Let me just check that I'm actually understanding you correctly- Is your point that they're letting Trump get away with things because he's one of their own, but they didn't let Obama get away with things? You're saying Trump is getting an easy ride, but Obama had the hounds at the door for eight years and the best they could throw at him was the tan suit?
>> No. 30166 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:09 pm
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>>30162
Of all the disembodied head HIGNFYs this year, it was the best of the bunch. I don't know why I keep watching it, it ran out of steam about 7 or 8 years ago.
>> No. 30167 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:51 pm
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>>30166

HIGNFY has been shite ever since Deayton left got the push, but I still watch it. I am but a creature of habit.
>> No. 30168 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:52 pm
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I tried spaghetti without rinsing it. It just made it dry and sticky. I appreciate if you're a dribbler that it might be beneficial to have something that absorbs all of the moisture in your mouth, but it's not something that should be appreciated by normal people. I didn't notice any tangible benefit in relation to the sauce. Speaking of the sauce, I decided to add a Knorr herb infusion stock pot and this may be a game changer.

I fucking knew I shouldn't have listened to you lads. You can't be trusted.
>> No. 30169 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 7:55 pm
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>>30168
> Speaking of the sauce, I decided to add a Knorr herb infusion stock pot and this may be a game changer.
Why don't you just buy premade sauce if you're going to add premixed herbs?
>> No. 30171 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:04 pm
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>>30168
> It just made it dry and sticky.

Then instead of "rinsing" it, give it a splash of olive oil.

>>30169
I obviously appreciate your effort, but he is miles from shore drowning. You've just chucked him a pair of speedos. I also use the Knorr instant herb/stock goo things. They are slightly different better than the vegetarian OXO or the other cubes in the cupboard. Nowhere near fresh, obviously, but like I said. RINSELAD is in the Bermuda Triangle of pasta. A bad place.

Sage, because this is all so upsetting.
>> No. 30172 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:14 pm
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What's the difference between a splash of oil and a splash of water? Honestly, this all screams of "this is the way we do it because this is the way it's always been done" rather than it actually making sense; I'm not afraid to say the Emperor has no clothes on.
>> No. 30173 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>30172
>a splash of oil and a splash of water

THEY ARE LITERALLY DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES
>> No. 30174 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:20 pm
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>>30172
Next time your car's oil light comes on, try filling it with water.
>> No. 30175 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:23 pm
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>>30172

Listen, I was gently ribbing cheflad/italianlad with my creamy carbonara the other week. But you're outright taking the piss.
>> No. 30176 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 8:39 pm
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>>30173
Liquid. Liquid. Potato. Potato.

>>30174
That's different. The oil in the car actually serves a function, you see. Glugging oil on your pasta is for mental masturbation whilst you wank off over how authentic and Italian your meal is, despite it being very similar to a rinse in hot water.
>> No. 30177 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 9:00 pm
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>>30176
Pushed it too far lad. Was good going though.
>> No. 30178 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 9:20 pm
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>>30176
The central point here, the elephant in the room, is that if you need lubrication of some kind on your pasta, there is an error earlier in the process. Have you followed the 100:10:1 rule? Have you followed the exact time on the packet, minus one minute?

I fear the truth is that you are overcooking it. I am doing my best to offer help but I worry in this case, you are beyond salvation and the kind thing to do is have you removed from the gene pool.
>> No. 30179 Anonymous
28th May 2020
Thursday 10:20 pm
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https://twitter.com/PineyMcknuckle/status/1265673728186355713

Joe Biden everybody.
>> No. 30180 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 12:46 am
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>>30168

I think we're getting to the issue now - if your spaghetti is dry and sticky, you have overcooked it.

I'm almost afraid to ask, but how long do you cook your pasta for?
>> No. 30181 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 7:52 am
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>>30180
Until it's edible.
>> No. 30182 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 9:36 am
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>>30181

How many minutes?
>> No. 30183 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 10:07 am
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>>30179
I would say something derogatory about American politics, but the common refrain is that Labour lost the 2015 election due to a bacon sandwich, so I can't really.
>> No. 30184 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 10:17 am
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>>30182
I go by taste. Still slightly firm.
>> No. 30185 Anonymous
29th May 2020
Friday 3:21 pm
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God damn it, I just want some icing sugar.
>> No. 30186 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 3:50 am
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I swear to god I can hear a chainsaw somewhere in the distance. What the actual fuck. Either someone's getting murdered or I'm about to murder someone.
>> No. 30187 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 3:53 am
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>>30186
Sure it's not some two-stroke racer out there? I got used to the Sunday morning racers around here, but they recently got a bit bolder since the roads were more empty.
>> No. 30188 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 4:11 am
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>>30187

I did think that, but the rev pattern didn't seem right for that, it sounded much more like a chainsaw meeting resistance than a bike under load, and didn't appear to be moving towards or away from me, either - but it's still certainly possible, and I suppose is more feasible.
>> No. 30189 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 5:01 am
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>>30188
Perhaps someone was getting broken into - I read about a motorcycle theft recently where they broke into the garage by angle grinding/chainsawing through a wall.
>> No. 30190 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 5:24 am
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>>30189

Could entirely be possible. It sounded quite far away but certainly in the direction of the true posho houses with the sorts of stealable cars that would make a 4am chainsaw heist a not unreasonable risk.

It could also be something entirely unexciting like a farmer sorting a tree branch out in the early hours. Sound seems to travel further these days, it could be anywhere.
>> No. 30191 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 9:36 pm
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Quite a few people I know have ordered pizza kits from a local business who charge a tenner for a couple of balls of dough, tomato sauce, cheese and some basil leaves before plastering all over social media pictures of their kids rolling out the dough whilst wearing a paper chef hat. I find it mind blowing that people can't even make their own pizza dough and have to order it in prepackaged.

https://pizzamammahull.co.uk/pizzamammahull-diy-pizza-kits/
>> No. 30192 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 9:44 pm
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How is it that even after ten years Steam is still doing that thing where I press "exit", but in reality it's still operating in the background so I have to open up task manager and close it in there? It's not even a big deal, but the fact it's been an issue since I had double physics with Mr Lewis is insane. This means there are people who have started families and are now having to explain to their kids why Steam won't open, it's generational issue.
>> No. 30193 Anonymous
30th May 2020
Saturday 10:26 pm
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>>30192

Russians
>> No. 30194 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 12:25 pm
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Well lads, I posted maybe a month ago about trying Hello Fresh.

What annoys me is that cooking isn't hard once you have a bit of confidence, I feel great, I am weirdly starting to not dread it but actively enjoy it, eating good food makes me want to eat more good food and it's so cheap.

Be damned people who say eating healthy is expensive, I can eat delicious, healthy meals for less than the price of a big mac meal and often have leftovers.

Posting in this thread as I wish my parents really taught me how to cook earlier, rather than taught me how to make food that just about lets me get by.
>> No. 30196 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 12:38 pm
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>>30194
Alright Big Ingredient Delivery, we see your transparent advertising attempts, and we'll have you know this board is property of Big Meal Replacement Powder.

fruit and veg IS COOL
fruit and veg IS COOL
>> No. 30197 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 12:41 pm
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>>30196
It's funny as I started both of these things - I'm just happy about little things that have made a huge impact on my life and am trying to share them. There are alternatives out there and actually I'll stop using Hello Fresh since it's a glorified cookbook and it's better to learn by finding the ingredients you can get yourself in the supermarket anyway.

That said for all britfa.gs friends please enter code ANON1 for 30% off Big Meal Replacement and Big Ingredient Delivery and get started today.
>> No. 30198 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 1:00 pm
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I got one of these delivery things free trial and it was just a box of spices with a shopping list. Fuck off.
>> No. 30199 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 3:40 pm
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>>30198
That's SimplyCook. Maybe you should have actually paid attention to what it was you signed up for?
>> No. 30200 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 3:50 pm
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>>30199

Come on, be fair. There's no way they could have known.
>> No. 30201 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 3:52 pm
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>>30199
Never.
>> No. 30202 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 4:51 pm
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Holy shit, the reason cheap white bread is so soft, IE floppy, is so you can't make an open face sandwich and just use a single slice, you HAVE to use two slices.
>> No. 30203 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 5:36 pm
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>>30202
>open face sandwich

What the fuck is wrong with you people?
>> No. 30204 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 6:53 pm
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>>30203
Silence, Big Wheat, your days are numbered.
>> No. 30205 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 7:21 pm
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>>30203
So upsetting. WTF makes an "open face" sandwich. The dear Earl would be turning in his grave.
>> No. 30206 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 7:35 pm
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>>30204
An open sandwich is fine for something like a baguette or a ciabatta. Attempting it with a slice of standard white bread is the most council thing I have heard of in some time.
>> No. 30207 Anonymous
31st May 2020
Sunday 7:43 pm
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>>30204

https://news.sky.com/story/farmers-warn-of-food-price-rises-after-warmest-may-in-decades-11997396

They are indeed
>> No. 30208 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:31 am
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Open sandwiches are an excuse for an establishment to just use less bread but charge more because it sounds fancier.

There, I said it.
>> No. 30209 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 7:18 am
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>>30207 Eek, I thought the fields round here were looking a bit shit, but 50% down? That'll hurt. Still, I'm sure Russia will sell us some, as will the USA.
Neighbour did his early usual hay baling from his cattle fields yesterday - was saying it was <50% of last year, and last year was poor. Two years in a row, we've snapped straight from a flooded winter to a completely dry spring. We've had one day of rain since it stopped pouring. How the fuck are things supposed to grow? This really isn't how our weather's supposed to go.
Boreholes are bloody expensive, and I really don't want to store the winter's rain in a thousand IBCs.
Yeah, I know you lockdown fuckers are (mostly) enjoying all this sunny weather, and I don't really begrudge that, but FFS, just a bit of rain please?
>> No. 30210 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 12:07 pm
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>>30209

It's the sort of stuff that climate scientists and activists have warned about but you rarely hear about what climate change means in the media.
Plenty of talk about rising sea levels and temperatures but no no mention of how changing climate patterns will mean significantly different weather that will massively impact food and water security all over the planet.
>> No. 30211 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 12:41 pm
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>>30210 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52877912 has the met office saying it is indeed bloody unusual, but is just the jetstream being a dick, and probably not an indicator of anything much.
>> No. 30212 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 12:47 pm
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>>30211

>but is just the jetstream being a dick, and probably not an indicator of anything much.

The only way you could read it that way is if you take the BBC hand wringing at face value, which is a mistake because the BBC is meant to provide a "balanced" view on things which includes not taking a hard stance on anything.
The global weather this year is fucking weird, and it's a bit disingenuous to say 'it's just the jetstream being a dick' as if that's a normal thing.
>> No. 30213 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 12:48 pm
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>>30211

Nope. We knew it was going to be hot as fuck this year way in advance
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/19/2020-to-be-one-of-hottest-years-on-record-met-office-says
It being even hotter than that is what your article is about.
>> No. 30214 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 12:57 pm
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>>30209
I'm a lawn fanatic (as many pictures on this site undoubtedly prove) - I am really struggling to keep mine green this year.

I am sure that part of it will be a lot more foot traffic - I tend to pace up and down the gardens a lot at the moment. But there has definitely been a lot less rain and my grass areas are poor right now.

It is upsetting, but for me its just a lawn and mild OCD. I dread to think of what is happening in real agriculture right now.
>> No. 30215 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:01 pm
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>>30214

The wild flowers sown onto the bare soil after taking up my lawn earlier in the year are doing really well.
>> No. 30216 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:08 pm
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>>30215
I think the council shouldn't mow most of the overgrown grass when this is over and should instead scatter wildflower seeds in it.
>> No. 30217 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:11 pm
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Yeah my newest planted wildflower section has also done brilliantly. Pleased because it was in a difficult/shady area.
>> No. 30218 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:13 pm
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>>30216
My wife is a very senior professional ecologist - she spends a large part of her life trying to convince them to do just that.
>> No. 30220 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 1:16 pm
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>>30216

Absolutely. It's hard to persuade people though, most Brits are weirdly fanatical about keeping public areas flat with lawn-like grass for the most tenuous reasons.

>>30217

Foxgloves usually grow in liminal woodland, they prefer a bit of shade to full sun.
>> No. 30222 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 3:34 pm
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>>30218 Any space I leave alone is instantly swamped with cow parsley, which then gets to this point in the year and wilts / dies, looking shitty and being a fire risk until winter.
Has she got any recommendations for things that'll win against it but aren't so shitty? Brambles need not apply.
Some of this space needs to be non-toxic to sheep. Tasty and able to survive a damn good grazing for a few months a year would be good too.
>> No. 30223 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:10 pm
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I really loathe the fact I've both reached an age where I have to tell myself not to eat a full tub of Ben and Jerries in one go, but that I'm also sensible enough to listen when I do. It's not even a weight thing, I'm slim and I could get away with being a greedy cunt every now and again if I wanted to, I'm just too much of a boring cunt to live on the edge and eat more ice cream than I should, on a day like this.

I hate who I've become, is what I'm saying.
>> No. 30224 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:36 pm
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>>30223
I don't even buy Ben & Jerry's because I'm not prepared to pay that much for ice cream.
>> No. 30225 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:44 pm
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>>30223
What's wrong with self control? You should celebrate the fact you don't easily give in to vices and can appreciate that the restraint is worth it.
>> No. 30226 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 6:45 pm
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>>30224

It's one of those things you'll always see on offer every other month, because £3 is acceptable for an every so often treat, but £4.50 is pushing it. This one has salted caramel sauce in and it really is rather lovely.
>> No. 30227 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 7:11 pm
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>>30223
As someone who also used to eat a tub in one go, if you're at that age, it'll catch up with you, doesn't matter if you're slim now. Best to get into good habits.

>>30224
I only buy it on special offer. At Tesco it's normally ~£4.50 a tub, but it's knocked down to something like £3 or BOGOHP every other week.
>> No. 30228 Anonymous
1st June 2020
Monday 7:36 pm
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>>30223

Embrace the tedium.


>> No. 30229 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 10:28 am
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I plugged a USB drive into my printer and the thing just fucking died, meaning the printer. No power at all, what the fuck?
>> No. 30230 Anonymous
3rd June 2020
Wednesday 10:43 am
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>>30229

Have you checked the fuse?
>> No. 30231 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 10:41 am
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I paid a huge price to live in zone 1 London (near 900 a month - don't even ask) so I could get to work quickly.

The nature of the pandemic and the new WFH reality means people are fleeing like rats off a sinking ship back to their parental home or even to another country.

This means there's a small explosion of properties now available at reduced rates for decent rooms/flats. Including boat loads from the landlord who manages mine who is VERY active on SpareRoom.

I rang my landlord and explained that whilst I didn't want to screw him over, it wasn't economically sensible for me to keep paying such a premium when there were better quality flats and so many available and I don't live there at the minute and don't need to anyway.

I offered him 500 a month, which is low, a third off, but it meant for two months he got cash flow, I kept my room, and we could reassess after. The lowest he'd go was 700, even though the flat is a mess and nobody is going to move in to London zone 1 at this stage, and certainly not that flat.

It also means that if he doesn't fill it for one month, he's already lost double what he'd have lost over two months just giving me reduced rent.

His answer to my suggestion? Hand in your notice.

It's like he's completely unaware of the reality of what's about to hit once furlough money stops. Was I being fair here? Have I missed the new economic boom as it waved past me which means everybody will fly back into offices?
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4th June 2020
Thursday 11:16 am
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>>30231

Fucking do it mate, I am going to cum like a race horse using the tears of landlords as lubricant to stroke my massive hard-on over the massive self imposed crash they're all going to experience.

Most landlords these days are too blinded by greed to realise what is and isn't sensible business. They have become entitled and see their properties as a right to free money, rather than a product they are offering on a suddenly very competitive market.

ALAB.
>> No. 30233 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 1:10 pm
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>>30231
>near 900 a month - don't even ask

Easy tiger, I pay over 1k to walk to work in zone and that's a very good deal. I suppose it depends on where and what you need but I've not noticed anything better in a studio with all the amenities.

Presumably you're not commuting to work at the moment so why are you staying put? I'm just sticking around because I can't be arsed.

>His answer to my suggestion? Hand in your notice.

Sounds like a power-play and it's unlikely he's going to back down even if it takes a loss. You'd best hand in your notice or he's going to pull your pants down.
>> No. 30234 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 1:41 pm
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Can't shake the idea of jamming a pen into my PC's exhaust fan, I dunno'...
>> No. 30235 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 4:01 pm
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>>30231

900 is not a huge amount for Zone 1, or Zone 2 for that matter
>> No. 30236 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 5:23 pm
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>>30235
It is for one room in a subpar flat.
>> No. 30237 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 6:14 pm
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>>30236

I was wondering how you lads were living in London for under a grand, I was paying north of £1200 + CT + bills and that was well over five years ago. I remember paying about £700-800 for a room in a flatshare, though.
>> No. 30238 Anonymous
4th June 2020
Thursday 11:36 pm
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Is it just me or do all jobs feature two related problems that make everyone's lives more stressful:

- One team/individual that you have to work with closely will be roadblocks to any progress being made. They won't just limit themselves to (unproductively) attacking any new initiatives you, or anyone else, tries but will make even the basics of your work difficult. If work goes into their inbox, that they absolutely must do, it will be done late and only with the bare minimum of effort which, again, ensures that nothing gets done.

- Said team/individual will have a habit of not only going over your head but also your managers, your bosses boss will be someone who caves immediately and doesn't recognise the breach created. As a result neither you nor your boss can do your job properly because you can't trust the chain of command to have your back. Everyone just comes to accept that they're not worth the effort of dealing with and nothing gets done, corporate culture becomes ossified.

I left my last job in part because I felt my bosses boss didn't have my back and I couldn't do my job as a result. It's not that everyone in the team will be unhelpful but it normally stems from someone in a management position who will actively sabotage work and know multiple ways that they can do this. I used to think I was the problem but I've increasingly seen it go on with other people who either take over from me when I leave or will try to do some work with them.

Beyond patience, trying to get face to face time in and keeping a record of everything you ask of them I'm at a loss on what else to do. I don't understand how someone can come into work everyday and be like this, it seems exhausting.
>> No. 30239 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 11:14 am
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>>30238
Seems like you are the problem if it is happening everywhere you work. Why do you have to rock the boat? Just come in, do you work, and let others do their work.
>> No. 30240 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 11:19 am
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>>30238

>I left my last job in part because I felt my bosses boss didn't have my back and I couldn't do my job as a result.

This is where the real difficulty in management work lies. Half the hassle is dealing with your staff, the other half is dealing with your counterparts and superiors.

You have to play the game, most offices I've had the displeasure of working in are more politically complex than fucking Westeros. While you shouldn't blame yourself for this shite state of affairs, ultimately it is you who needs to get better at being a force to reckon with.

That or get the fuck out of management before it drains your very soul out. I'd reccommend that course of action.
>> No. 30241 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 4:09 pm
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*bang bang bang bang bang*
>> No. 30242 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 8:27 pm
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>>30241
Are they still doing construction work outside your flat, m8?
>> No. 30243 Anonymous
5th June 2020
Friday 8:49 pm
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My phone had a feature to easily mute WhatsApp for a while but an update seems to have removed it.
>> No. 30244 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:10 am
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I'm just going to write "necessarily" on my arm in permanant marker and be done with it.
>> No. 30245 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:24 pm
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>>30242
I'm not him but I am constructionworklad.

It's been 4 months and they haven't even got off the ground yet. They're building flats.
>> No. 30246 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 12:39 pm
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>>30244
I don't understand how I can just never ever ever remember. It's infuriating.
>> No. 30247 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 4:23 pm
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>>30242
It's the time of year for leaving your window open but then the wind starts knocking the shit out of it. As a result you have to sweat your bollocks off in video-calls at work.
>> No. 30248 Anonymous
6th June 2020
Saturday 4:30 pm
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>>30246
I finally learned to spell it this year, I don't know how.

>>30247
You can just tie a loose knot in the curtain or tuck it into the bar.
>> No. 30249 Anonymous
7th June 2020
Sunday 11:51 pm
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Rarely I make the mistake of posting a comment on YouTube, very rarely that comment becomes popular and then I have to hear about it forever. I know I could disable it but my brain lies to me and tells me I could miss something important that way.
>> No. 30250 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 7:42 am
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>>30249

No important information has ever been dispensed by the YouTube comments section.
>> No. 30251 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 8:09 am
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>>30249
You've just made one of their data scientists' day.
>> No. 30252 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 1:38 pm
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Just found out one of my (now former) friends from uni is alt-right, and made the mistake of getting into an argument with them about the SO CALLED TOLERANT LEFT.

By me running out of energy and deleting them, it feels like I've proven their point, but they were at the point of defending Hitler's economic policy, so I gave it up as a lost cause. Still, I'm now one more NPC leftist who can't handle different positions to them.
>> No. 30253 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 1:40 pm
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>>30249
I have a video that from time to time gets picked by The Algorithm™. It's of a Japanese video game, and the resultant flood of comments about anime shite I don't know or care about is always an annoyance. Though, I keep the comments on because of the validation.
>> No. 30254 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 1:43 pm
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>>30252

You have to remember that either these people are thick as fuck and don't understand the arguments they've picked up off the internet, or are arguing in bad faith - either way engaging them changes nothing and is a waste of your time.
>> No. 30255 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 2:00 pm
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>>30252
I'm not being a dick, because I understand how exhausting it can be speaking with these people, but didn't you prove his point?

You couldn't handle his opinion so you deleted him?
>> No. 30256 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 2:03 pm
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>>30252
I can't tell if this post is a parody.
>> No. 30257 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 2:07 pm
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>>30256
I too had this, I can't work out what's satire anymore.
>> No. 30258 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>30255
Why is anyone obliged to argue with someone about why Hitler is a good person? Why should anyone have to waste their time on that? Why argue with someone who believes the sky is orange, or that two plus two is five? Why bother having intellectual debate with someone who has reached that point by being so catastrophically and obviously wrong?
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8th June 2020
Monday 3:14 pm
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>>30258
>Why bother having intellectual debate with someone who has reached that point by being so catastrophically and obviously wrong?

Look what happens when you don't.
>> No. 30260 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 3:20 pm
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>>30258
>Why should anyone have to waste their time on that? Why argue with someone who believes the sky is orange, or that two plus two is five? Why bother having intellectual debate with someone who has reached that point by being so catastrophically and obviously wrong?

Welcome to the internet.
>> No. 30261 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 3:25 pm
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>>30258

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
>> No. 30262 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 3:45 pm
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>>30261
Wow do you think you could have misread the meaning of that poem any more?
>> No. 30263 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 4:52 pm
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I've just turf'd my back garden and now my back and knees are fucked.
I just want to cease to exist for a few days.
>> No. 30264 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 6:16 pm
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>>30255
I haven't spoken to her in a good couple of years. She defended Hitler. I deleted her.

I'm unsure what's to parody.

I'm not a member of the tolerant left. I'm intolerant of anyone who defends the far-right.
>> No. 30265 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 6:45 pm
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>>30264

If she's calling you the "so called tolerant left" and you coudn't tolerate her right wing views, you have certainly proved her point.

Whether it matters or not, I don't think it does. You should have just told her to fuck off though and left her on read after that.
>> No. 30266 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 7:01 pm
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I've worn my waterproof coat twice today. On the second occasion I could feel damp sweat in the sleeves from wearing it earlier.
>> No. 30267 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 7:16 pm
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>>30265

You're a member of the "so called people with deep purple fingers". Do you have deep purple fingers? No? Just proves my point. Accusing someone of being a member of the "so called tolerant left" is just trying to control their behaviour and force them to tolerate your own deeper and wider intolerance. They can fuck off.
>> No. 30268 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>30264

Could you be clear: was she defending Hitler, or was she defending one/some of his economic policies? They are two different things and people often conflate anything outside of 'Hitler was the worst person' as the former.
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8th June 2020
Monday 8:28 pm
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>>30267

You don't sound very tolerant.
>> No. 30270 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 10:23 pm
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>>30269

That's fine.
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8th June 2020
Monday 10:45 pm
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>>30262

I haven't at all. The point of the poem is that it is a slippery slope as soon as you start letting transgressions slip. Today you had a chance to try talk a fascist down from their position. Tomorrow when they turn up you might very not have a chance to.

Eternal vigilance is the price we have to pay for freedom.

Eternal vigilance is the price we have to pay for freedom.
>> No. 30272 Anonymous
8th June 2020
Monday 11:07 pm
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I've got so much to do but I just can't be arsed. The problem with working from home is you think to yourself "eh, I'll just do some work tonight" but you never do so work just builds up. The next 6-8 months is going to be a struggle for me as I try to avoid getting fired for not doing any work.

>>30268
Let's not forget that he pioneered the use cacti in interior decorating. I'm not saying it's perfect but they do add a feeling of sterile cleanliness to a white room.

>>30271
How come this stuff never applies to other countries? I'm not being argumentative, I'm trying to square the circle on how we can let nations commit ethnic cleansing and get away with it in the 21st century. In a way I guess it is much the same predicament you get if you believe in a duty to prevent losses of human life wherever possible but that if you actually do this the sheer burden would crush you.

Also I think you're being a bit of a melodramatic fanny. At least you didn't report her for hate speech.
>> No. 30273 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 7:48 am
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>>30271

>Today you had a chance to try talk a fascist down from their position.

The original post was that she defended his economic policy, which has then jumped to her defending him, and now being a fascist. By the sounds of it, she probably just liked the big swing towards privatization.

Promote that poem all you like, but if you're throwing the term fascist around to everyone that owns a cactus, likes Speer's architecture, or thinks one specific policy was justifiable then I would point you to 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. The Soviets were scared and killed many of their own, largely because their entire system was designed to make the slightest transgression a gulagable offence. If you want to find a fascist, you will.

If she turns out to have fully supported Hitler and the Nazi regime, which I doubt, there's no need to argue with a lunatic. If she's arguing that a policy/policies were good then feel free to listen and challenge, and even agree. 'Eternal vigilance' is a wonderful excuse to keep making trouble where there is none. As the SS and the KGB demonstrate.
>> No. 30274 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 9:50 am
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>>30272
>Let's not forget that he pioneered the use cacti in interior decorating.
That is arguably a greater atrocity than the ones he's usually credited with.
>> No. 30275 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 10:02 am
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I'm the original lad, and and no point did I say anything about economic policy. You lot just wanted to hear that.

The debate got into Candace Owens territory, whom our far-right friend believed was "speaking her truth". Candace Owens said there was nothing wrong with Hitler's nationalism, only his expansionist plans. This is the point she was defending.

Her far right mates had also jumped into the comments thread, and so many dumb points were being made at such a rate there was no point in my continuing to argue - the chess board was firmly shat all over. She and they were claiming that the media has an 'extreme left' bias: yes, even the Murdoch ones, and alt-right "NPC" and frog memes were being posted. At that point, what could I do? There was no way I was talking them out of it. What would the right course have action been? Spend hours arguing with gigabytes of NPC memes and Nazi sympathisers?
>> No. 30276 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 10:45 am
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>>30275

>I'm the original lad, and and no point did I say anything about economic policy. You lot just wanted to hear that.

Assuming I've not made an idiot of myself, you wrote in >>30252:

>but they were at the point of defending Hitler's economic policy

It sounds like you got yourself into a cesspit and were right to remove yourself. At the same time, it looks like you're not very good at discerning the actual subject: we've had economic policy, then defending Hitler, then defending his nationalism but not his expansionism— then accusing them of being Nazi sympathisers.
>> No. 30277 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 10:47 am
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>>30276
Yeah, no, you're right. I've made a right cunt of myself; wouldn't be the first time.

The comments were in support of Candace's comments. I'll leave it at that.
>> No. 30278 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 10:56 am
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This cunt off was so tedious even I didn't weigh in. And I'm involved in all the cunt offs around here.

Sort yourselves out, lads.
>> No. 30279 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 11:10 am
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>>30278

>cunt off was so tedious even I didn't weigh in

>I'm involved in all the cunt offs around here

No true cunt-off fallacy.
>> No. 30280 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 11:24 am
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>>30278
I started enjoying coming here a lot more when I just refused to get in a cunt off or reply more than once.

Once you realise you'll never change their mind and even if you write something worthy of it they just stop responding, you realise how pointless it all is.
>> No. 30282 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 11:54 am
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>>30280

We all kind of enjoy an argument on some level I think. That's why I'll usually just drop it and stop replying when I'm bored; but I admit that I relish poking someone if they become immediately defensive.

Persuading the other person is never my intention, but I feel it would be remiss to allow a bad post to go unchallenged on here. I've been coming here a lot of years and there are sometimes posts so well thought out its basically informed all I know about a certain subject. We have a duty to keep the standards high.
>> No. 30283 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 12:06 pm
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>>30280
I never get seriously involved in a proper cunt off in here but I do like trying to see if I can derail them into silliness and nonsense. I've not actually done it in a long time on here as there's just too many cunt offs to keep up with and a proper derail involves throwing a spanner in just the right cog at just the right time.

Most cunt offs are boring shite although the pettier the more entertaining imo. Sage for serious business.
>> No. 30284 Anonymous
9th June 2020
Tuesday 10:02 pm
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I've been trying not to rewatch anything lately, but I really wanted to rewatch Fargo series 1, so I compromised to watch Cardinal because it was about crime and in the snow. But, Jesus Christ, it was so cliche I thought "I may as well be rewatching something"; gruff older bloke copper, formally married, an unrecognised genius-outcast to boot, a younger woman partner, she's a rookie, she's got a fella' who's obviously going to feel neglected and insecure as the case drags on. Fuck off.
>> No. 30285 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:14 pm
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Vanessa Feltz on Radio 2 playing Gangnam Style. I guess this is what hell is.
>> No. 30286 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:19 pm
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Oh, no. It's Winkleman. Now she's playing Sex Bomb.
>> No. 30287 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>30286

Winkleman can do what she likes to me, or on the radio.
>> No. 30288 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 8:08 pm
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>>30284

I rather enjoyed Cardinal. The premise is a bit formulaic, but they do some very interesting things with it.
>> No. 30289 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 8:35 pm
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That bit in your life where you realise Radio 2 is targeted at you. It's not a great moment.
>> No. 30290 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>30288
Maybe I just wasn't in the mood. Might give it another shot tonight or tomorrow.
>> No. 30291 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 9:37 pm
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There was a mosquito acting like a big man today because I have a high ceiling and it assumed I wouldn't be able to reach it. I reckon I even heard it say an anti-human slur from how confident it was sitting above my wardrobe.

Well let me tell you; that little shit didn't look so smug when I grabbed the mop and mashed it up with the thick end. Only, big mistake, the mosquito had already bitten me and has now smudged a massive bloodstain on my white ceiling. I reckon I will have to see if I can scrub it off with my mop at the weekend because I don't know how I'm going to explain that one to the landlord. I can't even reach it on a chair.
>> No. 30292 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>30289

I remember a tweet or meme or something from about five years along the lines of "you know you're old when the music playing in Asda is from your teenage years".

I recently found myself humming along to an RHCP song in there. Horrific.
>> No. 30293 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 10:59 pm
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>>30292

For me it's when the younger ones at work put on a radio station like Kiss, and the obligatory "old school anthems" bit they do is all tunes that used to be on Galaxy when we used to cruise about in my mates Fiesta at 17. And I'm only 30.

Ageing is weird. Time gets all funny and stretched. I find myself thinking about things in terms of "kids these days, pff" but at the same time I internally think of myself in the same way, more or less, that I did when I was about 16-19. People look at my driving license photo and tell me it's shocking but as far as I can tell the only difference is I've got more beard and a respectably developing beer belly now.
>> No. 30294 Anonymous
10th June 2020
Wednesday 11:20 pm
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>>30291
I enjoyed this.
>> No. 30295 Anonymous
11th June 2020
Thursday 12:42 am
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>>30293

>Time gets all funny and stretched.

Absolutely. I have memories at 15 and 16 that seem like yesterday, but most of my mid to late twenties seem a lifetime ago, despite me only turning 30 last year.

I don't know if everyone gets this, or if I just have arrested development or something, but someone referring to me as "that man" or not ID'ing me or similar really trips my brain up for a split second as I think "what the fuck, I'm just a teenager", I'm most certainly an adult and spend most of my time in a shed thinking about engines, but somewhere in my subconscious on some level, I guess I'm still 15. Maybe it's because I'm not married with kids like the majority of my peers.
>> No. 30296 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 10:30 am
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My nose is partly blocked so it feels like I'm getting half my lungs full each breath which is quite stressful.

Is this normal or do I need to see a doctor?
>> No. 30297 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 11:20 am
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I'm 50 and still feel like I did when I was 15. I think it's normal for a lot of people.

Soon you get to that bit where you can't recognise any of the people in the music charts, or the names of famous footballers, but other than that getting old is just great.
>> No. 30298 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 11:27 am
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There's a show on CBBC called Show Me What You're Made Of. They get a group of middle class kids and make them do a couple of days of manual labour, things like fruit picking or working in a textile factory. The kids whine all the way through it, mess up the job they're supposed to be doing and then ask some Eastern European migrant questions like how can they stand to live in a shitty cramped caravan and pick fruit all day for a living. I know what they're aiming for with the show, but a lot of it horribly misfires.
>> No. 30299 Anonymous
13th June 2020
Saturday 12:26 pm
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>>30298
It's not just about the job though - it's the fact they are the consumers of the goods they produce, hence the name of the programme.
>> No. 30302 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 9:17 am
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I have come to an important decision in my life - Yorkshire Gold Tea is the best tea, and I should fight anyone who disagrees.

This is pissing me off though, as its more expensive than other types, and doesn't come in those fuck-off-massive bags at Costco.
>> No. 30304 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 1:08 pm
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I was trying to find a piece of music and while doing so listened to something that I thought might be it, but was not. However, that piece of music has obliterated what I was looking for from my mind.
>> No. 30306 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 4:17 pm
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>>30302
>This is pissing me off though, as its more expensive than other types, and doesn't come in those fuck-off-massive bags at Costco.

I too have fallen into the dreaded Yorkshire trap. They initially get people hooked on the cheap stuff, free samples outside the school gates and at dinner parties. Once they have enough people in the first hole they put gold blend on sale and you think "ooh, maybe just for this month I'll be a bit fancy" - but next thing you know the only way you can have a brew is by shoving teabags up your arse and pouring boiling water down your Japs eye to filter through.

Not even once, lads. There's no turning back.
>> No. 30307 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 5:38 pm
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>>30302

Have you tried Co-op 99 tea? It's by far my favourite. Strong, bold and malty with a deep ruby red colour. It's also fair trade and the bags are plastic-free, which is nice.
>> No. 30308 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 6:38 pm
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Dropped the cunting lid when draining the bastard rice and it's all down the sink, I've no rice left so now I'm paying for fucking Nandos.
>> No. 30309 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 6:39 pm
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>>30308
Actually Nandos can fuck off too if they think I'm paying '5 pound small order fee'
>> No. 30310 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 6:42 pm
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>>30308
Rice shouldn't need draining.
>> No. 30311 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 7:02 pm
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>>30310
Yeah well I added too much water like a cunt so it needed draining, serves me right for abandoning the old cup of rice two cup water ratio and just filling up the pan.
>> No. 30312 Anonymous
16th June 2020
Tuesday 7:45 pm
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>> No. 30313 Anonymous
17th June 2020
Wednesday 2:24 pm
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>>30306
>They initially get people hooked on the cheap stuff, free samples outside the school gates and at dinner parties.

This is LITERALLY HOW THEY GOT ME. I went to Lords one fine Saturday, with a London-orbital-hangover, and during one of the breaks I found a small marketing caravan, which was giving cups of the stuff away. I had never had it before, but drank about 10 and it fully restored me. TRUFAX.
>> No. 30314 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 11:55 am
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Microsoft has had one of those moments where it has decided to lock me out of my account and the only way to 'prove' my identity is to give them more personal data and let them form links between my different accounts to profile me. Fortunately it is only skype and therefore I shall not lose any sleep over the loss.
>> No. 30315 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 12:05 pm
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>>30314

When you compare them with competitors such as Google you see it's really poor. Microsoft seems so clunky and outdated to me.
>> No. 30316 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 12:36 pm
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>>30315

I agree. I used Skype mostly to talk to the over 50s, fortunately they have all decided they like zoom so I think I might finally be free.
>> No. 30317 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 5:59 pm
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>>30314

Tell me about it. I have an @outlook.com email address that I'll apparently never be able to get into again. There's not even an option of being able to send in a scan of your passport or anything. It's simply a case of "you're shit out of luck lad, say bye bye to those years of emails and memories".
>> No. 30318 Anonymous
18th June 2020
Thursday 8:24 pm
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>>30316
And let's be honest, the user experience of Zoom is fucking brilliant. I haven't used it tons, but every time I have I'm impressed by how easy it gets going, and then the video, particularly the audio quality is spectacular compared to things like Webex or Teams.
>> No. 30319 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 12:20 am
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>>30318

Since the lockdown started, I've had a lot of conversations with non-technical managers who have suddenly realised the importance of user experience. Other video conferencing apps do work, but they're just shitty enough that people would rather use e-mail or just do a conference call. They've twigged to the fact that software is never really "good enough" - either it's a pleasure to use or it's a total fucking nuisance. Problems that seem insignificant from a manager's perspective can totally destroy the productivity of people who use those tools all day by creating a constant stream of faff.
>> No. 30320 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 4:53 pm
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Great, now every insipid 'film disguised as a videogame' is going to have a token gay or gender bender character.
>> No. 30321 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>30320
Sounds like you don't like playing games you deem insipid anyway so I wonder why you care.
>> No. 30322 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 5:21 pm
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>>30317
I've got this probably with facebook.
I last used it about 2 PCs ago, long before the luxury of having chrome remember all my passwords.
I was pressured into getting back on it by colleagues solely for the group chat they have, but lo and behold facebook has decided I'm not me and has asked my for ID.

But the facial recognition thing they use can't read either my passport or driving licence, and it's completely fucking impossible to get through to a human. Even if I did create a new account it's almost certain that their automated systems would detect that it's a duplicate and lock me out of that one too.
>> No. 30323 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 5:28 pm
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>>30321
Because I foresee the trend seeping out and infecting games I enjoy playing.
>> No. 30324 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 5:53 pm
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Nothing winds me up more than ringing a giant company and them trying to avoiding speaking to you.

What winds me up more though is spending 15 minutes pressing buttons for them to say 'visit our website' then hanging up.
>> No. 30325 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 5:57 pm
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It's strange there is such a huge disconnect between game reviewers and the people who play them.
>> No. 30326 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:11 pm
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>>30325
I don't think your screenshot does much to demonstrate that. There's a tiny minority of players that take it upon themselves to leave bad reviews and jump on discontented bandwagons, sometimes without having even played the game and sometimes for slightly political purposes. You just need to remember screenshots like this to realise how much stock you should place in their stomping and screaming.
>> No. 30327 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:14 pm
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>>30325

Game reviewers became largly literature graduates a while ago as a result they are less concerned with the pleasure of the experience and more with narrative elements and storytelling, not that those things are bad in a game but tetris wouldn't be improved by either.

I suspect there is also an element of the 4chan about the user reviews from what I recall they consider it the shipping forecast that the main character is a lesbo.
>> No. 30328 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:17 pm
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>>30325
Metacritic scores are weighted, so they don't reflect an accurate aggregate. The User scores aren't weighted, so do. I doubt it's as bad as people are saying, but the complaints that seem legit are the games length and the subversive for subversion's sake plot. From what I've seen the combat is pretty much the same.
>> No. 30329 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:20 pm
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>>30327
I think their issue was that the villain is apparently trans (not sure if this is true tbh) and kills Joel.
>> No. 30330 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:20 pm
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>>30325

The user scores on Metacritic aren't particularly informative IME. Critics tend to approach a game on its own merits, while the user scores tend to boil down to a binary "I liked it" or "I didn't like it". I can't speak for The Last Of Us, but a lot of good games get mauled by the users for typical gamery brigading reasons - loot boxes, DLC, politics, you messed with the thing I like etc.
>> No. 30331 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:26 pm
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"This is a near-flawless baseball management game" vs "it's just a load of boring statistics about a boring sport".
>> No. 30332 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:27 pm
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>>30330
You think a game having gambling mechanics attached to it isn't a legit complaint?
>> No. 30333 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 6:39 pm
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>>30330
I don't know about Metacritic, but IMDb has a lot of this. It's either 8-10 "Brilliant! Life changing!" or 0-2 "complete time waster, kys, Mr Kubrick". I disagree that microtransactions, etc, are a bad reason to dislike a game and find that to be something professional reviewers, intentionally or otherwise, don't consider. Metacritic especially does attract a lot of /v/tard partisans though and as such I don't pay it much mind.
>> No. 30334 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 7:21 pm
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>>30332

It's a legitimate complaint, but I don't think it's a fair reflection of a game's quality if a load of people give it 0/10 just because they hate loot boxes. If a game is blatantly pay-to-win then it deserves a good slagging, likewise if they're charging full price for half a game just so they can sell DLC, but it doesn't really affect my enjoyment of a game if you have the option of spunking your pocket money on imaginary hats. In-game purchases are included in PEGI ratings, so these 0/10 reviews aren't telling me anything that isn't made clear on the box or the store page.
>> No. 30335 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>30334
Tangential, but I don't think loot boxes are yet they still come inder the "in game purchase" banner. However, the Govt is looking to get them regulated under gambling laws so they'll get removed probably.

I can't deny that I'd love to see EA and Activision squirm when they can't make a Billy off of Ultimate team, et al, every year, but I doubt it'll change how they do business. They'll probably just lay off a bunch of staff to make up for it.
>> No. 30336 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:10 pm
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>>30320
I'm convinced that the BBC switched to an AI writing it's sidebar of shame 10 years back. Even when it tries to get serious, like that one about the prisoner and guard in North Korea, it still feels like and stale and empty world.

That or it's the internet equivalent of a numbers station and normal people aren't supposed to read the articles.

>>30323
>>30325
>Because I foresee the trend seeping out and infecting games I enjoy playing.

Let's be honest, the videogame industry treats its consumers with contempt and probably do this to annoy people.

Every few years you might see a developer make something people want but those are quickly bought up by EA so that they can run another franchise in the ground.

>>30329
It's a woman but they just bolted some tiny tits on a male model. I'm not joshing, people got confused by this.
>> No. 30337 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:18 pm
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>>30330
>Critics tend to approach a game on its own merits

Bribes and coercion aren't merits.
>> No. 30338 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 8:36 pm
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>>30330

Isn't that the thing though, if people don't like those things, they can say so?

Their critique isn't valid because somebody wrote a nice cutscene or whatever.
>> No. 30339 Anonymous
19th June 2020
Friday 10:41 pm
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>>30338

It's fine to not like things, but that doesn't mean that the thing is bad. There are loads of games with niche appeal like Football Manager or Farming Simulator that either bore you to tears or become a total obsession; professional critics are usually detached enough to say "this isn't my sort of thing, so I'm not going to review it" rather than slagging off a game just because it isn't to their taste.

People are entirely within their rights to give a game 0/10 if they don't like it, but they're not contributing to a useful review score unless that game is genuinely a totally worthless piece of shit that nobody on earth would want to play.

More broadly, I think we have a slightly unhealthy preoccupation with quantitative versus qualitative ratings. I generally find the subjective and experiential reviews in outlets like Rock Paper Shotgun to be a more useful guide to whether I'll like something.
>> No. 30340 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 1:00 am
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>>30339
The problem I have with a lot of the Last of Us reviews is they all say similar things, but the scores vary because the reviewer doesn't actually pic the score the Editor does.

Themes include:
-not fun to play
-murder porn
-gameplay about same as before

And yet it's probably gonna win GOTY. I guess my idea of what makes a game good is different, but I have long harboured the suspicion that game reviewers fail down to the job rather than aspire to it and would much rather be reviewing movies, books or doing actual journalism, but they're too fucking thick to break the glass ceiling.

How can there only be two credible investigative games journalists; Jason Schrier and a fat bloke off YT who collects pissing boglins?
>> No. 30341 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 3:02 am
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>>30340

Because it's games. Were there serious movie critics in the 1920s? Actual question btw, not trying to smugly pontificate.

I think they're just too young as a medium (and too inherently corporate/consumer oriented) to warrant or attract proper criticism and cultural significance yet. For all the indie games and Kojima blockbusters pretending to be art, it's all still too mass media and commercial.

I'm not trying to get into a "are games art" debate either, because obviously I think they can be, it's just a different context. When Picasso painted a new picture, it didn't sell 5,000,000 prints on launch night and go to the top of the Cubist Sales Chart. So games are an inherently different position, they still have far too much in common with action figures or Nike trainers.

As a result most game journos are just plain hacks, and I don't think there's much else to it. They'll do a good score if you bung them a few quid and a VIP pass to the next E3, because mostly they're just in the business of selling copies. But even that gravy train is coming to an end, as a new generation of YouTubers has come to prominence; and those guys are genuine amateurs.

At first it seemed like they would restore honesty and integrity to game journalism, but what we failed to anticipate is YouTube becoming even more lucrative (and more easily bribed) than the old gaming press. It's actually regressing instead of advancing.
>> No. 30342 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 2:52 pm
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20th June 2020
Saturday 2:53 pm
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>>30342
>first video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG2dXobAXLI
>> No. 30344 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 3:30 pm
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>>30341
>Because it's games. Were there serious movie critics in the 1920s? Actual question btw, not trying to smugly pontificate.

Even if there were only arselickers back then, videogaming has been around for more than 50 years in one form or another. If you only choose to chronicle games journalism from arguably its most influential period (the 90's), that's still a significant amount of time between then and now to learn from the best and worst critics of other media. It's just that there doesn't appear to be much of an incentive to do so.
>> No. 30345 Anonymous
20th June 2020
Saturday 4:14 pm
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>>30344

I think the kind of critics you got in the 90s was closer to car reviewers whereas now they are wannabe auteurs with the social baggage that comes along with that. The question "is the game fun?" got lost on the wayside.
>> No. 30346 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 1:26 am
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Just found out how "Reims" is pronounce; feel sick.
>> No. 30347 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 1:55 am
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>>30346

You'll be horrified when you find out how the Frenchies pronounce "Ypres".
>> No. 30349 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 12:00 pm
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>>30347
I already knew about that and it's fairly standard fare for the madness of the Frankish tongue, Reims is just beyond though. They might as well be using a different script altogether because the letters R-E-I-M-S do not make that sound.
>> No. 30352 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 1:40 pm
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>>30344

I was thinking more in terms of the maturity of games as a medium. They've been around for a while but for most of that time they've just been seen as a novelty, and after that as simply low brow (man)children's entertainment. It's only in recent years, the last ten to fifteen or so, that games have really been able to stand up as truly a medium of expression in their own right, and one that's suddenly a massive money spinner at that.

Did the film critics in the early days judge films in the same way we do today? Or were they most often looking at them as some sort of low-brow proletarian answer to the theatre? A simpleton's version of reading a book? Heck some people still see it that way. Game criticism has gone from a functional review as the otherlad said with his reference to car reviews, to cork sniffing art-house critique, in the space of more or less a decade. They're still finding their feet in that regard, but also they're still trying to make peace with the giant fuckoff elephant in the middle of the room that is the gigantic piles of money the industry makes.
>> No. 30354 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 2:27 pm
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"Priminister".

Not in the vimpto thread because it's a spelling rather than pronunciation thing.
>> No. 30356 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 2:50 pm
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>>30352
I think someone posted this picture on here before and it's always appropriate to bring it back up whenever games journalism gets brought up. It's always had an element of client journalism, just look at metacritic aggregates from what some critics/websites say versus what the public says, or the Kane and Lynch thing at Gamespot.

Aside from the question of the massive amount of money circulating in the industry, the newer form of game critic would be getting their money from somewhere (Where does it come from? Are they just a more intellectualised form of client journalist?), and have to spend a hell of a lot more time thinking about what it is they've just played and experienced to formulate the opinions they have. Just like a film critic, if your actual paid job is to go watch 10 cinema releases a week and think about them, your position is completely and utterly different to the general punter who might occasionally go see something that strikes their fancy because it's got Jeff Goldblum being great in it, when they'd otherwise spend a few hours on a Friday night just enjoying slouching and watching Netflix for a few hours.

We install a good RPG or a responsive and polished fast paced FPS for a bit of escapism, the mechanics have to be something we palpably feel to be impactful on the game. Beyond that, it's horses for courses as far as what each of us wants. I want a deep, interesting, lore-rich world of someone's imagination brought to life to immerse myself in for a few hours at a time, something that leaves you wondering "what if?", other people want and crave the more mechanical side of the equation. A critic can't really reconcile that unless the game is simply brilliant on all fronts.
>> No. 30357 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 3:44 pm
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I remember Jim Sterling I think it was making a point that the games review business is so within the grip of the publishers that those who make poor reviews of games are effectively blacklisted at the behest of these companies, so you're left with terrified or sycophantic yes men.
>> No. 30358 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 5:39 pm
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>>30356
Amiga Power was a very special magazine.
>> No. 30360 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 6:23 pm
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>>30352
>It's only in recent years, the last ten to fifteen or so, that games have really been able to stand up as truly a medium of expression in their own right, and one that's suddenly a massive money spinner at that.
>money spinner

I wouldn't refer to COD and Fifa as high-brow entertainment. Mobile games (where the real growth is) are novelty bullshit as well.

There's potentially games that cross into something else without being complete shite but they don't earn the money that Zombie pow-pow 3 or whatever earn and I'd be surprised if they break even. The game that started this whole discussion is some confused fever-dream about zombies that only spawned a franchise by tapping into the public's growing interest in mycology and the paternal instinct of male videogame players.

>Did the film critics in the early days judge films in the same way we do today?

Not when you have German Expressionism, Chaplin, Noir, Welles etc. The dynamics are quite different between the industries and, if anything, the movie industry has regressed into an infantile industry of superhero movies due to declining returns.

Here's the reviews of Asphalt:
>Fritz Walter, writing in the Berliner Börsen-Courier found the film's theme of the conflict between duty and love to be "the banality of the film script".[2] Lotte Eisner related to this statement, writing in 1965 that "Within this insipid plot Joe May occasionally remembers his artistic ambitions. Then we get the high-angle shot of the street where the young Fröhlich, the Führer of the crossroads, on duty as a policeman, dominates the traffic—a shot in which the German taste for ordered ornamentation comes through yet again"[2] Critic Siegfried Kracauers's review in Frankfurter Zeitung conversely commented that May "has all the finesse of his craft, he accomplishes all that he wants to. There are few prose writers that can convey the posh couple’s taxi ride as tightly as he does. Similarly, the wide shots are used and sustained with enormous strength of style, and the roaming camera is extremely skilled in the way it reveals human co-existence and spaces"[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_(1929_film)#Reception
>> No. 30361 Anonymous
22nd June 2020
Monday 6:25 pm
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This one is fun. Why did Nintendo not put enough effort into Yoshi's Island?
>> No. 30362 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 1:14 am
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I'm doing a security refresh course for having my work pass reactivated and it's so fucking mind numbing. 120 minutes of unskippable flash videos and a narrator that is so bereft of emotion I honestly can't tell if it's a synthesised voice or not. Some of the slides have a different companies logo on them, and there was a clipart picture of 9/11 at one point.
>> No. 30363 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 1:20 pm
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The mini watermelon I've got from Co-op is shit.
>> No. 30364 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 8:09 pm
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This fucking heat.
>> No. 30365 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>30364
I saw a goth today in a leather coat. The madman.
>> No. 30366 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 8:25 pm
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>>30363

The only good watermelon is a massive watermelon, served with a tiny little bit of salt.
>> No. 30367 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 8:49 pm
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As my Meaco fan broke and nowhere nearby was willing to touch it* I've had to buy a new one. £79 down the drain for what is in all likelihood a minor repair job with the fuse.

>>30363
>>30364
Get those watermelon ice lollies. Turned my day around.
>> No. 30368 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>30364
I've become one of those wankers who just pops his shirt off while out for a walk now but fuck it it's too hot I don't care. Fortunately there's not too many people about anyway.
>> No. 30369 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>30368
I had a lady jogger with large, almost pendulous, breasts go by me. She was wearing one of those tiny sports bras that did nothing to contain the jiggling and shorts that hugged to her well-toned arse. She was a bit short as well which only emphasised her feminine features.

Thing is, as we were coming towards each-other she had a smug look that she was enjoying the thought of the male eye. Probably thinking to herself "yeah, drool on, you' know you want this. Men notice my sexy body". Well fuck her presumptuous shit, I looked away. Little victories, lads. Little victories.
>> No. 30370 Anonymous
24th June 2020
Wednesday 11:22 pm
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>>30369

Whenever I find myself in that situation I instinctively yell "I'M GAY" in their face as I pass. Deny 'em even the satisfaction that you thought about looking.

Then I check out their arse over my shoulder.
>> No. 30371 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 9:06 am
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>>30367
I'm going to buy some ice lollies today. Good call.
>> No. 30372 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 9:14 am
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>>30371
Those polaretti icepops that Big Pop was shilling on another thread were great. Just bought another two boxes...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dolfin-Polaretti-Freezer-Lollies-60x40ml
>> No. 30373 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 9:23 am
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>>30372
Word filters?
>> No. 30374 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 9:29 am
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>>30373
oddly not. Have it with some kind of citizen tracking code on the end...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dolfin-Polaretti-Freezer-Lollies-60x40ml/dp/B07DNLC98Y
>> No. 30375 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 9:38 am
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>>30374
That's called the ASIN and is just how Amazon catalogue all their items.
>> No. 30376 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:11 am
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>>30375
Fair enough. Wouldn't it be more sensible to have it before the text in the URL, so when I'm deleting all the actual tracking stuff it's less tempting to strip it too?
Of course, if the 'share' bit of the page had a URL export, as well as email (that attempts to open a client I don't use), fb, pinterest and twatter, that'd be cool.
Anyway, buy icepops.
>> No. 30377 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:43 am
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>>30376
Yes, but then the very first part of the URL would NOT be the product name, and that would make it harder for search engines to find, index and put at the top. Amazon recently spent a lot of time cleaning up their URLs.

Have bought ice pops.
>> No. 30378 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:53 am
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>>30367
>As my Meaco fan broke and nowhere nearby was willing to touch it* I've had to buy a new one. £79 down the drain for what is in all likelihood a minor repair job with the fuse.

I discovered this morning that, after 2 weeks without a fan and taking the thing apart myself to find a fault, it was just the power-lead that had gone. This I only found out after buying a new one and trying the old cable.

I'm a fucking idiot. It might be sensible to return the new one and just buy another power-cable but I'm too embarrassed by my stupidity at this point. £80 down the drain. Maybe I'll pit my two fans against each other and see what happens. One hot air, one cold. I'll become tornado man, a defender of justice for all areas within easy reach of a power socket.
>> No. 30379 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 11:15 am
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>>30376
>Delete tracking stuff in URLs
Will you elaborate? What does the tracking stuff look like - is it those % marks and random string of characters you often find?
>> No. 30380 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 1:57 pm
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>>30379
Not % but anything that has a question mark. Remove that and anything that follows it.
>> No. 30383 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>30380
Good luck sharing a YouTube video if you try that.
>> No. 30384 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 3:22 pm
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>>30383
YouTube share URLs don't include a query string.
>> No. 30386 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 3:36 pm
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>>30384
It's extra clicks to use the share URL, I don't know why you'd ever use it on PC.


>> No. 30387 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 4:11 pm
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>>30383
I just assumed you'd also use common sense.
>> No. 30388 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:01 pm
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It's 10pm and it's still fucking 30 degrees in my living room.
>> No. 30389 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:08 pm
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>>30388
That'll teach you to live on a hill.
>> No. 30390 Anonymous
25th June 2020
Thursday 10:42 pm
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Landlords in London.

Half of the London graduate scene has gone back home to the parents and half of them are on furlough or being laid off.

I'm looking for a new flat with the girlfriend, landlords and agencies somehow think they can bluff us business is just fine despite the fact I'm sad enough to keep tracks of their specific properties on the markets and they're all going from 2-3 a time to well over 20-30. I also check the rentals in my area every day.

I've bumped into a few letting agents, one brutally honest, one retiring and very of the 'I don't give a fuck' variety and they've said how bad it is and we should low ball the landlord if we want the property, they can't do anything.

I did speak to one and they were so smarmy it pissed me off, we enquired about a room and suggested we might want to knock 20-30 quid a week off the rent and they said 'this isn't the kind of place that does rent reductions'.

Well good luck because you have a shitload of flats to fill in your development and if it's on the market for another two weeks you've lost more than it would have cost to give us a discount and get us in.
>> No. 30391 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 12:13 am
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It's too fucking hot, and I've run out of ice lollies.
>> No. 30392 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 1:06 am
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>>30388
Still 30 here. I left the house at 11 and it felt like I was stepping out into daytime with not only the heat but also all the people about.

It feels like we didn't have a proper winter this year. I hope the climate shits the bed and it snows tomorrow. Even a bit of heavy rain would be appreciated.

>>30391
Fill a water bottle put it in the freezer. Put squash in there and you have a nicer slush puppy. Just don't leave it in too long or you'll have to wait for it to melt.
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26th June 2020
Friday 1:12 am
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I thought the kids shouting and screaming earlier on were annoying, but now there's some skaghead having a full on withdrawal meltdown somewhere in the street because her boyfriend won't give her a tenner. Still too warm to shut the window.
>> No. 30394 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 5:14 pm
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Fucking windows update installed MicroSoft Edge onto my computer without me realising.

"You can't remove it, for a very good reason: Without it, how would you download your preferred web browser?"

I've 'uninstalled' it from the programs menu but the process was way to fast and unusual. I suspect it's already done damage.

Cunts.
>> No. 30395 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>30394
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/how-to-remove-microsoft-edge-from-windows-10-solved/#m1
>> No. 30396 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 5:47 pm
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The number of lighters I've gotten through this past year is unbelievable, is it just me, or are the flints attached in an even flimsier manner than they were before, or have I become cack handed?
>> No. 30397 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>30396
Out of curiosity what sort of lighters? I have been scouring the Earth for a butane/torch lighter that doesn't die within 6 months. In this day and age, this technology apparently does not exist.
>> No. 30398 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 6:10 pm
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>>30397

Those butane lighters seem to always be made poorly. I think they melt themselves from the inside. The only one I've ever had that has lasted is a Southern Comfort branded one that is shaped like an alligator (or crocodile, I dunno).

I like a Zippo but they are a faff. There's apparently a butane insert for them made by another company, Thunderbird, that are supposed to be fantastic, but they don't seem easy to get over here.
>> No. 30399 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 6:12 pm
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Regular flint disposables where the flint shears off before half the chamber's been used, a couple of clippers (yeah, I should really buy some more flints, though the opening of the spring chamber and sparking brace are for some reason harder to remove these days) that don't last 2 refills. I can even extend it to refillable electric lighters that only last a full chamber and an half, the sparking mechanism simply breaks really quickly. I used to be able to get a good 5 refills from an electric one before they went spongy.

I tend to smoke a pipe out of preference and despite people telling me to get a torch lighter, I don't like the heat, I like the process of the first light and then tamping down the char and having a solid half hour of good flavour. The smoke's supposed to be cooler from a pipe anyway, unless you're a heathen who actually enjoys the wet, horrible, red-hot burning cack like St Bernard, Condor, Clan and god forbid, Erinmore.
>> No. 30400 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 6:53 pm
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>>30399
Pipe tobacco is absolutely gorgeous.
>> No. 30401 Anonymous
26th June 2020
Friday 7:34 pm
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>>30400

Rough shag, though.
>> No. 30402 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 3:36 pm
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Lads how the fuck do you get on benefits now? I've been out of work for almost 6 months, during this period I've mostly been staying with a friend and helping them out with a lot, got a letter in the post today saying my claim has been rejected even though I've had no earnings for those 6 months. I'm going to contact them an ask for an explanation as all they said was "the law says we cannot pay you" but seriously, what fucking hoops do you have to jump through now? All I need is a little bit of income while applying around but there's shit all going at the moment. Do I just go homeless again? It's warm enough at least.
>> No. 30403 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 3:43 pm
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>>30402

Which benefit did you apply for? Unless you're not a British national or you have more than £16,000 in savings, you should be eligible for Universal Credit. I'd suggest giving Citizens Advice a ring, they're excellent on benefits stuff.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/contact-us/
>> No. 30404 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 4:43 pm
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>> No. 30405 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 5:01 pm
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>>30403
Cheers mate, I haven't claimed in many years, I tick all the boxes for that as well though so I'll give it a go.
>> No. 30406 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 6:23 pm
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Fucking friend hinting for me to wash her windows again. I just left the tools for her out back. Now I feel like a cunt.
>> No. 30407 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 7:46 pm
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>>30406
You'll be up a ladder looking into her bedroom window and she'll be in there naked waiting for you.
>> No. 30408 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 7:53 pm
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>>30407
Been there, done that. Her pussy is sour as dough.
>> No. 30409 Anonymous
27th June 2020
Saturday 8:27 pm
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I've just discovered the term 'acts of service' which is one of the 5 ways of affection in a relationship. I don't understand it and therefore I hate it. If I hold the door for someone or do the dishes (so long as they're not taking the piss) I do it because I'm supposed to do it, that's basic common decency, what the fuck.

There's a quiz:
https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/

I always assumed I would be a gifter. I'm like a sparrow in a relationship.

>>30407
He was right to run away. I've watched enough raunchy comedies to know that he will only end up falling off the ladder - perhaps even getting the wrong window and catching Mr Friend in the shower.

Health and safety: it's not just for the workplace.
>> No. 30410 Anonymous
28th June 2020
Sunday 1:12 pm
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Okay Liverpool, you've had your fun now.

>> No. 30412 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 6:53 am
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Gathering data so I can negotiate my VM price down again. Got the package almost to what I want, then removing the phone line adds £30 while downgrading the TV service and just adding bits I want adds £19.

I know I'm not good at maths this early in the morning, but I'm sure that would be paying more for less.
>> No. 30413 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 8:21 pm
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Think my delivery driver got a bit lost.
>> No. 30414 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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What a heap of shite he keeps spouting. Not even a hint of any useful green recovery options - not even funding for home heating and insulation retrofits? That would benefit people, create installation jobs, improve energy efficiency, help carbon targets...
>> No. 30415 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 10:08 pm
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>>30414
Yeah but he's going to build a bridge around London so we wont need to drive through the channel tunnel any more.
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30th June 2020
Tuesday 10:15 pm
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Yeah, but he's the new FDR! It means fuck all unless banks are made to lend at rates to SMEs at amounts and rates to make it almost like government bonded money. Bounceback loans need to be granted, grants for businesses need to be massively extended. It's Keynes.

Piss all in that speech to suggest anything spectacular at all though, considering the Brexit and CV-19 slump, following a decade of record low interest rates for govt. borrowing, so therefore cutting every public service to the bone while still somehow outsourcing every fucking job at long-term 3 to 4 times the cost of in house, times we're in. House building for instance is mentioned, those blocks on building are only there because Thatcher centralised the hell of the fiscal independence of local authorities, so they had to suckle her teats for more.

>but under this government we also applaud those who make our NHS possible, our innovators, our wealth creators, our capitalists and financiers, because in the end it is their willingness to take risks with their own money that will be crucial for our future success.

Nothing's been learned. Nothing.
>> No. 30417 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 10:18 pm
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Fuck the government.
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30th June 2020
Tuesday 11:18 pm
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>>30414
Seems a bit silly considering all the money the government is already investing for Net Zero etc. We had cavity wall and loft insulation 10 years ago and from what I remember it was a shambles.

I for one am sceptical of splurges in general. It might make the markets happy but big money is inefficient and gives tunnel-vision to macroeconomics - money should be sustained as a smaller revenue stream over a long period. That is what the economy needs to get shit done.

>>30416
I'd like to complain about people putting too much optimism in SMEs, something politicians lap up. Brittelstand already exists but blokes in white vans don't build HS2 and when it's a family operations that is little capacity for growth. It's a silly way of looking at a nation's economy where you need a toolbox rather than a spanner.

Why are you lads putting this in the /101/ thread.
>> No. 30419 Anonymous
30th June 2020
Tuesday 11:27 pm
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>>30418

>Seems a bit silly

I know it sounds silly, but it's about the only power I have as an individual. And I don't want to dump it on people in real life, I'd sound mad. Net Zero will be difficult so people have to keep the pressure up.

Admittedly it's out of self interest mostly - I like the natural world it's upsetting seeing old people (i.e. my mum's generations) getting to retire in a time of incomparable peace after they've shuffled massive environmental issues down the road since before I was born. I do try to enjoy myself but there's not many places to vent when you get to thinking a lot.
>> No. 30420 Anonymous
1st July 2020
Wednesday 12:48 am
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>>30418
>Why are you lads putting this in the /101/ thread.

Can we not have a minor rant at the government here?

Many pubs and eateries across the country are facing closure due to ongoing premises costs not having holidays (some charges have, not all), most of those facing closure are SMEs. Businesses like those are almost surely guaranteed to generate god knows how much VAT for the government a year. I agree with the white van men, I know of some who were ineligible for a single penny of grant money for failing to submit full tax returns because their business account, often personal current account, couldn't be meaningfully accounted for. A one man band house improvement/roofing company doesn't really add much, but a larger firm that could do with extra plant to take on a larger role could.

Anyway, I was pissed off when I lived in a shared house of 4 and only me and one other guy left the shower head at a neutrally positioned height from which we all had to adjust and could comfortably reach, and the other guy who was a beanpole and some small lass would leave it at their respective heights. Being asked to reach the shower head for shortlass after repeatedly asking beanpole to reset the position didn't work just added a needless routine to check on the bloody shower head.
>> No. 30421 Anonymous
1st July 2020
Wednesday 8:33 am
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>>30417
Fuck mini Babybel.
>> No. 30422 Anonymous
4th July 2020
Saturday 9:58 pm
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They've changed the start menu tile for Calculator and I hate it.
>> No. 30423 Anonymous
4th July 2020
Saturday 10:46 pm
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Virgin Media. Are talktalk or BT any good?
>> No. 30424 Anonymous
4th July 2020
Saturday 11:35 pm
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>>30423

The tangible difference is roughly akin to getting a bloke who's fucking your arse to wear a different hat.
>> No. 30425 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 10:37 am
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This fucking construction site is driving me off the edge. I've just caught myself standing at the window screaming at them. It's just a constant, deafening noise that goes straight through my ear defenders, wakes me up at stupid times, and doesn't FUCKING END.

I can't get any fucking work done.

The earliest I can move out is the middle of August.
>> No. 30426 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 1:56 pm
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>>30425
There's a book called The Monkey Wrench Gang you may enjoy reading, as you're up.
>> No. 30427 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 5:24 pm
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Why can't any PPE or uniform supplier work out that when a trouser's waist size increases, at a certain point, you absolutely do not need to proportionally increase the leg width too. It is surely far more common to need a 46" waistband because you're fat, rather than because you're literally built like a series of tree trunks.
>> No. 30428 Anonymous
6th July 2020
Monday 6:37 pm
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>>30427

I used to have the inverse problem; I couldn't buy jeans that'd fit my tree-trunk legs unless they had a waist a good 4-6" larger than I needed. I used to complain but I didn't know how good I had it. Now I'm just a fat cunt and I can't find clothes that fit my fat arse, my fat waist, or my fat fucking legs.
>> No. 30429 Anonymous
7th July 2020
Tuesday 9:29 am
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>>30427

People hold their fat differently you might be all bulge in the middle but there are people who hold it in their thighs and arse. They need to hedge their bets to make clothes that have a reasonable chance of fitting people who are over weight.
>> No. 30438 Anonymous
11th July 2020
Saturday 2:22 pm
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People who are too effusive about the disabled and go out of their way to single them out for special treatment.
>> No. 30441 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 8:21 am
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I hope every single cunt at the building site never gets a solid night's sleep ever again. Why the fuck so the cunts even need to start so early?

On that note /101/ the entirety of Western society for being skewed so early in the FUCKIJG morning. I'm not awake until well into he afternoon, and so my entire life is just a series of forcing myself to be up well before I'm ready. It's not like that can be remedied by working late or night shifts, because everything else is skewed towards the sort of insufferable cunts that are up and about at 6am: case in point, those FUCKING SHIT CUNTS across the road. I've been told by multiple people to "just get up earlier", like that's something I can do. God help you if you need to get something from the post office, for example.

Also, fuck modern buildings for have having practically useless insulation. It sounds like I'm on the fucking building site.
>> No. 30442 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 10:49 am
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>>30441

I feel your pain lad.

There's been talk at work of putting in a night shift and all my colleagues are pissing and moaning about it as they do about any changes, and I've told them all not to worry, I'll do permanent nights if they want. For me, waking up at 6 is just ad disruptive to my body clock as it would be for them to stay up all night. Some people are just naturally night owls and our society is horrifically racist against such people.

It's one of many chips on my shoulder honestly. Jokes on them, I'll be making time and a half what they do if I work nights and they stubbornly stick to their routine.
>> No. 30443 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:13 am
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>>30442
> our society is horrifically racist against such people.

Not only that, but morning people are all such smug cunts about it; like they are better than you because they got up at a different time.
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14th July 2020
Tuesday 11:25 am
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I ate a whole packet of garibaldis before bed last night and now it hurts when I breath in.
>> No. 30445 Anonymous
14th July 2020
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>30444

a parable for our age.
>> No. 30446 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 12:44 pm
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My girlfriend doesn't believe in preheating the oven. She also complains that food always takes longer to cook than the instructions say.
>> No. 30447 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 1:18 pm
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>>30446
Preheating is a conspiracy spearheaded by big gas and big electric.
>> No. 30448 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 1:22 pm
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>>30446
Tell her it's like foreplay. You have to preheat the oven before you slip your meat in otherwise it'll come out dry and chewy.
>> No. 30449 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 3:52 pm
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>>30446
>My girlfriend doesn't believe in preheating the oven.
Are you dating Jez from Peep Show?
>> No. 30450 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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Let's say you preheat the oven. It takes 10 minutes to heat up and 20 minutes to cook = the oven is on for 30 minutes.

Let's say you don't preheat the oven. It takes 25 minutes to cook.

That's a saving of 5 minutes, or 16.67%. Big Appliance are laughing at you.
>> No. 30451 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 5:10 pm
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>>30450

It also means your food is slowly brought up to temperature for the first 10 or so minutes, which at best makes food less crispy/more soggy and at worse increases the risk of food poisoning.
>> No. 30452 Anonymous
15th July 2020
Wednesday 11:27 pm
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Wikipedia's "History of the British canal system" article is a mess.
>> No. 30453 Anonymous
16th July 2020
Thursday 12:56 am
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>>30452
Every canal and boat I have ever visited is a joy to me. I think it is one of those bits of our heritage and culture we will discover too late.
>> No. 30454 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 11:08 am
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Mucky cunts who greb all over the sink/shower/bath without washing it away afterwards. The number of times I've gone to fill a sink only to see the contents of someone's airways half clinging to the basin and half flapping away in the water.
>> No. 30455 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 2:19 pm
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>>30454
I don't understand people who spit, at all.
>> No. 30456 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 2:21 pm
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>>30455
Toothpaste swallower.
>> No. 30457 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 2:27 pm
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Saw a Tweet (I know, I've only myself to blame) complaining "non-fiction books are just information that could fit in an artcle spread over 300 pages". Can't stop thinking about the horribleness of it. Sorry, Pliny the Elder, you're saying it's the sum total all humanity has learnt about the natural world up to and including this moment in time, is it? Could you just give me the highlights. Fucking ingrates.
>> No. 30458 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 3:40 pm
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>>30457
reminds me of apps like blinkist, read a book in 10 minutes!

some people would rather read pithy quotes from a book than actually embiggen their mind by reading the bloody book.
>> No. 30459 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 3:47 pm
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>>30458

But if you don't know the quotes, how are you supposed to prove to people who well-read you are?

Come to think of it, my favourite book is Under the Net and I'm not sure I can quote it at all.
>> No. 30460 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 5:43 pm
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If Steam's GUI is not unified and streamlined by the end of the year I will kill and eat Gaben on a livestream for the whole world to see.

>>30458
That's just madness, it''s like wearing glasses smeared with vaseline when you go to an art gallery.
>> No. 30461 Anonymous
17th July 2020
Friday 6:03 pm
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>>30457
That's actually quite true if your source of non-fiction books is the works.
>> No. 30462 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 12:48 pm
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Supermarket cafes.
>> No. 30463 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 1:18 pm
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>>30462
I find something endearing about supermarket cafés.
>> No. 30464 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 1:22 pm
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>>30463
They are a poor man's Ikea Canteen, which I have travelled more than an hour to go to dinner at before.
>> No. 30465 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 3:50 pm
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Sometimes people tell me thing about something to do with their work and end with "obviously that's all confidential" as though it wasn't the most boring shit I've ever heard that had already slipped from my memory.
>> No. 30466 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 4:14 pm
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>>30462
I don't mind a Morrisons cafe (>>/nom/13011) and Asda is alright for takeaway pizza, but Sainsbury's is a bit weird and Tesco is all kinds of wrong.
>> No. 30467 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 4:25 pm
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>>30465

If you remembered things they might tell you their boring "confidential" shit less often.
>> No. 30468 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 4:59 pm
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>>30464

I'm not mad on the Ikea canteen, it seems slightly too pretentious. I do like a supermarket cafe though, almost as much as I like a greasy spoon on an industrial estate or in a layby. Bonus points if it's marked only by a hand-painted sign that just says "CAFE", extra bonus points if it's in a Portakabin.

Burger vans can fuck off though.
>> No. 30469 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 5:58 pm
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>>30468

I fucking love a burger van, mostly because they only really seem to exist when nothing else would do other than an absolutely awful (but still tasty) burger in a half stale bun will do - festivals, high streets at 3am, outside of B&Q when you're three days in to a one day project and have to go pay over the odds for some fucking timber, that sort of thing.
>> No. 30470 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 5:59 pm
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>>30469

I will add that the Ikea hot dog bit at the end is so much better than the canteen.
>> No. 30471 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 6:28 pm
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It's the simplicity of a burger van that does it for me. They go the opposite direction to some bullshit gourmet burger place, only striving to reach as close as possible to the platonic form of 'burgerness'. As a result you get a pleasant consistency for a low-price without the mess. It's a vision for how the world should work like in Star Trek.

Plus, you can often flirt with the lass running it with the implicit knowledge that you probably could take her for a drink if you wanted to. Good luck getting that sort of confidence with the young hipster waitress at a Burger Kitchen.
>> No. 30472 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 6:37 pm
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>Plus, you can often flirt with the lass running it with the implicit knowledge that you probably could take her for a drink if you wanted to
Ah, the self-assurance of burger van hours*.

*Pub kicking-out time.
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18th July 2020
Saturday 6:38 pm
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>>30469
>outside of B&Q when you're three days in to a one day project and have to go pay over the odds for some fucking timber

Like every DIY project ever. See also the race to the shop at 7.30pm on a Saturday evening to get the screws you forgot to buy enough of.
>> No. 30474 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 6:38 pm
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>>30471

>Plus, you can often flirt with the lass running it with the implicit knowledge that you probably could take her for a drink if you wanted to.

Or you recognise her from the local dogging site.
>> No. 30475 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 6:52 pm
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My girlfriend has, once again, gone to the supermarket and come back with more food than there's room for in the fridge and the freezer.

>>30468
>Burger vans

Bonus points for a good name.
>> No. 30476 Anonymous
18th July 2020
Saturday 8:09 pm
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>>30473

Or sitting on or near your half built whatever-it-is, staring at your phone trying to work out what tool you need to do the thing you've realised you can't do, what it's called, or if it even exists at all.
>> No. 30477 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 1:44 pm
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I'm trying to fold up the paperwork that came with a set of Philips Hair Clippers. I should have filmed the unravelling, because fuck me, have these whoppers ever had to use a paper map? Maybe they've done this precisely so I'll throw the fucker away (and my warranty in the process).
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19th July 2020
Sunday 4:14 pm
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When you notice a glaring error in a documentary. Not just an honest mistake but one that a two-second search could point out.

I started watching a documentary series on the human brain but in the first 5 minute the claim is made that a girl's brain can use upto 50% of her bodies energy needs if she's thinking hard. Utter bollocks as anyone knows - you can use 25% if you're really going all-out and a young child can use 33% if you include development. I'm angry at CuriosityStream because they always feature utter tripe when there's so much better stuff in the catalogue.
>> No. 30479 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 5:32 pm
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>>30478
I am highly skeptical of watching or listening to any kind of online documentaries. Any tit with a camera and some editing software (not too mention an angle) can do it. I watched a few videos from a channel called Tod's Workshop, who seems like a humble and reasonable man, but now YouTube is recommending me exactly the kind of tripe I don't like; you are not an expert on all of history from Ancient Greece to WW2 in the Pacific, go away.
>> No. 30480 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 8:53 pm
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People 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 who unnecessarily punctuate their messages 🗨️ with emoji. Why? It's like reading a children's book. I've noticed old people tend to do it more.
>> No. 30481 Anonymous
19th July 2020
Sunday 9:47 pm
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I was sitting at my desk with my head resting on my left hand, now I have a sharp pain in my left shoulder like I pinched a nerve.
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20th July 2020
Monday 12:09 am
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>>30480
Absolutely fucking insipid.
>> No. 30483 Anonymous
20th July 2020
Monday 12:45 am
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>>30482
At least that uses the emoji as part of the story, rather than just putting the word and then an emoji representation of that word next to it for seemingly no reason.
>> No. 30484 Anonymous
20th July 2020
Monday 2:36 am
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>>30480
Emojis are a blight except when used correctly with restraint in personal communication. The marketing drone that pioneered using them in email subject lines should be hung - do not give those businesses any custom and let them know why.
>> No. 30485 Anonymous
20th July 2020
Monday 8:53 am
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>>30482
I don't get it, she 🤦 medical school? Why did she stay in a hostal? At least she doesn't work as a 👯 but I wouldn't call this 📖a 😊🖕
>> No. 30486 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 12:03 pm
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Fucking estate agents, again, sent around some EPC guy and the moment he got in he started photoographing my flat and taking measurments and shit. Literally photo evidence of how i'm living, the shit i have in my flat, etc.
This isn't fucking good, man. I need privacy, not someone coming around every 6 months or however often checking up on me.
>> No. 30487 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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I sent an online shop an e-mail asking if they'd price match one of the items with another company so I don't have to split my order up. They've refused on the basis that they've got it in stock and the other place doesn't. If they think having something in stock is enough to hold me ransom by an extra hundred quid they've got another thing coming- All they've done is lost half my business to another shop.

It's not the fact they refused that pisses me off. It's the fact that some other prick will be impatient enough to pay the extra to get their new toy faster, thus completely justifying their scalping practices.
>> No. 30488 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 5:07 pm
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>>30487
Those capitalist pigs won't know what hit em.
>> No. 30489 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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>>30487
kind of seems like supply/demand working as it should, really.
>> No. 30490 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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>>30486
They last about 10 years, previously the law was that a landlord had to have a valid EPC at the start of the tenancy, but the government has just changed it so that if it expires during an active tenancy the landlord HAS to get it renewed.
>> No. 30491 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 7:25 pm
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>>30489

Artificially inflating prices you mean? Yeah, I guess from a certain perspective that's working entirely as intended.

Actually they've got a 30 day return policy. I'm tempted to order both, then when the one from the cheaper company arrives in two weeks, send it back to the more expensive company unopened.
>> No. 30492 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 7:40 pm
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>>30491
Sounds like something a pathetic loser would do.
>> No. 30493 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 7:48 pm
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>>30492
Give it a rest, scalperlad.
>> No. 30494 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 8:23 pm
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>>30492
kind of seems like the return policy working as it should, really.
>> No. 30495 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 8:31 pm
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>>30491
>I'm tempted to order both, then when the one from the cheaper company arrives in two weeks, send it back to the more expensive company unopened.

Why?

I think you're annoyed about the test of your patentince and are seeking to blame the temptation on other people. Make a choice and own it, you'll feel much better.
>> No. 30496 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>30495

If they're taking advantage of a restricted supply chain to bump prices up, why shouldn't I take advantage of their generous return policy to work around it? Fair's fair in the free market ladm8.

I'm not actually going to, it's far too much effort, but in principle I don't see why not. Same way you appear to see no problem in principle with scalping.
>> No. 30497 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 9:07 pm
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>>30496
>If they're taking advantage of a restricted supply chain to bump prices up, why shouldn't I take advantage of their generous return policy to work around it? Fair's fair in the free market ladm8.

"if the police won't catch me why shouldn't I commit a crime?"

If your ethics extend only as far as what others will punish you for, you are morally bankrupt.
>> No. 30498 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 9:19 pm
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>>30497

There is absolutely nothing morally bankrupt about an individual getting one over on a large business. I would even argue it's morally commendable.
>> No. 30499 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 9:34 pm
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>>30497
>If your ethics extend only as far as what others will punish you for, you are morally bankrupt.
Not him, but not really. In the case of sharp business practices, turnabout is most definitely fair play.
>> No. 30500 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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>>30498
n1 m8 them cunts working for em trying to feed their families wont no wot hit em!

>>30499

Everyone liked Steve Irwin No one liked Steve Jobs
>> No. 30501 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 10:05 pm
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>>30500
The people working for them won't lose anything.
>> No. 30502 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 10:34 pm
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>>30501
You are thinking like a no mask/Rolling coal Americunt.

If one person does this the system can absorb it, if everyone was as big of prick as you the system would break down.
>> No. 30503 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 10:41 pm
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>>30502
> if everyone was as big of prick as you the system would break down.
Sounds like a plan, Stan.
>> No. 30504 Anonymous
21st July 2020
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>30502
That sounds like an incentive to not be scalping cunts. It's the market working as intended.
>> No. 30505 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 1:05 am
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>>30502

>Americunt

Ah now this makes sense.
>> No. 30506 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 9:24 am
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>>30504

You know what would really tear down the system? If you didn't by the thing at all.
>> No. 30507 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 1:40 pm
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>>30506

Nonsense, the manufacturer making high performance, good value equipment deserve to be supported in order to encourage other manufacturers to offer solutions in the same price range, which currently no others do. The device in question is industry standard despite being amongst the most affordable- That kind of competition is good for the market.

It's not their fault one of their retailers are scalping cunts opportunistically using a global supply disruption to slap a full 25% mark-up on the RRP.
>> No. 30508 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 3:03 pm
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>>30507
Wow what a loser, if you don't think their goods and services offer value for money and convenience, don't buy from them.
I bet you also complain about the capitalist fat cats who own the local corner shop "scalping", because they are 25% more expensive than the supermarket.
>> No. 30509 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 4:32 pm
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>>30508

I suppose you regularly buy fags at the WHSmiths in a train station do you?
>> No. 30510 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 4:47 pm
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>>30495

I think this lad hit the nail on the head.

>>30487 has no self control and wants to blame others, they know perfectly well keeping things in stock costs money, but their fraile ego is broken by the idea of having to either wait or pay more. 😿
>> No. 30511 Anonymous
22nd July 2020
Wednesday 4:48 pm
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>>30509
I buy milk at the garage if need to grab some. Much more than the supermarket. But that's the convenience/price trade-off.
>> No. 30514 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 3:57 pm
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>> No. 30515 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 5:16 pm
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>>30508

The crucial point you seem to be missing is that he didn't buy from them. That was the entire point of the original post.

If anyone is salty it's you, on behalf of some online retailer. Very strange position to hold.
>> No. 30516 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 5:26 pm
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>>30515
But maybe someone else did and so therefore they made more money than had they offered it at the original price.
>> No. 30517 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 11:15 pm
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The last couple of dozen posts in this thread have some of the weirdest and most ineffectual trolling I've ever seen on this website.

Unless there really are lads out there sad enough to pay an extra hundred quid to get something sooner, or think they're making some kind of flex about how much money they have, instead of how stupid they are to waste it.

Lots of projecting by people who probably have Amazon Prime subscriptions.
>> No. 30518 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 11:29 pm
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>>30517
No one is saying that. Oh right you're trolling.
>> No. 30519 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 12:59 am
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>>30517

You're right lad. Nobody has ever paid extra money for extreme convenience or overnight shipping, and it's absurd to suggest anyone ever does.

>people who probably have Amazon Prime subscriptions.

Oh right, yeah. Never mind.
>> No. 30521 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 10:03 am
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>Amazon Prime subscription
A friend of mine insists you have to buy Amazon Prime when using the site.

It's like there's a fog over his mind that prevents him from seeing only the most apparent information (It's marijuana).
>> No. 30522 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 1:05 pm
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>>30519

You're right. Nobody is suggesting that. We're just suggesting that such people are morons.
>> No. 30523 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 1:46 pm
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>>30522

Can you explain why it's moronic to pay extra for more convenience? I understand that it might be more financially sensible to just be patient and wait longer for less money, but is being willing or able to spend the extra for a quicker result really stupidity? The point's already been made, but I'd doubt anyone would be called a moron for paying more money for milk from the Shell garage if they want milk at 1130pm instead of waiting for Tesco to open at 6am.
>> No. 30524 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 2:48 pm
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>>30522
What if there's a business need for the item in question? What if it getting the item sooner actually saves them money by not losing business in the subsequent days. That seems to not be a moronic decision, by anyone involved. The seller has made more money, the buyer has the item he needs quickly.

But ahhhh, I hear you say - If the item is so important for business then they should have a spare in house. Well yes if that's feasible. But it might not be economical or practical for an icecream-person to run two icecream vans just for the eventuality that something goes wrong on an icecream van. So if they can order an icecream van repair next day and get up and running again on a busy summer's day then that is not moronic.
>> No. 30525 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>30523

That's because milk from the garage is an extra 25p, not an extra hundred quid. It's not hard to see the rationale there mate. Where would you draw the line?

>>30524

If there's an urgent business need for the item in question (which is common, I'm buying one as an ex-professional because I miss the functionality, but they were about three times the price to begin with in my day) then they'd probably rent or borrow one, in this particular case. Either way it makes the scalpery even more egregious, considering the usually very co-operative relationship between suppliers and professional consumers in the sector.
>> No. 30526 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 3:46 pm
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>>30525

>they were about three times the price to begin with in my day

Most of my PCs have been ex-corporate Lenovo laptops and Dell workstations, bought in nearly-new condition for less than a quarter of original list price. This year's flagship smartphone features will be in mid-range handsets at less than half the price by next year. There's always a premium for now vs later.

You can order four-layer prototype PCBs from China for a couple of quid each, but you'll wait two or three weeks to get them. A European or US board house will charge you a couple of hundred quid for the same PCB if you want it tomorrow. For most businesses, it's well worth paying several thousand percent extra to speed up their development cycle.
>> No. 30527 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 3:50 pm
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>>30525
There is no line. There's just a free market. And if someone is going to pay the higher cost, then they'll keep doing it. If not, then next time maybe they'll lower the price a bit.
>> No. 30528 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 5:00 pm
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>>30525

>Where would you draw the line?

The line depends entirely on how much money is to much money for one individual. 25p might be too much for people really down on their luck, and to some people £100 is an hours work.
>> No. 30529 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 6:21 pm
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>>30528

Good heavens it is like economics 101 in here.
>> No. 30530 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 6:24 pm
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>>30529

Shouldn't you count for individual demand? I really, really want a whole card of Bacon Fries delivered to me by tomorrow, you may not, so our equilibrium would be different.
>> No. 30531 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>30527

In this instance they just know they can get away with it because they're a consumer facing shop, not an industry supplier. If it was, they'd be subject to hostile word of mouth that makes a twitter hate mob look tame, at least back when I did this stuff for a living.

Anyway I've enjoyed winding the resident yuppie lads up about this but it's time to call it a day. I didn't want to pay over the odds for something and I was a bit miffed at the audacity of the mark up, so I didn't. It's really as simple as that- If you don't ask you never get.
>> No. 30532 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 6:51 pm
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>>30530

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
>> No. 30533 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:07 pm
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>>30530
>Shouldn't you count for individual demand? I really, really want a whole card of Bacon Fries delivered to me by tomorrow, you may not, so our equilibrium would be different.

That is part of what the chart is expressing and why it has no numbers.

The point of equilibrium represents the maximum profit you could make for the stock you can produce.

The situation you are describing is represent left of the equilibrium point. The price I charge goes up but the amount of demand goes down and with that so does my overall profit, that is why people will charge a 'premium' or multi-tiered service for queue jumping so different markets can be hit, it doesn't cost the airline any more to board you first, but since people are willing to pay for that and others aren't they can cash in.


What does cost more however is having to invest your money in product that is sitting on your shelves rather than ordering it in by demand, which is why you would need to charge more to deliver it immediately than someone who will nebulously order it on your behalf when it is currently out of stock.
>> No. 30534 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:11 pm
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>>30529
Can this chart be numerated or is it simply a visual expression of an idea?

I suppose you could compare current and historical data on these 4 points, but is it reducable to an equation applicable across markets the economy over?
Is there such thing as a mathmatic of economies?
>> No. 30535 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:12 pm
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>>30531
>Anyway I've enjoyed winding the resident yuppie lads up about this but it's time to call it a day.

The important thing is that you have found an ego defence to not face the glaring character flaw of you impatience, bravo.
>> No. 30536 Anonymous
24th July 2020
Friday 7:24 pm
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>>30534
>Can this chart be numerated or is it simply a visual expression of an idea?

Sort of, it was certainly demonstrated that way originally, if you like you can assign numbers to both price and quantity, the dot is max return. Note though that the cost of the product isn't even included it is just market forces


It is 101 as I said so there are other factors that complicate it, the most obvious is where someone 'needs' a product and you control it, this both why Americans charge a fuck ton for medicine that stops people dying, and why they developed medicine that treats but doesn't cure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COf2bQEQ7Zw

>Is there such thing as a mathmatic of economies?

Yes it is called economics.
>> No. 30537 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 11:40 pm
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I didn't even know phonebooks were still a thing until BT dropped a fat stack of them outside the door of my building yesterday. What kind of business is BT trying to run with this? I know 80s and 90s culture has its charm but this is just ridiculous and the waste of it all is most upsetting. Not only did they effectively take a paper shit on my doorstep but there were about 10 big books printed and distributed that just went straight into the bin. What's the point? Couldn’t be arsed to deal with it yesterday but today it rained meaning I had to take a bunch of sopping wet textbooks to the recycling bin on the next street.

Oh, but I’m only starting my journey into madness – while looking up a picture I found out they’re selling them £10 a pop online. Think about it; why would someone with access to the internet need a phonebook? Do enough people still have landline telephones to fill a phonebook? I almost want to go dig one out to see if any businesses are still trying to advertise inside.
>> No. 30538 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 11:42 pm
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>>30537

I assume their market is anyone over the age of about 70.
>> No. 30539 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 11:47 pm
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>>30537

Legally they can't release that information on the internet where it can be readily cross referenced, so phonebooks still have a purpose beyond killing trees.
>> No. 30540 Anonymous
25th July 2020
Saturday 11:53 pm
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>>30539
>Legally they can't release that information on the internet where it can be readily cross referenced

You might want to tell them that:
https://www.thephonebook.bt.com/Person/PersonSearch/?Surname=Johnson&Location=London&Street=
>> No. 30542 Anonymous
26th July 2020
Sunday 5:56 am
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>>30538

Yep. If you have a flick through, most of the big ads are for stairlifts and mobility scooters.
>> No. 30546 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 12:39 pm
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Its not been sunny for more than 15 minutes for about a month now and I'm a bit sick of it.
>> No. 30547 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 12:42 pm
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>>30546
Sunday was alright.
>> No. 30548 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 2:26 pm
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Estate agents. Fuck them all, useless thieving cunts.
>> No. 30549 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 2:42 pm
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>>30546
Been off and on here. It's been a saggy past 2 weeks though.
Fuck humidity.
Looks like Friday is the day we all burn to death.
>> No. 30550 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 3:17 pm
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Lemon drizzle cake from Marks & Spencer was a bit of a disappointment.
>> No. 30552 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 6:41 pm
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I would give that new Indian place a try but you have to sign up to their website to order and I've been waiting well over an hour for the email to confirm my email address to arrive. I've gone and picked up something from the offie instead.
>> No. 30553 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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>> No. 30554 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 8:29 pm
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>>30553
29°C forecast for Beeston.
>> No. 30555 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 9:28 pm
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>>30553
Summer being one day long seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
>> No. 30556 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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>>30553
I can cope with that, looks like it'll be hay making week this week. Last year was >38 which made for a trying few days.
>> No. 30557 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 9:58 pm
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>>30556
It definitely has been cooler this summer hasn't it? I know August is yet to come and could still blitz us, but so far it seems better than last years heat wave.
>> No. 30558 Anonymous
28th July 2020
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>30557
>It definitely has been cooler this summer hasn't it?

I don't know what you lads are talking about, last month it was 36 degrees in my flat at midnight. You can't take me back to that, I won't let you.
>> No. 30559 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 1:33 am
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>>30554
The good one or the rubbish one?
>> No. 30560 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 8:20 am
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>>30559
The wordfiltered one.
>> No. 30562 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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I have to go to work on my day off to do a two hour course on how to drive our company's vehicles, despite not being allowed to drive the company's vehicles due to the virus and also have no operational need for vehicles at the moment due to the virus.
>> No. 30563 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 11:06 pm
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People who feel they have to take videos and pictures of everything they do. It's as if they think the moment isn't real if it wasn't posted on instagram and liked by internet strangers. I blame the camcorder dads of the 80s and 90s for normalising this.
>> No. 30564 Anonymous
29th July 2020
Wednesday 11:44 pm
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It's Wednesday night and someone already has over 5k points on Duolingo - by the weekend I've seen people with 40k scores. For context, the target is 50 points a day which is about 4 lessons.

I don't understand. Are they just paying a few blokes in China to do it for them so they can have an electronic badge? It ruins what should be a motivational feature.
>> No. 30565 Anonymous
30th July 2020
Thursday 12:34 am
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>>30564

It's either a bot or maybe a dodgy tutor using it to teach all their students.
>> No. 30566 Anonymous
30th July 2020
Thursday 11:35 pm
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I live a good ten miles from the airport but I can still hear whenever a fucking prop plane* or police helicopter is taxiing or taking off. It's not loud enough to disturb but is loud enough to annoy.

*for those who care, it's specifically the ATR 72.
>> No. 30567 Anonymous
31st July 2020
Friday 3:42 pm
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The publication "The Tab". It's meant to be a student news paper, run by young adults, for young adults, but it's 70% Netflix/Love Island guff, 10% poorly thought out opinion pieces, 10% public shaming, with the remaining 10% being actual news that is relevant for students.
>> No. 30568 Anonymous
31st July 2020
Friday 3:51 pm
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>>30567

I remember it being still a bit of fluff, but mostly relevant or at least local information - I assume there's a version of it published at every uni, rather than being the same nationwide, as when I was there I assumed it was something exclusive to our uni.

The sorts of people involved in student publications or the union are invariably terrible, though.
>> No. 30569 Anonymous
1st August 2020
Saturday 10:01 am
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Firstly, I don't care, secondly, you're wrong.
>> No. 30570 Anonymous
1st August 2020
Saturday 9:52 pm
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I've forgotten my fucking PIN again.
>> No. 30571 Anonymous
1st August 2020
Saturday 10:42 pm
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>>30570
The trick is to use 1234, it's so obvious that no one would ever think you would actually use it.
>> No. 30573 Anonymous
2nd August 2020
Sunday 5:36 pm
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I'm not that into football, but I think every single Arsenal fan might be a prick. This isn't anything to do with them winning th FA Cup by the way, I've been ruminating on this for a while.
>> No. 30575 Anonymous
2nd August 2020
Sunday 6:03 pm
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>>30573
The ones I know IRL are fine, but on the internet they do tend to have a massive sense of entitlement and love to whinge.
>> No. 30578 Anonymous
2nd August 2020
Sunday 8:14 pm
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The service manual for my car came as 729 separate PDF files. Sure, Acrobat can combine them but there's no index so finding what I need is a proper pain in the batty.
>> No. 30580 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 4:41 am
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Post looking for work on Twitter, they said. People will share it and you'll get loads of interview invites, they said.

It got retweeted by a bot that was watching one of the hashtags.
>> No. 30581 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 8:42 am
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>>30573
I had a former coworker who had booked fa cup final tickets to see their beloved team play from a box. The full on paddy she had as a 60 year old at being told she can’t wear her team’s shirt in the box was a sight to behold.

She wasn’t an arsehole but it was pretty weird to see an adult act like that.
>> No. 30582 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 11:29 am
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>>30581
Wait, you're not allowed to wear your team's shirt if you watch from a VIP box? What kind of nonsense is this?
>> No. 30583 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 11:42 am
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>>30582
Absolutely rediculous, I'd be pissed off too.
I wonder if they expected her to watch the game in her bra?

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 30584 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 6:18 pm
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>>30582

>What kind of nonsense is this?

It's a VIP area, there's a dress code, which does not include sportswear. It sounds daft but it's not really, you're meant to dress smart.
>> No. 30585 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>30584

Dressing smart (SIC) to watch fucking football is the epitome of ridiculous. It's a bit like putting on a tuxedo to drink Strongbow in a Weatherspoons.
>> No. 30586 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 7:33 pm
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>>30584
What a load of bollocks, small wonder the 'prawn sandwich brigade' are so despised.
>> No. 30587 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>30585

I get that, I don't disagree, but you're paying silly money to sit in a 'fancy' room to watch it, if that's what you're doing then you should probably expect formal requirements.


I always thought it was funny that boxes usually have shite views too - good views of the stadium, sure, but not of the action. Courtside seats in basketball make so, so much more sense.
>> No. 30592 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 11:16 am
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Alright mate, can I borrow a bit of your deodorant plz? Ahh, cheers m8, lifesaver!
I consider a bit to be a spritz under each arm, up to 2 seconds each pit including the chest, not what some lads do, using half a full can in a single go. They can get to fuck as far as I'm concerned.
>> No. 30595 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 11:34 am
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>>30592
I had a narcissistic cunt of a housemate who, if you left your shower gel bottle in the bathroom, would use literally half the bottle in one shower. If you confronted him on that he'd just use use manipulating language like "why are you getting angry about it bro it's calm man it's not a big deal" but if you DARE touch anything of his he was ready to throw punches.

The worst part about it was that his B.O. was still that fucking bad it didn't help.
>> No. 30596 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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I wish the girl in the corner shop wasn't so pretty because now I can't buy sweets in there like a big disgusting manchild.
>> No. 30598 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 3:34 pm
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>>30596
It's a tough life we lead, brother. I'm particularly fond of blackjacks.
>> No. 30599 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 7:26 pm
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>>30592
You're giving me flashbacks to the boys changing room at school (when I was a pupil) and having to deal with noxious clouds of Lynx. Probably about the time I started using roll-on because nobody would want to borrow it.

>>30596
What I struggle with is finding an excuse to go. You can't just buy a chocolate bar at the shop but have to pretend you've come for milk and then act that "oh! I just happened to see that chocolate in the corner of my eye. I think I deserve a treat for all the manly things I did today."

Thankfully I took up smoking otherwise I'd end up with a big stack of unused pornography. Maybe I'd be that one hero who puts them in the bushes?
>> No. 30603 Anonymous
4th August 2020
Tuesday 8:44 pm
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>>30598

Solved this years ago, buy a pack of kingsize Rizla and they'll suss you're a stoner giving into the munch temptation.
>> No. 30604 Anonymous
5th August 2020
Wednesday 2:27 am
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I feel like I'm being an idiot and staying up late, but what's actually happened is I've gone to sleep at 7PM and woken up at midnight, so I've already been an idiot.
>> No. 30605 Anonymous
5th August 2020
Wednesday 2:30 am
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>>30604
My housemate does overnight shifts at Tesco so the noise of her cooking and talking to herself at 2am combined with the heat has completely fucked my sleeping pattern. I sympathise.
>> No. 30606 Anonymous
5th August 2020
Wednesday 10:09 am
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>>30599
The girls' changing room was above ours. I can't imagine they had to mop the floors after every time said cloud of Lynx Africa with the occasional bit of Brut seeped through.
One of them must've suffered pretty bad freeze burn.

>>30605
How does she feel being demoted from a Key Worker to a low skill, low wage worker?
>> No. 30607 Anonymous
5th August 2020
Wednesday 4:07 pm
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Netflix are advertising the original Shameless as taking place in a "housing project" as opposed to a council estate.

Not Americanism Asperger's lad but it simmered my piss regardless.
>> No. 30608 Anonymous
5th August 2020
Wednesday 7:06 pm
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>>30607

It's a pretty interesting attempt at a cultural equivalent, though.
>> No. 30609 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 12:43 pm
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They're rebooting Ren and Stimpy.
>> No. 30610 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 9:55 pm
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*smeared in feces across all four walls and the ceiling*
PUBLIC BROADCASTERS ARE NOT STATE BROADCASTERS
>> No. 30611 Anonymous
6th August 2020
Thursday 10:58 pm
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"Eat Out to Help Out" is really annoying me.
>> No. 30612 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 1:29 am
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Hyperoptic are in my building. Virgin Media made no attempt to retain me when I called up to cancel. I guess I'm just going to have to pay half the price for three times the speed and less contention and find a solution for watching TV when I can't get a signal and can't install a dish.
>> No. 30613 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 1:38 am
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>>30612
Hyperoptic are really good. And NowTV works brilliantly if you want to watch the bits of Sky you're prepared to pay for (which in my case is Formula 1).
>> No. 30614 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 10:51 am
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>>30611
I'd Eat Out to Help Out IYKWIM.

Honestly though, spare a thought for hospitality staff on Monday-Wednesday who are putting up with rude cunts who haven't been out in 4 years, let alone 4 months, just because there's some sort of bargain to be had.
>> No. 30615 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 11:53 am
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>>30614
I'm full of sympathy for people who work in that industry and certainly feel empathy for the pain they're going through - I'm just not convinced it will help.
>> No. 30616 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 9:09 pm
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A sort-of friend recently text me they'd had a bad week and listed off a bunch of stuff that'd gone wrong, which I brushed off with 'if there's anything I can do..'. I felt bad for my reply so today I bought a tub of icecream as a gesture, text them to come grab it and they repiled 'thanks gorgeous'. Here we fucking go. They've just knocked on the door all dolled up with a shoulderless dress, perfume and jewelry inviting me to come over. Fuck that, I only bought this shit as a kindness, not to take advantage of your vulnerability. Is that what people do, for fuck sake?
>> No. 30618 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 9:39 pm
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>>30616

Are you joking lad? She's clearly the one gagging for a shag, you're flattering yourself if you think it would be you taking the advantage.
>> No. 30620 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>30618
I thought the same actually. I think >>30616 is trying too hard to be a nice guy.
>> No. 30622 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 10:49 pm
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>>30616
>"Oh no, this sexy lady wants to shag me! Whatever will I do?"
Remember though, there's a 16% chance she's lactose intolerant so that ice cream could ruin everything.
>> No. 30625 Anonymous
7th August 2020
Friday 11:30 pm
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>>30622
That's alright. Contrary to .gs lore, arse-pissing on the first date is actually quite poor etiquette.
>> No. 30629 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 12:32 am
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I got drunk enough to overcome the fear and self-loathing and I ventured out to paint the town red, only to be reminded that most of the town has already gone to bed by 11:30 (and it was like this pre-Corona too).

London is a joke of a megacity. It has all the drawbacks of a megacity but none of the perks.
>> No. 30630 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 12:48 am
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>>30629

Ah, London. You've just reminded me of this piss-boilingly out of touch article I read the other day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53670199

>She had bought a flat in a new development at Battersea Power Station only last year. The complex included restaurants, spas and bars. But when all those closed down because of the pandemic, the reality of her environment dawned on her.

>"I spent seven weeks isolated there and realised that I absolutely hated it [...] When you take away all the amenities that these developments advertise, then you realise you're just living in a glass box. It was a ghost town. It was just very soul-destroying living in this enormous development with no life going on."

>Joanna took swift action to remedy her plight. She moved to the village of Datchworth Green in Hertfordshire, where she now has a five-bedroom house with a garden and a view overlooking a cricket pitch.
>> No. 30631 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 1:33 am
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>>30630

Sounds similar to the housing around the Millennium Dome. People actually live there. They choose to. They spend insane amounts of money to. It's not a place to live in, it's a liminal space. It's what the surroundings would look like in No Exit. You can't build homes on the poisoned earth of the docklands, the setting of Cement Garden and not expect it to be cursed. The ecology park is the only piece of life there and that's soon to be reduced to scrub when the latest development overshadows it and blocks out the light.
>> No. 30633 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 2:12 am
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>>30616
I've been ticking the whinge box for years but purple has never bought me any fucking ice cream. I might be a hairy bloke but I feel like an offer of ice cream would loosen even my panties in this weather.

Did you just give her a bucket of ice cream and then slam the door in her face?

>>30630
Thing is, you live in Central because you spend most of your time at work or asleep. The retail story is a load of bollocks if you can get on the tube. I fully expect that come next summer people will realise their error when they have to do the commute everyday on a (more so than usual) overburdened transport network.

That said, I'm somewhat looking to escape the city myself. I can't live more than a mile from Battersea so paying out my arse for a box has been difficult for me the past few months. I'm sensible though so I just plan a move to Edinburgh centre. I can still do my job in another office and even though the place is posh I can still get a bit more space for what I'm paying.
>> No. 30634 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 3:06 am
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>>30631

>It's not a place to live in, it's a liminal space.

Apt description. That sort of place always reminds me of that bit you get around an airport, with a bunch of weirdly isolated Travel lodges and Premier Inns. Manchester Airport is always striking in that regard for me, the motorway forks off and it's like its own little liminal city.
>> No. 30635 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 3:19 am
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>>30634
They are to "home" what vending machines are to food.
>> No. 30636 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 3:45 am
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>>30633
I've got a couple of vegan Magnums (Almond flavour obv) in the freezer if you still fancy one; please leave your pants on though.
>> No. 30637 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 9:12 am
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>>30622
>"Oh no, this sexy lady wants to shag me! Whatever will I do?"
>> No. 30641 Anonymous
8th August 2020
Saturday 3:03 pm
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What the hell does that mean?
>> No. 30655 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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I don't want to be bald.
>> No. 30656 Anonymous
14th August 2020
Friday 12:15 am
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I accidentally found out what a "tankie" is, went years not knowing, gutted. I love not knowing daft shit like that. I remember going a year before hearing Gangam Style.
>> No. 30657 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 2:46 pm
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People who do any kind of DIY or hoovering in the morning. And by morning, I mean anytime before 2pm on a weekend rather than whatever those cunting "morning-lark people" think counts as a weekend lie-in.

Just imagine the tutting if I started hoovering at 8pm or how quickly the men in white overalls would come if I smeared shit all over their windows. Deport them all to the Land of the Rising Sun if you ask me - or put them in special camps tasked with making bacon sandwiches. They seem to have stopped now, must be getting a bit late for them.
>> No. 30658 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 3:03 pm
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>>30657
Serves you right for being a lazy drunkard.
>> No. 30659 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 3:36 pm
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>>30658
Maybe some of us don't view new cupboards, or whatever moronic project you're occupying your bullshit life with, as a personality m8. I bet your pension must be in a shite state of affairs from all this death anxiety.
>> No. 30660 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 3:47 pm
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>>30659

Whereas you and your multiple personalities choose to concern yourselves with the sounds coming from the walls. Seek professional help.
>> No. 30661 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 4:08 pm
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>>30659
Cupboards are eminently useful, they're as far from moronic as can be.
>> No. 30662 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 6:09 pm
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>>30657
I go by the rule of 10; anything between 10am to 10pm is fair game. Doesn't mean you should be a cunt about it, though.
>> No. 30663 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 9:00 pm
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This wasn't an issue for more than 30 seconds, but I unplugged a gamepad and my taskbar stopped working. Plugged it back in, sorted.
>> No. 30664 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 9:52 pm
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>>30655

It's better than you think if you take control of it (i.e. shave it all off).

I feel more confident now than I did with hair I needed to worry about maintaining. Now I shave my bonce every two or three days and that's that.
>> No. 30665 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 10:40 pm
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>>30664
>It's better than you think if you take control of it (i.e. shave it all off).

100% agreed. I like my hair/head a lot more now I have full control of it and don't need someone else to do it. The first time is a bit weird/nerve wracking, but once you realise and understand how quickly it grows back, it's all good.

Strongly recommend the Baldfader from Wahl - it cuts even closer than normal clippers and isn't expensive at 40 notes.

https://www.wahl.co.uk/product/baldfader-plus-ultra-close-cut-hair-clipper/
>> No. 30666 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 10:59 pm
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Be on your guard, lads. Big Hair Loss are targeting us with their subliminal marketing.
>> No. 30667 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 11:25 pm
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>>30666

Honestly it's the one cult we can't really market. You're either balding or you're not, and if you are a 25p razor can sort you out just as well as a fancy set of clippers (though I do have the Baldfader too, recommended to me a couple of years ago, maybe >>30665 has stock in Wahl)

I have also been recently enjoying doing a proper smooth head shave with a double edged safety razor. It's hard to recommend that as a daily solution, it's too much faff and takes me about half an hour, but it's definitely the baldy equivalent of walking out of the barbers with a fresh new trim.
>> No. 30668 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 11:46 pm
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>>30666
It's very much a national thing though - were this an American site, by now the thread would be full of men in FULL DENIAL and advocating pills, transplants and other terrible things - I think thats far more insidious.
>> No. 30669 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 11:51 pm
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>>30668
If it helps I was vaguely tempted to make fun of you all for balding but decided against it.
>> No. 30670 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 11:52 pm
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>>30669
Oh here comes Big Hair.
>> No. 30671 Anonymous
15th August 2020
Saturday 11:57 pm
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>>30667
>a 25p razor can sort you out just as well as a fancy set of clippers

Don't baldies get shaving rash? I've never seen it but imagine it would be a rather horrible thing to experience.
>> No. 30672 Anonymous
16th August 2020
Sunday 12:04 am
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>>30670

Hair are your aerials.
>> No. 30674 Anonymous
16th August 2020
Sunday 12:11 am
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>>30669

I just don't see the point in making fun, there's nowt I can do about it. Would rather someone make fun of my lovely exposed chrome dome than be able to see it anyway through my desperate attempt at retaining hair.

>>30671

Yes, but like any shaving your skin gets used to it. I have a very sensitive scalp and can absolutely ruin my day if I just go mental with a multi-bladed razor. It looks blotchy and feels like sunburn - awful. But I have found if I use proper, lathered shaving soap, a single blade, and take a bit more care and time to do it, it's no more traumatic on my skin than shaving my face.

As I say, I don't really think it's necessary, the baldfader clippers are more than adequate (even less close cutting clippers get decent results for me). I happen to work in three day blocks, so I do always do a full smooth razor shave for day one, but if I worked more normal patterns I'd probably not bother and just use the clippers every few days. I haven't cut my head yet, thank fuck, but I reckon when I do it'll be miserable and put me off.

One thing I have noticed, my scalp gets dry as fuck now, and it never used to. You'd not think you'd get dandruff with no fucking hair but you certainly do. It's quite satisfying to moisturise the bonce, mind.

>>30672

What absolute twaddle.

Also, I wonder what would happen if you just slapped nair on your head? It's probably an awful idea but someone must have done it.
>> No. 30675 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 7:52 am
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CONSTRUCTION LAD HERE.

I MOVED SO I COULD GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP AND NOT BE WOKEN UP AT 7.30AM BY LOUD NOISES AND GUESS WHAT? I'M STILL BEING WOKEN UP BY LOUD NOISES AT 7.30AM.

SUICIDE IS GENUINELY SEEMING LIKE A GOOD OPTION RIGHT NOW - CAN'T GET WOKEN UP FROM THAT. I JUST WANT A GOOD FUCKING NIGHTS SLEEP WHY IS THAT TOO MUCH TO FUCKING ASK.
>> No. 30676 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 9:58 am
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>>30675
Put some things in your ears.
>> No. 30677 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 12:00 pm
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>>30675
Well if you're so good at construction, why not build yourself a house away from morning noises.
>> No. 30678 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 12:04 pm
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>>30677
He can't. The noise of building his own house would trigger him.
>> No. 30679 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 12:25 pm
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Ironing a little bit of detritus into your clothes.
>> No. 30681 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 9:03 pm
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Started making a stir fry only to realise what I thought was my soy sauce bottle is actually balsamic and I'm all out of soy sauce. Shit.
>> No. 30682 Anonymous
17th August 2020
Monday 9:19 pm
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>>30681
Ended up throwing sriracha, piri-piri, tamarind and paprika into there and mixing the meat and rice together in a pan and you know what? It's not half bad.
>> No. 30683 Anonymous
18th August 2020
Tuesday 10:43 am
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Older cunts at work who won't shut up about the unfunny shit they shared on Facebook, which they'll show you anyway, which is still normally about Corbyn or Diane Abbott. Just get over yourselves you silly, thick, infertile tossers.
>> No. 30684 Anonymous
18th August 2020
Tuesday 11:26 am
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>>30679

I've been saying it for years, but ironing is just a ploy by Big Iron to make you waste an afternoon every week. You don't need to do it, just hang your stuff up and the creases will naturally fall out.

The only time I iron is if it's a fancy shirt and trousers for a wedding or job interview.
>> No. 30685 Anonymous
18th August 2020
Tuesday 8:52 pm
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Curtain twitching cunts can fuck off.

Your parking space near the door has been empty for weeks, but I dare park in there for one night to move some stuff and suddenly I've been "clocked".

Cunt.
>> No. 30686 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 12:16 am
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>>30684
The rule I (try to) follow is that white shirts need ironing so I have my work shirts in darker colours that obscure creases. It's like how in anime dark haired people have lighter purple hairs so you can see depth rather than an void in the screen. My entire workplace wardrobe has been built around this fact right down to the colours of my suits. So far nobody has clocked that I only do it because I'm a scruffy git rather than as a fashion statement.

Come to think of it, I've had better success in job interviews wearing darker shirts as well. The suit jacket covers it and that white shirt that never leaves the wardrobe will never be comfortable.
>> No. 30687 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 1:12 am
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>>30685

You park in my space that I pay for without asking me first and you're getting your car bricked you inconsiderate cunt. This isn't squatter's fucking rights you know.
>> No. 30688 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 1:24 am
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>>30687
People living on public streets without assigned spaces aren't "paying for" the space outside their house.
>> No. 30689 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 1:50 am
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>>30688
Apologies then chap, I assumed we were talking about assigned parking bays. Why else would someone get the hump about any given person parking there? On second thoughts, I suppose that's your /101/ and I'm just dense.
>> No. 30690 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 2:11 am
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>Why else would someone get the hump about any given person parking there?
You haven't lived until you've experienced the joys of on-street parking. Some people get really possessive over the tarmac outside their front gate.
>> No. 30691 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 3:00 am
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Why is the Internet full of such absolute on-line cretins?

Posted some light hearted original content on another website, and I've got some little dickhead who's trawled through every single post I've ever made to try and find off colour remarks to attack me with. Like they're trying to "cancel" me except I'm a nobody, and they're a nobody, on a tiny niche Internet forum, and nobody cares. Why bother?

This is why I just stick to Anonymous boards. Fuck sake.
>> No. 30692 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 6:25 am
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>>30690

The real fun begins when there is assigned parking, (actually the space is a piece of land we own) but it's unmarked and only for the houses that didn't come with a garage. Everything from cones to signs to a barrier being installed have been discussed, but it seems we've landed on just being quietly annoyed if someone parks in our space.
>> No. 30693 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 8:19 am
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>>30691
People love to 'other' those with a different opinion to theirs because then they can simplistically dismiss it in their heads; they'd rather spend time building up a mental picture as to why you're 'the other' rather than using it to refute your argument.

When I first made an account for commenting on the Guardian almost every time I posted I'd get a reply from someone who'd looked up the age of the account, which they'd then claim was proof I was either a Russian bot or a Tory troll. I tend to vote Green and I wasn't posting anything even remotely controversial or inflammatory.
>> No. 30694 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 8:59 am
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>>30693
>I tend to vote Green
Whom do you like in the leadership election?
>> No. 30695 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 9:41 am
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>>30694
Sexton.
>> No. 30696 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 10:20 am
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>>30695
Absolutely. She's gonna kick climate change's ass.
>> No. 30697 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 10:44 am
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>>30696
>ass
>> No. 30698 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 11:14 am
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>>30697
Unless you're in NI you'll be wanting one of these.
>> No. 30699 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 11:51 am
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>>30698

A selfie stick?
>> No. 30700 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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>>30699
LBP :)
>> No. 30701 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 2:30 pm
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>>30698
dw I'm a cabinet minister I can do whatever.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 30702 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 7:15 pm
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>>30693

Yeah, and I should be well aware of this by now, but it still gets under my skin to see (and be the target of) such intense, focussed stupidity. I wouldn't understand if it was even something deeply controversial, but it wasn't even a statement in favour of or decrying anything. It was literally a carbon copy of another internet meme that's been doing the rounds lately, but with the pictures changed to ones more relevant to the community I posted it in.

It absolutely confounds me that there are people out there so miserable they are able to get genuinely offended over something so trivial.
>> No. 30703 Anonymous
19th August 2020
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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>>30702
> so miserable they are able to get genuinely offended over something so trivial

I've said this before - the people who do this are beginners at the internet - they've just discovered the healing power of manufactured outrage, but haven't yet learned how to focus it.

It's like baby's first troll, albeit in the safety and comfort of a quite internet backwater/community/vBulletin board.
>> No. 30704 Anonymous
20th August 2020
Thursday 8:28 pm
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"Is 6pm on Thursday alright for you?"

- the builder who never bothered turning up to provide a quote.
>> No. 30705 Anonymous
20th August 2020
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>30704
Absolutely typical for most builders though. He'll pitch up tomorrow morning.
>> No. 30706 Anonymous
20th August 2020
Thursday 9:14 pm
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>>30705
The other three we've asked for quotes turned up when they said they would, just need to see how long they take to email them across.
>> No. 30707 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 8:25 pm
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Working from home, I often have my personal laptop on all day to listen to music and mess about. Unfortunately I leave it on my bed where it will overheat because it only has vents along the bottom.

What this means is it will shutdown to unresponsive and I'll need to wait for the battery to discharge. I can't just take the battery out because it's not allowed with modern technology and I don't have the right screwdriver to otherwise get at battery. So that's my Friday night ruined. If I'm lucky I'll actually be able to play a computer game on Saturday evening.
>> No. 30708 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 8:27 pm
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>> No. 30710 Anonymous
21st August 2020
Friday 11:55 pm
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>>30707
I use an upturned mesh shelf from a paper tray.
>> No. 30711 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 12:06 am
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>>30708
Nobody eats breakfast in bed anymore.

I wish someone brought me breakfast in bed.
>> No. 30712 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 12:22 am
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>>30711

Get yourself a teasmade. Or a Thai bride.
>> No. 30713 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 4:09 am
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>>30712
My parents had one of these - not a terrible idea, but you have to remeber all the mugs, milk, sugar and cope with the noise of it starting up in the morning.

A fresh cup of tea is an important start to the day, but the teasmade was a bit of a faff to be honest. Far easier to get yourself a partner who is a morning person and train them (and do not spare the rod on this point) to bring you tea as you wake up.
>> No. 30714 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 4:10 am
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>>30713
I meant one of these.
>> No. 30716 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 4:07 pm
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I was awoken by a police helicopter hovering low above my flat at 8 this morning. And yet, were I to get onto the roof and start impotently waving a mop around or throwing tennis balls in the nude I'd be sectioned.

Truly the rights of the Englishman mean nothing in these dark times.

>>30714
Having done significant online research on the people of Thailand I can assure you both that they don't look like this.

I used to be in a relationship with a morning person who would wake me up with a cup of tea. The problem is that on weekends you really want to spend about 45 minutes laying down after you've woken up and had a good shag. But you're caught in a trap because you need to sit up to drink your tea and once that's done you can't comfortably get back under the covers. Nothing but a gilded alarm clock designed to make you go carbooting.
>> No. 30717 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 8:19 pm
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>>30716

My ex was a morning person too and would wake me up with a blowie/sex whenever she wanted us to drive somewhere early to buy a fucking wardrobe at an antique shop or whatever the fuck it is she wanted. It got to the point where I began to associate blowjobs with having to drive to fucking Harrogate at 9am on a saturday.

I'd have preferred the tea.
>> No. 30718 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 8:48 pm
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>>30717
>It got to the point where I began to associate blowjobs with having to drive to fucking Harrogate at 9am on a saturday.

I deeply appreciate this tragicomic post, thank you.
>> No. 30719 Anonymous
22nd August 2020
Saturday 8:53 pm
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>Having done significant online research on the people of Thailand I can assure you both that they don't look like this.

Bluebottle: What time is it Eccles?
Eccles: Err, just a minute. I, I've got it written down 'ere on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
Bluebottle: Ooooh, then why do you carry it around with you Eccles?
Eccles: Well, umm, if a anybody asks me the ti-ime, I ca-can show it to dem.
Bluebottle: Wait a minute Eccles, my good man...
Eccles: What is it fellow?
Bluebottle: It's writted on this bit of paper, what is eight o'clock, is writted.
Eccles: I know that my good fellow. That's right, um, when I asked the fella to write it down, it was eight o'clock.
Bluebottle: Well then. Supposing when somebody asks you the time, it isn't eight o'clock?
Eccles: Ah, den I don't show it to dem.
Bluebottle: Ooohhh... Well how do you know when it's eight o'clock?
Eccles: I've got it written down on a piece of paper!
Bluebottle: Oh, I wish I could afford a piece of paper with the time written on.
Eccles: Oohhhh.
Bluebottle: 'Ere Eccles?
Eccles: Yah.
Bluebottle: Let me hold that piece of paper to my ear would you? - 'Ere. This piece of paper ain't goin'.
Eccles: What? I've been sold a forgery!
Bluebottle: No wonder it stopped at eight o'clock.
Eccles: Oh dear.
Bluebottle: You should get one of them tings my grandad's got.
Eccles: Oooohhh?
Bluebottle: His firm give it to him when he retired.
Eccles: Oooohhh.
Bluebottle: It's one of dem tings what it is that wakes you up at eight o'clock, boils the kettil, and pours a cuppa tea.
Eccles: Ohhh yeah! What's it called? Um.
Bluebottle: My granma.
Eccles: Ohh... Ohh, ah wait a minute. How does she know when it's eight o'clock?
Bluebottle: She's got it written down on a piece of paper!
>> No. 30720 Anonymous
23rd August 2020
Sunday 4:30 am
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>>30718
Me too. It's a deeply upsetting/amusing post.
>> No. 30723 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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When you have a conversation with a bird on tinder that's going swimmingly for a couple of hours (genuinely, not just you THINK it is) and you have loads in common, then she unmatches you because she took one sarcastic line the wrong way.

I mean, it's her loss. But I wonder how many positive experiences with men this girl has missed out on because she's blocked them for not capitalising a word or something? There's a lot of this weirdly picky behaviour on dating sites etc and I understand that it's because birds get shitloads of attention- But most of them seem to be pretty fucking bad at filtering and they're probably turning themselves into misandrists by accident.

I wonder if this type of girl ever thinks "Ah fuck, I shouldn't have blocked that one, he was a good laugh" but it's too late and you've vanished into the Tinder ether to shag someone else.
>> No. 30724 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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>>30723
I've met plenty of women in real-life like that too - it's not just dating sites. As you say, maybe the attention makes them too picky.
>> No. 30725 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 11:31 pm
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I find it ironic that technology, once the preserve of the off-kilter, has only made it easier for normal people to have sex with each other more efficiently and has driven the off-kilter into the real world.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it vastly easier to meet women in real life because real life doesn't need you to provide photographic evidence of your status as a Regular Human Being™ in the form of photos of you (ideally in Interesting Situations™) that were taken by somone else.
>> No. 30726 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 11:52 pm
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>>30725

They don't seem terribly normal based on my exposure to online dating. Online dating seems to turn people into reductionist sociopathic monsters.
>> No. 30727 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 11:54 pm
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>>30726
Reductionist sociopathic monster is the new normal.
>> No. 30728 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 1:27 pm
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>>30723

A large proportion - possibly even a majority - of women on dating sites are in a relationship or not really looking for one and are just looking for an ego boost.

More broadly, online dating manifests a form of Gresham's law. It's too efficient at matching sane and attractive people so they come and go quite quickly, while all the uggos and nutters hang around indefinitely.
>> No. 30730 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 5:48 pm
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>>30728
> It's too efficient at matching sane and attractive people so they come and go quite quickly, while all the uggos and nutters hang around indefinitely.

Well, that's my quota for depressing thoughts filled for the day.

I've said this before but I think tinder is pretty much useless right at the minute, I'm just collecting a bunch of matches that quickly go stale because there just aren't enough people into having sex while wearing hazmat gear. When this pandemic's finally over I'll have to get a cheap PAYG SIM and make a new account so I can have a proper go at shagging all these birds.
>> No. 30734 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 10:36 pm
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>>30730
I've had more luck on Hinge if it helps. That said, I'm still having a horrible time trying to get my leg over.

At this stage I'm having regular thoughts of texting the ex I left just before all this started because I've got nothing going on. I'd be unhappy if we stayed together but I'd still be having sex and she was fine doing the dishes if I took the bins out.
>> No. 30735 Anonymous
28th August 2020
Friday 11:07 pm
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>>30734>>30730
All my female friends rave about Bumble as the only good dating site. I don't believe either of you are female, but you should use this information as you see fit.
>> No. 30736 Anonymous
29th August 2020
Saturday 1:52 am
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>>30735

Bumble's the one where the lass has to message first, within the first 24 hours, or you get automatically unmatched. Either all the birds on there don't know that, forget to check their matches at least once a day, or all matched me by mistake.
>> No. 30737 Anonymous
29th August 2020
Saturday 2:37 am
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>>30735
Nah, its shit for a bloke - the advantage for women is they don't get bombarded with messages from ugly people and essentially have all the power. Plus the 24 hour clock thing is bastard and you get shadow banned if you miss it or can't be arsed that weekend.

I've equally been told by women to check out Match but the idea of paying for a dating site seems daft.
>> No. 30738 Anonymous
29th August 2020
Saturday 7:31 am
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>>30737
>the advantage for women is they don't get bombarded with messages from ugly people and essentially have all the power

* unsolicited dick pics.
>> No. 30739 Anonymous
29th August 2020
Saturday 7:34 am
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I'm currently in a Travelodge. There are a number of hairs that definitely don't belong to anyone I'm staying with which are stuck to the bathroom door.
>> No. 30740 Anonymous
30th August 2020
Sunday 10:08 pm
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The amount of pricks on my social media feeds who are apparently deeply touched by the death of black superman. It's pathetic. It was a mediocre movie and he wasn't in anything else noteworthy that I can think of.

Either these people are the type who are so suckered in by Marvel bollocks that they think a cape actor dying is on par with David Bowie or something, or they're doing it performatively because he was black and sucking black dick is in vogue this year.

It's pathetic and it's definitely not what MLK had in mind.
>> No. 30741 Anonymous
30th August 2020
Sunday 10:10 pm
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>>30740
Wakanda forever.
>> No. 30742 Anonymous
30th August 2020
Sunday 10:20 pm
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>>30740

The vast majority of on- and off-line conversation is just the mindless parroting of platitudes, with no more semantic meaning than birdsong or dogs barking. There's nothing terribly wrong with that, it's just how we operate as a social species. We're all constantly looking for the basic reassurance that we haven't been ignored or ostracised by our tribe, we're all checking where we stand in the pecking order. Once you realise that, it's a lot less annoying - you can totally ignore the ostensible content and just look for the emotional valence.
>> No. 30743 Anonymous
30th August 2020
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>30742

>The vast majority of on- and off-line conversation is just the mindless parroting of platitudes, with no more semantic meaning than birdsong or dogs barking.

Quite honestly the idea that you are telling the truth is what make me consider putting a bullet into my skull and keeps me up at night. If humans are really that simplistic I am not entirely sure I am human or want to be.
>> No. 30744 Anonymous
30th August 2020
Sunday 11:00 pm
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>>30739

>> No. 30745 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 10:39 am
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>>30743

We're apes with ideas above our station. Viewed in that light, we're doing OK. Chimps will rip your face off for a laugh and bonobos fuck everything that moves. We're a bunch of pricks, but we get on with it.
>> No. 30746 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>30745
Perhaps the difference between us and the other apes is, we know we're a bunch of pricks?
>> No. 30747 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>30740
I cannot possibly imagine being this bitter over something that doesn't effect me at all. Where do you get the energy mate? I need some.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 30748 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 4:25 pm
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>"It was a lot busier than usual when I was leaving work on Friday"

Come on, what am I supposed to say to that? This isn't even small talk, it's micro talk.

>>30740
Racists be like: "sucking black dick!".
>> No. 30749 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 4:44 pm
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>>30747
All it needed was "Now I'm not racist, but...".
>> No. 30750 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 4:54 pm
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>>30748
>"Always the case just before you get a break haha. At least we only have 4 days next week."

You've spent too long without regular human contact, lads. It's making you strange and unable to process that low-level conversation/nattering has a function in and of itself that can drift from topic to topic rudderless. Given long enough you eventually hit point of mutual recognition and new understanding that make it all worthwhile.

I had to work my fucking arse off last Friday getting things ready for a deadline. People need to learn that setting deadlines for the week before or, even the Wednesday, gives the operation much more slack and a moral boosting quiet week. I shouldn't go into a long weekend being pissed off because it puts a cloud over everything.
>> No. 30751 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:21 pm
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>>30748
>>30749

You took your time lads, has your internet racism alarm gone on the blink or something?
>> No. 30752 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:32 pm
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>>30740

I've found the whole phenomenon somewhat disquieting since the beginning. I think for most white people it's just paying lip service, or maybe they actually like Marvel/DC/whatever Black Panther was movies. What seems to be depressing me the most was best articulated by another person who said "it's amazing how important the film Black Panther was to the black community".

I feel like there's something incredibly sad-making about the fact that apparently the biggest hero for black people in this foul year of our lord 2020 was a bad actor playing a fictitious character in an insipid by the numbers Hollywood blockbuster movie about an imaginary country.

Again, I can't quite put my finger on why but I've found the thousands of images from around the world of black people doing the "Wakanda Forever" sign incredibly sad. Is the idea of "Wakanda" the best thing they have to take pride in right now? If so, why? Who's fault is it and how can we fix it?

Sage for not properly articulating my thoughts at all.
>> No. 30753 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>30751

"You're all so triggered, it took you ages to bother to respond!"
>> No. 30754 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:49 pm
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>>30752
It's easy - name another superhero movie where the main character was black.
>> No. 30755 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>30754
Blade.
>> No. 30756 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>30755
That's twenty years ago - ie one generation ago.
>> No. 30757 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:10 pm
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>>30754

That Spiderman one.
>> No. 30758 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:10 pm
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>>30754

Hancock.
>> No. 30759 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:12 pm
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>>30752
I think what most people seem to be missing is all the work he did outside of his celebrity life, including visiting sick/terminally ill kids while keeping quiet about his own struggle with cancer. He did a lot of good, especially in the US, and Black Panther did a lot for representation of black people in cinema. There's a lot of factors, it's probably lost on us across the pond though and the impact is lost moreso on white people across the board.
>> No. 30760 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:16 pm
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>>30754
Catwoman.
>> No. 30761 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:34 pm
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>>30759
>There's a lot of factors, it's probably lost on us across the pond though and the impact is lost moreso on white people across the board.

A hundred times this - particularly the second part. People were affected by this actor because they like/were affected by that film - it's not for a bunch of other (white) people to then dictate what was good/bad about that if we didn't like the film or the actor.
>> No. 30762 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 7:54 pm
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>>30761
> people to then dictate what was good/bad about that if we didn't like the film or the actor

I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just saying it makes me sad. The same way I'd feel if I saw a homeless orphan playing with a dead rat on a stick.

I guess I'm just sad that some people are so utterly disenfranchised that this is what actually affects and means something important to them.
>> No. 30763 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:03 pm
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>>30752
>Again, I can't quite put my finger on why but I've found the thousands of images from around the world of black people doing the "Wakanda Forever" sign incredibly sad. Is the idea of "Wakanda" the best thing they have to take pride in right now? If so, why? Who's fault is it and how can we fix it?

Name a black great power that people can take pride in - the Japan of Africa.

Afropessimism still has an undercurrent in society that impacts not only outsiders but blacks themselves. Particularly those living in Europe and America who have little in the way of historical culture and identity to feel pride in but will be surrounded by colonial accomplishments and ignorance. Black Panther was a science fiction that imagined something else to that, that War of the Worlds didn't happen for real for Africa. It's sad but that's pretty much it. Same with Noughts and Crosses or the Ghost Dance for Native Americans.

Fuck all this post-colonial theory though. The way to fix the problem would be to tell actual stories from Africa, stuff like King Jaja of Opobo or the Epic of Sundiata, but Hollywood/Netflix/BBC producers won't do that because it might take an ounce of originality. Better to blackwash the fucking Trojan War of all things and spice it up with an interracial bisexual three-way.

>>30754
The 2008 American presidential election.
>> No. 30764 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>30763
>War of the Worlds didn't happen for real for Africa
Huh?
>> No. 30765 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:22 pm
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>>30762
Well, at least you're sad about it, and not stewing like otherlad going "pathetic pricks sucking black dick, MLK spinning in his grave".
>> No. 30766 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:28 pm
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>>30764
The movie's fictional country 'Wakanda' didn't face colonialism and has its shit together unlike entirety of Africa in real life. The conflict contained in the story is the mythical countries response between forgiveness and rage for what happened to the rest of the continent while it was under isolation.

War of the Worlds is an allegory to colonialism that imagined aliens doing to Europe what it had done to the rest of the world - that's the underlying theme of the story. Only in real life the Martians won and now there's the aftermath to that. As an aside there's probably a good movie there along the lines of something like Half Life 2.
>> No. 30767 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:34 pm
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>>30766
Okay thank you.
>> No. 30768 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:38 pm
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I should point out that my original whinge about Black Panther man, every single person on social media I was talking about was white.

My grievance has fuck all to do with the fact it's Black Pantehr, and everything to do with the mix of performative grief from English white people, who as we have discussed couldn't be further from the reasons this film/actor might have resonated with black folk; and the fact that it's a fucking Marvel film.

Really, the fact that that's what our culture has come to and we have people culturally deteriorated enough to think a cynical money grab of a film substitutes real empowerment, people who are content to call me a racist for not thinking it's good enough, is a disgrace.
>> No. 30769 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:44 pm
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>>30768

Are there many non-white people in the social media groups you frequent? Not trying to do a "gotcha", genuinely curious.
>> No. 30770 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:47 pm
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>>30769

Roughly as many as you'd find in any slice of British people, i.e not many but a few. More Asian than black.

Of course that might account for me not seeing any black people grieving over him, but I'm not complaining about black people am I.
>> No. 30771 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:51 pm
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>>30770
You're not, but your sample set is biased. Maybe a relatively greater number of black people are upset about it, they just wouldn't register as they're less than 3% of your sample size.
I don't know why I stuck my oar in, fuck capes.
>> No. 30772 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 8:57 pm
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>>30770
Social media's the real problem here. Quit it and you'll feel loads better.
>> No. 30773 Anonymous
31st August 2020
Monday 10:04 pm
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Back to work tomorrow after two weeks off, and I have that Sunday-night-anxiety already.
>> No. 30774 Anonymous
1st September 2020
Tuesday 7:58 pm
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I don't understand how Biffy Clyro get so much radio airplay.
>> No. 30775 Anonymous
1st September 2020
Tuesday 8:08 pm
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>>30774
Inoffensive, but rocky enough to feel alternative.

They didn't used to be.

>> No. 30776 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 5:18 pm
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My microwave has two defrost settings. Frozen chicken breasts on the lower one for an hour and a half? Nothing, still completely solid. Second setting for half an hour? Literally streamed all the way through in the little freezer bag.
>> No. 30777 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 9:30 pm
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>>30776 Defrosting well with 2.4GHz is close to impossible. Melted bits (of water ice) absorb far more of the energy than still frozen bits do, so you're doomed to have hot spots unless you can stir the food.
What you need is around 900MHz, which doesn't suffer from this unfortunate effect. (Then kick up to 2.4GHz for the real cooking).
It's coming. Problem is, conventional magnetrons are so fantastically cheap and reliable.
>> No. 30778 Anonymous
3rd September 2020
Thursday 9:39 pm
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>>30776>>30777

JUST PAIR A COUPLE OF THICKPHONES WITH BLUETOOTH AND PUT THE CHICKEN BETWEEN THEM WHILE YOU SEND AN MP3
>> No. 30779 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 1:48 pm
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>>30776
>>30777
I've never had much of an issue defrosting chicken breasts in a microwave - 20% power for 5 minutes, flip, same again.
>> No. 30780 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 3:18 pm
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Outlook will make sure every item I've ever looked at on eBay will get three follow up emails, but literally anything important will get relagated to junk alongside shit about "miracle gummies" and emails from Mark Rilance telling me he needs a tenner for the train home.
>> No. 30781 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 5:31 pm
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>>30780

Outlook email assuming you mean the webmail service that replaced hotmail and not the email client software is absolute hot garbage. I've been trying to get back into an old account for months now and I just know that when I finally get back in it'll have wiped years of memories away because I "didn't log in for a year". Fucking pricks.

It's really quite properly grim but we really are locked into using gmail for the foreseeable future.
>> No. 30782 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 6:43 pm
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>>30781
Outlook's an absolute load of shite now. I ended up having to switch but fuck Google, Protonmail's been great.
>> No. 30783 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 6:57 pm
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>>30782
>Outlook's an absolute load of shite now

It lost the plot when it stopped being Hotmail. gmail, even with Googles suspect practices is still a load better.
>> No. 30784 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 8:42 pm
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Motherfucking idiots will stick a turbo charger in any old pile of shit.
>> No. 30785 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 9:46 pm
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>>30784

A turbo in a dogshit car is a thing of wonder and joy, but only if you arse yourself to do a proper job with the rest of the car.


>> No. 30786 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 9:57 pm
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>>30783
Outlook does indeed have an overly aggressive junk mail filter but apart from that I've not experienced any serious problems with it. They've not even engaged in one of those pointless redesigns for a couple of years now. Dunno what you guys are on about.
>> No. 30787 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 9:58 pm
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>>30785

Agreed.

I have been eyeing MX5s yet again, would like a fairly knackered one to chuck a turbo in. They're so much more fun with one - at one point they were supposed to be sold with one, there's still an unused oil feed on the first NA blocks.
>> No. 30788 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 10:04 pm
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>>30785

This video looks a lot like they way I used to throw my little 1l Polo around. No wonder the thing was shagged by the time I came to getting rid.

I have since learned that you can save yourself money on car maintenance by not ragging the bollocks off it every time you go anywhere. All part of getting old I suppose.
>> No. 30789 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 10:32 pm
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>>30785
That thing is utterly tremendous. Needs a bit more handbrake on the turns, but otherwise superb; particularly the back firing when he brakes.

Want one.
>> No. 30790 Anonymous
4th September 2020
Friday 11:32 pm
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>>30789

I love those Fiat 126's, even non-modified they're exactly the sort of bollocks I like - tiny cars built to soviet specifications. The 126p (p for polski) was particularly popular in soviet Poland, could fix it with a spanner and cost nothing. I'd argue it's a perfect London city car even today, and a lot of fun on a rally or other such event.


>> No. 30791 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 12:26 pm
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>> No. 30792 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 12:58 pm
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>>30790

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gluw35vKqA

Makes me wonder how a high-stress motor racing style like rally is compatible with having a backseat driver, even though necessary for theoretical seamless navigation.

Backseat drivers doing a Hyacinth Bucket must surely be someone's /101.
>> No. 30793 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 1:45 pm
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>>30792

The co-driver is really in charge of the car, because by the time the driver can see the next corner it's too late for him to react. At best the driver needs advanced warning to know how to set the car up for the corner and at worst the corner entry is completely blind. Without a co-driver, the driver would have to pootle along at a snail's pace; conversely, if the co-driver makes a mistake, the result is usually a crash and often a big crash.
>> No. 30794 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 2:30 pm
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>>30793

Also, allow me to introduce you to the most entertaining co-driver in amateur rallying, Claire Williams (not that one).


>> No. 30795 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 3:22 pm
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>>30793
Sorry to be a knob, but what about aviation?

As far as I know, the co-pilot is there to assist in correcting any minor fault in navigation, vector, offering an opposing view on ground level weather on approach, provide correct information for cap'n to air traffic control etc., and of course to take over when the main pilot's shagging all of the fit stewards/esses. I know that's flippant, but there's got to've been some proper cockups.
>> No. 30796 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 3:24 pm
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>>30795
It's most often the other way around in aviation - the co-pilot does most of the work, while the pilot oversees what is going on.
>> No. 30797 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>30795

I think the key difference is that aviators have far more time to think, communicate and deal with problems. Most aviation accidents are the result of a sequence of errors, typically with many complex and subtle factors. Cockpit voice recordings from fatal accidents are usually pretty grim to listen to, because the flight crew know that they're going to crash but just can't figure out why or what to do about it. There's an entire field of study called cockpit resource management that investigates how the pilot and co-pilot think, communicate and manage their shared physical and mental workload.

A rally car on a special stage is being driven on the limit constantly, with almost no room for error. If you're not right on the brink of crashing, you're going too slowly. The driver isn't really reacting to what he can see, because he's going too fast for that. He's driving into corners that he can only picture in his mind based on what the co-driver is telling him. The driver has to place total faith in the co-driver and the accuracy of his pace notes.

You can sort of get a sense for it from watching onboards. Notice how often the driver goes into a blind corner or crest on full gas. Pay attention to just how much the car is sliding around and think about what would happen if you were carrying a bit too much speed or turned in a bit too late - if you're on the limit of grip, your brake pedal is of very limited help. If you're particularly keen-eyed, you might see the driver kick out the back end or change his line in anticipation of a corner that he can't yet see.


>> No. 30798 Anonymous
5th September 2020
Saturday 7:14 pm
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>>30797
>The driver has to place total faith in the co-driver and the accuracy of his pace notes.

I've never driven a real rally car on a course, but I have played Colin McRae (or whatever it is called now he has disgraced himself and died) extensively - I can attest that if you turn in exactly when the co-driver gives you the instruction and blindly follow them, which often involves turning the wheel before the corner, you whizz round all the courses and win.
>> No. 30804 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 9:45 am
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I want a pillow that is slim but firm-ish. My old ones weren't memory foam so I'm hesitan to get some of those.
So why is it every other fucking pillow is some huge pumped up foam monstrosity that collapses like a blackhole the moment your head touches it so your head is enveloped in it?
>> No. 30805 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 10:20 am
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>>30804
I like feather pillows, not because they're soft, but because I can squish the feathers up into a tighter ball so I have the support where I want it. I sleep on my side though so it's not so easy to do that if you lie on your back.

You can get thinner firmer pillows they're just a pain to find though.
>> No. 30806 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 10:21 am
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>>30804

IKEA has a fantastic selection of pillows, in all sorts of sizes and formats. They are not as cheap as you'd expect, but they're good.
>> No. 30807 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 10:52 am
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>>30806

Their website is shite, but the in-store selection is very well organised by material, thickness and firmness.
>> No. 30808 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 7:17 pm
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>>30804

I've been using some pillows from Wilko which have a slab of dense foam within the usual soft filling, like the inside of a Feast lolly but in pillow form. They're pretty decent and inexpensive.
>> No. 30809 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 7:23 pm
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My other half has a really fucking irritating habit of sitting her fat arse right on top of pillows/cushions just, straight up just sat on them with her full body weight.

That's not what cushions are for, you have to treat them with respect or else they just end up as pancakes. You use them to lean against for comfort. It does my box in. You don't fucking need a cushion when you have an arse like hers.

Why are women just so dense sometimes.
>> No. 30810 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 8:17 pm
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>>30809
If you're moaning about cushions you're the bottom.
>> No. 30811 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 9:09 pm
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>>30810

I do fancy getting her to peg me later on, actually, you might be onto something.
>> No. 30812 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 9:26 pm
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>>30811

You're just a bumder with internalised cis privilege. I learned that at university and stuff.
>> No. 30813 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 10:02 pm
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>>30809

>fat arse

How fat are we talking about, exactly?
>> No. 30814 Anonymous
12th September 2020
Saturday 11:20 pm
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>>30812

Do you want to guess what species my fursona is?

>>30813

I'd say thicc, but not dummy thicc.

Actually by the standards of this board you lot would probably think she looks like a holocaust survivor, but for real life it's comfortably in the curvy category. She's about 5'3" and has G cups.
>> No. 30815 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 2:05 am
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People who put a random word and a swear word to create a super insult.
Cockwomble.
Fucktrumpet.
Cuntarchitect.
Wanktent.
Bitchhoover.

Get tae.
>> No. 30816 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 2:52 am
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>>30815
Cockholster is my most favourite modern swear word. I quite like cockwomble though you're right, it makes no sense.
>> No. 30817 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 2:56 am
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>>30815

They do sometimes try too hard, or use something overly childish, and sound like a twat.

Cockholster and douchenozzle are classics though.
>> No. 30819 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 6:42 am
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>>30817

I really like fucknugget, but I think that's been around long enough to be considered a classic.
>> No. 30820 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 7:35 am
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>>30815

"Dickspring" has been going since the 80s, but then, I haven't heard anyone use it since.
>> No. 30821 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 11:30 am
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>>30815
https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a22747750/cockwomble-there-is-a-crisis-in-british-swearing/
>> No. 30823 Anonymous
15th September 2020
Tuesday 12:28 pm
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Estate agents are claiming that the found dusty floors after checking the property two weeks after I moved out.

What the fuck did they expect me to do? Hermetically seal the flat? If I'd have done that they'd have got me for unauthorised modifications. Scum, the lot of them.
>> No. 30824 Anonymous
15th September 2020
Tuesday 1:12 pm
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>>30823

https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection/disputes-and-problems
>> No. 30825 Anonymous
15th September 2020
Tuesday 4:13 pm
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>>30824
Aye. Can't start a dispute until they give me a quote for the work done, and it's been two weeks. Got a reply today saying invoices are taking longer than usual - is there any way I can get them because of that?
>> No. 30826 Anonymous
15th September 2020
Tuesday 8:15 pm
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FFS, is there an energy company that doesn't insist on hiking your payments every few months? Mine have just told me they want to go from £60 up to £80 a month, because they think my usage is going to go up in the winter. I'm south-facing in a tower block and haven't had to use the heating in 3 years, and I've been stuck inside for most of the past 6 months, I think my energy usage is going to be a bit flatter this year.
>> No. 30827 Anonymous
15th September 2020
Tuesday 10:47 pm
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>>30826

If you sign up with the MoneySavingExpert Energy Club, they can automatically switch you to the cheapest provider.

https://clubs.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub
>> No. 30828 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 6:47 am
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Oh how I wish this shit was real. The only way I'm ever going to get a good night's sleep ever again is I deafen myself. It doesn't matter where I go, there's constant noise at a level higher than earplugs can help at.

Before, it was the construction. Now it's absolute shit cunt neighbours screaming and hollering outside, blasting deafening music from their cars for hours on end, 7 nights a week - since Sunday before last they haven't taken a single night off.

I just want to sleep in peace, but apparently I'm cursed. Noise follows me - went for a can in the park the other day and a drum circle set up behind us. Had a presentation at work and someone was leaf blowing outside for the entire thing.

It's constant, inescapable, and I'm quite literally so fucking tired of it.
>> No. 30829 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 7:26 am
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Well, in this instance the shit cunts aren't outside, it's the flat directly above mine.

Another 149 nights of this shit before I can move out.

Why? Why me? I've only lived here.for a month but paying the early termination fee and moving to rural Wales is looking tempting about now.
>> No. 30830 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 7:30 am
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>>30826
They do this because you haven't phoned them to complain and because you don't give them regular meter readings. They will come and fit a meter that can send reading remotely and it saves a lot of hassle.

My bills have actually went down this year and last.
>> No. 30831 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 10:24 am
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>>30828

I'm beginning to think you're a super-villain origin story m8. Driven mad by noise and lack of sleep, you terrorise neighbourhoods with unbearable noises of horror, war, and death, driving people to deafen themselves by shoving pencils down their ear canal.
>> No. 30832 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 12:10 pm
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>>30828


>> No. 30833 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 2:01 pm
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>>30831
>I'm beginning to think you're a super-villain origin story m8.

Or a superhero origin story.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pHHFMtVE4
>> No. 30834 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 2:04 pm
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>>30833
That's amazing.
>> No. 30835 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 3:35 pm
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>>30830
Can also attest - I was wary of getting the smart meter fixed, but it's clear I am going to save a lot more money on energy now.
>> No. 30836 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 4:16 pm
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>>30833
Such a weird trailer. It starts off as dramatic, then criminal thriller, and then moves on to goofy, confused, romantic-comedy.
>> No. 30837 Anonymous
19th September 2020
Saturday 5:48 pm
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I'm so hungry I might just eat the chicken half-cooked.
>> No. 30838 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 10:24 am
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>

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>Ambulance crews made the gruesome discovery of 23 mutilated corpses at a popular dogging site in Nobsby at 7am on Tuesday morning

Just write "23" in the headline, why do newspapers do this?
>> No. 30839 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 2:42 pm
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>>30838

>dogging site in Nobsby

That could have been me!
>> No. 30840 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 3:30 pm
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I'd like to send my musculo-skeletal system into Room /101/ please.

It's thought-to-be-but-not-officially-diagnosed-despite-several-years-of-blood-tests-and-x-rays EDS (Hypermobility Type), and all it means is that any time I do try and get off my fat arse to do exercise, my joints make awful crunching noises and I'm in agonising pain for days. Obviously, being fat doesn't help that situation, and I know it's 80% diet, but the psychological benefits of exercise helped me stay on course the first time I lost weight.

I was actually getting quite into beat saber for cardio, but now I'll have to take even that easy. The only things I can realistically do are cycling or x-training at the gym as they are effectively isometric.
>> No. 30841 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 3:32 pm
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addendum: but, gym cycling and x-training is so painfully boring, and as I live in a hotspot I don't really fancy going into a room full of people electing bodily juices in both liquid and aerosol form everywhere. I do have a bike, which I use, but winter is coming.
>> No. 30842 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>30840
>being fat doesn't help that situation, and I know it's 80% diet

You can't exercise away a bad diet.
>> No. 30843 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 10:08 pm
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>>30842
That's, uh, literally what I said m8.
>> No. 30844 Anonymous
20th September 2020
Sunday 10:32 pm
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>>30840

I'm not sure what the situation is regarding COVID, but swimming is an excellent option if you've got dodgy joints.
>> No. 30845 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 12:14 am
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At my local gym the pool is under a strict booking system, and I'd still not be comfortable really. I do (or at least did) swim from time to time, once every couple of weeks, but the lack of entertainment makes the seconds feel like hours.

Still, nothing beats getting into the pool after a sauna.
>> No. 30846 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 2:46 pm
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Talk Radio is on at work. It's awful. It keeps getting angry at the government taking away individual liberties like the right to go out without a mask, the right to smoke at work, and the right to drive a fossil fuel powered car. But if you decide you want to change your gender, causing zero harm to anyone else, that's a bridge too far.
>> No. 30847 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>30846
>the right to smoke at work

Stopping people WFH being able to smoke in their own house is fucking odd though.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/20/council-banned-staff-smoking-desks-home/

>if you decide you want to change your gender, causing zero harm to anyone else, that's a bridge too far

I find it really hard to care about the whole tranny debate and having a strong opinion either way. It seems like expending a lot of energy because of how much you'd need to invest in it for little point.
>> No. 30848 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 3:01 pm
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>>30847
Even in the headline it says it's required only in part of the home "solely" for working in, which is not a difficult thing to avoid.
>> No. 30849 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 5:07 pm
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>>30848
If an employer told me I wasn't allowed to smoke in a particular room in my house I'd tell them where to go. I don't even smoke.
>> No. 30850 Anonymous
23rd September 2020
Wednesday 8:05 pm
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Zavvi have managed to lose my order and they're being a massive pain in the arse about giving me a refund for it.
>> No. 30851 Anonymous
23rd September 2020
Wednesday 8:34 pm
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>>30850

>Zavvi

I'm surprised that they still exist.
>> No. 30852 Anonymous
23rd September 2020
Wednesday 9:28 pm
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>>30849

Perfect of people just being thoughtless sheep tbh. Smoking in the workplace isn't allowed, because you have to share your workplace with other people, who have a right not to breathe second hand smoke.

What they are doing is implementing the logical conclusion of your home suddenly being a workplace, without considering that the "other people" part then becomes entirely irrelevant.
>> No. 30858 Anonymous
25th September 2020
Friday 1:46 pm
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As an extension to the latest discussion in the /e/ thread, the uber friendly Windows thing makes my skin crawl.

That, and how everything is obfuscated and hidden - Office 2016 doesn't have ANY options on its setup; you can't even choose where to install it.

- "We're just getting a few things ready";
- "We're just setting this up for you";
- "We're collecting the data now";
- The sadface BSOD;
- Cortana (though all humanlike virtual assistants creep me the fuck out)

Who the fuck is "we" and why isn't my computer doing it?

The answer to this is of course to use Linux, and before March came around I was 80% Linux, but now there's fuck all else to do I need my games. Plus, I have such a well-integrated WSL setup that I can press Ctrl+Alt+T on my windows install and have a linux shell ready to use; PowerShell now includes a lot of previously UNIX utilities (such as ssh-agents), so Microsoft has really got me there with the convenience factor. It's such a shame that I have to become a good little data mine for that.
>> No. 30859 Anonymous
25th September 2020
Friday 4:25 pm
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>>30858
>a good little data mine

If you run pihole somewhere on your home network, you can a) block all the ads on most websites without fagging around with browser plugins and b) block all the telemetry.
>> No. 30860 Anonymous
25th September 2020
Friday 4:43 pm
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>>30859
Have already done, but surely there's some non-direct telemetry in the case of me being logged into Xbox games pass for example.
>> No. 30861 Anonymous
25th September 2020
Friday 4:48 pm
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>>30860
Only if its somehow built into the game servers and bypassing client-side DNS records; most of these systems aren't that clever (yet). We'll never stop it all.
>> No. 30862 Anonymous
25th September 2020
Friday 5:39 pm
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>>30858

Want to totally customise a Windows 10 build with all of the telemetry stripped out? Go ahead.

https://ameliorated.info/
>> No. 30863 Anonymous
26th September 2020
Saturday 1:00 am
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I had to do a long car journey today and still feel a bit queasy 6 hours later. It's not Covid, I've always had a bit of car sickness which has gotten better with age but I still feel a bit unwell after a long journey with lots of bumps and stopping and starting.

Nothing on the internet seems to provide advice on what to do after a car journey. Other than detailing a rather terrifying illness where people can still have motion sickness for years after a sea voyage where they can't even go to sleep without feeling like they're still in motion.
>> No. 30864 Anonymous
26th September 2020
Saturday 1:37 am
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I came down from Nottingham last week Monday for a new job. All my London mates were happy and wanted to meet up since I haven't seen them since December last year. The idea was to meet up before a full lockdown for 6 months.

I moved backed to my mum's house, and I met them. I told my mum I will stay locked in my room until next Sunday, because I went out and met my friends. They had an after-party in one of my mate's house, but I elected to not go. I don't know if that will make any difference. I only had dinner with them, but I was really put off by the restaurant. No social distancing, no masks, etc.

This is really fucked up. I looked up a few hotels and AirBnBs around me today. If I feel funny, in the next 5 days, I will be booking one of them.

This is so weird. I feel so lost. My mum is so lovely, and I never thought I would say this, but I miss the chitchat we usually have.

Fucking hell lads. I'm locked in my room with 9 - one litre vodkda bottles (from a friend who works at a company). WTF should I do?

I want to call up a hooker in a hotel tbh, and have a mad party. Shame I don't have any coke dealers in London. Is that the only thing stopping me? Jesus? I don't even know anything anymore.
>> No. 30865 Anonymous
27th September 2020
Sunday 6:15 pm
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Youtube thinks that I'm a Kiwi so I've been bombarded with videos fawning over Jacinda Ardern throughout their recent election period.


Oh, I'm sure she's lovely but I'm much too cynical for this. It feels like a 1997 Tony Blair has travelled to our future and now lives as a woman in New Zealand. The opposition is an absolute joke as well, just a load of memes about a hammer and sickle on the countries flag or foaming at that time she wore a headscarf.
>> No. 30867 Anonymous
28th September 2020
Monday 10:27 pm
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Daft public wifi fuck-ups.

O2 wifi won't resolve bare .uk domains, which have been a thing since 2014. Virgin wifi provisioning still uses TLS/1.0 which is 20 years old and disabled by default in most browsers.
>> No. 30868 Anonymous
29th September 2020
Tuesday 9:32 am
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I've lost a needle in my bedroom so I'm definitely going to step on it in eight months and die of tetanus or a dog will eat it and die/cost £40,000 in vet fees.
>> No. 30869 Anonymous
30th September 2020
Wednesday 8:48 pm
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Because it's kind of trendy to be aware of mental health my friend is regularly diagnosing her child with all sorts of conditions, despite the fact medical professionals have confirmed there is absolutely nothing wrong with them. She'll make lengthy posts with profound wisdom about the child's mental health and being enlightened about wellbeing when the reality is the kid has had a tantrum simply because they're a small child. I've lost count of the amount of times she's seen 'signs of autism' in them.
>> No. 30870 Anonymous
30th September 2020
Wednesday 9:26 pm
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>>30869

Ironically, she seems to be developing Munchausen-by-proxy.
>> No. 30871 Anonymous
30th September 2020
Wednesday 10:02 pm
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>>30870
She's always been a bit of a hypochondriac and a few of our mutual friends commented that she'd be like this when she was pregnant, but I wasn't expecting her to be making lengthy posts on social media almost every time her kid cries or plays up when the reality is that the child has no real routine and she never properly tells them off.
>> No. 30872 Anonymous
1st October 2020
Thursday 6:02 am
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>>30871
>has no real routine and she never properly tells them off

Stuff like this makes me weep for the children.
>> No. 30873 Anonymous
6th October 2020
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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Due to not being able to try on clothes in shops I've bought some too-small trousers. The waist is an issue, but I'm more concerned with how criminally on show my tackle is. I don't really want the world at large to know how normal-sized I am and I have to pass two schools to get to the supermarket, it just won't do.
>> No. 30874 Anonymous
7th October 2020
Wednesday 3:20 am
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I was returning from my nightly walk and started crossing the road, and a police car was wanting to turn left just as I started crossing. I proceeded to continue to cross, knowing I was within my rights to do so as stipulated in the Highway Code, but the police car continued to make its turn and abruptly stopped half a metre away from me, giving me a little irksome policeman's honk. I stopped, turned back, pointed at the road, shouted "pedestrian priority!" at the pigs and witnessed their wide-eyed looks of both horror and admiration at encountering someone who is clued up on the Highway Code. Wankers.
>> No. 30875 Anonymous
7th October 2020
Wednesday 5:31 am
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>>30874
You're gonna get arrested and beaten up.
>> No. 30876 Anonymous
7th October 2020
Wednesday 1:33 pm
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>>30875 or fall in a canal.
>> No. 30877 Anonymous
7th October 2020
Wednesday 11:30 pm
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This is how the man in charge of the BBC thinks it's okay to dress.
>> No. 30878 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 3:58 am
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>>30877
Yeah, he needs to lose the jacket and wear a less formal shirt.
>> No. 30879 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 8:34 am
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>>30877
I wouldn't wear white trainers, go for a darker colour, but other than that looks absolutely standard nowadays and fine. I wear similar to work.
>> No. 30880 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 8:44 am
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>>30879

That's a fashion disaster m8. He's wearing a suit jacket rather than a blazer, those jeans are far too short given the cuff width and have an unflattering cut, his socks are too dark and there's a general mis-match of formality.

Jeans are really hard to wear well and most men shouldn't bother trying.
>> No. 30881 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 9:01 am
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>>30880
>He's wearing a suit jacket rather than a blazer,

Absolutely nobody has a blazer anymore. I'd agree with you on the length of the jeans, but like I said, the rest is completely standard dotcom/media/tech executive uniform nowadays - it's a fashion.
>> No. 30882 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 9:26 am
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>>30881

>Absolutely nobody has a blazer anymore.

Yes, they definitely do. Corduroy, tweed or linen would be fine (especially with contrast buttons), worsted might be acceptable if it's textured and set off with patch pockets, but he's blatantly wearing a suit jacket - by the looks of it, a fairly cheap off-the-peg suit jacket. Combined with a poplin shirt, it's just a car crash of thoughtlessness.

>the rest is completely standard dotcom/media/tech executive uniform nowadays

For old wannabes, maybe. If he were actually in the loop, he'd be wearing Allbirds at a bare minimum. If those jeans are Japanese denim I'll eat my hat.
>> No. 30883 Anonymous
8th October 2020
Thursday 9:31 am
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>>30882
>Yes, they definitely do. Corduroy, tweed or linen would be fine (especially with contrast buttons), worsted might be acceptable if it's textured and set off with patch pockets

That just looks super old-fashioned - often seen with brown shoes - we call that the Clarkson.

The trick with the look he is going for is to have a smart shirt, and matching trainers - it's bold to do it in white, most people will do it in blue (or red). The suit jacket is normal, and usually removed when you get to work. When it's done right, it looks very smart.
>> No. 30884 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 10:25 am
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For Christ's sake.
>> No. 30885 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 10:41 am
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>>30884
>> No. 30886 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 10:50 am
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>>30884
I'm still having issues with Zavvi. Order made mid-August, lost in their warehouse and then supposedly dispatched at the end of September; if it hasn't arrived by Monday then I have to let them know and they'll investigate it apparently.
>> No. 30887 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 12:30 pm
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>>30883

>That just looks super old-fashioned

This is the look he failed to pull off, which looks anything but old-fashioned if done properly.
>> No. 30888 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 12:45 pm
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>>30885
Are they going to charge me for my outstanding bill of $billing.outstandingBalanceFromPreviousBills? Lower down on the page it says I've paid this month's bill twice. What the fuck are they playing at?
>> No. 30889 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 12:47 pm
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>>30888
Pity the poor geek that accidentally pressed the wrong button during testing and sent that to thirty thousand customers.
>> No. 30890 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 12:48 pm
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>>30887
That does look great - but I would also contend that the look of doing it with blue jeans/dark suit jacket can look similarly smart - it's actually all down to choosing trousers/shirts/jackets that actually fit well. Badly fitted clothes look terrible in any context.
>> No. 30891 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 1:19 pm
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I've been enjoying Frankie Boyle's New World Order, but I find it hard to concentrate because Kiri Pritchard-McLean is too sexy.
>> No. 30892 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 1:33 pm
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>>30891
For a minute there I thought that was that unfunny woman who they keep trying to force on people.

Just looked up who I meant and she's called Zoe Lyons.
>> No. 30893 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 3:09 pm
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>>30891

Oh christ, now I keep checking .gs just to get a glimpse at her magnificent cleavage.
>> No. 30894 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 4:17 pm
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Approved
>> No. 30895 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 5:01 pm
30895 sage for discussing a womans attactiveness - should this be a problem?
>>30891
>>30893

She's kind of hot but hasn't got the face for the darkness in the first pic, nor the face for the brightness in the second. She looks uncomfortable in both. I thought hearing her voice and watching her move might change my mind but nah.
>> No. 30896 Anonymous
9th October 2020
Friday 5:11 pm
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>>30895

You do you m8, but I'd happily be smothered to death by her magnificent bangers. If you're critiquing the lighting in her publicity photos rather than admiring her spectacular jubblies, I'm not sure that this heterosexuality lark is for you.
>> No. 30897 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 2:36 pm
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When do the jokes start?
>> No. 30898 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 2:52 pm
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>>30895
>hasn't got the face for the darkness in the first pic, nor the face for the brightness in the second

What in the name of Christ are you on about?
>> No. 30899 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 2:52 pm
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>>30897

Spitting Image was always shit, but people selectively remember the half-dozen decent sketches.
>> No. 30900 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 2:56 pm
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>>30899
Yeah, I've watched some of the old episodes and they were awful. Better than a lot of satirical programming, but as you say, the hype far excedes the reality. I don't know what people expected from a reboot.

Feel free to show me what you think I've missed if Spitting Image really was a brilliant show.
>> No. 30901 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:00 pm
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>>30900
>Spitting Image really was a brilliant show

At the time it was - this was the early 80s, remember that "alternative comedy" at the time was just in its infancy, and to see this kind of satire on mainstream TV was quite amazing. A lot of comedy that was revolutionary at the time won't stand up to modern scrutiny or tastes - the (Overton) window has moved.
>> No. 30902 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:02 pm
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>> No. 30903 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:22 pm
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>>30901

Spitting Image wasn't all that revolutionary - IIRC Not The Nine O'Clock News started five years previously.
>> No. 30904 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:55 pm
30904 I guess it's subjective.
>>30898
She doesn't look particularly evil or smouldering in the first picture, which is the kind of feeling i'd expect from this combination of colour and styles (black shiney clothes, hair and an atanomically correct heart neclace). If she had a vicious grin and eye contact it'd probably work.
The second is essentially the polar opposite in what appears to be the intended theme (or possibly some kind of modern pinup thing) but again, her face and demenor doesn't match.

These look like the photos you'd discard to the cutting room floor rather than choose for publication - which further makes me think she's uncomfortable having them taken (if these realy were the best, then what?).

>>30896
>you're critiquing the lighting in her publicity photos rather than admiring her spectacular jubblies
We've got to have some control over ourselves mate else we're little but slavering dogs.
>> No. 30905 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:58 pm
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>>30904

>slavering dogs

You say that like it's a bad thing.
>> No. 30906 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 8:31 pm
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>>30901
I guess. I do like how it's not even trying to make a joke some of the time, and is perfectly happy to simply depict its' subjects as rancid charicatures, but stuff like >>30902 is just a big pile of shite in my opinion, who cares if Phillip Schofield's gay? Even he wasn't fussed until a few months ago. I've developed another, subtler, bias against it also in that no one I think is funny has ever said how amazing it was. Maybe Richard Herring, but other than that I don't think I ever heard Charlie Brooker, Iannucci and his lot, Stewart Lee, anyone from the Mighty Boosh set, or whoever, say "Spitting Image was dead funny, all time great", just generic media bods in their filthy broadsheets. I'm sure someone's going to pull a video of all of those people I listed saying how inspiring and hilarious it was, but nevertheless, that's a bias I have against Spitting Image.

I feel like the best satire you could do with puppets would be to just tear them apart and brutalise them in the most awful ways possible; axes, hammers, flash fires. Some big cunt with a halberd splitting Donald Trump's head open while he screams and cowers in a corner of the Oval Office. If you're satirising someone and they aren't deeply upset you're a failure. Actually I guess the Oval Office doesn't have corners, but that's beside the point. Like I just watched one of the new sketches and Trump asks Pence to "mansplain" something to him, that doesn't even make sense, they just put it in because it's a piece of contemporary pop culture.
>> No. 30907 Anonymous
11th October 2020
Sunday 12:11 am
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>>30906

I'm too young to have ever watched the original, but it does feel like quite safe, establishment-approved satire. Probably the fact they did that Genesis music video, and Genesis is Tory music.
>> No. 30908 Anonymous
11th October 2020
Sunday 6:58 pm
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>>30895>>30904

Maybe, but theres the serious bonus points for having a nice voice and an interest in serial killers
>> No. 30909 Anonymous
11th October 2020
Sunday 7:49 pm
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>>30907

It is absolutely establishment approved satire in the same vein as Have I Got News For You.
>> No. 30910 Anonymous
12th October 2020
Monday 9:12 am
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>>30907
No woman can truly love a man who listens to Phil Collins.
>> No. 30911 Anonymous
12th October 2020
Monday 11:54 am
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>>30895
She sort of reminds me of that Morgana Robinson bird who was in that completely rubbish Vic and Bob vehicle "House of Fools". She also has a stupendously cracking pair.

I saw a couple of select skits from this new iteration of Spitting Image on the recommendation of a friend of mine, and it was really not very funny. I should've seen it coming when the original Spitting Image was responsible for a whole slew of really shite novelty songs. If that was the peak they achieved, it had a low bar to live up to.
>> No. 30912 Anonymous
12th October 2020
Monday 12:02 pm
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>>30910
Don't forget that Phil Collins has a criminal record or two.
>> No. 30913 Anonymous
12th October 2020
Monday 4:08 pm
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>>30911

>Morgana Robinson

Her Natalie Cassidy character is impossibly lovely.


>> No. 30914 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 10:22 am
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I'm never letting anyone tell me "morning" as a time slot ever again.
>> No. 30918 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 12:46 pm
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>>30914
You never dealt with a British Gas engineer in the '90s then?

But I know your mum did.
>> No. 30919 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 3:35 pm
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>>30918
You cheeky fucker, he was a hardware engineer.
>> No. 30920 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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My PC wasn't booting, just sitting on the board manufacturer logo, refusing to go into the BIOS or open a boot menu. I was panicking, confused, thinking "Jesus Christ, I'm going to have to take it apart, pull bits out, swap things around, it's the rest of my day for sure".

Turns out it doesn't boot if my phone is plugged into it.
>> No. 30922 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>30920 Yeah, some USB sticks halt booting too, despite being completely unbootable.
Who the fuck writes these bootloaders? I know they're entire mini OSes, but surely they get at least some testing?
Also, since this is /101/, how come Etcher and Rufus alternate between fucking up bootable isos? Especially when the USB stick has to be plugged in to the bowels of an unliftable server where getting it out of the rack and opening its lid is a risk to life & limb?
>> No. 30925 Anonymous
14th October 2020
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>30922

PC BIOSes are a nightmarish hellscape of legacy junk. We're slowly transitioning towards EFI-only firmware, but people will inevitably start moaning that they can't boot Windows XP on their new machine.
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15th October 2020
Thursday 5:45 pm
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>>30922
The issue is more that the bootloader often has no way of knowing if it has booted successfully. It only knows that it has something that looks bootable and tries to boot it.
>> No. 30927 Anonymous
15th October 2020
Thursday 6:22 pm
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>>30925
UEFI is actually pretty incredible technology. A bit like an entire mini operating system that boots up when power is applied to your computer, and is listening to the power-on switch to be hit.
>> No. 30928 Anonymous
16th October 2020
Friday 3:00 pm
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It's great how easily cum washes out.
>> No. 30929 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 1:10 am
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>>30928
Unless you're being sarky and I'm too smashed to notice, surely this is anti-/101/?
>> No. 30930 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 8:32 am
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>>30929
I considered it a "minor rant".
>> No. 30931 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 9:40 pm
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I'm escalating my thought in >>/b/439640 into a /101/. The past 24 hours have seen my area going into tier 2 which has coincided with interest from some absolutely stunning women that also involve travelling across London to. This is fucking bullshit, not a sausage when I could at least go to a bar but now when we're confined again I'm getting offers.

I'd also like to complain about people dawdling in the supermarket and generally getting in the way. Not necessarily the elderly but people who will block the aisle or stand EXACTLY where you need to pick something up and lack the awareness/care that they're being an inconvenience. One woman had the audacity to park her shopping trolley in-front of the toothpaste and try to work out what she had written on her shopping list when the whole situation could've been avoided by making a note on her phone or simply continuing to move. I'm going back to strictly shopping late at night, it's not worth it otherwise.
>> No. 30932 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 9:44 pm
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>>30931
>my area going into tier 2 which has coincided with interest from some absolutely stunning women

I think a side effect of this tiering nonsense is everyone gets a bit more desperate for a shag.
>> No. 30933 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 9:53 pm
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>>30931

Is it worth killing the elderly to get a shag? Yes, obviously, fill your fucking boots m8.
>> No. 30934 Anonymous
17th October 2020
Saturday 10:15 pm
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>>30933
>Is it worth killing the elderly
Yes, always, no matter the context.
>> No. 30935 Anonymous
18th October 2020
Sunday 5:29 pm
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People have been letting off fireworks just about every day for almost two weeks now. I fail to see the point of doing it in daylight when it's cloudy out.
>> No. 30936 Anonymous
18th October 2020
Sunday 8:03 pm
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>>30935
That's odd, I've not heard any fireworks at all round my way.

Maybe it's kids again. Ban sale to the public?
>> No. 30937 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 11:46 am
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Kate Humble has got a new series on Channel 5, but I daren't wank to it because there's loads of manky farm-related stuff and I don't want to accidentally give myself a pigshit fetish.
>> No. 30938 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 12:31 pm
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>>30937
If you'd grown up watching Eurotrash you'd have learned how to time your wank with precision.
>> No. 30939 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 2:20 pm
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>>30935
There's a 20+ minute firework show every Friday and Saturday somewhere around mine. No idea where it's coming from as I can only hear it, but it's definitely a professional setup.
>> No. 30941 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 6:02 pm
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>>30938

Yeah, but I'm an old git now. It takes me about a week to organise an orgasm and when I do blow my beans it's just a puff of dust.
>> No. 30942 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 11:41 pm
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Trying to buy 2.4ghz analogue wireless cameras is very frustrating, because searching any combination of keywords I can think of still just shows me thousands of more modern WiFi cameras. I know there is probably a specific phrase I'm missing (I really thought analogue/analog would have done it) but I haven't found it yet.

For those wondering, my car is from 2007 and can pick up wireless camera feeds, so I felt like sticking a couple of them to my bumpers out of curiosity. This is the one time I miss Maplins.
>> No. 30943 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 12:14 am
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>>30942

Ex-Maplinlad here. You probably won't find many because when they did exist, they were all shite. From what I understand it's that too much other stuff runs on 2.4 (i.e WiFi) and all you get is interference, which isn't a problem for digital, but it kills analogue dead.

Head office thought it was a good idea to send us stock on several occasions but we essentially resorted to pretending we didn't have them, because all they did was make our returns KPI look bad.
>> No. 30944 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 12:22 am
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I wish I was American or Irish so could rap about my problems. With the sole exception of the Sleaford Mods, I don't think anyone without one of those two accents should be rapping. I can do a very convincing Irish accent, but I don't know if it's wise to spend the rest of my life pretending to be Irish.
>> No. 30946 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 12:33 am
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>>30943

The closest thing I've found are little RCA transmitter and receiver pairs, marketed as a solution for making a wired reverse camera wireless, and then just using a big standard mini analog CCTV camera plugged in to the transmitter side.

Not exactly an elegant solution. The car itself already comes with one wireless camera (hence why the car can pick up a 2.4ghz signal at all), but it is unwieldy and battery powered, so not great either. What I wanted was to just give power to two little bullet cameras and stick them on the front and back bumper for monitoring offroad clearance - that's sort of the point of the included camera, but permanent installation would make more sense.

I know the quality won't be great, but as long as I can tell if there's a big rock or tree stump there it doesn't really matter. It seems a lot of work still for what could be achieved by just poking my head out the window, mind.
>> No. 30947 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 1:36 pm
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>>30944
What are you on about, lad?




>> No. 30948 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 4:11 pm
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>>30944
Just learn Finnish, the greatest language to rap in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVnExzvsLg
>> No. 30949 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 4:19 pm
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>>30947

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20th October 2020
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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>>30947

Not a style I particularly like, but this has some verses in Mandarin.
>> No. 30952 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 5:08 pm
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Alright, you've convinced me, only British people aren't allowed to rap.
>> No. 30953 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 5:09 pm
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Listened to a lot of Hungarian and Romanian rap as a cheflad. They suit gangta rap more than anything, but still great.


>> No. 30954 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 5:15 pm
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>>30952








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20th October 2020
Tuesday 5:16 pm
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>>30952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUirRFcXEvw
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20th October 2020
Tuesday 6:34 pm
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>>30952


>> No. 30957 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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>>30956






>> No. 30958 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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>> No. 30959 Anonymous
20th October 2020
Tuesday 11:51 pm
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The ever-decreasing amount of information density and wasted screen space on websites as they become more optimised for fucking touchscreens meaning I have to scroll and scroll and scroll.
>> No. 30960 Anonymous
21st October 2020
Wednesday 12:33 am
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>>30959
It's also to increase "time on page" which is a key metric that website owners optimise for.
>> No. 30961 Anonymous
21st October 2020
Wednesday 1:17 am
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>>30960
But why would a search results page being more difficult to traverse be a good thing for overall site engagement? A frustrated user is not one that wants to stick around.

Then again with YouTube it's a captive audience (where are you going to go? Vimeo?). But even so, why would they want people to spend more time on the search results when they could be watching ads on videos?
>> No. 30962 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 4:18 pm
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>>30959
To continue this, the new Facebook UI is so insufferably bad (not to mention it jumps all around for some reason) it'll probably be the thing that finally makes me stop using it, once all the "Revert Layout" browser extensions stop working for good.
>> No. 30963 Anonymous
24th October 2020
Saturday 12:01 pm
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These little cunts are back with a vengeance. I no longer care about whatever food chain they support, kill every last one of them.
>> No. 30964 Anonymous
28th October 2020
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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Hello Lads what's happening. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and stop tanking the entire global stock market. So if you could do by around at around.... Monday evening that'd be great.

Guarantee by the time my paycheck comes in and my orders are processed it will be booming.
>> No. 30965 Anonymous
28th October 2020
Wednesday 10:04 pm
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>>30964
They're just creating space in the market for next weeks rally.
>> No. 30966 Anonymous
30th October 2020
Friday 5:52 am
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If you're making any kind of film or video and you bring up 9/11 at some point, you don't have to do so with a hard cut to to the first plane hitting followed by the anguished and confused screams that prefaced The Forever War and the western world's plummet on a one way elavator to hell.
>> No. 30967 Anonymous
1st November 2020
Sunday 10:07 pm
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This evening my four-year-old daughter said "my necklace is kawaii, isn't it?"
>> No. 30968 Anonymous
1st November 2020
Sunday 10:34 pm
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>>30967.

You should have responded by saying, "yes dear, it IS a scary necklace".
>> No. 30969 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 3:24 pm
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When it's cold, and your chap shrivels up to the extreme, and then when you need to go for a wee it takes about ten minutes to try and dig your tiny glans out from underneath all the foreskin before you can relieve yourself.
>> No. 30970 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 6:36 pm
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>>30969
Sorry but that's just you.
>> No. 30971 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>30970
and me, when skiing. It's a bastard rummaging around for the wee fella, and there's an annoying risk of piss going where it shouldn't. Doubly so if going for a dump too. And why is my spacebar being a dick?
>> No. 30972 Anonymous
2nd November 2020
Monday 9:20 pm
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>>30971

Most people stop skiing before they start taking a piss, and Doubly so for a dump.
>> No. 30973 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:38 am
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>>30972
Yes, and everyone knows that as soon as you take off your skis your body is inexplicably filled with warmth.
>> No. 30974 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:57 am
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>>30969

Taking a hot shower after a long winter cycle ride causes a very peculiar sensation in your todger. I imagine it's the closest thing anyone gets to experiencing the weird fantasy some acrobat birds have about spontaneously growing a cock.
>> No. 30975 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 11:59 am
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>>30974
Tinglecock? I vaguely recall something like that.
>> No. 30976 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:25 pm
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I couldn't buy an egg whisk and measuring Jug in the Tescos today because those aren't considered essential enough.

BROKEN CYMRU
>> No. 30977 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:32 pm
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>>30976
That's weird. What's ordering online like?
>> No. 30978 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:44 pm
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>>30977

It is weird, current online order estimate from amazon is 9 days. My mushrooms will have gone off by then. Guess I am going to have to mix my omelette in a lasagne dish with a fork.

The survivors of this pandemic will envy the dead.
>> No. 30979 Anonymous
4th November 2020
Wednesday 4:01 am
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I think right now, right at this moment in time, is a wonderful one for my wisdom tooth to start acting up.
>> No. 30980 Anonymous
4th November 2020
Wednesday 1:46 pm
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>>30979

Dentists will remain open during this lockdown period.
>> No. 30981 Anonymous
4th November 2020
Wednesday 2:00 pm
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>>30980
Oh, neat.
>> No. 30982 Anonymous
4th November 2020
Wednesday 5:59 pm
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We've had knives and forks for centuries and yet nobody has cracked how to stop them jumping off your dinner plate the moment you're about to sit down.

>>30979
I had a similar problem this year. You'll be prescribed antibiotics at the door which will likely involve a receptionist just handing you the script. If it persists they will then see you.

Be sure to pick up the gut-bacteria things like I did in /lab/.
>> No. 30983 Anonymous
5th November 2020
Thursday 6:47 am
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One of my work's service providers rang me to check if why he didn't receive any allocations today, and seemed surprised and incredulous when I told him we had nothing happening at all today, despite there definitely being multiple systems he could see that on, and there absolutely is an emailed schedule he has been sent too. He even asked for my name when I told him there was definitely nothing, as if he thought I was wrong and would blame me for lying to him later. He had to already have known my name though as he must have gone onto the company website to find my details. He was probably staring right at my little fucking corporate headshot as he woke me up with his call.

What an absolute cunt. "Are you sure" yes I'm pretty fucking sure mate that's why I'm at home, asleep, and not at work, and why nobody in the office answered your call too, because they're at home too.
>> No. 30984 Anonymous
5th November 2020
Thursday 7:21 am
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>>30983
In a just society you'd be permitted to draw blood for such an assault. We do not live in a just society.
>> No. 30985 Anonymous
5th November 2020
Thursday 8:35 am
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>>30984

I will be spending the rest of the day trying to find a reason to pull out of our contract with them in the hope he's made redundant in the ensuing loss, it's all I can do.
>> No. 30986 Anonymous
5th November 2020
Thursday 3:50 pm
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I wanted to do a daft psychedelic surf rock solo project during the lockdown and call it The Mysterons buy there's already a band called that.

Cunts.
>> No. 30987 Anonymous
5th November 2020
Thursday 4:34 pm
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>>30985
I live for this kind of revenge in business. Good work!
>> No. 30988 Anonymous
7th November 2020
Saturday 8:12 pm
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Textured wallpaper. Don't much care for it.
>> No. 30989 Anonymous
7th November 2020
Saturday 8:17 pm
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I found an excellent Mexican restaurant not far from me that does outstanding tacos. The taste gives me orgasms but the portions are so tiny that you need to order the same dish twice to feel full. I feel like I'm getting jewed and pampered by the Mexican food gods at the same time.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 30990 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 3:11 am
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>>30989
The apposite nomenclature is "gyppo'd".
>> No. 30991 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 1:30 pm
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They couldn't even wait until Mid-November.
>> No. 30992 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 2:13 pm
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>>30991

One of the lasses at work asked me if I'd done my Christmas shopping yet the other day. The look I gave her must have been like I'd just seen a golden reteriver fucking a martian.
>> No. 30993 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 2:15 pm
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Two full days before the use-by date and the unopened sandwich filler in the fridge is showing the tell-tale bubbles of goingoffitude.
>> No. 30994 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 2:16 pm
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>>30993
Eat it, get ill, sue.
>> No. 30995 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 2:17 pm
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>>30993
Sounds like maybe your fridge is too warm mate.

A /101/ thread in and of itself.
>> No. 30996 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 2:48 pm
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>>30995
I've turned the dial up (or down) though I suspect that's for the freezer. I'll be annoyed if that is the case because getting the letting agency to replace the fridge would be enough of a pain without a pandemic kicking around.
>> No. 30997 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 3:30 pm
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>>30991

These two and everything they do make me want to tear my own brain out, but I reckon she'd give a proper hardcore sloppy blowjob.
>> No. 30998 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 5:10 pm
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>>30993
>sandwich filler

You lads sure are strange sometimes.
>> No. 30999 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 6:20 pm
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Birds on Tinder or whatever who apparently have no intentions of any sincere conversation or connection, but only to project their fucking insane bitterness about men onto you the first time you try and make a compliment or joke about something.

I don't care what any fisherperson says, women are their own worst enemy and most of their problems as a demographic group are self inflicted.
>> No. 31000 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 6:50 pm
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>>30999
Is Tinder back to being normal now or is it still birds from all over the world looking for a penpal?
>> No. 31001 Anonymous
8th November 2020
Sunday 11:13 pm
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>>31000

It's back to normal but appears to be full of even more time wasters than usual considering everyone and their dog is stuck at home bored shitless and horny.
>> No. 31002 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 12:57 am
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>>31001
Eh, let's be honest, talking over text gets annoying and I certainly can't be arsed sitting outside a pub in November. If women are getting especially arsey then its just that they haven't had dick in awhile so time is on your side.

My plan is to hold fire until December and do Christmas with an international stranger once restrictions are lifted. If it works then it'll be dead romantic for me to be her Christmas present and kick off a better 2021. Think about it; don't kill your nan - rub your bits with Fran from Taiwan. In the meantime join us on the pornographic game thread and enjoy what is an excellent, bordering on dangerous, timesink.
>> No. 31003 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 12:58 am
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I had thought putting Maldon salt in my grinder was the lowest I could stoop as a class traitor, but I've just used a handful of it to salt my pasta water, so here we are.
>> No. 31004 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 1:08 am
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>>31003
>a handful of it to salt my pasta water

This is the right amount of salt to use though, so you're absolved of any crimes.
>> No. 31005 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 2:50 am
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Wow, I'm so happy you've installed a security light that stays on forever and points right through my bedroom window in this oh-so-dangerous neighbourhood within which once some drunk lads waited for a taxi on the street and were a bit loud, maybe next you should install a fistful of C4 up inside you and sit on a lit stovetop until you explode, hopefully taking your new light with you, you big idiot.

Alright, well, I'm not really half that angry, but come on, what's the light for? Nothing has ever happened here. I'm now constantly haunted by a pet-peeve of mine, IE security lights that appear to be some kind of suburban pissing contest, where competing maniacs see who can spotlight the largest surface area with a score multiplier for every night time dog walker blinded. I can understand wanting to have a light that comes on when something moves in the dark, for convenience and security, but a lot of them seem to come on when you're across the road, it's so pointless.
>> No. 31006 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 3:34 am
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>>31003
I hate when I'm out of table salt and have to use my poncy salt to make pasta. Feels like waxing your car with a cashmere scarf (I assume, I own neither).
>> No. 31007 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 5:51 am
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>>31005

Not that I'm in any way inciting criminal damage, but you can buy a decent springer air rifle for about a hundred quid these days.
>> No. 31008 Anonymous
9th November 2020
Monday 6:22 am
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>>31006

I do buy the poncey salt in bulk, though - I assume that makes me less posh, a 2kg bucket of maldon seems a lot less elegant than the little cardboard boxes.
>> No. 31009 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 11:37 am
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One of my neighbours' houses sounds like a House of Horrors from 8AM-10PM, if it isn't a little yappy dog going off on one for 2 hours at a time, complete with yelling, it's numerous children kicking off at once, complete with yelling.
It's not fair on the dog, and it's not fair on any of us who have to live near it either.
>> No. 31010 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 5:00 pm
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I bought some Mint Imperials thinking that I wouldn't eat them as rapidly as other, more delicious, sweets, but no, it's no different. I should have gotten chocolate peanuts, at least then I'm technically eating peanuts. From what I can tell the Imperials are just sugar with some mint flavour and a coating of sugar.
>> No. 31011 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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It pisses me off that people have no consistency in how acronyms are written and pronounced. If it's said as one word then don't use capital letters all through and if its not then use capitals, it's not hard.

NASA = Nasa
Bbc = BBC
AIDS = Aids
Hiv = HIV

I get that this has little use to most people and follows the vague 'common usage' but future linguistic historians will be very cross indeed having to work out these mysteries. Especially as when something falls into common usage it can retain the capitals anyway.
>> No. 31012 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 8:56 pm
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>>31011

That's not how English works m8. Unlike the French, we don't have a rule-making authority for how things should be said or written.
>> No. 31013 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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>>31011
Who the fuck writes Nasa? It's NASA.
YBBTM8Y.
>> No. 31014 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 9:24 pm
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>>31012

It isn't how linguists work either they aren't that prescriptive. They tend to regard rules that people tell them about how language works pretty shitty, as most of them have exceptions and if they have exceptions they aren't really rules.

French doesn't really work that way either despite governmental insistence. It would be like trying to stop evolution.
>> No. 31015 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 9:25 pm
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>>31011
None of that is true, you are a banana, I'm coming to take your keyboard away. Isn't their an entire Southpark episode about that Subway nonce having "aids" instead of "AIDS"?
>> No. 31016 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>31015
Can't delete so please don't ban me for saying "their" while moaning about grammar.
>> No. 31017 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 8:54 pm
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People pretending their new Xbox has exploded for clout.
>> No. 31018 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 4:55 pm
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Takeaways are like coffee, you can go forever without one but once you've had a taste you find yourself craving it and only want more. Maybe I should just start pouring MSG on everything I eat.

I'm torn between fish & chips and laksa.
>> No. 31019 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 5:02 pm
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>>31014

Only pedants and bureaucrats pay any heed to the diktats of the Académie Française, but at least you can make the argument that there's a "right" way of speaking in French.
>> No. 31020 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 7:18 pm
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>> No. 31021 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 7:42 pm
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>>31018

>I'm torn between fish & chips and laksa.

One thing I miss about living in the Leeds/Bradford area are the countless money laundering takeaways where you could order both from the same place.
>> No. 31022 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 12:15 am
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>>31021
What do you mean 'miss'? Aren't we all from Beeston?
>> No. 31023 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 1:48 am
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>>31022

He must be that one class traitor who owns a flat he can't shift.
>> No. 31024 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 2:40 am
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>>31023

Seriously someone please buy it, there's lovely canal views and I need the money to buy more fancy salt.
>> No. 31025 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 12:11 pm
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>>31024
You can get a 25kg sack of Himalayan salt off eBay for about £1 a kilo, you're just pissing money away buying it in tubs.
>> No. 31026 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 12:30 pm
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>>31025

Himalayan salt is shit. Maldon is the bare minimum.
>> No. 31027 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 12:51 pm
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>>31026
Maldons is 8.4x more expensive and tastes exactly the same once it's in the dish. The only advantage is the texture.
>> No. 31028 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 1:05 pm
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>>31027

I broadly agree, though it depends on the dish, I can certainly taste the more bitter elements of Himalayan salt in something light. Aside from that, the texture is indeed the advantage when used as a finishing salt, but I have neither the space nor inclination to stock multiple salts in my kitchen, so I just use Maldon for everything.

Yes, it's significantly more expensive, but in reality the difference between paying £30 a year for salt and £4 a year for salt is negligible to me. You're probably wasting an hour or two a year switching between salts or grinding salt up, I can just work those spare hours and I'll have paid for my salt easily.
>> No. 31029 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 1:53 pm
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Spent ages trying to figure out why the USB connection on the printer wouldn't work, eventually I decided to just transfer files to a SD card and print off that. Then today I was fixing a jam, lifted up one of the printer's many sections and saw that what I thought was a hardwired USB had been nothing off the sort and had simply come unplugged. Also the thought that printers are not the kind of things that would have a hardwired USB cord hit me immediately afterwards. In my defence the the cord for the USB is routed through a small channel so from the outside you can't see the end of it, but even so I still feel very silly.
>> No. 31030 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 4:06 pm
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>>31028
>but in reality the difference between paying £30 a year for salt and £4 a year for salt is negligible to me

Get a load of Uncle Pennybags over here.
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14th November 2020
Saturday 4:11 pm
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>>31030

Exactly my point, most people lose more than that down the sofa per year.
>> No. 31032 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 10:45 am
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At least half of the article on the Graun about Des O'Connor's death is reporting on what people have Tweeted about it.
>> No. 31033 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 12:52 pm
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I don't mind people being depressed, I don't even mind them talking to me about it, but could you be a bit less of a flipping downer about it, Christ.
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15th November 2020
Sunday 2:25 pm
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>>31033

I remember one of my mates saying this to me about a mutual friend a couple of years ago. He took his own life the following year. Needless to say, the other friend felt horribly guilty about that.

I know how you feel, it does get exasperating, but do try show a bit more compassion. Being a bit of a downer sort of comes with the territory, doesn't it. That's why it's called depression, not upbeatssion.
>> No. 31035 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 3:03 pm
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>>31032
Met Des O'Connor at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.
>> No. 31036 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 3:51 pm
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I hope we managed to capture his and Sean Connery's DNA so we can use it to interpolate a new Bob Monkhouse.
>> No. 31037 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 4:03 pm
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>>31036

Is it just me or were Des O'Connor, Bob Monkhouse and Terry Wogan all the same person?

If we were to bring one back though it would have to be Wogan.
>> No. 31038 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 4:13 pm
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>> No. 31039 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 4:45 pm
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>>31037
I think Bob Monkhouse was really funny too - even in his later stages as comedy "changed" he was one of the few from that olden era who updated his act.
>> No. 31040 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 5:58 pm
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>>31039
If anyone hasn't seen it, I encourage them to track down Bob Monkhouse's Last Stand. Funny but also poignant.
>> No. 31041 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 6:14 pm
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>>31040

I second that recommendation.


>> No. 31042 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 7:26 pm
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>>31041>>31040
I hadn't seen that - thanks - really good.
>> No. 31043 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 1:47 pm
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Perhaps I've been oblivious to it because I had Prime until not too long ago, but it feels very sneaky of Amazon that they apply £4.49 postage and packaging as the default if you qualify for free delivery and have to manually select that instead.
>> No. 31044 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>31043
Because they normally act out the goodness of their hearts?
>> No. 31045 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 2:11 pm
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So I'm a pathetic NEET who should have been shot rolled into a ditch years ago, and I appriciate they're likely busier than Hell itself, but even so I resent that so far the government's JETS scheme has so far found me one job 2+ hours away and night shift work I can't get home from because I'm on public transport, which I've told you and you've offered to pay for so you obviously know, you daft bastard.

I think I'm just going to stop claiming benefits, sod this.
>> No. 31046 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 4:11 pm
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>>31045
Haha I'm awaiting a call from JETS at the moment, the whole thing seems like they're just fobbing people off to this company. If it doesn't pan out I'll just go back to selling drugs.
>> No. 31047 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 4:16 pm
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You cunts got that West Side Story song stuck in my head.
>> No. 31048 Anonymous
18th November 2020
Wednesday 4:21 pm
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>>31046
Well, if you need an apprentice in your future endeavours hit me up.
>> No. 31049 Anonymous
19th November 2020
Thursday 12:00 am
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The thing I miss most about the 2010s is going backwards 200 years and seeing what was going on in the Napoleonic Wars.
>> No. 31058 Anonymous
19th November 2020
Thursday 9:51 pm
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Iain Lee has got sacked again.
>> No. 31059 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 6:23 pm
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>>31058
Doubt anyone else will be bothered to hunt this down.


>> No. 31060 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 6:59 pm
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>>31058>>31059
Who is he, and what is this?
>> No. 31061 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 7:13 pm
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>>31059
>> No. 31062 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 8:31 pm
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>>31060

Oh god, I'm so old.



Iain Lee was briefly massively famous around the millennium for being the coke-addled face of Channel 4, then disappeared for a bit, then carved out a niche as a radio phone-in host with a remarkable talent for getting sacked.
>> No. 31063 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 9:37 pm
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>>31062
Was the world a nastier place, or just Channel 4?

I would have been 8 or 9 when this came out but I remember things like 'Balls of Steel'.
>> No. 31064 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 9:55 pm
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>>31060
Is it Ghostbusters II?
>> No. 31065 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 10:00 pm
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>>31063

...I think so tbh. I don't know if that's a bad thing as such? I think people used to take themselves less seriously as well. If this was a French show and they were ripping us.

Also neither of them seem to laugh, or even react, to anything Ricky says until Iain tells him to shut up. I thought that was scripted but they seem genuinely unamused, it's a weird joke for them to be completely deadpan and tell him to fuck off, idk.

That fucking guy who shat in a bag and told his mate there was a game controller inside. "He loved it". I hope that was real.
>> No. 31066 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 10:01 pm
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Didn't finish me sentence.

If this was a French show and they were ripping us I'd find it hilarious if I could understand it. It's a decent bit of a banter.
>> No. 31068 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 10:46 pm
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I keep watching James Hoffman videos even though I think he's a smug cunt and I don't really care about coffee.
>> No. 31069 Anonymous
20th November 2020
Friday 11:53 pm
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>>31065
>Also neither of them seem to laugh, or even react, to anything Ricky says until Iain tells him to shut up. I thought that was scripted but they seem genuinely unamused, it's a weird joke for them to be completely deadpan and tell him to fuck off, idk.

The next time someone is telling you a story or talking about bollocks you don't care about give them a poker face. You'll find that even for non-comedians it's absolutely infuriating.

Gervais is trying to be a comedian and they're fucking with his act by throwing him off for a laugh. For his part he does well to maintain his timing but it's probably more that he's reading the audience rather than taking cues from the people he's acting a conversation with.
>> No. 31070 Anonymous
21st November 2020
Saturday 1:03 am
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>>31065
You're not serious are you? Were you confused why nobody in The Office was laughing at David Brent as well?

For a start, The 11 O'Clock Show wasn't a chummy Graham Norton chat show, it was news and current affairs-based satire. That means fewer cutaways to grinning twats and more sober delivery.

Into that context you put Gervais, who is himself deadpan. This is because the pretence of his segment is that he has been invited on as a guest commentator, and his character is an idiot. He delivers his jokes as though he really believes what he is saying i.e. that it's more worthwhile to spend £20 on scratchcards than starving children. And this is why Daisy and Iain aren't reacting with amusement, but with disgust and contempt.
>> No. 31071 Anonymous
21st November 2020
Saturday 3:32 am
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>>31070

It just doesn't really work though, does it? Particularly since they're pretending he's contemptable before he even walks on, and before he even starts Lee goes "oh great it's the Gervais bit now" - so in this scenario where they're supposed to be disgusted by his views, why invite him on in the first place as they have clearly telegraphed they know what he's like? They should at least have had him come on, say something dodgy and then the presenters could have reacted to that. But as it is they basically go "heres a cunt we don't like, but for some reason we've invited him on our show to talk for five minutes anyway"
>> No. 31072 Anonymous
21st November 2020
Saturday 4:35 am
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>>31063

The year 2000 was a different world. We were in the euphoric early years of the Blair government, before 9/11, before the wars, before the financial crisis. The BNP existed, but they were a joke party that couldn't win a meat raffle. The internet was just barely starting to become a thing, but it was something you accessed via dial-up on a big beige computer and it didn't really influence mainstream culture in any way. "Reality TV" wasn't in common parlance, because the first series of Big Brother wouldn't start until later that year.

You were allowed to be conspicuously edgy, because there was a general understanding that we were all basically nice people and society was headed in the right direction.

The Gervais character worked at the time because his views were recognisable but also clearly unacceptable. There was no need to telegraph to the audience that the character is a satire of reactionary idiots, because it was implicitly understood. Iain and Daisy were playing the part of snide arseholes and even they were sick of his bullshit.

You might have an uncle with views like that, you might get ranted at by a pub bore or a taxi driver, you might hear twats on a late-night radio phone-in, but you weren't seeing those sorts of views constantly being amplified on social media because social media didn't exist. The Tories had absolutely no chance of winning the next election, the far-right were a joke, so it felt safe to flirt with unsavoury ideas for comedic effect.

I feel a bit sad now.
>> No. 31073 Anonymous
22nd November 2020
Sunday 2:28 am
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I'm watching Her on Film4 and it's really making me miss crowds.
>> No. 31074 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 12:50 am
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For something like six months a few years ago The Guardian had a "read later" button and then they binned it for reasons I can't understand. I really miss it.
>> No. 31075 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 1:31 am
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People have gotten used to this corona thing and the streets feel as busy as they ever were. I miss the empty roads and streets of early spring.
>> No. 31076 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 4:39 pm
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I got home from work today and somebody had chained their bike to my lamp post. I had to chain my bike to a different lamp post.
>> No. 31077 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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>>31076

Maybe someone had chained a bike the their lamp post? Don't jump to conclusions lad, you could be the fourth or fifth in the chain, and you've only perpetuated it by chaining your bike to someone else's lamp post. Who knows how far it stretches back.
>> No. 31078 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 6:36 pm
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>>31076
You own a lamp post?
>> No. 31079 Anonymous
24th November 2020
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>31078

I own two lampposts, they light up my driveway.
>> No. 31080 Anonymous
25th November 2020
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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Went full bachalor-mode and stirred my coffee with a pen, but that pen had a tiny hole in it so now it's full of coffee.
>> No. 31081 Anonymous
29th November 2020
Sunday 6:22 pm
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I thought the whole gender thing was overblown but holy shit do you notice it when you're shopping for young children. Teens are easier because you can just buy them computer games of the type they enjoy but with young children you have a colour scheme and then it's working out if its not tat or riddled with broken English.

Any ideas on what to get a 1 and 5 year old?
>> No. 31082 Anonymous
29th November 2020
Sunday 6:28 pm
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>>31081

These and some starter picks to go with them.
>> No. 31083 Anonymous
29th November 2020
Sunday 7:03 pm
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>>31082
These are great for something to fiddle with on a zoom call when I have to pay enough attention to make doing actual work impossible. Probably a bit of a stretch for a 1yo, although they're as good to chew on as anything, I guess.
Can you ask the owner of the kids for an explicit suggestion, 'to avoid buying something shit that clutter the place up, kill them or go against your (probably batshit) child rearing ethics'? At worst, it's a minefield (hmm, probably not a good suggestion), at best, it's a waste.
Anyway, I think I've ruled out explicit publications, land mines and bat shit. That's helpful, yeah?
Get the 5yo riding lessons if you want to torture the parents for fun.
>> No. 31084 Anonymous
1st December 2020
Tuesday 2:18 am
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I posted a really inane comment on a YouTube video at the beginning of the year. The video subsequently became fairly popular and my comment ended up top of the pile. All the responses are either even less funny or less interesting than what I wrote and they show up every few days as a notification. You can turn these off, but that's the real /101/ of this post; I can't turn off the notifications. I know, intellectually, that nothing interesting will show up, but part of my brain thinks "but what if... ?". So I'm doomed to be faintly annoyed every few days, either because I've read someone's boring setence or I feel a more deserving comment I've left elsewhere hasn't been answered.
>> No. 31085 Anonymous
1st December 2020
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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I am getting so tire of people's vague non-comittal replies to arranging things.


At a certain point it is not worth pulling teeth, and easier just to get new friends who know what they want and how to pick a time.
>> No. 31086 Anonymous
1st December 2020
Tuesday 10:01 pm
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>>31085

>I am getting so tire of

tired. Obv
>> No. 31087 Anonymous
2nd December 2020
Wednesday 7:45 pm
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The new windows update reversed my function+ keys and now I have to manually revert them through the registry.
>> No. 31088 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 1:10 am
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>>31087
I couldn't be bothered fixing how the updates broke all my personalised settings, so I stopped updating.
>> No. 31089 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 1:33 am
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>>31088
I'm with you. I soon found that SharpKeys couldn't edit certain key functions so holding Fn is just part of my life now. Curiously the airplane mode key I've never used outright doesn't register.
>> No. 31090 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 1:37 am
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I want to get a bidet attachment for my toilet, but I can't be arsed with all the questions. I went to Japan a few years ago and for a while after coming back I felt really rather savage.
>> No. 31091 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 1:47 am
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>>31090
How do you use it?
>> No. 31092 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 3:51 am
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>>31091
You press a button and it shoots a stream of warm water up your arsehole.

It can get much fancier than that with the proper ones, but that's essentially it.
>> No. 31093 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 7:59 am
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>>31090

I couldn't stand it myself. And I can't say it made my arse any cleaner. But if that's your fetish that's your fetish.
>> No. 31094 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:50 am
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I don't get it either. Once you get your arse wet you can't dry it. Toilet paper breaks apart leaving white specks all over your arsehole, and using anything else will clog the sewers. Do people in Japan carry little arse-towels with them, or what?
>> No. 31095 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:55 am
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>>31094
I guess they don't shit in public much but yes if you're ever in a house where they have one, don't touch the "hand towels".
>> No. 31096 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 11:43 am
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>>31094

The Japanese robobogs blow-dry your ringpiece.


>> No. 31097 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 12:46 pm
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>>31092
And drying? Surely you can't walk around with a soggy bum.
>> No. 31098 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>31082

I second this webp file nonsense. How am I supposed to expand my impressive porn library?
>> No. 31099 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 4:01 pm
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My car battery is clearly fucked, the previous owner bought a lifetime guarantee. It went from 12.2V after a drive (when it should have been about 12.7V) to 11.5V in 48 hours, and my battery charger says it goes from 0% to 80% in less than 10 minutes.

Took it to Halfords, where the battery was bought from, their tester said it was OK. Fucking hell, so now I'll have to buy a new one.
>> No. 31100 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 4:24 pm
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>>31099

It's potentially just sulphation - many battery conditioners will fix this, though depending on the car it might well be more cost effective to just bite the bullet on a new battery.

Do not, whatever you do, buy another one from Halfords. They're hilariously overpriced and I don't think I need to tell you that their guarantee means nothing if their 'testing' comes back saying an 11v output is fine.
>> No. 31101 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 4:51 pm
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>>31100
It was at 12.4V when they tested it as I'd just taken it off the charger, so my guess is that it was testing the surface charge. My cheapo ebay charger has a pulse repair mode, so I may try that.

I have a trade card, so often Halfords is the cheapest place to get some tools or parts. It's 50% off things like windscreen wipers which makes them really reasonable, and the trade cards never expire as far as I can tell.
>> No. 31102 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 4:52 pm
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>>31097
Lads they do have toilet roll you know. (And if you really want, it does dry as well). It's a precise stream, and gravity does most of the work to dry anyway....

But this is just the first part of the process. The check and dry wipe follows.

Honestly once you're used to it you do sort of realise how dirty you must be walking around with specks of shit in your arsehole.
>> No. 31103 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 5:01 pm
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>>31102
>Honestly once you're used to it you do sort of realise how dirty you must be walking around with specks of shit in your arsehole.
Yes and after you start anal douching you realise how dirty you are walking around with shit in your intestines. This is why I full-body floss. It takes a while for the "anchor" to come out the other side after swallowing so now my cleaning routine is around two days long and I permanently have floss hanging out my arsehole but it's worth it just to know there's none of that dirty dirty filth anywhere in or near me. Dirty, dirty.
>> No. 31104 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 8:45 pm
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>>31103

>after you start anal douching you realise how dirty you are walking around with shit in your intestines

You jest, but this is why straight people fail at arse shagging. Porn performers and bumders know that if you have a little rinse out beforehand, there won't be any little brown surprises.
>> No. 31105 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 8:48 pm
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>>31104

The three genders: Straight, bumder and porn performer.
Don't straight people have more anal sex than gay people?
>> No. 31106 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 8:54 pm
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>>31100
But Halfords will price match anything sold online no questions asked.
>> No. 31107 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:14 pm
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>>31103
Lads, there's a difference between walking around with shit on you, an shit in you.
>> No. 31108 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>>31103
We are basically walking bags of shit.
>> No. 31109 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:23 pm
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>>31107
Where's the non-arbitrary dividing line between on and in?
>> No. 31110 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:26 pm
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>>31109

Your arsehole.
>> No. 31111 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:27 pm
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>>31110
Where does that begin and end? Get over it lad you're basically one of these things. "on" and "in" are the same.
>> No. 31112 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 10:28 pm
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>>31104
You're all forgetting that Japan is completely anal retentive and Japanese toilets only took hold by playing to those anxieties in the 50s. Now the country suffers from washlet syndrome where repetitive use of bidets both weakens the anus and lead to bacterial infections - your chocolate bonbon factory just isn't meant to be clean.

And if a bit of poo upsets you then you have no business having sex, just confess that you want a bidet to use infrequently because you're a bit of a wrong'un. If anything it's instead outright ludicrous that women like their white linens considering how filthy they are.
>> No. 31114 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 11:03 pm
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>>31112
Nothing will convince me that walking around with a shitty arse is better than not walking around with a shitty arse.

I bet you're one of those people who don't wash your greasy hair in order to 'keep it healthy'.

Wash your arse.
>> No. 31115 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 11:03 pm
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>>31111

Nobody is debating we're a tube full of shit, but there's definitely an inside and an outside to that tube. I don't think it's controversial at all to suggest that the non-arbitrary dividing line is precisely the point at which your sphincter meets in the middle.

Unless you're suggesting you've got a loose, gaping arsehole that never closes. I mean, I enjoy my Bad Dragon Diego as much as any man of the world these days, but you might need to give it a rest for a couple of weeks in that case mate.
>> No. 31116 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 1:24 am
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>>31112
I hope you are joking. I was going to go on a tangent about how the American invasion ruined Japan, since they had pretty interesting stuff around sex, homosexuality, prostitution, etc. But the rest of your post just ruined it all.
>> No. 31117 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 2:16 am
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>>31111

I wonder what it's like to fuck one of those.
>> No. 31118 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 9:55 am
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>>31115
The pictured tubes meet in the middle but they still don't have an inside and an outside. Tubes in this sense are essentially elongated toruses and passing through a torus is not being inside it. The little rubber octopus pictured is inside, but it's not in the analogical gastric system.
>> No. 31119 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 10:30 am
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>>31118
Why isn't a human an elongated irregular torus?
>> No. 31120 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 11:06 am
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>>31119

Too many holes.
>> No. 31121 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 12:51 pm
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>>31119
Simplified human topology is actually more like four Wheaties stuck together if I recall correctly. Saw it on a Kurzegesagt video or summink.
>> No. 31122 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 1:22 pm
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>>31121
The jolly music over the top of the weatherman's explanation of 'thundersnow'. This is the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55184493
>> No. 31123 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 1:22 pm
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>> No. 31124 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 1:53 pm
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>>31122
Who would want to attack Scotland of all places? They're up their own arses.
>> No. 31125 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 3:01 pm
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If you don't click "Stop broadcast" before you end the Zoom meeting, it keeps broadcasting a blank video forever. The only way to stop it is to go to some weird "Live" Youtube control panel you had no idea existed and use Inspect Element to get rid of the grey screen cover thing so you can click on the Stop Broadcast button they have there. Nice bug you fucking retards.
>> No. 31126 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 4:36 pm
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People who say "My music tastes are really varied, I'll listen to anything"
When what they actually mean is "I'll listen to anything as long as it's vanilla and mainstream"
>> No. 31127 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 4:53 pm
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>>31126

I say that because what the fuck else am I going to do, list off genres and artists until I land on one you deem obscure or interesting enough?

I listen to hip hop, punk, jazz, electronica, drum and bass, soul, turntablism, hardcore, post hardcore, indie, folk, funk, delta blues, are you having a good time yet? Is this a good conversation?

Fucking hipsters
>> No. 31128 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 6:18 pm
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I hopped over a fence earlier today and hit the ground completely stiff and totally straight, so to speak, shuddering every joint in my body and much of my lower back. I think I need to start getting fitter.
>> No. 31129 Anonymous
4th December 2020
Friday 7:15 pm
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>>31127
You really don't sound like the sort of person that moan is aimed at at all though.

My meaning was the type of people who say that they like all genres, but in reality don't like anything that wouldn't get played on radio 1, and think they're edgy and special because they like smells like teen spirit.
>> No. 31130 Anonymous
6th December 2020
Sunday 12:45 am
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>>31127
>turntablism, hardcore, post hardcore
Well you've lost me there.
>> No. 31131 Anonymous
6th December 2020
Sunday 1:23 am
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I've eaten loads today yet I still find myself quite hungry. I could probably eat a whole cod and chips from the takeaway if given chance.
>> No. 31132 Anonymous
6th December 2020
Sunday 9:14 am
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>>31131

A WHOLE cod? AND chips? My god, get a gastric band, Lad.
>> No. 31133 Anonymous
6th December 2020
Sunday 12:16 pm
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>>31130
>post hardcore

Royal Mail after privatisation?
>> No. 31134 Anonymous
6th December 2020
Sunday 3:23 pm
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>>31133
Post Hardcore, is the when the after wank glow has gone and then you realise you need to clean up the evidence.
>> No. 31136 Anonymous
7th December 2020
Monday 4:10 pm
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People who drive the biggest cars always have the worst road positioning.

Seriously, there is always gridlock in/out of Oxford at peak times and your wank that's come through from Chippy will be fully positioned in the cycle lane meaning I have to overtake them in the middle of the road before pulling in to the cycle lane to pass the next car weaving in and out of 'dicks who cant drive' and considerate drivers whilst looking like I'm an erratic cyclist.

You're in the English countryside, not the Australian outback. Get a sensible vehicle or learn how to drive better.

Also, it takes a special type of moron to drive into Oxford on weekends instead of just using one of the many P&R's outside of town.
>> No. 31137 Anonymous
7th December 2020
Monday 4:21 pm
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>>31136

I noticed this too, and it wasn't until I bought a range rover myself that I realised why - they're remarkably difficult to tell where the outside of the car ends from the inside. This isn't trying to excuse them, as I learned how to maneuver mine in a couple of weeks, but that's what it is, I guarantee it. The car is too big and people who don't have the sense to learn from experience think they're constantly going to scrape the nearside so end up half way in the middle of the road on narrow passages. At the very least, those little convex mirrors you stick on for towing caravans should be standard on any large SUV.
>> No. 31138 Anonymous
7th December 2020
Monday 4:29 pm
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>>31137

Also not entirely related, but if you have a Range Rover with the auto dimming mirrors (on both the rear view and side mirrors), you really can't see shapes of anything in them at all - just floating headlights. Combine that with tinted rear glass and your rear view is useless, and the wing mirrors aren't much help either. It honestly feels quite dangerous, if someone ever forgets to turn on their headlights, there's absolutely no way I would be able to see them behind me. I'm shocked this hasn't been noticed or been identified as an issue, as it must have killed someone by now.
>> No. 31139 Anonymous
8th December 2020
Tuesday 9:13 am
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I lost a credit card, requested a replacement, and didn't get one. So there's just no card associated with my account at all. The credit card company keeps asking for my credit card number in order to send me a new credit card.
>> No. 31140 Anonymous
8th December 2020
Tuesday 9:18 am
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I got a replacement digikey last month and the button to send me the activation code on the bank's website doesn't work. Their internet and phone help clearly has no plan for this contingency and as they're a large bank, obviously they have no way for me to speak to a real human being about it.
>> No. 31141 Anonymous
8th December 2020
Tuesday 9:27 am
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>>31140

As a matter of fact, the only reason I got this particular card was for balance transfers, and the balance transfer button on the site doesn't work. I will never actually use the physical card they send me, if they ever do, I'm only trying to get it in the hopes that's the reason the button is broken.

I suspect it's probably the same bank.
>> No. 31142 Anonymous
8th December 2020
Tuesday 9:52 am
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>>31141

Cunts.
>> No. 31143 Anonymous
9th December 2020
Wednesday 11:07 am
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The GP gave me a new medication for diabetes, now I have a non-stop headache and I got thrush on my bellend. He told me that they are normal side effects and gave me some dick ointment. Fuck my life.
>> No. 31144 Anonymous
9th December 2020
Wednesday 12:18 pm
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>>31143

Great, now your life has thrush too.
>> No. 31145 Anonymous
9th December 2020
Wednesday 4:51 pm
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>>31144

thrush is not an STI, you genius
>> No. 31146 Anonymous
10th December 2020
Thursday 10:05 am
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>>31145

Thrush can absolutely be passed on with contact, though?
>> No. 31147 Anonymous
11th December 2020
Friday 1:12 am
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God damn it.
>> No. 31148 Anonymous
11th December 2020
Friday 1:34 am
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>>31147
It's like that Nerd Crew episode actually happened.
>> No. 31149 Anonymous
11th December 2020
Friday 10:10 am
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>>31147
Just pirate them, it's easier than ever now.
>> No. 31150 Anonymous
11th December 2020
Friday 10:31 am
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>>31147

Give it a year and I honestly can't see this happening.

On the plus side, it might mean we can see more proper films are the cinema. Before the second lockdown my local indie was booming, tons of great small budget and homegrown stuff about.
>> No. 31151 Anonymous
11th December 2020
Friday 10:52 am
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We are forsaken.

>>31150
Not sure my local cinema is opening again, quite honestly.
>> No. 31152 Anonymous
12th December 2020
Saturday 6:40 pm
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YAML. It is super picky about whitespace and even with editor support it's very easy to create valid but wrong YAML since it's schema-less. Yet it gets touted as a "human friendly" format as it allows for comments. Fuck that noise, if the parser supports or ignores a simple comment field then JSON is much more explicit. Parsers are fortunately implemented in every language that matters but trying to write your own that is truly compliant rivals writing an SGML parser. YAML was a mistake.
>> No. 31153 Anonymous
13th December 2020
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>>31152
Bit niche for /101/ but I totally agree with you. I much prefer JSON.
>> No. 31154 Anonymous
13th December 2020
Sunday 5:55 pm
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Pop-culture poisoning. The "Ready Player 1" equivalent of everything. Reddit and funko pops.
This art is amazing but I hate it.
>> No. 31155 Anonymous
13th December 2020
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>31154
All such people seriously believe pop culture to be of an equal status to what gets called 'high culture', usually along some vague view of 'high culture' apparently being the product of an outdated and discriminatory patriarchal system etc., while completely and willfully ignoring that all the things they like just exist for marketing. If you point this out to them they say it's not your business to judge them and they're not harming anyone, but something strongly tells me it's not wrong or harsh to judge them for being like this.
>> No. 31156 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 2:22 am
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>>31154

I remember when "geek" meant someone who was clever but socially maladroit, rather than unhealthily obsessed with lowest-common-denominator entertainment.
>> No. 31157 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 3:03 am
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Well, [i]I[/i'] remember when "geek" meant carnival freak who ate anything and everything.
>> No. 31158 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 9:28 am
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>>31157
No you don't, that would make you in your 70's or older
>> No. 31159 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 10:20 am
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>>31155
This feels like one of those things where people don't grasp the implications of what they're thinking.
"There's no objective standard that puts Mozart above my favourite 80s movie" might well be true, but the implication is to cut the respect given to Mozart down to the level given to the film, not boost the appreciation of the film to the levels once attained by Mozart.
>> No. 31160 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 5:10 pm
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As a kid I had a first edition shiny Charizard. If you want an idea of how rare that is, I assumed all Charizard's were first edition because the only one I ever saw was mine and I kept that card in mint condition.

Of course; when I was a teenager my hormones got the better of me and I gave all my Pokemon cards to a girl's little brother in a foolish attempt to win her over. Even my dad called me a fucking idiot for that one. 17 years later and I never got anywhere with that girl and about once a year I'm reminded of how much that card is worth these days. I will never stop being mad about this.
>> No. 31161 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 5:12 pm
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>>31158
Yes, I am the average age of a .gs poster.

>>31160
Still, a small price to pay for the love of your life.
>> No. 31162 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 5:35 pm
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>>31160

As soon as I get to my parent's for Christmas I'm scouring the attic for my binder of cards. Don't think I had anything this rare but I had a lot. How can you tell if they are first edition?
>> No. 31163 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 7:35 pm
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>>31161
I looked her up to see that she's gotten older with a kid and husband now. Then I saw that she has a perfect physique because she's a gym nut and got mad again.

>>31162
It has a one in a black circle in the left corner under the picture. Looking online the rest of the cards seem to fetch from around £50-700 if you have first edition because that's what useless youtube people (the buyers) care about.
>> No. 31164 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 8:22 pm
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>>31160

If it makes you feel better lad, you would never have sold it for that price anyway. It's the same with those rare 50p pieces, and even rare books.

It doesn't matter how much something is worth if you can't find a buyer, and I image the number of 1st edition Charizard cards on the market is far greater than the number of people looking on dropping a decent sized mortgage down-payment on a trading card.
>> No. 31165 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 8:37 pm
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>>31164

True, there will still be people trying to shift all such as Lego Death Stars and Avengers Helicarriers on ebay for double retail price because they're still convinced by a Times article wot implied that they were a better investment than gold - even though there will also be thousands of other chancers with the same attitude, constantly re-listing their wares, fiending for a bite.
>> No. 31166 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 10:45 pm
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>>31164
That's where you'd be wrong:
https://goldinauctions.com/1999_Pokemon_Base_1st_Edition__4_Charizard__Hologr-lot71096.aspx
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I reckon it's mostly money laundering at this point with the odd youtuber/mumble-rapper flaunting for the kids in a way they'll understand. The problem with the ebay listings seems to be that they lack certification which you'd need given clones are being sold for £20 a pop and identifying legitimate ones requires some knowledge of the machining imprint. If I still had one I'd be tempted to let a cloner have a look as soon as I get my money to fuck with the market.

Come to think of it, if you wanted to impress a girl in her late teens-early 20s you could hang a £20 job on the wall.
>> No. 31167 Anonymous
14th December 2020
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>31166

We've had these sorts of bubbles before, most notably with baseball cards - when people reach their 30s, they have the money to assuage their existential terror by buying back their youth.

In 20 years time, I expect someone to pay $50k for a Fortnite Nerf gun or something equally daft.
>> No. 31168 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 8:59 am
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First person to do a year in review gets clipped. I don't want to hear it.
>> No. 31169 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 9:25 am
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>>31168

My year in review:
>> No. 31170 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 9:49 am
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>>31168
You know I don't have time for that nonsense anymore.
>> No. 31171 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 9:54 am
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>>31170
He's made it for Netflix this year.

https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/1334616614470377472
>> No. 31172 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 10:30 am
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>>31171
Well blow me.
>> No. 31173 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 10:36 am
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>>31172
No.
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16th December 2020
Wednesday 10:59 am
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>>31171
So a bit of googling also found Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe 2020 from May-ish. I'm sure you're all already aware, but I wasn't.

https://vimeo.com/418790927
>> No. 31175 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>31174
I almost went back and watched that in August or something, but even by then I think it would have seemed hopelessly lost to the past. A year of nothing happening at an incredibly high speed.
>> No. 31176 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 12:29 am
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There's this podcast I quite like; good concept, two great hosts with solid chemistry and then this third bastard. He's all over the shop, bad improv, terrible timing and generally hobbling the flow if the entire production. Rather than letting the humour just emerge naturally like it would amongst three friends, he forces the issue, dragging the discussion about by the short and curlies. This isn't a guy who's just got behind a mic and is struggling to find his feet either, because they were more than fifty episodes in when I started listening. Perhaps I've overstated it and maybe I'm more aware of his foibles in particular because I've got a pet peeve about people being talked over by others, but I was quietly doing the washing up earlier and I literally snapped at the laptop I was playing the recording on, as if I was going to chasten a two month old mp3 file. Perhaps he wasn't always this bad, but he picked up a coke habit during lockdown and he can't shut up now.
>> No. 31177 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 3:05 am
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>>31176

I don't know why, but I'm unreasonably annoyed that you didn't just say the name of the podcast.
>> No. 31178 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 8:36 am
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>>31177
https://soundcloud.com/nosuchthingasabadmovie
>> No. 31179 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 11:06 am
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Fucking Yodel.

The absolute fucking CUNT they handed my parcel too at the depot has claimed they delivered my parcel yesterday at 4pm, a confirmation email I paradoxically received at 6AM this morning.

The parcel was not delivered, not to me or my neighbours or indeed into my bins beside the house. I suspect it has been stolen. Upon googling "Yodel parcel theft" there is hundreds of reports of Yodel drivers forging people's signatures and stealing parcels. There was even a hashtag #YodelSteals.

Ebuyer sending expensive electronics via a fucking cowboy outfit like this is messing with my head a bit. Even Hermes, in their status as a meme courier, has never stolen something of mine. Delivered it 3 days late? Sure. Stolen?

I'm fucking livid.
>> No. 31180 Anonymous
17th December 2020
Thursday 5:16 pm
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>>31179

I've had a fair few things where they claim to have delivered them, even claim that I signed for them, then they do actually deliver them two or three days later. I think that's mostly Hermes rather than Yodel though.
>> No. 31181 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 1:23 am
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How did you deal with it at the time? Did you wait and see or call and complain? I've had similar experiences with Hermes, but when I contacted them they confirmed the driver still had the parcel. With Yodel, they have raised an issue with the depot but that's it.

I just wish I had bought that pissing video door bell during Prime Day now, could have used it as evidence if they'd been caught signing it themselves and fucking off.
>> No. 31182 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 1:40 am
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>>31181
>I just wish I had bought that pissing video door bell during Prime Day now, could have used it as evidence if they'd been caught signing it themselves and fucking off.

If they were going to do that, I doubt they would bother to stand in front of your door and do it.
>> No. 31183 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 5:53 am
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>>31182
A Yodel driver was prosecuted and jailed for doing just that not that long ago, he approached the door, signed for it, then walked back to van without attempting delivery.

I can't imagine why, but they did. The whole thing was captures on one of those video doorbells.
>> No. 31184 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 6:00 am
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>I can't imagine why

Pour encourager les autres.
>> No. 31185 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 9:07 am
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The first time I spent the day or two in a fluster emailing the seller and failing to find any way to speak to someone at the delivery company.
Now I just tweet some abuse at the delivery company on twitter and message the seller with screenshots showing the fraud as well as links to bad reviews. If you point out their bottom line is threatened by it then some will at least consider switching.
>> No. 31186 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 11:26 am
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So, I contacted them again.

Apparently, there was a "manual scan made in error" at the depot and the parcel was never sent. Despite the fact that I got a notification that it was out for delivery and a time window for delivery and a fake delivery confirmation email.

They are apparently searching for the parcel in the warehouse right now and I've told them I'll drive through and collect it when they do (don't trust their drivers at this point). I still think it has been stolen. At least they've admitted culpability and I'll be able to get a replacement.

What a shit show.
>> No. 31187 Anonymous
18th December 2020
Friday 6:35 pm
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>>31183

I think Yodel was the inspiration for Ken Loach's 'Sorry We Missed You' (2019). It's an excellent film considering the reality of the 'gig economy' and the casualisation of labour for the individual.

I remember reading about Bus Drivers that wouldn't stop at any stop so they could make their routes on time.
>> No. 31188 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 12:00 am
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Going to a forum to view one or two things in parciular and being told "You Must Be Signed In To Do That", why, you cunt?
>> No. 31189 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 1:57 pm
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"Changing the pronouns in songs when you sing them is homophobic" how about you shut the fuck up and let people self-insert. It's not about you.
>> No. 31190 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:15 pm
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>>31189

>It's not about you.

Why can't you just let them self-insert?
>> No. 31191 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:49 pm
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>>31190

I used to be able to self-insert, but I'm not that flexible any more.
>> No. 31192 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 6:08 pm
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Incompetent colleagues in our tech support department.

A typical back and forth over the course of an afternoon.

- Dev: They'll need setting X turned on.
- Support: Didn't work.
- Dev: Got a trace?
- Support: No
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- Support: Here's the trace
- Dev: It shows the setting turned off.
- Support: It was turned on last week.

These are meant to be 3rd line!!!!!!!!.
>> No. 31193 Anonymous
21st December 2020
Monday 9:54 pm
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>>31192
>incompetent [...] tech support

Bit tautological m8
>> No. 31194 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 2:40 am
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Head office called me earlier to ask me if our local third party providers were equipped to deal with an issue, I told them that yes, they definitely are, as it's a large part of my job to know that they are, and they said "oh well ring me back when you've asked them" so I just hung up then stared at the phone in mild, simmering rage for about four minutes, then rang back and said "yes it turns out they are".
>> No. 31195 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 2:43 am
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A replacement part I've been waiting for from China hasn't turned up in a few weeks. No problem, I thought, the world's a bit fucked. Either way, I'll chase up the sender for a tracking number.

They send it to me only to reveal the parcel made its way to a sorting office not 5 minutes away from my house and then minutes later was immediately turned around and sent back because of an "incorrect address". This was three weeks ago. For fuck's sake. They are sending another but I don't hold out much hope.
>> No. 31196 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 9:42 am
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>>31195
Of the 23 things I ordered at the start of this month, 9 haven't arrived yet.
>> No. 31197 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 1:55 pm
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>>31194
Sometimes when people ask you things like that, they know full well that the answer is yes, but they're hoping that you're going to ring them up to check and arrange for the thing to be done at the same time.
>> No. 31198 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 2:03 pm
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>>31197

Perhaps sometimes, but this was a case of them asking if the providers were still going to be around after a certain time if our schedule ran late - there was nothing I needed to do other than remember that everyone is definitely not going home at 11pm, and I knew that.
>> No. 31199 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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My toaster is broken. Doing toast under the grill is a pain in the arse.
>> No. 31200 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 9:50 pm
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To everyone's surprise, myself and the Ebuyer customer support staff included, Yodel found my parcel and I went and collected it today from their depot.

Still a fucking horrendous experience, but at least they either knee capped the driver who stole it and got it back or it was a genuine error.

Ebuyer refunded my postage as well, which was nice of them. I'll be double checking they have expanded their postage options before I buy from them again though.

Here is a pic of my loot en route home from the depths of warehouse purgatory in the hope it lifts all our spirits slightly. We're all ganna be alreet lads.
>> No. 31201 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 10:25 pm
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>>31200
All's well that ends well. Looking forward to a report on how good that card is.
>> No. 31202 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 10:30 pm
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I'd like to get a better GPU, but I'd need a better monitor to justify it or I'm doing the graphical equivilent of wheel spinning and that's doubling the outlay. Also I'd rather get a better CPU anyway.

Thank you for reading.
>> No. 31203 Anonymous
22nd December 2020
Tuesday 10:41 pm
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>>31200
I tried tracing Ray, but he woke up and got upset. So I drugged him and did an aggressive wax rubbing.
>> No. 31204 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 11:09 am
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I'm tempted to order one of those 1.5kg tubs of pick and mix sweets but I know I'll just eat it all in one sitting and feel sick.
>> No. 31205 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 11:47 am
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Certain verbal and rhetorical tics some people have are quite annoying. I know someone who says "at the end of the day" almost like an adverb, then usually finishes what he says with "that's life" when he's made little to no contribution to the general philosophy of living.
>> No. 31206 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 12:06 pm
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>>31204

Just pick all the Parma Violets and Refreshers out for yourself, tape the lid back up and leave the tub in the break room for your colleagues.
>> No. 31207 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 12:45 pm
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>>31206
That's the opposite of what you want. From a small sample group of people I know who actually like Parma Violets, they're deviants.
>> No. 31208 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 1:11 pm
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>>31207

I like girls with willies, so the research is correct.
>> No. 31209 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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>>31205

I remember 90% of the dialogue in the first 3 seasons of Big Brother was just people saying 'at the end of the day' to each other.
>> No. 31210 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 9:11 pm
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>>31205
Obligatory.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48HUdzoKiPA
>> No. 31211 Anonymous
23rd December 2020
Wednesday 9:31 pm
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>>31210

Thanks I hate it. I was waiting the whole thing for Jezza to say it, but he never did.

I also remember watching TOWIE or some shit once, and noticed all the vapid morons on that show said this way too often also. I have never watched Love Island, but I would bet money it's a popular adage on that show also.

At the end of the day, I think that this phrase exhibits an inordinate degree of cultural virulence and really lends credence to the concept of the meme put forth in Dawkins' 'The Selfish Gene' and Burroughs drug-addled ramblings about language being a mind virus.
>> No. 31212 Anonymous
25th December 2020
Friday 4:38 pm
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Fucking Youtube. I don't know when exactly they started this whole "Brand Account" bullshit but the upshot is that now I have a choice between seeing the channels I'm subscribed to or the movies I stupidly purchased on the platform. Great fucking user experience, Alphabet, because as usual you changed how your shit works without even a hint of notice or warning.
>> No. 31213 Anonymous
26th December 2020
Saturday 12:01 am
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Either the new socks I've bought and received over the past year are of a lower softness or my feet have become of beaten up and calloused I no longer feel that "new sock softness". Or I have MS and I'm fucked.
>> No. 31214 Anonymous
26th December 2020
Saturday 5:46 pm
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I've managed to strain my pinky finger, which doesn't at all bothersome until you do it and realise how much it moves around, even when using other digits.
>> No. 31215 Anonymous
26th December 2020
Saturday 8:42 pm
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>>31214
I learned to move my pinky independently of my other fingers as a kid, though I can't remember why I thought it might be important that all my finger could move on their own without bothering the others. Works quite well for games that have far left keybinds for p2t.
>> No. 31216 Anonymous
26th December 2020
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>31215

Touch typing and playing a musical instrument will develop that skill. The pinky is the hardest one to get to move truly independently but annoyingly there are some chord and scale positions on guitar you absolutely need to master it for.
>> No. 31217 Anonymous
26th December 2020
Saturday 9:41 pm
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>>31216
That might explain it then, as I play guitar. I never thought too much about it tbh, but that makes the most sense.
>> No. 31218 Anonymous
27th December 2020
Sunday 6:42 pm
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"Bye 2020" and all that shit, like anything is going to change.
>> No. 31219 Anonymous
27th December 2020
Sunday 9:13 pm
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>>31218
Sure there's little reason to celebrate in the UK, but some countries have it a lot more under control than we do and are over the worst of it, the vaccine rollout has started, and the Yanks have reason to celebrate an incoming president who won't be advising them to inject themselves with bleach.
>> No. 31220 Anonymous
27th December 2020
Sunday 9:34 pm
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I've eaten a whole Toblerone. A big airport one that you could bludgeon a burglar with. I'd say "oh god, kill me", but I don't deserve the release of death.
>> No. 31221 Anonymous
27th December 2020
Sunday 9:45 pm
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>>31219
I've seen it posted by a lot of people from here.

>who won't be advising them to inject themselves with bleach.

No, but he won't improve living conditions for anyone*, will do little if anything to stop america ripping itsself apart, ditto to climate change.

*except the ultra-rich
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27th December 2020
Sunday 10:07 pm
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Screwball Scramble can get fucked.
>> No. 31223 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 1:00 am
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I fear my boiler has developed a sense of individuality and is refusing to stop heating the radiators.
>> No. 31224 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 3:20 am
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>>31221

He's had more donations from private equity than any of the presidents preceeding him. He is a textbook case of a right wing politician using the superficial tropes and language of left wing politics to sneak into power. And that's not even in the sense that moangy try hards call Blair or Starmer "right wing in disguise" either- This guy is easily to the right of Bush, Reagan or Nixon; and as for Kamala Harris... Don't get me started. Her own dad has come out to shoot down her race-based grifting before.
>> No. 31225 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 10:20 am
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>>31223
Always happens at this time of year. It's like they're in cahoots with the plumbers.
>> No. 31226 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:17 am
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>>31225
Big Boiler and their fucking insurance protection racket. Country has gone to the dogs.
>> No. 31227 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:21 am
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>>31226

I hear they Santa a fee and he tinkers with the plumbing when he's in delivering presents on Christmas Eve.
>> No. 31228 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:57 am
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>>31226
Won't be long until gas boilers are banned, and then Big Plumbing will be able to refuse to fix it, lest you buy some hydrogen/solar version.
>> No. 31229 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:59 am
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Cars exploding because they're upside down in computer games.
>> No. 31230 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 12:09 pm
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>>31229

I can't see this being anything other than entertaining (unless you're inside it when it explodes).
>> No. 31231 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 3:08 pm
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31-day months are nothing but a plot to get free work out of us and delay payday. Just think, were it February you would already have a months pay in your bank account.
>> No. 31232 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 3:33 pm
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>>31231
I would either way because I get paid on the 25th.
>> No. 31233 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 9:15 pm
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Things, food mainly, being referred to as "The X One". Shreddies boxes are now basically indistinguishable from one another, but instead of being called "frosted Shreddies", it's now "Shreddies THE FROSTED ONE". What the fuck does that even mean? Shreddies is a plural.
>> No. 31234 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 9:23 pm
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>>31233
Just looked it up and to add to the confusion they've swapped the colours as well. I knew Nestlé were a bunch of water stealing bastards but this takes the cake.
>> No. 31235 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>31234

I hate this. I can imagine a scenario where I get home and find out that I've accidentally bought salt 'n' vinegar Shreddies.
>> No. 31236 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 10:28 pm
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>>31233

The McDonalds wraps (the only thing I order from them as you can eat them while driving like a big fat yank) are called "the bacon one" or "the sweet chilli one" and I always hated it. Just call it a chicken and bacon wrap for fucks sake.

Also they removed two of the four variants - I don't know if thats a covid thing or a permanent thing, but they can fuck off.
>> No. 31237 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:34 pm
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>>31236
Unless a sneeze or a cough were part of the ingridients I don't see why it'd be COVID related.
>> No. 31238 Anonymous
28th December 2020
Monday 11:41 pm
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>>31237

McDonalds have simplified the menu to allow social distancing in the kitchen and reduce queueing at peak times.
>> No. 31239 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 1:24 am
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No device in the house will connect to my wifi, apart from my oculus.

Troubleshooting shite internet in VR is not the future I was promised.
>> No. 31240 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:15 am
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American teenagers shitting up previously good Facebook groups with their tedious aut-right culture war bollocks.
>> No. 31241 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:03 pm
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"Can I just squeeze past .. Cheers, Thanks Very Much"

Fuck off. What happened to "Excuse me".
>> No. 31242 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:21 pm
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>>31241
Excuse me is imperative (you will let me past), "can I just" is asking nicely?
>> No. 31243 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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>>31241

Can you just not stand in my fucking way, please.
>> No. 31244 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:43 pm
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>>31243

It's a public footpath dickhead.
>> No. 31245 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:48 pm
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>>31244

Then the person moving has right of way.
>> No. 31246 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 4:57 pm
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>>31241
You're blocking the path and he's coming at you from the angle of being apologetic for inconveniencing you.
You're a total knob mate, pay some fucking attention to your surroundings, be considerate and move out of the way before people have to stop to ask you. Knobber.
>> No. 31247 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 5:33 pm
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The point of annoyance is the phrase itself, "Can I just squeeze past", not the act of being asked to move. I thought that much was obvious ladm8s.
>> No. 31248 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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>>31247
It's code for 'get out of the way, you (non-distancing) cunt', but wrapped up in moderate politeness, you gigantic autist. Just replace the words in your head and get out of the fucking way. People shouldn't have to ask, it implies you've failed as a human being.
>> No. 31249 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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For some reason it really annoys me sometimes that my girlfriend will stand there like a lemon when I clearly and obviously need to get past, it's not a lot of effort to say "'scuse me" but when it's in situations where any mentally capable person would already have moved without even realising they have done it gets on my wick. Bloody autists women sometimes lads...
>> No. 31250 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 7:40 pm
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>>31248
What's it like being the only person in the world who has never been in the way?
>> No. 31251 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 7:56 pm
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>>31249
It's the same at my work. The two other lads just constantly stand in the way when they see I'm doing my job.

Yes, I'm standing here with my hands full of stock next to the only way in/out of the storage area (and you're in the way) because I find it both highly entertaining and the best use of my time to stand still holding things. It's clear as fucking day that I need to be through, you woulda thought they'd've learnt after the second time.

Verbal/nonverbal cues aren't really that difficult.
>> No. 31252 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 8:34 pm
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>>31247
You're coming across as a slightly autistic German lad who's visiting the UK for the first time, who just can't comprehend the sort of quirky euphemisms and turns of phrase that are normal here, so instead you're taking everything literally.
>> No. 31253 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 8:48 pm
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>>31252
It seems the canIsqueezepast army is out in force. I imagine you're the same people too meek to complain when your food arrives cold.
>> No. 31254 Anonymous
30th December 2020
Wednesday 10:35 am
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What took Game of Thrones 8 years Cyberpunk 2077 accomplished in 18 months; that's talent.
>> No. 31255 Anonymous
30th December 2020
Wednesday 1:49 pm
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>>31254
u wot m8?
>> No. 31256 Anonymous
30th December 2020
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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The 'mixed size' eggs I've got all seem to be small. This'll teach me for going to Sainsbury's.
>> No. 31257 Anonymous
30th December 2020
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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I'm all for it snowing but does it have to be so fucking cold?
>> No. 31258 Anonymous
30th December 2020
Wednesday 9:40 pm
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A seperate tap for hot and cold.
I fucking love having that 5 second moment where the hot water tap goes from freezing cold to mildy warm and then scalds my fucking hands.
>> No. 31259 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 2:59 pm
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>>31258

>> No. 31260 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 3:48 pm
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Looking for useful little keyrings and multiools etc. why does practically every single thing like this have to have a bottle opener on. I can't even remember the last time I needed one outside of my kitchen.
Even in the kitchen I must have about half a dozen different utensils all with a bottle opener on.

Oh look, here's a garlic press with a bottle opener built into it, just what I've wanted, the perfect tool for making garlic flavoured beer.
>> No. 31261 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 3:49 pm
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>>31260

Forgot the fucking pic again, thanks purple.
>> No. 31262 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 3:50 pm
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>>31261
I have one of those without the bottle openers. It doesn't crush the garlic properly, just turns it into a lot of small garlic pellets. I don't recommend them.
>> No. 31263 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 4:10 pm
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>>31260

I can't defend the garlic bottle opener, but I think in general the bottle opener is just a very cheap value-add proposition, particularly in multi-tools. I don't need a bottle opener very often in the wild, but when I do (camping, drinking in a park, visiting my more useless friends, it does come up) it's the sort of thing you're glad to have dangling on your keychain.

The bottle opener on my Leatherman is more of a can opener you can very carefully pry a bottlecap off with, but it's also a wire stripper so it doesn't feel like a wasted slot in the multitool.

As for useful little keyrings, I'm always surprised how useful my Gerber Shard has been over the years - I bought it when I was a chef and having a bottle opener in your pocket was genuinely needed for the maintenance of your alcoholism, but it's come in handy in all sorts of places, most often just quickly tightening a screw at work or opening a box, stuff like that.

I'm in the market for another one though, that does a little more. I'll never carry my Leatherman at work (actually couldn't even if I wanted to) but one of those Trueutility ones shaped like a fish looks good - I do find myself needing to quickly tighten a bolt every now and then in situations where I do not have the time to find an actual spanner.
>> No. 31264 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 5:16 pm
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>>31261
I crush a lot of garlic - this Joseph + Joseph one is the best I have found, and doesn't include a bottle opener.
>> No. 31265 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 5:42 pm
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I just use a handheld grater for garlic.
>> No. 31266 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 5:45 pm
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>>31263
I've got my eye on one of these, but it's out of stock at a lot of places right now.
It's similar to the shard but with a knife and rope cutter/box opener. Should be fine carrying it in public as it's blunt-ended. But again, bottle opener. The problem I have with this is that it creates a sticky out bit that can get caught in your pocket, and having it there halves the useful area that's available to grip onto when you're trying to use the knife part.
There's a point where it stops being a value-add proposition but instead is detracting from the functionality of the other tools.
>> No. 31267 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 6:02 pm
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I just use my calloused fingers to pull the damn bottletop off. Sod using implements.

I got the callouses from opening countless bottles of Cava and Moscato
>> No. 31268 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 6:10 pm
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>>31266

Someone bought me one of these years ago as a stocking filler. It's not a good tool, but it's a very useful one - it's a bit fiddly to use, but it's so discreet that you forget you're carrying it until you need it.
>> No. 31269 Anonymous
31st December 2020
Thursday 8:47 pm
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Cleaning the stove top hours ago I got The Pixie's "Debaser" stuck in my head, but "Degreaser" substituted for the word "Debaser".

But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia

Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a degreaser (degreaser )
Degreaser, (degreaser )
Degreaser, (degreaser )
Degreaser, (degreaser )
Degreaser, (degreaser )
Degreaser, (degreaser )


For hours.
>> No. 31270 Anonymous
1st January 2021
Friday 9:32 pm
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HL haven't updated the world domination screen from flash. It's a completely useless screen but one I infrequently look at to pretend I'm a Bond villain but which has gotten increasingly annoying to access.
>> No. 31271 Anonymous
2nd January 2021
Saturday 8:50 am
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>>31268
I got one as a gift years ago, ended up saving my arse a few times whilst working on-site.
Always nice to have incase you drop your proper screwdriver in a river/sewer etc
>> No. 31272 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 1:00 pm
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I'm trying to be less anti-furry in my old age, let people do whatever, but god damn if they don't keep coming out with some eugenicist shit.
>> No. 31273 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 1:04 pm
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Like, hey guys I know a lot of you just want to cum on men in fursuits but there's this whole undercurrent where you're applying heritable behavioural traits of animals to humans with a clear species-race analogy. That "Animal Kingdom Theory" you're claiming is fine and totally innocent, when you anthropomorphise it, it might have more to do with Race Theory than you're willing to admit.
>> No. 31274 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 2:26 pm
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>>31273
U wot m8s.
>> No. 31275 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 3:52 pm
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>>31272
>>31273
That community seems to be full of neo-nazis. Maybe the irony is lost on them.
>> No. 31276 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:06 pm
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>>31273

Goodness me you're trying very, very hard to piss me off specifically, aren't you?

One one hand you have examples of furry culture/media that use the species-race analogy as a positive message about racism and universality. Then on the other hand you have aspects of furry culture and most often the porn that fetishises it- Usually alongside size difference, and other such inherent traits. Like many aspects of the furry fandom, it's mainly an exploration of things that are either impossible or too much of a taboo in real life.

Are you going to make this same galaxy brain observation about how sci-fi and fantasy fiction has historically used its setting as an analogue for race relations too? If I wanted to be a really contrarian arsehole I'd spin some counter-argument about how it's actually a utopian ideal where we're all allowed to embrace and celebrate our diversity rather than the stifling, enforced PC conformity of contemporary real-world racecraft and identity politics. But I can't be bothered.

Sage well and truly ticked.
>> No. 31277 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:12 pm
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I don't know or really care if this is trolling or not but if you find yourself talking about far-right infiltration of the furry community, you probably need to go outside.
>> No. 31278 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:17 pm
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>>31277

There are literal self described "nazi furs", but I think it's more of a uniform fetish than anything, and I think the irony is sort of the point. Plus a lot of the content created by them isn't real, it's 4chan edits from about fifteen years ago, when trolling furries was the coolest thing on the internet.

I bet you can find nazis in every hobby if you look hard enough really.
>> No. 31279 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:30 pm
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>>31276
Mate, you lot all espouse some form of fascist buggery. That sort of thing doesn't seem rife in other weird communities. MLP lot seem to be filled with neo-nazis too.
>> No. 31280 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:41 pm
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>>31279

Furries are all fascists? Next you'll be saying black people all like fried chicken.

You have more of a point with MLP. The MLP "brony" fandom is a direct descendant of 4chan culture, so it should come as no surprise.
>> No. 31281 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:53 pm
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>>31280
MLP and furries are more or less the same.
>> No. 31282 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>31276
>Goodness me you're trying very, very hard to piss me off specifically, aren't you?
Not really, I was vaguely sympathising with the furry community's ongoing Nazifur problem, it can't be easy when you have so many introverted people basing a community around stories with such clear biological determinism in, but you're not really doing it any favours with that defence.
>> No. 31283 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 5:22 pm
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>>31282

Biological determinism exists in humans. This is why we have different sports teams for men and women, and why white people hardly ever win in the athletics.

It's only the woke lot nowadays who seem to have trouble accepting those realities, and I'd consider those people far more mentally ill than the average furry. At least a furry knows they're fantasising.
>> No. 31284 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>31276
You're an interesting guy; i'd like to hear more from you. Do you use the discord channel at all?
>> No. 31285 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 5:47 pm
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>>31283

Jawohl meine fur.
>> No. 31286 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 5:49 pm
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>>31283
>woke
Stop that, racist lad.
>> No. 31287 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 5:58 pm
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>>31286
Did you just assume their gender, you fucking bigot?
>> No. 31288 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>31287
Not him, but out of every website I've ever used or lurked this is the one where I'd be most surprised to find out there was even one woman posting
>> No. 31289 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 7:16 pm
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>>31288
Well that just demonstrates the systematic sexism of our society.
>> No. 31290 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 7:26 pm
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>>31287

Lad is a gender neutral term on this site, lad.
>> No. 31291 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 8:11 pm
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>>31287

The "y" is silent.
>> No. 31292 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>31288
The moment I read this I started looking for reasons to disagree and I couldn't think of one.
>> No. 31293 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 9:09 pm
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>>31288
I'm a lass and I've known one other to browse here. Just not something that merits bringing up outside of this specific post.
>> No. 31294 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 9:15 pm
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>>31288
You haven't been here very long then?
>> No. 31297 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 10:48 pm
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>>31293
You all migrated away once /bint/ was shut down.
>> No. 31298 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 11:22 pm
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There's the lad with very feminine hands who always posts the vegan food reviews. Always suspected he might secretly be a vaginalad, but the important thing is that here, he's a lad all the same.
>> No. 31299 Anonymous
4th January 2021
Monday 11:28 pm
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>>31298
None of the pictures I post in that thread are my own. That reminds me, better post in that thread now.
>> No. 31300 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 2:21 am
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>>31298
Indeed, I hope the rest of you make sure, as I do, to explain to any FtMs you meet the importance of maintaining an undercurrant of superiority induced misogyny at all times.
>> No. 31301 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 7:38 am
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>>31297
Was /bint/ a real thing or are you pulling my leg? I've been browsing casually for 10+ years at this point and I definitely don't remember that.
>> No. 31302 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 7:44 am
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>>31301

If only there was a way you could check.
>> No. 31303 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 11:59 am
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>>31301
Like so much of this site, it was years ahead of its time.
>> No. 31304 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 1:00 pm
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>>31302

What a time capsule! I had almost forgotten what Women looked like before our brains all got ruined by Tinder and Instagram.

Are there any other secret boards?
>> No. 31305 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 2:08 pm
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>>31304
Yes.
>> No. 31306 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 2:18 pm
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What if we're on a secret part of .gs and the real .gs is dead nice and fun?
>> No. 31307 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:29 pm
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>>31306

I mean it's the only thing that makes sense.

Personally I miss /darkangels/, and lurking the secret mod board and watching them moan worse than any of us used to be fun before they changed the name. Typing variations of the word "shed" and different car models into /r00t/ used to be a laugh until they moved that too. Boo hiss, mods. You're no fun. Let us into the real ShedChan.
>> No. 31308 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:37 pm
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>>31307
Haha yes /darkangels/ was fun to read. It was stuff like "I just banned that annoying cunt on /pol/, let me know if you think it was too harsh".
>> No. 31309 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:41 pm
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>>31308

Nah m8, /darkangels/ was the page with the shitty flash exploit from ten years ago and a bunch of 90s style popups designed to make your eyes bleed. It just didn't work on modern browsers with noscript/adblocker/whatever so I guess purpz got bored and removed it. Either that or his ISP got pissed off with their IPS being triggered every time one of us cunts sent some new lad there for a laugh.

I honestly can't remember the name of the mod board now but it was pretty much like you said only with even more circle-jerking than the IRC and lots of mirth and merriment at the hapless sods who were cunting off at each other in one thread and being best buddies in another. That sort of thing.
>> No. 31310 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:46 pm
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>>31309

It was called M0dzboard or similar for a while. Whatever the current one is, it's proper secret password protected now, probably.
>> No. 31311 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:48 pm
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>>31309
Sorry to have to correct you newlad, but the mod board was /darkangels/.
>> No. 31312 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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>>31311

Either you're winding me up for an oh so clever mod in-joke or I've finally suffered a near fatal brain injury and have started imagining mandela-effect timeslips. Either way I can't be bothered arguing the toss. I will instead be looking on the Internet Archive for a backup of said page like the petty spiteful cunt I am.
>> No. 31313 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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>>31312

I mean either that or /darkangels/ was the mod board prior to say ~2010. But I hardly think that makes me a newlad, exactly.
>> No. 31314 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:55 pm
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>>31312

/darkangels/ was the mods board but when purple moved it, he replaced the page with the thing you're talking about, because people kept going there trying to spy on the mods.
>> No. 31315 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:57 pm
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>>31312

Have you considered that the board could have originally been the mods board, and then changed to the shock site once it was discovered by the plebs?

I do remember when brian went all odd and loaded wrong and ended up giving me a list of all the boards - that was a fun day and must have been a fucking long time ago, since I still had the capacity to find joy in looking at an uninteresting but secret page. I think it was also relatively easy to use googlefu back then to find whatever the mod board had changed it's name to as well.
>> No. 31316 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 6:59 pm
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>>31312

Well fuck me with a teapot and call me Charlie: https://web.archive.org/web/20091006082757/britfa.gs/darkangels/

So when did /darkangels/ become the screamer page and the mod board get moved to sekritmodboard? Some time after 2011 or so it seems. I guess I'm finally losing it.
>> No. 31317 Anonymous
5th January 2021
Tuesday 7:00 pm
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>>31316

Yep. Apparently my brain only remembers things in the post-pleb era. Sigh.
>> No. 31318 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 2:14 am
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I'm sick and tired of being bombarded by price alerts saying my crypto investments have increased.
>> No. 31319 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 3:20 am
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>>31318

Humblebrag of the year m8. Us poorlads won't know wot hit us.
>> No. 31320 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 7:11 am
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According to my work, the proper procedure is to unfurlough me for a day so I can sign something - I know that you're not supposed to do any work while on furlough but come the fuck on.
>> No. 31321 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 12:37 pm
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Moderators on Facebook groups with a vastly over-inflated sense of self-importance. I suppose it's like the kid who got made forum mod on a vBulletin forum back in the day but this time their name and face is attached to it.
>> No. 31322 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 12:41 pm
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>>31321
If you ever want to see how mental someone is, give them the slightest bit of power online.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 31323 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 2:24 pm
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>>31321

I think reading pinned posts on locked forum/rddit threads that say "locked because you all can't behave" is what made me so anti-authoritarian.
>> No. 31324 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 2:26 pm
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Online dating in general. Women matching but then ghosting after my first message, or one or two half-hearted replies in particular. They can't even be bothered to hit the unmatch button.

Sometimes I send an intro message, they see it, match, then still wait for me to send a second first message.

I usually open with a comment or question about something in their profile. Is that a bad approach? Should I lean in harder to being top banterlad jokester?

I think it's all pretty broken as a system. They've all got queues of lads lining up, so there's always the next lad who appears to be wittier and/of fitter, so there's no reason to put any effort in. Which is great for the owners of the app, they want long term customers after all, and it seems to work. I'm seeing some of the same faces I saw when I was last on these things about a year ago, and I do get just about enough dates from these things that I keep going back.
>> No. 31325 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 3:02 pm
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>>31324

Try Bumble. The lass has to message you first - you'll end up having fewer conversations total, but at least you know that the woman is interested enough in you to bother typing something, which really does seem to be a huge effort for them, doesn't it? On other platforms, that's sort of my bellwether - if they message first, you're at least guaranteed a shag, they wouldn't be bothering otherwise.

I do feel like Bumble skews a bit more towards relationship, rather than the all out fuck-fest that is tinder, but you'll still get the latter there too.
>> No. 31326 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>31324

"Winning" at Tinder is a pretty simple formula - you have to build quick rapport and either ask them out within three days or basically give up because they'll have moved on to the next person by then. The line really does keep moving.

Unfortunately that formula hasn't been applicable in 2020/1 because even during the times when we've been out of some kind of lockdown or quarantine the only people who'd be up for meeting in person so soon in the current climate are beyond the level of even the most ardent veteran of mental slaggery.

TL;DR - the early 00s model of actually charming a lass online over days or weeks no longer works and the previous working model of getting a physical date ASAP doesn't work during a global pandemic.

>>31325

Interestingly Bumble just didn't work for me. At the moment I'd say 90% of conversations I have on tinder are the lass opening, but on bumble I never got a first message off any lass who matched with me. Knowing my luck I only got the utterly vacuous bints who didn't realise that they were on a platform that required them to message first.
>> No. 31327 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 3:21 pm
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Try Hinge.

A lot of the girls on Twitter are just on it for attention and the sexual economics of it are a bit bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnLpylrZ028


But dating strangers IRL is going to be a bit of a doomed venture again this year I'm afraid.



Companies that organize speed dating are doing the same thing online now which you may have better luck with, although you have to pay to attend obvs, but the girls that go in for that tend to be disillusioned with the whole Tinder shitshow also.

Lads, I haven't had sex in three years. Dry spell the size of the Gobi fucking desert.
>> No. 31328 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 3:22 pm
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>>31326

>At the moment I'd say 90% of conversations I have on tinder are the lass opening

Either you're dead fit or they're a lot more desperate these days because of the lockdown stuff. Fair play to you either way.

I seem to do better on Bumble in one specific way and it's when I match with them on both platforms - I notice that lasses I match with on Tinder won't initiate on there but will absolutely send a message on Bumble. Very odd.
>> No. 31329 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 5:19 pm
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My missus keeps turning the fucking thermostat down every time it's warm enough, which just means I have to turn it the fuck back up later when it's freezing again.

I'm a for gender equality but there needs to be a law to ban women from touching thermostats. There's simply no way of making them understand.
>> No. 31330 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 5:45 pm
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>>31329

I turn mine on at 9am until it reaches 18 degrees then turn it off again until 6pm when I do the same thing. Should I not?
>> No. 31331 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 5:53 pm
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>>31330

You're supposed to just leave them set to a the ambient temperature that you want for the house. If it's functioning properly it'll auto-regulate itself to keep the house at exactly that temperature.

Turning them on and off all the time is a bit like unplugging your freezer every time your food freezes, waiting until it's all defrosted a bit, then plugging it back in again.
>> No. 31332 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 5:57 pm
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>>31331
>Turning them on and off all the time is a bit like unplugging your freezer every time your food freezes, waiting until it's all defrosted a bit, then plugging it back in again.
It's like that, except I'm not food that will go off if it defrosts a bit. It's a habitable temperature with the machine going for three hours a day instead of 24.
>> No. 31333 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:05 pm
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>>31332

I should have realised that some window licking ponce wouldn't understand the metaphor. Turning your freezer on and off all the time is not energy efficient. Nor is turning your thermostat up and down.

Feel free to start unplugging your freezer at night when it's cold though, I feel like the world wouldn't be losing a genius if you did.
>> No. 31335 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>31333

I understand the metaphor but how energy efficient it is, is irrelevant, if I'm trying to use less total energy and am doing that. The freezer metaphor is deliberately misleading because there's a risk of food poisoning that you've just invoked yourself after pretending it's not relevant.

It's more like a Mini; more energy efficient when it accelerates than a Land Rover. You're telling me I should just get up to 60 miles an hour and keep driving all day long instead of just doing it to get where I want to go a couple of times a day. "It's more energy efficient so use it more than you need to".
That's dumb and so are you.
>> No. 31336 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:28 pm
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>>31332

The boiler is either on or off, with no in-between settings. The system thermostat turns the boiler on if it drops below the set temperature and turns it off above it. The individual thermostats on your radiators (TRVs) do the same for each radiator, to allow you to balance the temperature throughout your home. The timer on your boiler allows you to turn off the system during office hours or overnight when you don't need heating.

If you've set everything properly, the system will maintain a comfortable temperature automatically without any intervention on your part. You'll occasionally need to override the timer if you're at home when you'd normally be out or vice-versa, but that's it.

If you're very frugal or live in an unusually large house, you might choose to turn down the TRVs in rooms that you don't regularly use. In that case, I'd suggest adjusting the TRVs to balance the temperature across your home, then marking those settings on the dial with permanent marker.

Obligatory:


>> No. 31337 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:34 pm
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>>31336

It's all a bit of an academic question if we don't know how much energy it takes for the boiler to reach the required temperature and how much it takes to maintain that same temperature all day. What the first lad's partner is doing I'd agree is probably not ideal but I'm confident that just having it on briefly twice a day uses less than constantly topping it up - especially compared to people who let it turn off at night, in which case you're doing half of one and half of the other.
>> No. 31338 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:47 pm
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>>31337

That also assumes you've got a modern and well insulated home where heating it twice a day is enough for it to stay warm, which simply isn't the case for much of the housing in this country in my experience.

I've lived lots of places where my heating bill is through the roof because you have to leave it on practically constantly, but the other alternative is getting damp because it's cold enough for your fucking breath to condense on the walls.
>> No. 31339 Anonymous
7th January 2021
Thursday 6:55 pm
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>>31338

Yeah it's not warm at all. I let it heat up but unless the boiler's left on and keeps running it drops to 13-14 degrees in a couple of hours.
>> No. 31340 Anonymous
9th January 2021
Saturday 4:27 pm
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I feel like you never get enough egg in chicken eggs. Someone should work on making chicken fannies bigger.
>> No. 31341 Anonymous
9th January 2021
Saturday 5:14 pm
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>>31340

>Someone should work on making chicken fannies bigger.

I saw a video of that. The chicken didn't look too happy about it.
>> No. 31342 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 5:07 pm
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People who incorrectly use the word 'decimated' thinking it makes them sound clever.

and

People who correct people who incorrectly use the word decimated saying that it was a type of Roman Military punishment where one in every 10 soldiers was executed.
>> No. 31343 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>31338

Grade II listed converted c1890s warehouse Lad here; gas is banned in this building, and I've had two shitty storage heaters on full pelt since the middle of october to fill 12ft of ceiling. I'm dying to brick these sash windows up and just have one of those Philips daylight lamps aimed at my face. It'd be cheaper.
>> No. 31344 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 7:01 pm
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I think we need a reckoning on percentages. By which I mean when 3 becomes 6 I would say it's increased by 200%, which I understand to be correct, though if wrong do tell me. However, I think most people would call that a a 100% increase and instantly the potential for miscommunication here is massive.
>> No. 31345 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 7:14 pm
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>>31344
I'm afraid you're wrong.
>> No. 31346 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 8:49 pm
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>>31344
I'm afraid they're right.
>> No. 31347 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 9:06 pm
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>>31344

Whe something increases by "one a half times as much" or "half as much again", do you consider the products to be different?
>> No. 31348 Anonymous
10th January 2021
Sunday 9:43 pm
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>>31344

There's a difference between a percentage of and a percentage change. 6 is 200% of 3, but an increase from 3 to 6 is an increase of 100%.

I'd say "just convert the percentage to a fraction to check your sums", but nobody can do fractions either.
>> No. 31349 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 4:19 pm
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I'm short of a few things, but can't get anywhere near a £40 basket. I can't double up because it won't keep, and I'm already a little too well-stocked on the things I would normally use to pad it out.

I guess I'm just going to have to leave the flat again.
>> No. 31350 Anonymous
11th January 2021
Monday 4:23 pm
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>>31349
Get some new towels.
>> No. 31351 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 10:14 am
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People on meetings that are supposed to be brief who get off on the sound of their own voice and cannot shut the FUCK up.
>> No. 31352 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 12:46 pm
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Limmy's fans are really annoying.
>> No. 31353 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>31351
Doubly so when it's just their paranoid internal voice going round and round and round. Fucking hell - express an actual problem you want fixed, or leave it. But noooo, round and round and round they go. Fuck' sake.
>> No. 31354 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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Cunts who assume because you're a man you know the exact ins and outs of every model of car ever built, and won't shut the fuck up about the most exacting of details, despite giving the most basic and non-committal engagement of "oh yeah". This uneasiness also extends to people who think you're stupid if you don't know the differences between the rotating gasket nuts from a Ford Cuntshower and a Toyota Dickshit. I know how cars work, but really don't give much of a toss beyond that.

I suppose it's just know it all condescending arseholes that I don't like.
>> No. 31355 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 4:56 pm
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>>31354

Oh you silly sausage. Everyone knows that the Toyota Dickshit had non-rotating gasket nuts.
>> No. 31356 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 5:36 pm
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>>31355
Exactly. And Ford didn't make a Cuntshower with rotating gasket nuts in '55. The rotating gasket nuts didn't come out till '63. And they weren't offered in the Cuntshower till '64.
>> No. 31357 Anonymous
12th January 2021
Tuesday 5:43 pm
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>>31352

Kill Jester.
>> No. 31358 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 6:28 pm
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I would like to /101/ the amount of sugar they put in jar pasta/curry sauces. I try and make my own mostly, but some days (like today) I just really can't be fucked. There's 21g in a 2-person (so 1-person) jar of Loyd Grossman, that's over half a can of full-fat coke.
>> No. 31359 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 7:16 pm
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I would just like to /101/ people who call full sugar coke "full fat".

Sorry lad, couldn't resist. I agree with you 100% about that being a ridiculous amount of sugar for a jar of sauce but then again remember the old half-joke about the secret of French cuisine being "just throw more sugar and butter at it".
>> No. 31360 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>31358

My current choice for curry jars is Asda's super cheapo 25p stuff. Really just tastes a bit like chippy curry, which suits me fine and it's somehow got less sugar than that.
>> No. 31361 Anonymous
13th January 2021
Wednesday 11:29 pm
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>>31358
Jars of pasta/curry are povvo-tier. You might as well have some red onions with them.
>> No. 31362 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 12:52 am
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>>31361

A red onion and mixed pepper pasta sauce sounds lovely. Preferably from Aldi and best serviced with 19p a pack instant pasta.
>> No. 31363 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 8:42 am
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>>31358

>2-person (so 1-person)

I mean. That's more your problem, fatlad.
>> No. 31364 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 9:02 am
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>>31363
A 350g jar of curry sauce isn't enough for two people, unless you're having a three course meal.
>> No. 31365 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 9:35 am
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>>31364

You're meant to put things in it, you know, not just pour a jar of Lloyd Grossman over some rice.
>> No. 31366 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 9:46 am
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>>31365
Well then you may as well make it your own sauce!
>> No. 31367 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 9:51 am
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>>31365
I wasn't aware that Lloyd Grossman came in jars.
>> No. 31368 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 10:25 am
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>>31367
How else do you think they make mini milks?
>> No. 31369 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 4:56 pm
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>>31363
I generally make vegetable curries, and veggies like mushrooms tend to drink the sauce, so just half a jar means the curry is drier than a nun's cunt in the sahara. I find if I do just use half the jar, I can top it off with tinned tomatoes and a bit of curry powder and cumin, but at that point I might as well be making it from scratch anyway.
>> No. 31370 Anonymous
14th January 2021
Thursday 5:08 pm
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>>31369
>a bit of... cum in

What the fuck is it with you lads and spunking in curries?
>> No. 31371 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 2:28 am
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I remember people tagging the "see more" group as a totally epic prank on Facebook ten years ago; it sort of loses its efficacy when 90% of comments are doing it.
>> No. 31372 Anonymous
15th January 2021
Friday 6:37 am
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Snow sliding and falling off the roof of the flat with such a deep, sustained thunderous noise that I fucking shat myself before I figured out what it was. I thought this is it, we've been nuked. Fucking dirty move to do it first thing on a weekday morning, with no preparation to build my inner core or gather all the Jacob's crackers.
>> No. 31373 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 8:29 pm
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Left my computer on overnight and now I've got a Firefox window burnt into the left side of the screen. You can only see it over certain hues of grey, but I know it's there, and it'll forever piss me off.

Who makes a fucking PC monitor that's still susceptible to burn in these days? LG do apparently.
>> No. 31374 Anonymous
18th January 2021
Monday 9:55 pm
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>>31373 All LCD panels have a slight tendency to burn in, especially when cold. It'll clear itself if you haven't left it parked for years, and even then, things like icon bars rarely burn in that hard. Don't poke at it or anything else fuckwitted.
>> No. 31375 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 4:48 pm
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There's a recent tendency for one or more posters to keep fucking up the [i]tags[i/], I don't know whether it's just more visible because post deletion is broken but it's starting to grate.
>> No. 31376 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 5:59 pm
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>>31375
It's probably me being autistic but I'm noticing a lot of incorrectly punctuated or unpunctuated comments recently.

I don't know why it gets me - the vast majority of instant messages I send don't have a trailling full stop but it feels wrong to see a post without a full stop (or other closing punctuation mark) on here.
>> No. 31377 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 6:23 pm
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>>31376
It seems unfair to be as heavy-handed as usual for that while the delete button isn't working for everyone.
>> No. 31378 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>31376

I sometimes have to post and delete a post 2 or 3 times before it's vaguely up to scratch so yeah not being able to delete is gonna make it difficult.
>> No. 31379 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 10:01 pm
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>>31377
I am one of these shitted-grammar low-life posters. I guarantee that tolerating the errors in these posts is less annoying than having multiple posts attempting to clarify and improve the situation in the absence of a working delete button

:^)
>> No. 31380 Anonymous
19th January 2021
Tuesday 10:54 pm
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>>31379

If you double posted with a correction the modz would just delete the first post for you.
>> No. 31381 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>31376

I phone post almost as much as I do from my PC these days, and on a phone it's a right ballache to go back and correct errors when the cursor just won't go where the fuck you want it to. Sometimes I just give up.

However, I promise I always proof read my posts when I have a physical keyboard to work with.
>> No. 31382 Anonymous
22nd January 2021
Friday 8:52 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmenY9sI9bk

The rise of the whole scummy mummy trend.
>> No. 31383 Anonymous
27th January 2021
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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If a recipe is asking for 8 tablespoons of water then it's time to measure it in mililiters.
>> No. 31384 Anonymous
27th January 2021
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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It seems like everytime I buy a couple chicken breasts I'll get one decent size one and one that's too small despite chicken's being largely symmetrical. And yet I also seem to be the only one who has noticed this conspiracy.

>>31382
Fine I'll say it: Would.

I also don't know what this trend is. The term 'scummy mummy' gave me some frankly disappointing image search results.
>> No. 31385 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 10:17 am
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>>31382
It just seems like a bored mum letting out her frustrations with a bit of a cringy youtube video. Not sure why she's scummy? Feels like a legitimate complaint that most parents aren't equipped to teach a whole curriculum.
>> No. 31387 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 10:18 am
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>>31385
>>31386
Fuck sake. When can we delete our posts again oh mod lads?
>> No. 31388 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 10:31 am
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>>31384>>31385
I'm probably exposed to too much unfunny "mum" humour, but in the past few years there's been a marked increase in the volume of posts online by young mums with highly embellished stories about how they're a shit parent, how their kids are uncontrollable monsters and their kids turning them to drink, all played up for laughs.
>> No. 31389 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 12:42 pm
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>>31387
>Fuck sake
You posted my 101 in the 101 thread.
>> No. 31390 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 12:54 pm
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>>31388

I saw a really creepy one recently on my Facebook feed of a mum who took a picture of her three toddlers bound and gagged with duct tape, with a caption along the lines of "the only way I can get some peace and quiet round here, tee hee hee!", and of course it had thousands of likes.

Obviously not posting it here as its creepy as fuck and would probably get me put on some sort of nonce watchlist, but I do wonder about the minsdet of the sort of women who post this stuff. Being forced to live in close proximity to their kids 24/7 due to Covid has probably changed many parent's opinions about their "little darlings" now that they're stuck with them all day and can't dump them at their grandparents, at times like this I'm really not envious of my mates who have kids.
>> No. 31391 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 12:59 pm
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>>31389
Fuck sake is fine. It's either "fuck sake" or "for fuck's sake". Saying "fuck's sake" by itself is the wrong one.
>> No. 31392 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 3:46 pm
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>>31390

I think it's a playful/comedic outlet for the darker, more real underlying pain and regret that kids can sometimes bring, comparable to a weary married man making "her indoors" type jokes. There's definitely some darkness there but this is the pressure release valve, rather than them festering in true, deep resentment. Most people love their kids but they still get on their tits, this is just a way to vent that while making a "funny" facebook post about it.

There's one lass I went to school with who posts stuff like this, not as involved as actually doing a setpiece photoshoot, just stuff like "for fucks sake who wants to buy my kids, they're up to their bullshit again".
>> No. 31393 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 7:00 pm
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>>31391

Fux ache.
>> No. 31394 Anonymous
28th January 2021
Thursday 10:01 pm
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>>31393

Foksakke
>> No. 31395 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 2:01 pm
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I have some workmen coming over soon (according to the online tracker) and it's only now that I need to take a fat shit.
>> No. 31396 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 2:08 pm
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>>31395

Save it until they get there, then leave the door slightly ajar when you go unload it, as an act of dominance.
>> No. 31397 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 5:43 pm
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>>31395

OP is almost certainly still waiting in those delivery men. Still holding in his gigashit.
>> No. 31398 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 6:49 pm
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>>31397
As you're all eagerly awaiting an update on the movement:

I waited nearly 2 hours longer before I chanced it. But oh yes, OF. FUCKING. COURSE. my phone rang when I was on the shitter like they have some pressure sensor under the bowl. Fortunately I managed to evacuated the first wave but there's a to be continued as my sphincter tightened. Sprayed copious amounts of air freshener and cracked a window so they knew with every flowery breeze what they'd interrupted.

Certainly hope the visit to Keith Vaz's washing machine emporium was worth all this inconvenience for me.
>> No. 31399 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 7:07 pm
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All the soy sauce has sugar in it. Why does it have sugar in it? What's next, corn syrup? Fucking stop it.
>> No. 31400 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 7:11 pm
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>>31398
> Keith Vaz's washing machine emporium

If this is a word filter it's fucking brilliant.
>> No. 31401 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 7:29 pm
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>>31400
Sounds too funny to be a wordfilter.
>> No. 31402 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 9:01 pm
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>>31399

Get proper soy sauce then, Kikkoman is decent and widely available.
>> No. 31403 Anonymous
29th January 2021
Friday 10:29 pm
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I buy Lee Kum Kee because the bottles are massive. Good value.
>> No. 31404 Anonymous
30th January 2021
Saturday 2:13 am
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Pearl River Bridge is my favourite. It tends to be a little more viscous and better at coating food than the others.
>> No. 31405 Anonymous
30th January 2021
Saturday 5:13 pm
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It pisses me off when you want to get the location of supermarkets in a given location but a search includes the express/local/other-corporate-term. They're not the same thing in their application nor cost. If I wanted to know where to buy a meal deal and some milk I'd search for it ffs.

I don't mean to go all /x/ but I feel like there's a broader conspiracy at work. We'll end up with nothing but small shops while for actual grocery shopping you have to rely on Amazon-style depots doing deliveries that allow greater organisational control, monitoring and tie consumers into buying shit they don't need to get free delivery. You might think I'm mad on the control point but supermarkets have in the past been caught out monitoring their customers shopping habits which becomes much easier on the internet and is a much more capable tool where you can modify the website to increase consumer spend.

On an unrelated note it reminds me of how over Christmas Amazon were all but giving away their Echo because putting microphones in everyone's home is a great idea for them but if they were actually free people would catch on. Microphones being ideal for the likes of Spotify's new patent to monitor the tone and style of the users voice to recommend music based on emotion and personality.
>> No. 31406 Anonymous
30th January 2021
Saturday 5:42 pm
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>>31405
>Been caught monitoring

What do you think nectar/clubclards are for?
>> No. 31409 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 5:35 pm
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Chicken thighs are so much better than chicken breasts I think it's high time someone genetically engineered a four legged fowl.
>> No. 31410 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>31409

White people are weirdly enamoured with dry, flavourless meat, so fortunately for you there are more than enough legs to go around.
>> No. 31411 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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>>31410

You might just have COVID, lad. Or some ancient inherited aversion to bacon.
>> No. 31412 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 7:30 pm
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>>31410

Oh look, more inane cultural references leaking from the other place.
>> No. 31413 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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>>31412

>inane cultural references leaking from the other place

Eh? I didn't realise that white people liking chicken breast was a meme.
>> No. 31414 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>31413

Don't worry lad, we're here to help you. Just tell us what other foodstuffs you associate with specific groups of people, and we'll tell you if you're on the right track.
>> No. 31415 Anonymous
3rd February 2021
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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/101/, addtional; I make so many inane posts on this site, say, just for example, about chicken, crawl off for a wank and a cry and come back to find I've accidentally begun the strangest cunt-offs possible.
>> No. 31416 Anonymous
4th February 2021
Thursday 12:11 am
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I fucked about all day again and now have to do another all-nighter ahead of a deadline. It's not even worth it, I spend all day feeling guilty and anxious but then don't get to relax in my down time.

WFH is going to make me old at this rate.

>>31415
Don't act so innocent lad. You know full well the light v dark meat is a cunt-off as old as time.

Breast is objectively better by the way. It is more nutrient rich and lower fat. Thigh meat is for meal prepping or if you don't do any spices.
>> No. 31417 Anonymous
4th February 2021
Thursday 12:15 am
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>>31416

>I spend all day feeling guilty and anxious but then don't get to relax in my down time

The procrastinator's purgatory.

The fat is where all the flavour is.
>> No. 31418 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 9:23 am
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My missus eats so godawfully fucking loudly that she's in the spare room/"office", and I can still hear her abominable squelching and crunching from the fucking living room.

Then after she's finished she sits and makes these pathetic little "ahem" noises to clear her throat, but it doesn't actually do anything because they're so timid. I wish she would just clear her throat properly in the fucking first place, it would be infinitely less annoying than listening to her making these pathetic little attempts for ten minutes.

These are the kinds of thing you can't really say anything to your partner about because no matter how delicately you go about it, they'll invariably be hurt; people can't really help these little habits. But I just want to choke her on that fucking Ryvita sometimes, lads, I really fucking do.
>> No. 31419 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 10:09 am
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>>31418
Is she fat?
>> No. 31421 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 12:50 pm
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>>31419
He just said she's taken, lad.
>> No. 31422 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 1:05 pm
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>>31416
Read this!

https://www.glamour.com/story/revenge-bedtime-procrastination-is-real-according-to-psychologists
>> No. 31423 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 1:06 pm
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>>31421
>> No. 31424 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 1:10 pm
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>>31421
I'm hypothesising that those who eat audibly are more likely to be fatties, or at least had fat parents. If >>31418 has kids with her then they'll grow up learning to eat audibly; they'll pick up some of her other annoying habits too.
>> No. 31425 Anonymous
8th February 2021
Monday 5:36 pm
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>>31419

She's a bit on the chubby side, not fat. Certainly not by this website's standards, anyhow.

The weird bit is she doesn't leave her mouth open or guzzle stuff like your typical slobbering loud eater does, so it's hard to understand exactly why her mouth noises are so highly audible. They just are, and it's infuriating.
>> No. 31426 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 4:39 am
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Sleepless night. I don't know how it happened or why. I know I'm going to feel like shit for it. But I am just not able to wind down. Too tired to do anything. Too wired to sleep.
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9th February 2021
Tuesday 8:53 am
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>>31426

Get some more exercise in m8, and make sure you're properly fed. Go to sleep as soon as your eyes get heavy, even if you're still fully clothed on the sofa. Don't fight it. There's nothing like making yourself properly, physically bone tired and sleeping like a log for a good 7 hours.

I've been an insomniac for years, but I've made some progress by realising that a lot of the time when I can't sleep, it's actually because I'm hungry, and I'm just too distracted reading about shite on wikis to notice.
>> No. 31428 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 10:43 am
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>>31426
Sudden weather change innit. For some reason we're not designed for seasons.

>>31427
>Get some more exercise in m8

I'd like to moan about all the ice at the moment which seems much worse than any other year. For my own health I'm going to minimise my time outside.
>> No. 31429 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 10:51 am
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>>31428
>Sudden weather change innit. For some reason we're not designed for seasons.
Maybe we are though. Rapid weather changes mean you've got to be awake to I dunno, bring all the bales of hay in or cut down the carcasses you've hung out to dry. Reinforce your mud hut walls so the snow doesn't make the roof cave in. Bring more sticks into the cave for the fire before it's all hidden under snow. Lots of good reasons to stay awake ruminating on what you need to get done instead of staying in the same routine as you were while the weather was steady.
>> No. 31430 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 4:47 pm
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Corporate Twitter bantz.

https://twitter.com/weetabix/status/1359074254789165059
>> No. 31431 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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People who share obvious advertising clickbait.
>> No. 31432 Anonymous
9th February 2021
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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>>31429

>bring all the bales of hay


>> No. 31433 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 6:56 pm
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Horses, always horses.
>> No. 31434 Anonymous
10th February 2021
Wednesday 7:02 pm
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>>31433
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'.


>> No. 31435 Anonymous
11th February 2021
Thursday 1:17 am
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Since the snow fell I've noticed that the internet has gotten slower. A few people at work also complained about this so I know it's not just me and yet I've heard of no great damage to the national network.

It's not like people are suddenly coming in from outside so what gives, is the data sticking to the frozen tubes as it travels through?
>> No. 31436 Anonymous
11th February 2021
Thursday 1:20 am
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>>31435
It's your imagination.
>> No. 31437 Anonymous
11th February 2021
Thursday 3:13 am
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>>31435

The core of the internet is all optical fibre, which isn't really affected by environmental factors. The distance between your house and the nearest street cabinet (or your local exchange if you've got crap broadband) is covered by twisted pair, which very much is affected by the environment. If there's an accumulation of snow or ice on that cable, there will be an increase in capacitance and therefore an increase in path loss and return loss.

Virgin Media uses buried coax rather than twisted pair which shouldn't be affected by the environment, but they're pretty notorious for slapdash cabling and conduits that aren't as waterproof as they should be.
>> No. 31438 Anonymous
13th February 2021
Saturday 8:42 pm
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If I could be promised that not a single penny would go to the columnists, I would gladly take out a subscription with The Guardian.
>> No. 31439 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 12:47 pm
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>>31438
To go along with their billion dollars? Why?
>> No. 31440 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 12:53 pm
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>>31439
Because I'm in love with Rachel Roddy.
>> No. 31441 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:19 pm
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Trying to pour the kettle over a pan of conchiglie without boiling water splashing out everywhere.
>> No. 31442 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:25 pm
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>>31441

Put the water in first.
>> No. 31443 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:29 pm
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>>31442
Add the pasta first and you know exactly how much water you need to add.
>> No. 31444 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:35 pm
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>>31443

I already know how much I'll need, I've done it before.
>> No. 31446 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:42 pm
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>>31441

How do you solve the issue of the shells sticking together in a way reminiscent of a man wearing more than one hat?


>> No. 31447 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:43 pm
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>>31446

If he put the water in first that wouldn't happen.
>> No. 31448 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:47 pm
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>>31446
I was just thinking about The Mighty Boosh for the first time in ages, literally minutes ago. Further proof this place exists solely in my mind.
>> No. 31449 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 1:57 pm
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>>31446
I enjoy it when you get two pieces stuck together.
>> No. 31450 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 2:03 pm
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>>31449

I guess there's even a Stockholm Syndrome for Pasta.
>> No. 31451 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 2:11 pm
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Google marketplace/apps whatever it's called just recommended me a porn blocking app, which I'm guessing is some sort of personal control or SFW/safe for children locking app.

Can they at least pretend they're not monitoring my habits? The missus was away, I needed a wank, and there is literally an infinite amount of material online. I am only a man.
>> No. 31452 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 2:38 pm
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>>31451

>I am only a man.

No you are also a wanker wanklad.


I'm telling.
>> No. 31453 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 3:23 pm
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>>31443
Put the water on boil first to avoid the pasta sticking together or cooking unevenly. For short pasta consider slowing bringing to a boil the sauce with a little extra water if the dish is saucy enough.

>>31451
So why does it think children use your computer?
>> No. 31454 Anonymous
14th February 2021
Sunday 4:24 pm
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After 15 odd years of gaming over the internet, there are still those among us who don't understand microphone feedback from having their speakers turned up way too high. This turns VOIP while playing into an echoey mess in which my own stupid voice is reflected back at me a second or two later, which is layered like a lasagne with the other cunt's stupid voice.

If I had a server, that would be cause for an immediate ban until they discovered headphones.
>> No. 31455 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:27 pm
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Got in an argument with a sci-fi writer that I admire on twitter about bitcoin and their argument was basically that bitcoin uses a ton of energy and people that don't like banks are nazis. It's weird to read a writer who cut their teeth writing fiction about the Singularity argue Anarcho-Primitavism talking points, but then I guess that everything they've written in the last 10 years has been WII Lovecraft fanfic, so I guess it figures. Never meet your heroes lads.
>> No. 31456 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:47 pm
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>>31455
Bitcoin does use a really fucking stupid amount of energy. I don't know about his vaguely antisemitic defence of banks but he's right about the other.
>> No. 31457 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:47 pm
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Those cheap plastic orange peelers are a labour saver when you have something annoying to peel like a blood orange. They seem silly but it's well worth the money if you're someone like me that has oranges as one of my 5 a day everyday.

The problem is that they make the fucking things orange so you end up throwing them out with the peel. They must know this happens and be making a tidy profit on return custom.
>> No. 31458 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>31456
A fair bunch of bitcoiners make the argument about centralisation of banking power, while overlooking the centralisation of hashing power. It's almost as if they're objecting to who the power is centralised with rather than whether or not it's centralised.
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15th February 2021
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>31456

It does, but global finance needs to have a word with itself and Bitcoin is the first step on a road to making banks more transparent and accountable.

25% of USD in circulation was created last year. Let us all not forget what happened in the Weimar Republic and all the subsequent shitty things what followed.

Crypto is the future but banks are dragging their heels. Like we could have had EVs in the 90s, but the Petrol Barons really didn't want to let go of their position of privilege and power, but we're reading an inflection point where the benefit of the superior system is undeniable.
>> No. 31460 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:58 pm
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>>31458

This is the correct critique of Bitcoin, and points at the improvement which is actually decentralised coins.

Whereas nocoiners arguing against it because of the environment are like horse breeders in the 1900s arguing against cars because roads aren't good enough yet.
>> No. 31461 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 10:58 pm
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>>31459
Yeah. I'm not saying banks are perfect.
>> No. 31462 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:03 pm
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>>31459
>>31460
Look lad, we're not going to hold your bags for you.
>> No. 31463 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:03 pm
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>>31455
How on Earth is it that George Monbiot is the first of your seven followers who aren't bots?
>> No. 31464 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:35 pm
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>>31459

>25% of USD in circulation was created last year. Let us all not forget what happened in the Weimar Republic and all the subsequent shitty things what followed.

Inflation in the US is currently at 1.4%. The fed should probably be printing more money right now.

>Crypto is the future

The crypto mob fail to understand that money is credit. The prase "I promise to pay the bearer on demand" printed on our banknotes isn't some archaic waffle, it is the fundamental meaning of the note. Currencies are intrinsically tokens of trust and live or die on their trustworthiness; the idea of "trustless money" is an oxymoron being used to peddle a ponzi scheme. Bitcoin has already failed as a currency due to hyperdeflation, but bitcoin boosters haven't noticed because nobody actually uses it as a currency.

When you peel away the waffle, blockchains are just a phenomenally inefficient way of creating a shared ledger. Blockchains are no less mutable than any other shared ledger, because nobody has solved the 51% problem; I would posit that the problem is insoluble.
>> No. 31465 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:53 pm
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>>31464
The "crypto is the future" bit always gets me. I mean, it wasn't even the future when Adam Satoshi published the original Bitcoin paper.
>> No. 31466 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:54 pm
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>>31463

Yeah. He was literally my first follower. No idea.

I used to have an account followed by Obama and shit, but deleted it after I disappeared there for a few years. Obama followed back everybody in 2008. Some yank lass got institutionalized about it https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-held-psychiatric-ward-after-correctly-saying-obama-follows-her-twitter-10132662.html[/spoiler]
>> No. 31467 Anonymous
15th February 2021
Monday 11:56 pm
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>>31464

Look at inflation versus salary and cost of rent and tell me it's not bullshit. The ever increasing stock market of the moment is nothing if not rampant inflation, but the wealthy benefit and the poor remain clueless.
>> No. 31468 Anonymous
16th February 2021
Tuesday 12:07 am
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>>31467
>Look at inflation versus salary and cost of rent and tell me it's not bullshit.
Imagine seeing this and somehow thinking that the problem must be central banking. Just imagine it.
>> No. 31469 Anonymous
16th February 2021
Tuesday 12:14 am
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>>31465

What do you reckon the original intent was with Bitcoin and do you think the project has deviated from this original intent? Why/how? (2000 words)
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16th February 2021
Tuesday 12:27 am
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>>31469
I neither know nor care. What I do know is that nothing in the original paper was innovative. Adam Satoshi just rehashed haha his totally-not-his earlier work on Hashcash, which was devised as a way to get spammers to do some computation before their mail was accepted, and didn't work because it turned out that compute time wasn't particularly expensive.
>> No. 31472 Anonymous
17th February 2021
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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An external USB HDD attached to one of my machines won't start, unless I plug it into my laptop. I won't have any money until at least next week to get a replacement in.

Mostly it's just downloaded stuff so if it goes entirely it won't be a complete disaster.
>> No. 31473 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 12:21 am
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>>31472
Credit card?
>> No. 31474 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 5:12 am
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>>31472
> An external USB HDD attached to one of my machines won't start, unless I plug it into my laptop.

If it's working fine on the laptop, doesn't that sound like a dodgy USB port on whatever else you're plugging it into?

If the laptop is recognising it best to pull whatever you can off there now and run a SMART check if the firmware supports it, just to be on the safe side.
>> No. 31475 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 5:42 am
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>>31472

That's probably a USB port issue. The spec says that USB 2.0 ports need to supply a minimum 500mA of current, but most 2.5" hard drives draw a bit more than that when they first spin up. That brief rush of current leads to a voltage drop which can crash the hard drive controller or the SATA-to-USB bridge chip. The current requirements at spin-up tends to increase as the drive ages due to increased friction in the spindle bearing.

Some USB ports barely meet the spec, some meet it comfortably and a few can supply much more current than the spec requires, so external hard drives can be a bit hit-and-miss with different devices. USB 3.0 ports need to supply at least 900mA.

I never really trust hard drives, but if it isn't making horrible noises then the drive is probably OK. If you need to access the data urgently, you can dismantle the USB enclosure and just mount the hard drive internally via SATA.
>> No. 31476 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 1:20 pm
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>>31472
Make sure the USB data valves are fully opened.
>> No. 31477 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 1:50 pm
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>>31474
I thought it might have been, and managed to pull some files that were particularly difficult to obtain, and a couple of hours later even the laptop won't read the partition.

Today, I plugged it into the laptop and it didn't start. Didn't bother unplugging it, and almost 5 minutes later the "device attached" noise plays.

I might try shucking it later, but ultimately I haven't lost much of significance. There's a reason I posted it in the minor /101/ thread rather than /g/.
>> No. 31478 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 2:06 pm
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>>31475
While I wasn't initially looking for technical advice, you've inadvertently hit upon something. I've tried it again in my laptop this afternoon. That's got three 3.1 ports and one 2.0 port. Guess which port it worked on. This would be a tech /101/ in itself.
>> No. 31479 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 2:48 pm
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>>31478

Lessons learned from bitter, miserable experience dealing with USB issues. For a "universal" bus, it has an extraordinary number of gotchas that seem to get worse with every revision. I'd blame device manufacturers from playing fast-and-loose with the spec, but the spec is insanely overcomplicated.

I also neglected to mention cables in my post, but they're frequently an issue. I always keep a ton of Anker Powerline+ cables on hand, because they're the only cables that have never let me down.
>> No. 31480 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 2:50 pm
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>>31478
powered hub may also help, especially one which says it's got charging ports.
>> No. 31481 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 4:15 pm
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>>31479
I'm going with a fault on the drive controller. Evidently I can read it if it's forced down to 2.0 so the data isn't lost, though it's effectively out of service as far as I'm concerned.

Speaking of insanely overcomplicated specs, I'm trying to figure out whether or not my laptop could drive two displays out of a docking station, but the only indication of the port's capability is a USB logo with "3.1" etched into it. Thankfully I'm about to start a new job and they've shipped me a docking station so I might cheekily experiment with that before the work laptop arrives.
>> No. 31482 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 4:58 pm
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>>31481
Is your USB cable a POS? (or is it a POS and hardwired to the drive?)
>> No. 31483 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 5:07 pm
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>>31482
Switching out the cable didn't make a difference. Like I said, I can still get at what's on it for now, and I can manage without it plugged in 24/7 for a bit.
>> No. 31484 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 7:10 pm
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>>31479
> Lessons learned from bitter, miserable experience dealing with USB issues. For a "universal" bus, it has an extraordinary number of gotchas that seem to get worse with every revision.

USB is a frighteningly horrific and complicated spec which, as you say, just gets more and more insane with each new version.

I have a shitty desktop that was put together using mainly off-brand parts (apart from the CPU itself) and if you plug a specific range of 64GB USB thumbdrives into it the entire computer locks up until you hard reboot it. Basically something in the USB part of BIOS/UEFI controller on the motherboard is going bang in some horrible and probably exploitable way when trying to talk to these particular drives.

To keep this vaguely on topic I would like to /101/ computers altogether because everything is so horribly complex these days that it's basically a total fucking miracle that anything ever works at all.
>> No. 31485 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 7:28 pm
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>>31481
>USB logo with "3.1" etched into it.

Unfortunately the organisation that develops USB has been smoking crack for years and for every upgrade to the standard they also retrospectively rename older versions and ask manufacturers to use increasingly confusing marketing names.
>> No. 31486 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 8:25 pm
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>>31485
"So, does this port with the type-C connector support any altmodes?"

"Erm ... it says 3.1 on it if that helps?"

Great job, USB-IF!
>> No. 31487 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 8:30 pm
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"Propganda and lies"
>> No. 31488 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 9:19 pm
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>>31487
Do you mean propaganda and lies version 2b Mk.iiia "the lienator"?
>> No. 31489 Anonymous
18th February 2021
Thursday 9:39 pm
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>>31488
"A whole new world of device experiences" seems pretty truthful.
Perhaps they should abandon numbers and move to circles of hell.
I suspect we are currently in the Vestibule of the Futile. Bring it on.
>> No. 31490 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 12:48 am
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There's one video in my recent YouTube likes that's a [Deleted Video] and the only thing it could be is a video of Kraftwek doing a gig in the early '70s to a bunch of kids and it's fucking ace, the reactions to something so new, the gestalt sounds, amazing, but some shite cunt algorithm has binned it. It's fucked me off to no end; that was history! I want to drag the scum who write copyright law through the streets with hooks and dump their corpses into the canal, I would press their loved ones beneath boards until they condemned their executed relatives and have their properties and belongings burnt in a great fire and have the ashes salted.

That's why, members, I want you to vote for me to be deputy leader of the Labour Party, for a better future, for all of us. Thank you!
>> No. 31491 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 9:17 am
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>>31490
Copyright law is more or less fine. The problem is google deciding to put the complaints, appeals, and punishment processes solely in the hands of copyright owners.
Basically there are companies out there, hiring farms of low paid workers in the far east to trawl through videos, opening copyright complaints against videos where there's so much as a 3 second snippet of background music, and rejecting any appeals instantly. Uploaders are discouraged from appealing because if the copyright owner decides not to accept the appeal they can land the uploader with a strike which will result in their account being blocked if they get three. And youtube provides no oversight to this process, and provides no way of contacting anyone of any authority outside of the limited process built into youtube.

There's a few youtubers like Rick Beato who have a lot of friends high up in the music industry, and even they have to resort to raising a shitstorm on twitter to get the attention of the right people when they've had copyright strikes.
Ricks a great guy, he never monetises his videos where he is playing other peoples music, he's putting out videos where he talks about classic rock songs and plays snippets of them basically telling a new generation people "this music is really great you should go and listen to it properly", and most of those artists are just blanket blocking any of there music from appearing on youtube ensuring that young people never know their music exists.
>> No. 31492 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 10:47 am
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>>31491

Tom Scott would argue the opposite - that YouTube's system is the least-worst practical option for reconciling 21st century technology with 20th century copyright law. Users upload 500 hours of new content to YouTube every minute, so any system has to be highly automated. ContentID is very much imperfect and has a lot of false positives, but it's the only way to stop YouTube (and millions of their users) from being sued into oblivion by rights holders.


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20th February 2021
Saturday 10:55 am
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>>31492
Content ID is fine.
The problem is the complaints and appeals process which completely ignores the lawful concept of fair use, and allows horrendously disproportionate enforcement actions such as a copyright owner blocking or monetising an entire hour long video because of 3 seconds of music coming from a car driving past the camera.
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20th February 2021
Saturday 11:15 am
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>>31493

>The problem is the complaints and appeals process which completely ignores the lawful concept of fair use

As I said, the system has to be highly automated to cope with the sheer volume of content. If you disagree with the outcome of that automated process then there's nothing stopping you from going to court over it, but obviously that isn't economically viable, which is the entire point. If you want a consistently fair system, you need lawyers and courts involved, which is precisely the outcome that ContentID was intended to prevent.
>> No. 31495 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 11:33 am
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>>31491

>Copyright law is more or less fine

Proceeds on a rant that both demonstrates it isn't fine and that they know nothing about copyright law.
>> No. 31496 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 12:02 pm
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>>31491
You're going in the canal, kapo.
>> No. 31497 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 12:33 pm
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>>31492

Funny, I watched that very video last night.

I found the bit about photographers quite funny, because fuck off. Photographers are going to be non-existent in maybe 20 years, tops, when an app on your phone can automatically do everything a proper photographer can. I don't give a shit about people stealing their "work" off google images. When I was a gigging musician photographers were the professionals I held in the worst kind of contempt, because even back then, fans would take better pictures on their phones; and if you really think about it, you standing at the front of my gig and taking photographs to put on your gallery is infringement and use of my likeness.

Fuck photographers.

But anyway I more or less agreed with his conclusion that copyright needs to be radically loosened. I think shortening the time of public domain is irrelevant; it should be more that there's a longer list of exemptions for "fair use", and an inbuilt way of making it bottom up rather than top down. When I was the edgy musician type I used to always say "copyright is a myth, it shouldn't exist" and I ripped off samples from anywhere and everywhere, but my main objection to copyright has always just been that it's essentially a con that helps big companies more than it's ever helped independents.

It's like piracy innit. Some people cling to the extremely outdated view that if people can get hold of your stuff for free they won't pay for it. Again as a musician I've had to develop a more pragmatic view- Looking at my bandcamp figures, I can tell somebody is hearing my music somewhere, and they like it enough to buy t-shirts; but it certainly isn't my CDs. It's metal-torrents.ru.
>> No. 31498 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 1:47 pm
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I'm erm on a erm zoom erm cider erm tasting thing and erm the guy erm talking erm er just can't erm go more than two erm words without er erm saying "erm".

Surely if you know you're going to be talking to a few dozen people you'd have an idea of what you're going to say first.
>> No. 31499 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 10:24 pm
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I'd really like to start jogging again, but where I live right now is so boring I'd go so far as to describe it as oppressive. It's just houses all around. Houses so similar to eachother that I first lived here I got lost in an area of a few square kilometers, that's how copy and pasted everything looks and feels. The only other time I've been properly lost was when I did it on purpose on my bike one time. Where I used to live was kind of terrible, but you could run to the river, through the park, up the high street or down the lanes. Plus I lived on the side of a hill and the extra drive needed to get back up it on the way home felt like an accomplishment if I didn't take a break or walk any of it. Sometimes I'd even run up the multistory car park and enjoy the morning light. Here there's just... nothing and I struggle to plan a route in my head or even want to go out at all because of that.
>> No. 31500 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 10:43 pm
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>>31499
Drive somewhere? Get the bus?
>> No. 31501 Anonymous
20th February 2021
Saturday 10:57 pm
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Came here to complain about the opposite problem.

I live in Westminster so jog along the Thames, past Tate Britain and around Parliament. Tate Britain has lights covering it from Diwali which they left up as it's become a kind of socially distanced community hub. It's nice and legend has it there's a coffee thing nearby.

Only no, because there are couple on dates everywhere to the degree I might even call the opposite riverbank to Parliament almost crowded with them. It's not a nice feeling and brings back uncomfortable memories of being a teenlad where all my mates had girlfriends which has ruined it for me. I used to be able to sit on one of the benches along the Thames and have a think about life but now I can't do that without intruding on what feels like a couples space. Bring back the snow I say.
>> No. 31502 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:03 am
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>>31501
Alright, I've got it. I'll move in with you so I've got somewhere interesting to jog and you've got someone to pretend to be dating when you want to sit on a bench, deal? I won't pay rent, on principle.
>> No. 31503 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:42 am
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So I've been wondering... Does riding your horse out on public roads count as exercise or essential travel?
>> No. 31504 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:45 am
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>>31503

One for you, the other for the horse.
>> No. 31505 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 4:05 pm
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>>31502
How about we swap lives for a couple weeks? We'll say our cameras and microphones are playing up at work, draw up our weekly shopping lists plus choices of entertainment and try to dress the same. The last bit will be fun if you're a lass.
>> No. 31506 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 7:52 pm
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>>31501
> the opposite riverbank to Parliament

It's called the south bank, you Osset Invader.
>> No. 31507 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>31506
Hmm I'd say the south bank doesn't extend that far.
>> No. 31508 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:05 pm
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>>31507

Why, does the river suddenly start running north/south somewhere?

I'd like to /101/ conflating geography with a shit tourist name for a short stretch of riverbank with a bunch of shit restaurants and a Christmas market.
>> No. 31509 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:08 pm
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>>31508
>Why, does the river suddenly start running north/south somewhere?
>> No. 31510 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:10 pm
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>>31507
I looked it up and google maps has it extend to Lambeth Bridge rather than Westminster. That has to be bollocks though given it's called Lambeth Bridge.

>While South Bank is not formally defined, it is generally understood to bounded by Westminster Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, and to be centred approximately half a mile (800 metres) south-east of Charing Cross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bank

South Bank for me begins with all the nonsense they have around the Coca-Cola-02-Ronald-McDonald-Razzle-Mag-London-Eye. Basically when you hear godwful music being blasted by those passenger bikes that nobody rides in. Opposite Parliament and it's still pretty dead aside from the animals that feel they can blare music out as they ride around London to the detriment of everyone but themselves.
>> No. 31511 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:22 pm
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>>31509

Gravity and the magnetic poles changing, innit.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/18/end-of-neanderthals-linked-to-flip-of-earths-magnetic-poles-study-suggests

Sometime in the future, The US OF EH will finally be able to stop getting annoyed at Canadians being above them on maps, and we can enjoy the Chrimbo shopping rush while we're all fucking boiling.
>> No. 31512 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 8:35 pm
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>>31511
>The next flip is due anytime now and will involve humans having to shelter indoors from the intense UV radiation

So it's going to happen just as we're done with Covid. Lovely.
>> No. 31513 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:50 pm
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>>31494
>As I said, the system has to be highly automated to cope with the sheer volume of content.
Not him, but just letting the copyright holders do it is about as "automated" as just not answering the phone.
>> No. 31514 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 10:44 pm
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>>31513
I can say, with absolute confidence, that The Algorithm that YouTube currently uses is personalised view oriented, and fuck the search terms. Terms that used to find the videos I was looking for no longer find what I was looking for, even in the back pages of the search, but incessantly show me bullshit based on my past viewing history. Say I want to see a video I know exists (because I have it bookmarked them on a separate device), no chance finding it again. The supposed search now is is 10% results and 90% "recommendations".

I pay the £16 quid YouTube sub because fuck ads. But at this rate, why even give a fuck about a clearly grasping and dying business?
>> No. 31515 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 11:02 pm
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>>31514
Youtube ads. Wtfm8? Did you forget to install your adblocking extensions?
>> No. 31516 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 11:06 pm
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>>31514
Youtube has never turned a profit, it's owned because the resource is assumed to be of massive strategic importance and if anyone ever gets the business model to work then they have a licence to print money. You're not propping anything up, you're just giving google your stupidity tax.
>> No. 31517 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 11:19 pm
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>>31515
I did install the extensions, but I also wanted to pay people for the stuff they create so I disabled them where I cared. I do not expect anyone else to do so, I expect everyone else to make their own decision. I'm still on the fence on whether I should use Patereon, OnlyFans, KoFi, or whatever I'm missing. The latter being an invitation to find a better place to give money to people that should have it.
>> No. 31518 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 11:39 pm
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>>31514

You can turn off your view history and YouTube will pretend that it doesn't know anything about you.

>I pay the £16 quid YouTube sub because fuck ads. But at this rate, why even give a fuck about a clearly grasping and dying business?

Alphabet Inc (parent company of Google, YouTube etc) made $41bn in profit last year and has $139bn of cash reserves. One of Alphabet's major problems right now is that it can't spend money fast enough - that giant pile of cash is making investors nervous about future growth potential.

YouTube is a private company and doesn't have to file accounts, but Alphabet have said in an investor statement that it generates around $15bn a year in advertising revenue, which is almost certainly enough to make it profitable.
>> No. 31519 Anonymous
23rd February 2021
Tuesday 11:57 pm
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>>31514
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with letting copyright holders decide on copyright matters.
>> No. 31520 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 2:19 am
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>>31516
>Youtube has never turned a profit

What are you basing that off of? I know their annual revenue was last reported at about 15 billion. I've never seen any public information on their costs.
>> No. 31521 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 5:00 am
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>>31518

>making investors nervous about future growth potential.

How much fucking bigger do they want it to be, fucking hell. Capitalism does barmy things to the human brain. Our primary motivation to colonise space is going to be growth potential and any aliens we meet will all think we're mentalists.
>> No. 31522 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 8:04 am
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>>31520

YouTube generates 15 billion in advertising revenue?

I don't know why but that figure fills me with a kind of dread. It suggests that the sheer number of viewing hours of people on YouTube must be incredible. I'm not sure any organisation should have that kind of power.
>> No. 31523 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 8:40 am
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>>31518
I don't care about Alphabet, I care about the peons working for it. As I understand it, video makers get more money from subscribers than they do from ads. Any model that supports them that's not ad reliant seems more sustainable to me. Patreon is close, but too capricious midleman.
>> No. 31524 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 10:41 am
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>>31521

It isn't about how big it is about returns. If I invest £100 in a small business there is the possibility of rapid growth (doubling in size could happen within months) and I could get a massive return on that. If I invest in company that already controls it sector then it has no room for expansion then the only way is down.
>> No. 31525 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 11:28 am
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Someone keeps spamming with links about 'Tracy Brabin for West Yorkshire Mayor'
>> No. 31526 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 6:11 pm
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>>31524

And if it already controls the sector it hardly needs investors.
>> No. 31527 Anonymous
25th February 2021
Thursday 3:30 pm
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Vomit inducing, absolutely horrible layout.
>> No. 31528 Anonymous
26th February 2021
Friday 7:10 pm
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Katherine Jenkins, what's that all about?
>> No. 31529 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 4:36 pm
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Death pentalty for people who take an odd number of Wheatabix or own brand equivalent.
>> No. 31530 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 5:49 pm
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>>31529

Genital torture for people who don't spell it "Weetabix" (or "Weet-Bix" for our extremely Southern friends), and a few slaps beforehand for those who don't smash the Bix into powder with their knuckles, just to feel something, anything, while still trying to wake up in the morning.
>> No. 31531 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>>31529>>31530

Also, these things come in multiples of three, you're just a ponce.
>> No. 31532 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 6:09 pm
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>>31530
>Genital torture
>> No. 31533 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 6:47 pm
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>>31532

WOULD.
>> No. 31534 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 7:48 pm
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>>31529
I used to be on your side of the fence on this but realised that 4 is really too much while 2 is for children. Three is a happy medium with the true mark of the gentleman-connoisseur being to only add half the milk you would for any other cereal to maintain the crunchy texture.

Or more likely fuck breakfast off and get up at lunchtime.

>>31531
They also come in a multiples of 12 but you'll never fit all that in your bowl will ya, Carol.
>> No. 31535 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 7:49 pm
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>>31532

She could squeeze my genitals until they bleed IYKWIM.
>> No. 31536 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 8:56 pm
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>>31532

This is unironically my fetish. I've never found a lass with either the strength or the courage to squeeze my plums hard enough to do any damage. Which is probably for the best, but it does spoil that risky thrill which, when you're being honest with yourself, is half the fun for a kink like that.
>> No. 31537 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 9:18 pm
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>>31534

I'm a scumbag Northerner with a washing-up bowl, just watch me fit 48 banana-flavoured ones in the fucker.
>> No. 31538 Anonymous
28th February 2021
Sunday 9:22 pm
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>>31535
>>31536

Knew you sordid lot would appreciate that image.
>> No. 31539 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 5:21 pm
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That £10 off first purchase using the amazon app is a load of bollocks. The vouchers have expired but you can't tell something has gone wrong because it automatically applies and you therefore only learn it's not on if you check your order and then contact customer service.

It literally says on the site that the vouchers are still going. Bastards.
>> No. 31540 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 6:13 pm
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>> No. 31541 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 6:30 pm
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r/notlikeothergirls
>> No. 31542 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 6:58 pm
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>>31541

I wish the worldfilters here used regex rather than bastard strcmp() so we could catch all r/(.*) strings and turn them into amusing random stands at the Rudgwick steam show.
>> No. 31543 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 7:30 pm
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>>31542

r/SteamTractorPloughing
r/ThrashingandBaling
r/AlpacaShow
r/RabbitClub
r/JapBikes
r/RobertTheHatMan
>> No. 31544 Anonymous
1st March 2021
Monday 7:30 pm
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>>31540
That goes much higher than 35 m80. You ought to count your blessings, things could be much worse than having to watch the same episode of CSI again.

I'll happily watch whatever is on ITV3, the torture is that they're always the same woman who will want to talk over it just as you get into it. Foyle's War is tits sometimes but women into murder and 1940s British socialism rarely cross paths.
>> No. 31545 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 10:02 am
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Youtube channels that is someone with an annoying voice just reading a science/history/geography/whatever Wikipedia article, with practically no other research, whilst some graphics play. What's that about?
>> No. 31546 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 11:16 am
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>>31545
>What's that about?
Gets clicks/views from people whose only research was to look it up on YouTube. Generates ad revenue.
>> No. 31547 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 11:24 am
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>>31545

Lowest possible effort to achieve successes.

Look at it this way, I take comfort in the fact that culture favours making something educational, it means something is going right on a societal level, This is being favoured over some happy slapping bollocks that could have been made for the same effort.
>> No. 31548 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 12:26 pm
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>>31545
I hope you're not dissing Moth Light Media, one of my favourite low-production-quality educational channels.
>> No. 31549 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 7:24 pm
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What the fuck is with buying new phones ?

Everything may as well be in a different language. Also why aren't there deals anymore ? I wanted the new pixel and can't find one that throws In a free case or anything.
>> No. 31550 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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>>31549

>Everything may as well be in a different language.

That's technology m8, if you want to be told what to buy then just get an iPhone.

>Also why aren't there deals anymore?

Xiaomi are having a massive clearout ahead of the new models. On Saturday they'll be doing the a daily deal on the Poco X3 for £139, which is absolutely insane value for a near-flagship.

https://www.mi.com/uk/index.html
>> No. 31551 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 9:13 pm
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>>31550
>On Saturday they'll be doing the a daily deal on the Poco X3 for £139, which is absolutely insane value for a near-flagship

You're fooling nobody with your ad riddled, low memory pseudo-flagship m8
>> No. 31552 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 10:03 pm
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People who use a toastie maker but don't marge/butter the outer flaps of bread that are in contact with the heating irons. What is with that?
>> No. 31553 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 11:02 pm
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>>31552
Why do people have toastie makers when you can just fry/grill the sandwich? I don't see it being it being anymore complicated to clean or as tasty.
>> No. 31554 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 11:15 pm
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>>31553
The thrill of having boiling hot cheese boil your mouth, singe your chin and ruin your top in one go.

Are you a psyop from Big Toastie (York Uni)?
>> No. 31555 Anonymous
3rd March 2021
Wednesday 11:25 pm
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The 2021 Census sent one letter to my building which is a load of flats. I had a look at how to fix this and I guess I need to contact them, rather than having an email however they have webchat, SMS and telephone of which all have operating hours.

So I guess I'm just getting a £1000 fine then.
>> No. 31556 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 12:31 am
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>>31555
Fella, I'm sure everybody here would vouch for you and all of your co-denizens and lodge a complaint and request on your behalf while you're at work during the office hours. Other channels than this are open, e.g. Discord. The Census is serious work, so why should you be fined for the incompetence of the government?
>> No. 31557 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 3:32 pm
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>>31555

Do they honestly fine you? Thought it was a myth like TV licensing.
>> No. 31558 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 3:38 pm
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>>31557
Last time around they fined people who refused to comply because it was outsourced to Lockheed Martin. I doubt people who just ignore it out of apathy would get the same treatment though.
>> No. 31559 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>31557
TV license fines aren't a myth.
>> No. 31560 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 3:43 pm
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>>31559
In that they are handed out, yes, but you basically need to ask to be fined to get one.
>> No. 31561 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 3:47 pm
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>>31557

Only if you refuse to comply. If you don't respond to the first letter, they'll chase you up.
>> No. 31562 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 5:59 pm
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My mum's oven's tripping the breaker and rather than let me take it apart and find what I'm assuming will be a very obvious short, she wants to buy a fancy new self cleaning one. I bet the self cleaning is shit too, it's not even that good on professional ovens unless they're combi ovens and you use dangerous chemicals.

But also whatever cowboy did her kitchen just put the oven on a plug and installed a socket in a cupboard. And the socket is spurred off from the lighting ring for some reason.
>> No. 31563 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 6:39 pm
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>>31559
Neither are Giant Squids, but one had to literally beach itself for us to prove otherwise.

In order to get a TV license fine you need to basically tell them you are watching TV without a license, invite them in to see and then tell them to go fuck themselves if they think they're getting the money.

It's trivial to avoid a fine even if you're being a wrong un, just don't reply to their correspondences or answer the door to them, but if you genuinely don't need one you are under no obligation to contact them and tell them that either.

It's the only time "ignore them and they'll go away" actually works.
>> No. 31564 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 7:16 pm
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>>31563
That's all well and good, but you may as well say the war on drugs is a myth because there are more telly tax prosecutions than recorded drug crimes.
>> No. 31565 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 7:46 pm
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>>31562
>And the socket is spurred off from the lighting ring for some reason.

Well there's your problem.

Most mocern single ovens are perfectly fine running on a 13A socket on the main 32A ring, but on a lighting ring that's just a joke, of course it's going to trip the breaker, it'll be drawing about twice the power that the breaker is rated at. There wont be anything wrong with the oven.

More powerful ovens, like combi or double ovens draw more power and need a dedicated breaker.
>> No. 31566 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 7:49 pm
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>>31565
>mocern

*ahem..fuck
>> No. 31567 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 8:09 pm
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>>31565

The thing with that is the oven has worked without issue for 7 years.
>> No. 31568 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 8:40 pm
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>>31567
Then either it's not actually on the lighting circuit, or the lighting circuit is on the wrong rated breaker. If the latter is the case then you're in deep shit because it's possible the insulation on the wiring is melting.
Or you've just been incredibly lucky for the past few years and the ovens only just drawing below the rating on the breaker, and it's started tripping recently because as the elements worn down over time it's passing slightly more current and that's took it over the threshold to trip the lighting breaker.

Also never trust the labels in the consumer unit, because sometimes cowboys will switch breakers around to fit a new circuit in and not bother to relabel things.
>> No. 31569 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 8:49 pm
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>>31568
OR, they've just spurred some lighting off the ring main, which is ok as long as the wires going to the lights are protected by a separate fuse, but from your description it doesn't sound as though that's the case.
>> No. 31570 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 9:19 pm
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>>31556
>Fella, I'm sure everybody here would vouch for you and all of your co-denizens and lodge a complaint and request on your behalf while you're at work during the office hours. Other channels than this are open, e.g. Discord. The Census is serious work, so why should you be fined for the incompetence of the government?

Oh I'm sure that'll work out fine for me.
>It says here, how many jammy dodgers do you have the cupboard?
>Where do you keep your secret rice?
>Now for the economic questions, how big is your telly?

Anyway I managed to get on the webchat today and had a few jokes with a Scottish lass about housing these days. That was okay I guess but I'd still rather not have to socialise if I can avoid it. Had I not done this then they might've sent someone with a clipboard, unannounced and gasping for a brew that turns into watching afternoon gameshows.

I'd also like to complain that national data collection of all things shouldn't be devolved
>> No. 31571 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 10:57 pm
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>>31569

The oven trips the downstairs lights breaker, that's as far as I've gotten - it could be a few things, likely none of them particularly good.

It's not an issue, I can get someone in to do it right, but it pisses me off that people can't just do their literal job half decently.

It's also possible I'm an idiot and it's a normal, fine job they did.
>> No. 31572 Anonymous
4th March 2021
Thursday 11:06 pm
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>>31571

Now that I think about it, it's probably tripping one of two main RCDs that the smaller breakers share (like the lighting ring). I didn't think about it too much because I was too busy being annoyed that the oven wasn't isolated, but that makes sense. It likely does mean >>31569 is right about how the lights are spurred off.
>> No. 31573 Anonymous
5th March 2021
Friday 5:04 pm
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>>31572
Actually I forgot all about RCDs.
In most installations you'll find that several different circuits are all commoned onto a single RCD (due to the cost and space of having a separate RCD on every circuit.)
Ovens do tend to trip RCDs pretty easily because eventually moisture works its way into connections and shorts to the metal case which trips the RCD but not the breaker.
So if it is only the RCD tripping it's no big deal, its no danger of killing anyone or starting any fires, its just an inconvenience as long as the RCD is working the way its meant to.

The electronics in breakers have got much better now so it's common on new installations to see combined breaker and RCDs, and its no longer allowed to have a lighting circuit sharing an RCD with other circuits, although circuits that meet the old standards are still fine to leave in place unless you have any major changes need doing.
>> No. 31574 Anonymous
5th March 2021
Friday 7:23 pm
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Greenpeace managing to get into the critical part of an airfield to paint a plane green is going to give me a shit load of risk analysis paperwork to do. Yet again the french have ruined my day.
>> No. 31575 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 11:06 am
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What I'm calling the non-answer forum answer. Whenever I'm looking for a solution to a problem online there are always replies to confounded OPs along the lines of "well, you don't want to be doing that in the first place, do this" or "if you were doing it this way, I could help, but you aren't". If the OP was something like "I'm trying to deep fry chicken in bleach; any tips?" I'd get it, but it's usually just grognards surreptitiously complaining that the genesis of said issue didn't exist fifteen years back, so maybe you wouldn't have a problem if you were using a motherboard with an AGP or driving to work on a steam tractor.
>> No. 31576 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 1:18 pm
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The soft, subtle aggression with which a salesperson for an ISP operates when you're leaving them for someone else gives me the chills. They are currently offering to give me a £150 high street (lol) voucher, new router and four gigabit (why?) Wifi extenders and have knocked £9 a month off my price. It sounds like a great deal but obviously this is nowhere near what the floor is for a profitable deal for them, but still.

Anyway they tranferred me to a manager when I was typing this and as soon as I displayed a vague grasp of technical knowledge, with scary words like "backhaul" and "ethernet", she seemed to lose interest in selling to me. Though apparently a "head" engineer will ring me today still. I'm just going to ask him about congestion at my exchange, too.
>> No. 31577 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 1:22 pm
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>>31575

The stack overflow standard answer. "Why would you do that". Maybe because I have more imagination than you, you cunt.

Car forums do this too. I had a supercharger kit for an MR2 years ago, and asked an MR2 forum for advice on a specific fitting, and the first reply was "I'd turbo it m8 much better results". Cool thanks.
>> No. 31578 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 1:23 pm
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>>31576

>four gigabit Wifi extenders

That's 4x gigabit extenders, not 4gig extenders.
>> No. 31579 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 3:01 pm
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>>31575
Anyone who's ever worked in any sort of support environment will tell you that 9 times out of 10 the person asking the question doesn't know what they're doing, and most of them think they're in the other 1 out of 10.

A big part of the XY Problem is failure to recognise it as such, and "why are you doing that?" and "don't do that" are entirely legitimate responses.
>> No. 31580 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 3:33 pm
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>>31579

You're not wrong, but on forums the question is often something like "how do I resize the autosnap boxes on win10", and "install linux" is a valid yet entirely useless answer.
>> No. 31581 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 3:35 pm
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Nafa: Non-answer forum answer; I meant to coin it as nafa.

>>31577
Yeah! Exactly that but with routers, "should have stayed with the previous model", brilliant.

>>31579
But this isn't tech support, these are specific questions, not "computer won't turn on, plz halp".
>> No. 31582 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 4:46 pm
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>>31580
>"how do I resize the autosnap boxes on win10"
Why do you want to do that? I can think of at least three legitimate motives for it and they all have different solutions. I can think of at least one motive where it's the wrong way to go about it, and that has a different solution again.

>>31581
Specific questions are the worst, because frequently someone is asking how to do something specific but won't actually tell you what they really want to do. Someone might ask the best way between two tube stations in zone 1, but what they really want to know is how to get between two particular attractions that turn out to be about 10 minutes walk apart.

Let's take what seems like a specific problem. "I'm stuck outside the front door of a building and I can't get in." What's the solution? That depends on what you're trying to do:
- "I'm trying to get to my flat." Use the key fob you were given.
- "My key fob doesn't work." Go to reception and get it fixed.
- "I'm trying to deliver a pizza." Use the intercom and ask the person that ordered it to buzz you in.
- "I'm trying to deliver a parcel." Go to reception and leave it there.
- "They've buzzed me in but the door is still locked." You're at the wrong building.
- "I'm a debt collector/TV licence officer/stalker." Go away and have a serious fucking word with yourself about how you became such a shitty person.
>> No. 31583 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 6:13 pm
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>>31582
>Go away and have a serious fucking word with yourself about how you became such a shitty person.
Wrong, the correct answer for those is to pretend to be one of the others.
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6th March 2021
Saturday 6:41 pm
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>>31582

>Why do you want to do that?

I have an ultrawide monitor and I want to arrange windows in a way I like.

Moving to your second point - I probably posted that question in an ultrawide monitor specific forum, and still got the 'linux' answer. And that's sort of the point here - most forums these days are so specific that the context is there. For your example, almost certainly we'd know the context because it was posted on a pizza delivery forum, or a debt collector forum, etc.
>> No. 31585 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 7:26 pm
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>>31584
>I have an ultrawide monitor and I want to arrange windows in a way I like.
Use FancyZones in PowerToys. Or install Linux.
>> No. 31586 Anonymous
6th March 2021
Saturday 9:10 pm
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>>31585

That's exactly what I do, on both counts.
>> No. 31587 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 9:25 am
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My girlfriend continuing to try and speak to me when I'm obviously tired and want to not speak.

Bonus points for making a ghastly sound when drinking that weirdly makes me angry
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7th March 2021
Sunday 9:33 am
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>>31587
>when I'm obviously tired and want to not speak

Did you at any point tell her you were too tired and would rather speak another time?
>> No. 31589 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 9:39 am
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Various posters getting annoyed or bored with their partners: Remember it's the lockdown. Everyone is stuck spending too much time with the one or two few others and that's going to exacerbate every tiny, mild irritating thing. It will pass.
>> No. 31590 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 11:32 am
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>>31589
What if she waits until the toast is cold before buttering it?
>> No. 31591 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 11:38 am
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>>31589
>Various posters getting annoyed or bored with their partners: Remember it's the lockdown. Everyone is stuck spending too much time with the one or two few others and that's going to exacerbate every tiny, mild irritating thing. It will pass.

There's a typical relationship for a lot of couples where they have kids, spend the next couple of decades kept busy and distracted, but then once the kids move out and they suddenly have all that time with themselves they find out that they can't stand to be with each other which leads to mid-life crises and divorces.
Of course the lockdown stresses people out, but I don't think it is a good thing to to tell people that its normal and healthy to feel that way and that they can just go back to the way the were before once they're back to just spending less time with each other.
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7th March 2021
Sunday 11:45 am
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>>31591
Why not? If they don't let their tempers get out of hand then they will be able to.
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7th March 2021
Sunday 12:31 pm
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>>31591

>Of course the lockdown stresses people out, but I don't think it is a good thing to to tell people that its normal and healthy to feel that way and that they can just go back to the way the were before once they're back to just spending less time with each other.


I think it is fairly normal for a person to not be an ideal match all of the time. I don't want to strawman what you said but I think it would be unhealthy to have an expectation that there won't ever be problems or conflict.
>> No. 31594 Anonymous
7th March 2021
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>31589

Just wait until you've heard mine eat a bowl of Crunchy Nut, dry. I'm convinced the neighbours in the next flat can hear it through the walls. That lad who lived next to a building site had it easy.
>> No. 31595 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 11:48 am
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Overly processed voices on YouTube videos. +30dB on the bass and a compressor turned up to max. Christ, it's painful to listen to.
>> No. 31596 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 4:19 pm
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>>31595

Youtubers don't seem to understand audio in general. I had to stop watching a big youtube gaming channel because their audio is so bad - how the fuck can you have ten million subscribers, a literal office with tens of support staff, but somehow still not be able to mix four audio channels properly?
>> No. 31597 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 4:22 pm
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>>31595
I've seen someone complain about this before, but I'm unsure what they, or you, mean, do you have an example?
>> No. 31598 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 5:06 pm
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>>31596

a) nobody thinks that they need to hire a sound engineer, b) a lot of people just have cloth ears and c) a lot of the scummier YouTubers saturate the fuck out of their audio to sound loud and attention-grabbing on crap phone and laptop speakers, much like the loudness wars of the CD era.

>>31597

This twat is a clear example - he's going for the big warm AM radio sound, but he just sounds like he's stuck in a wardrobe.


>> No. 31599 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 5:10 pm
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>>31598

>b) a lot of people just have cloth ears and c) a lot of the scummier YouTubers saturate the fuck out of their audio to sound loud and attention-grabbing on crap phone and laptop speakers, much like the loudness wars of the CD era.
Their target market is people using crap phone and laptop speakers so whatever you think of it is irrelevant - they may even have sound engineers doing the things you don't like, on purpose.
>> No. 31600 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 5:18 pm
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>>31599

>they may even have sound engineers doing the things you don't like, on purpose

I fully understand that, I just believe that the world would be objectively better if they killed themselves.
>> No. 31601 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 5:33 pm
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>>31600

Valid.
>> No. 31602 Anonymous
11th March 2021
Thursday 9:28 pm
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Scammers have started calling my mobile from about 1030 until lunchtime this week and the other day I get a text pretending to be Royal Mail. They're all doing that thing where they call your phone for a second so it shows up as a missed call and they can probably fleece me for calling the number.

I block and report them every time but I'd rather not have to change the number I've had for 15 years. For starters I'd have work out who to message my new number to.
>> No. 31603 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 12:16 pm
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I've just watched the Hermes woman come out of her car aggressively puffing on a fag and now the t-shirts she's delivered stink of smoke.
>> No. 31604 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 6:30 pm
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My YouTube recommendations are fucking weird.
>> No. 31605 Anonymous
12th March 2021
Friday 6:36 pm
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>>31604
Yeah?
>> No. 31606 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 3:53 pm
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"There are no concentration camps in my world, just some farms. It's not like eugenics. There's a tax which means the least productive prey anthros get eaten, so the old, sick or disabled."

Furries are not particularly self aware.
>> No. 31607 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 4:42 pm
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>>31606
You can say that again.
>> No. 31608 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 5:12 pm
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>>31607
The top result for googling this explains how this is bullshit, do some research before posting your shit from the other place.
>> No. 31609 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 5:27 pm
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>>31608
I dunno, lad. A furry saying that his furry friend had his hands amputated after leaving them in dry ice for six hours was a result of him "accidentally falling asleep" rather than because he wanted paws doesn't seem like a comprehensive debunking to me.
>> No. 31610 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 6:27 pm
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>>31606

Bumsore prey species spotted. Maybe if you weren't so irrationally bitter about niche fetishes on the internet, you could find somebody to vore you.
>> No. 31611 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 7:18 pm
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>>31609
What's there to debunk? Good thing you don't write for Snopes.

Claim: A man deliberately froze his hands in order to have them amputated and replaced with "paws", then lied on the Internet that it was a tragic accident involving pain management and drowsiness induced by medication.
Rating: True
Proof: Fuckin' furries innit?
>> No. 31612 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 7:31 pm
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>Basically I fell asleep while icing my wrists last night. Woke up 6 hours later, hands were frozen. Went to the hospital, they care flighted me to a burn center in California. It was too late, damage had been done, it’s resulting in a bilateral hand amputation so things are about to get very interesting in my life. I’m doing ok, remaining optimistic. Honestly I’m anxious to get it over with and move on with my life.

☑ Furry
☑ Had to have his hands amputated after leaving them in dry ice

Now getting his hands deliberately amputated could quite easily be bollocks, but the other explanation could quite easily be bollocks; it's not like a fellow furry would attempt to cover it up for a damage limitation exercise.
>> No. 31613 Anonymous
18th March 2021
Thursday 7:39 pm
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>> No. 31614 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 8:34 am
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Rejoined okcupid. And I am fairly certain it has targeted me for milking for cash. I'm not going to pay but it is weird how prohibitive it is compared to last time I used it.
>> No. 31615 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 9:36 am
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>>31614

Weird. I literally just reactivated my account this morning. This is the platform I had most success with when I was younger, but the current iteration of it is almost identical to Tinder, even down to the 'pay-to-win' mechanic.

Swiping left on OKcupid.

I went on my first online date in 2010 in my early 20s and I remember people in my circle of friends were a bit weirded out by it. The people I met tended to either be a bit on the spectrum, or had moved to the area from somewhere far away and were using it to date outside of their social circle.

I remember it got pretty popular a couple years later but wasn't really monetized. By 2015 dating apps seemed ubiquitous. After living in a far off land for a while I've had zero luck with any of the apps since returning to the UK. I suspect that it's because of the ubiquity and profit model of the apps mean that it's now no different than trying to pick up a girl in a busy nightclub and now online dating has similar efficacy, but it might just be that I passed 30 and have aged out of this particular dating niche.

Lockdown hasn't helped. After I get vaccinated, I'm taking up so many hobbies.
>> No. 31616 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 10:13 am
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>>31615

>Lockdown hasn't helped. After I get vaccinated, I'm taking up so many hobbies.

Good for you.

I've turned to it out of necessity alone, I hate the way it mines my data, and I hatge I have freely volunteer it. But society has made it a necessity. Got near instant first messaged by a girl on it who seems to not be fucking around and is looking for the person they live their life with and have kinds with, so that is a nice breath of fresh air from the usual being treated entirely with contempt on these things.
I am used to only users treating me entirely with contempt the fact the company seems to be doing it is an interesting twist. I hope to abandon this awful thing as soon as lockdown ends.

I suppose if all men are being limited on their likes it will mean women will receive less and therefore treat the ones they do get with more value, which would be good, but I suspect the reality is it is the same they just target older people more aggressively for money.
>> No. 31617 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 10:44 am
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I've said this before, but I'm going to keep saying it until someone listens: Ravelry. Men who can knit are total fanny magnets.
>> No. 31618 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 11:27 am
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>>31617

Show your working, lad.
>> No. 31619 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 11:42 am
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Someone sent me this because they knew it would make me angry.

https://www.standard.co.uk/escapist/i-left-london-for-the-countryside-and-it-was-nothing-like-i-dreamed-b923836.html
>> No. 31620 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 11:49 am
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>>31619

I'm laughing because the article suggests that her aptitude for researching facts for articles doesn't appear to transfer well to researching life choices.
>> No. 31621 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 11:52 am
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>>31618

Ravelry's user base is >99% female and most of the remainder are gay. It's one of the few places on the internet where straight blokes are unicorns. You instantly become massively more attractive due to the scarcity heuristic, like a not-actually-that-cheap telly on Black Friday. It's like being the only girl in the engineering department, but without the sexual assault.

You'll only get more attention by owning a really cute dog and dressing it up in funny costumes on Instagram, or by being a single dad on Mumsnet who is funny and confident but also in touch with his feelings. That's rather more commitment than getting a ball of wool and watching a couple of hours of YouTube videos.
>> No. 31622 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 12:01 pm
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>>31621

You did not make it clear that Ravelry was a social media website - I had assumed it was a catch all term for these sorts of crafts. (maybe it is also that)

Your theory is sound, and I fully support it, but I'm still blaming you for not being clearer the first time around.
>> No. 31623 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 5:08 pm
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>>31621
Have you actually managed to get your needle wet because of it though?
>> No. 31624 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 5:48 pm
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I hate Wikipedia every time I remember it has a sprawling bureaucracy and is padded with exactly the sort of people you'd think might dedicate their free time to running such a bureaucracy.
Sayre's law is alive and well wherever you decide to read the talk page. Just because the argument was 5 years ago doesn't mean you can't be upset that this idiot tried to delete an obviously noteworthy article or that idiot got the name of a game system wrong and won out on a technicality.
>> No. 31625 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 6:07 pm
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>>31624

RationalWiki is cetainly a microcosm of that law. It's a shame, because it shows the extreme of what happens when you grant authority to those without the experience to wield it benevolently.
>> No. 31626 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 9:28 pm
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>>31624
I miss the old 'internet culture' pages like 'list of shock sites' and I remember reading heaps of entries about some GameFAQs board that you needed to have a certain level of posts before you could post on it (remind me what this was please otherlad).

On the other hand, information online is increasing in volume exponentially and the mean notability of it is decreasing relatively. This aspect of the moderation of wikipedia means that there has been a proliferation in the existence of other niche wiki sites like the wikia ones which is kind of good for the decentralization of knowledge and the democratization of the sharing of information (there's a lot of stuff on wikispooks which wouldn't be featured on related wiki articles but remains culturally important regardless of its veracity).

Wikipedia being one big totalitarian encyclopedia seems kind of antithetical to the core aim of the project.
>> No. 31627 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 9:43 pm
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>>31626
GameFAQs had a lot of boards like that. You might be thinking of LUE (Life, the Universe & Everything) which was one of the more famous ones. I seem to recall they actually made if off-limits to newer users after a while, even if they'd built up anough karma.
>> No. 31628 Anonymous
19th March 2021
Friday 11:24 pm
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>>31627

LUE was it. There were dozens of wikipedia articles about LUE in the 00s.
>> No. 31629 Anonymous
20th March 2021
Saturday 2:16 am
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>>31619

I refuse to beleive at the point she declared "the second property we stayed in was haunted. Yes, really." this isn't a parody.
>> No. 31630 Anonymous
20th March 2021
Saturday 8:42 am
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>>31629 This gave it away for me. Move to the 'countryside', huh?
"We settled, made new friends with an exciting mix of people whose lives were refreshingly different to our own - a racehorse trainer, estate owners, a pilot, landowners."
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20th March 2021
Saturday 8:50 am
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>>31630

I did laugh at that bit. I can't tell if you're highlighting it because you haven't really moved to the countryside if you are surrounded by people still, or that all of those people sound almost identical to "bridal magazine journalist" at anything other than a surface glance.
>> No. 31632 Anonymous
22nd March 2021
Monday 6:05 pm
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>The F1® 2020 Keep Fighting Foundation DLC bundle, inspired by Michael Schumacher, includes the following premium items with which you can customise your in-game appearance:

Now, 100% of the money made from this DLC goes to the "Keep Fighting Foundation", but that seems like a way for a few creeps to line their pockets while raising the bare minimum for actual charities, so I standby my initial reaction of "what in the fuck...".
>> No. 31633 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 12:24 pm
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I've got a terrible habit of putting a kitkat in my pocket when I make a brew, then I forget about it until I pull a melted kitkat out of my pocket half an hour later.
>> No. 31634 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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>>31633
That's a slightly odd habit. Although better than mine which is devouring the confectionary item before the kettle's finished boiling.
>> No. 31635 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 3:51 pm
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>>31634
I've taken to putting them in the fridge as a means of ensuring I don't just inhale them immediately. By the time I come to eat one, it will have come up to room temperature.
>> No. 31636 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 3:55 pm
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>>31635
If you put it in the freezer it'll be cold enough to remind you that it's in your pocket.
>> No. 31637 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 4:07 pm
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>>31635
Fridge chocolate is vastly superior, and the fridge should always be its default home. It won't melt as quickly, it snaps off and has a great mouthfeel. This also works for sweets and biscuits, but not crisps. Although, crisps and cold yoghurt are a comparable combo.
>> No. 31638 Anonymous
23rd March 2021
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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>>31637
Try a snickers fresh from the freezer. Crunchy brilliance.
>> No. 31639 Anonymous
24th March 2021
Wednesday 6:58 pm
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I feel like Leonard Hatred; haunted by sound, constantly. Now the warehouse next door have got some new machinery (I assume) there's an ear-pierching 1750Hz whine for half an hour, several times a day, usually in the dead of night. I don't mind normal industrial noise during normal hours, but at 3am it's fucking ridiculous. It sounds just like an alarm.

Fuck my fucking life.
>> No. 31640 Anonymous
24th March 2021
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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Ah fuck. Somewhat against the ethos of 101, but I sympathise.
Can you get the council to kick them? That sounds like a nuisance, by any metric.
>> No. 31641 Anonymous
24th March 2021
Wednesday 11:49 pm
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>>31639

I think you should consider getting a flat instead of living in an industrial unit.
>> No. 31642 Anonymous
25th March 2021
Thursday 5:11 pm
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>>31641

Not him but I'd love to live in an industrial unit. A lovely big warehouse with an office bit I could soundproof and insulate. And then I could get up every day and walk into my big warehouse full of cars and workbenches and so on.
>> No. 31648 Anonymous
27th March 2021
Saturday 9:03 pm
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1. Beef jerky that they've injected with sugar. Why? If you want to sell to the sweet-toothed market, don't ruin savoury foods by making them sweeter, just sell sweets.
2. "Wagyu" beef jerky. Look, you can't make jerky fancy by using beef that's fancy for steaks. Jerky needs to be lean meat. Wagyu beef is good for steaks because it's marbled with fat that flavours the meat when you cook it. Dehydrating marbled beef just ends up being greasy, weird, and will go rancid unless you balance it out with a bunch of chemicals.
>> No. 31649 Anonymous
27th March 2021
Saturday 9:19 pm
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>>31648

Wagyu burgers can fuck off as well.
>> No. 31650 Anonymous
28th March 2021
Sunday 12:38 am
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Spring forward can do one if you ask me, in 25 minutes it's going to be 2am and we're just all okay with that. On Monday I'm going to be all drowsy as well because I had to go to bed early so I can get up earlier and my natural rhythm is going to be all off because despite the name daylight doesn't observe daylight savings.

Don't give me all that about how I got an hour back in October, he was a wanker who put off doing things so he could doss about.
>> No. 31651 Anonymous
29th March 2021
Monday 11:55 pm
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It's exciting times as I've now saved up enough for a deposit on a small house for myself. It took 3 years of saving, living in a tiny flat, cutting corners where I can and corona-induced savings and market returns. Even chased meagre bonuses at work and sold holiday time.

Only no. In my excitement I forgot about all the other bullshit with surveyors, legal fees, any repair work etc. It looks like I'll need another £10k just when things are opening up again.
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/estimate-your-overall-buying-and-moving-costs

This is fucking silly. I think I'll forgo the perfect credit rating and just get a nicer flat for over half my income in rent or just bite the bullet and get a flatshare. Damn it all to hell.
>> No. 31652 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 2:54 am
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>>31651

How much is your deposit so far?
I'm very good at saving money but my earning potential is so fucking shit I can't save enough for anything useful. It's about as depressing as anything can be.
>> No. 31653 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 12:15 pm
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>>31652
20k for the deposit, about 2k for expenses with the assumption that I could spend another 6 months putting money away for all the additional stuff while I sort a house out.

>I'm very good at saving money but my earning potential is so fucking shit I can't save enough for anything useful. It's about as depressing as anything can be.

I know what you mean, I keep a rigid budget which in itself is something people don't seem to do and yet it doesn't mean anything if they earn twice what I do.

Admittedly I'm being a silly bugger renting a place to myself and having a job I love but even though I earn well above the national average it's never enough with prices going up and up. 8.5% growth last year which is outrageous to expect savers to keep up with given the figures involved.
>> No. 31654 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 12:20 pm
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>>31652

Same, I have £30,000 saved but can't seem to bump my salary up from £18,500, haven't had a raise in 6 years.

I could do it easily if me and my partner bought together, but I don't like the reliance on others.
>> No. 31655 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 1:36 pm
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>>31654
>I could do it easily if me and my partner bought together, but I don't like the reliance on others.

I think that's why we're suffering. Home ownership is for people who get married in their mid-late 20s with a hefty bit of support on the deposit from the parents on both sides to buy a Barratt home.
>> No. 31656 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 2:40 pm
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I was at Tesco and rang the missus and asked if she wanted crisps. She said yes, so I asked what kind. She said 'surprise me'. So I got her a flavour I thought she might like but I didn't, and some Kettle Chips for myself. When I brought them home, instead of being grateful that I'd done as she asked and considered what she might like, she was annoyed that I didn't get anything we could share and was reluctant for her to have my Kettle Chips when I'd just bought her this huge bag of bacon rashers for the week.

Birds eh?
>> No. 31657 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 3:12 pm
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>>31656
You bought yourself a bag of Kettle Chips and her a bag of own brand Frazzles and you wonder why she's not happy?
>> No. 31658 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:22 pm
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>>31653

>8.5% growth last year

This kills my savings dreams. I've been reliably putting in to a Help to Buy ISA for a while because it's all I can afford now but that can only take £2400 a year, so it's barely taking in more than I need to save at a rate faster than prices are appreciating.

>I could do it easily if me and my partner bought together

They never tell you about the living costs nightmare of being a late bloomer in your love life but now I'm living it.
>> No. 31659 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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>>31658
Isn't a LISA shitloads better than a H2BISA?
>> No. 31660 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:31 pm
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>>31657

what are you doing posting on here? don't you have a Candlelight Supper to get ready for?
>> No. 31661 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:46 pm
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Yes. I didn't know this. Thanks for the unexpected heads up.
Do they straight up just pay you a bonus on your savings over the year? That seems a bit too good but I'd take it.
>> No. 31662 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:50 pm
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>>31659

Can you have both?

I have just over £14,000 in a H2B, so whilst I still get the interest once a year, I'll only get £3,000 bonus max.

Can I start topping up a LISA on the side?

Also, with the H2B, do you get the bonus after you've completed the transaction or could I have another three grand to bump up the deposit amount?
>> No. 31663 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 4:56 pm
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>>31662

Looks like the lifetime ISA has much more stringent rules about accessing money early whereas the help to buy ISA doesn't, so I'd keep both and only use the lifetime one for savings I'm happy to keep out of sight until I'm at retirement age. Which then just seems a bit redundant if I'm paying in to some sort of pension unless I've got a load of excess cash lying around.
>> No. 31664 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:03 pm
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>>31662
I think you can only use one towards the house, so people tend to use the LISA for this and use the H2BISA as a general savings account because they have much higher interest than you can get elsewhere.
>> No. 31665 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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>>31658
I'd recommended moving to a Lifetime ISA with stocks and shares. The global market grows at about 10%pa. so you can just put it into indices and forget about it, the yearly cap is 4k and you don't have to fuck about to use the money on a deposit. Heavy on that 'about' with a range of figures but you're still beating property appreciation.

That 1.5% is annihilated by the starting price of a house though. I'd suggest we could kill homeowners to flood the market but you just know that any drop in prices will be snapped up by banks and pensions.
>> No. 31666 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 5:11 pm
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>>31661
Yes. I'm going to move 4k next month and then in 65 millions years I'll get a 1k bonus. Possibly end of month.

>>31662
You can hold both and iirc pay into both in the same tax year but don't quote me on that. I'm unsure of the benefit in holding a H2B once you hit the £3k cap.
>> No. 31667 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 6:30 pm
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Hi, we're a retro-inspired 2D side scrolling rogue lite souls inspired beat-em-up metroid vania, graphics are on-par with a Megadrive plus a few Unity effects.

That'll be a 40GiB download, please.
>> No. 31668 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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>>31667
Most of the UK should have access to gigabit internet by the end of this year. Get with the times, granddad.
>> No. 31669 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 7:00 pm
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>>31668

I live in a block of flats with shite internet, and it's literally the only one in the entire area that doesn't get fibre.

Is there anything I can do to get a fibre line put in? Who do I talk to if I'm willing to shell out to have them actually dig up the road and put the infrastructure in? Whatever it takes, I'm willing.
>> No. 31670 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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Talk to whoever manages the building. Typically whoever owns the building will talk about getting a level of interest before authorising it but will roll over if a provider offers them enough cash for the wayleave.
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30th March 2021
Tuesday 8:20 pm
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>>31669

If you're willing to spend a cock and a bollock, Openreach will put in fibre anywhere. If you the freeholder of the block and enough of your neighbours on board, Hyperoptic will probably cable up the building for nowt.

If you've got 5G coverage in your area, Three offer quite reasonably priced home broadband plans, although the speed and latency isn't quite as reliable as fibre at peak times.

https://www.hyperoptic.com/property/existing-buildings/

http://www.three.co.uk/store/broadband
>> No. 31672 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 9:39 pm
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>>31670

Well it's a local authority owned block, but half the flats themselves are privately owned, so I suspect all that would be a bit of a non-starter.

It can't be asking that much for them to run a wire specifically to my flat, for me, right?
>> No. 31673 Anonymous
30th March 2021
Tuesday 10:39 pm
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Pure wish Tinder would stop sending me push notifications implying there are people out there that want to fuck me.
>> No. 31674 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 4:37 am
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>>31672

>half the flats themselves are privately owned

They aren't actually privately owned, because flats in this country are inevitably leasehold - the occupier has a long-term lease on the flat, but someone else owns the land and the building. Openreach will install fibre pretty much anywhere for the right price, but they can't do it without permission (a "wayleave") from the land owner.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/freeholders-block-fibre-optic-broadband-installation-for-flat-owners-7hhs2g7bp
>> No. 31675 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 10:56 am
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>>31673
I know right, almost like it's their business model.
>> No. 31676 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 12:46 pm
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>>31672
You need to club together with some fellow residents to get a company interested in doing it. The council may well be dog slow with handling it, but a company rocking up and offering to pay a decent enough sum of money for a wayleave to fit out the building should eventually get results. My building is privately-owned, and the freeholders initially said they'd want 50% interest, but after a couple of years they finally caved and just took the money. Local government funding being what it is, if the council (or an arms-length company) is presented with big enough cheque they'll probably take it.
>> No. 31677 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 4:56 pm
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It really boils my piss when someone ends a post with ", no?" because it marks them out as a condescending prick and most of the time they don't really know what they're on about.
>> No. 31678 Anonymous
31st March 2021
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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Why is it so hard to find a decent inexpensive programmable keypad these days? When I search Amazon I get "gamer" keyboards, some with ridiculous shapes, and 80-key pads which inexplicably cost upwards of £300.
>> No. 31679 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 12:11 am
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>>31678

Because the 'streamer' market has money to burn.

I woukd look into just getting/building a keyboard or numpad with qmk or other good macro support and just programming your own. You might well even find relevant keycaps for your shortcuts and so on. It might still be stretching the definition of inexpensive, but we're talking closer to fifty quid than three hundred.
>> No. 31680 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 12:32 am
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>>31677
Or French, so the same.
>> No. 31681 Anonymous
1st April 2021
Thursday 7:42 pm
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All the staff of the offie I go to regularly for food have started giving me sketchy looks. I'm not sure why. Do they think I'm shoplifting just because I prefer using the self-service tills?
>> No. 31682 Anonymous
3rd April 2021
Saturday 1:51 pm
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I had a stream of some pretend race car driving on in the background and after a while I noticed there was a flag on the top of the car I was watching. It turns out it was the UAE flag because this car's sponsored by some kind of business or entity from there, I don't know. Ultimately it reminded me of pre-Second World War German grand prix cars that would sometimes sport swastikas on the bodywork and put me off the whole affair. Maybe I'm being melodramatic, and I'm well aware it's just one of the many weird little things no one else gives a shit about, but it sours the whole experience for me. That's not even addressing the Microsoft sponsor on their livery; at this rate I'd be less upset if the car had been made up to look like a Bf 109.
>> No. 31683 Anonymous
3rd April 2021
Saturday 2:37 pm
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Aldi's basmati rice is bottom tier. Most of their own brand stuff is alright, but the rice is really not worth it. Stick to 5kg bags of proper rice.
>> No. 31684 Anonymous
3rd April 2021
Saturday 11:21 pm
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>>31682
I don't like it as well. With F1 in places like China, and now Saudi Arabia. Not to mention PSG and ManCity. It really does put me off. Although it makes me happy when those teams run or sponsored like that lose.
>> No. 31685 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 12:49 am
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>>31684
I largely concur. The difference here is that there must be loads of e-sports teams that aren't backed by states with a human rights record in line with Tsarist Russia and fewer civil liberties than some UK prisons. If you want to drive an F1 car or play at the highest level of football you don't have much of a choice, you have to make a deal with the devil, whereas sim racing e-sports? I'm pretty sure you you can just rock up and if you're fast enough and you'll get in the race. I understand he's got bills to pay, but watching the tendrils of something like the UAE wrap themselves around someone who by all accounts is a lovely chap, and creep into a hobby that's just had more attention this past year than ever before, is horrible. The UAE sends women who get raped to prison for fuck sake, it doesn't really get crueller than that, and those are just the westerners we hear about.

Oh, well, lockdown will be over soon so I can do some more proper sport watching, like a nice guilt free trip to my local League 1 side; Crewe are having a cracking season for a team that just got promoted.
>> No. 31686 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 2:14 pm
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I'm calling it; the census is bollocks. I've still not had my building addresses updated and by the looks of the registered addresses on my postcode it was only a hodgepodge job 10 years ago. At a minimum the data is inaccurate for London but I'm certain it is the same for other cities which ought to be concerning considering it informs planning and electoral decisions we have a cunt-off scheduled when they publish results.
>> No. 31687 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 2:46 pm
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>>31686
My girlfriend took a job as a census officer and said a fair few of the postcodes she was sent to were incorrect or partially built houses. She quit after being repeatedly filmed by people shouting abuse at her, the antivax sort of person, but it sounds like she got off lightly as some of them have been assaulted; I have heard that there's been a lot of anti-census posts online on conspiracy nutter pages.
>> No. 31688 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 4:20 pm
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>>31687
I'm not surprised they spend a lot of their day being shouted at by angry people if my experience is anything to go by.

I posted the form back weeks ago, and every couple of days for the last week one of their door knockers turns up at the most inconvenient time possible. The conversation always goes something like:

Them: Hi I'm from the office of national sta...
Me: Yes like I told you last time I posted my census form a week before the deadline, have you still not received it?
Them: <mumbles something about it not being on their system and they'll update it>
Me: If you've lost it I can fill it in again online but I'll need a new code for the website.
Them: No that's fine there's no need to do anything else if you've already sent it in, have a nice day.

FFS make your mind up already and either ask me to resubmit it or fuck off.
>> No. 31689 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 4:39 pm
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Yeah it looks like Hinge is finished as a dating app. What do the late20s-30somethings use these days? I already have Bumble and don't fancy going back on Tinder.

>>31688
I think it's safe to say that they've actually lost it but the doorknockers don't have the kind of authority to do anything. We now know the real reason it's moving to electronic in 2031 is because it's a complete farce.

The 1k fine for not doing it is also obviously an empty threat considering they've likely sent someone to find the Crystal Palace.
>> No. 31690 Anonymous
4th April 2021
Sunday 10:33 pm
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I insisted on doing a paper census. It took ages to arrive, so I ordered another one, and wound up getting two. Then I got a letter saying I hadn't completed the other one. Also, mysteriously and inexplicably, my address with my doctor was changed to the address I lived at ten years ago at the exact same time. The only thing I can think of to explain this is that they used my last census for some baffling reason. That would also explain why I didn't get my paper census, if they sent them to my old address, except I eventually did get both of them at this address, so (shrugs).
>> No. 31691 Anonymous
5th April 2021
Monday 12:50 am
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>>31690
>mysteriously and inexplicably, my address with my doctor was changed to the address I lived at ten years ago at the exact same time

Maybe this was the plan all along, not to have the census conform to reality but to have reality conform to the census. I'll see you lads in 2011.
>> No. 31692 Anonymous
5th April 2021
Monday 9:03 am
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When Youtubers have some shitty lo-fi loop in the background of their video, and the aggressive sidechaining on some deliberately out of tune piano sample makes the video fucking intolerable to listen to through headphones because all I can focus on is the comp gate opening and closing.
>> No. 31693 Anonymous
5th April 2021
Monday 11:12 am
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>>31688
An IT shambles? Say it ain't so.
Although, to be fair, apart from getting two to do, it all went very smoothly here. I'm so uninteresting that the web form only seemed to be about 10 questions, all the other questions that I used to see on the paper census weren't exposed. Made it feel like it was hardly worth the effort.
>> No. 31694 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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I''m literally sat right here, you cunts.
>> No. 31695 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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>>31694
But are you? Parcelforce says you're not, and why would they lie? I certainly know who I trust more.

Have you tried existing more?
>> No. 31696 Anonymous
6th April 2021
Tuesday 8:49 pm
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>>31694

There's no option on the system for "Collection not attempted - couldn't be arsed".
>> No. 31697 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 1:28 am
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This seems to happen mostly on smaller YouTube channels, annoyingly ones where the comment section is rather unusally a reasonbly useful space instead of the usual overdue septic tank.

A comment containing a time stamp and then an oddly short URL. They are definitely spam, I followed along with the redirects and it ends in a porn site.

(sample image obviously doctered)
>> No. 31698 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 8:15 am
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>>31695
OP doesn't even have a website. Who are you going to believe?
>> No. 31699 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 1:56 pm
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>>31697
I've seen those too. It's surprisingly difficult to report YouTube comments as spam, as well. I think the timestamp thing might be generated automatically in some situations, because my own corner of the YouTube world has a couple of people of debatable mental wellbeing, and they sometimes post a random timestamp and a fully earnest and genuine comment. Other times, they post the time and absolutely nothing else, but I recognise their names and they're not bots.
>> No. 31700 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 4:05 pm
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I tried watching the Formula-E. The drivers have to go wide at a specific corner to activate "attack mode" and to demonstrate where this was there was a graphics overlay on the broadcast and it made me physically cringe so I panic-closed the tab. I think it even made a "wo*sh" sound. I don't remember, it all happened so fast.
>> No. 31701 Anonymous
10th April 2021
Saturday 11:30 pm
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>>31700
People call it "Mario Kart Mode" for a reason.
>> No. 31702 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 9:14 pm
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Why are there so many 10 second videos (#shorts) popping up? Is Youtube trying to compete with Tiktok?
>> No. 31703 Anonymous
13th April 2021
Tuesday 10:01 pm
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>>31702
Youtube implemented it as a feature copycatting tiktok, the algorithms give a lot of weight to shorts at the moment so youtubers who are wise to it are gaming the system.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3EyAlFZ-ok
>> No. 31705 Anonymous
14th April 2021
Wednesday 5:11 pm
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I've got a £15 off UberEats code but it crashes every time I try and place an order.
>> No. 31707 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 9:45 am
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I was going to google something and I've forgotten what it was.
>> No. 31708 Anonymous
17th April 2021
Saturday 2:58 pm
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>>31707
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+was+i+going+to+google&oq=what+was+I+going+&aqs=chrome.0.0l3j69i57j0l6.3551j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
>> No. 31709 Anonymous
18th April 2021
Sunday 3:06 am
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The skin on my right heel has decided to peel off in big lumps and now it's cracked and bleeding. I couldn't find a big enough plaster, so I've got a wad of kitchen roll taped to my foot.
>> No. 31710 Anonymous
21st April 2021
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>31707
I saw something on iPlayer last night but I thought "too tired, I'll watch it tomorrow". No idea what it was now. Watching a thing about DB Cooper instead.
>> No. 31711 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 11:58 am
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I really want to hate-fuck Katherine Ryan. Does my head in.
>> No. 31712 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:11 pm
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>>31711
She's dire.
>> No. 31713 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:26 pm
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>>31711
I thought what I disliked about her was how long her face was but this edit hasn't helped.
>> No. 31714 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:45 pm
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>>31711
I've never got the people who side with Sara Pascoe in the great female panellist debate. Sure, if we're choosing girlfriends I can see your point but you can tell Katherine is more fun and won't think less of you if your favourite dinosaur is parasaurolophus. The latter may sound absurd but you know it's true.

Why yes, I do look forward to reading this post on the Guardian website as an example of our sexist society keeping the unfunny woman down.
>> No. 31715 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>31714
I'd go with Jo Brand. I'm not attracted to her in any way but the rest of these people seem like a lot of effort and I think Jo would just leave me alone.
>> No. 31716 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 12:53 pm
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>>31714
>the great female panellist debate

Eddie Izzard.
>> No. 31717 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 1:47 pm
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>>31714

>the great female panellist debate

VCM is the objectively correct answer.
>> No. 31718 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 3:20 pm
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>>31711
I kind of want her to peg me.
>> No. 31719 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 3:24 pm
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I like Kiri. Not as ubiquitous as yer Pascoes and Ryans, but still very adequate comedically and she is hot to trot.
>> No. 31720 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 3:35 pm
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The answer is always Millican.
>> No. 31721 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 4:21 pm
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>>31720
Okay, Rich.
>> No. 31722 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>31719
Watched a bit of her. Pretty bland, and she laughs at her own jokes.
>> No. 31723 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 5:24 pm
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>>31719

I swear this exact picture with this exact post has been posted in this thread before did I step into a time vortex?
>> No. 31724 Anonymous
22nd April 2021
Thursday 5:48 pm
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>>31723
This website is largely a loop retreading the same topics over and over. Namely, Jeremy Corbyn, trannies, idpol mindworms, whether Peter Kay is still alive, female stand up comedians, watches, programming, Mazda MX-5s, climate change, toxic masculinity and the alt-right, gypsies, Carol Vorderman, fat women and white boys obsessed with rap music.
>> No. 31725 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 11:57 pm
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People who spell the verb 'come', in the sense of have an orgasm, as 'cum', like they are a toddler learning their first word, make me want to stab them through the head.
>> No. 31726 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 12:40 am
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>>31725
Firstly, we have a special thread for this kind of moaning. Secondly this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, it's been settled for decades.
>> No. 31727 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 9:06 am
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>>31726
How do you spell the past tense?
>> No. 31728 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 9:34 am
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If I'd have purchased another item I'd have had free shipping, but I didn't, so the cost of shipping pushed me above the threshold I would have paid to get free shipping in the first place.

I have effectively missed out on a freebie by lazy arithmetic.
>> No. 31729 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 9:53 am
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>>31727
I suppose that would be "cummed".
>> No. 31730 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 10:35 am
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>>31725
>People who spell the verb 'come', in the sense of have an orgasm, as 'cum', like they are a toddler learning their first word, make me want to stab them through the head.
You're in the wrong here, at least in the sense that the vast majority of people spelling the word in that context do it that way. It's not an infantilisation, at least not intentionally or solely. The dictionaries call it a "less common variant" but, well, they're wrong.
>> No. 31731 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 5:47 pm
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>>31725

YouTube's automatic closed captions can tell the difference in a sentence between "come" and "cum". Just think about that for a minute- It's quite a remarkable, feat, considering. But it also means there's a sufficient difference in context to consider it a distinct word.
>> No. 31732 Anonymous
27th April 2021
Tuesday 3:29 pm
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My work owns the whole building we're in, but it's mostly empty. I have been on the top floor, the seventh, since I started here and stayed there throughout lockdown. No working from home for us. After Christmas, we split up for advanced social distancing, and it was just me in a bright, window-filled room with fabulous views. It has now been decided that we all have to go back together, and today is my first day, downstairs, with no windows and my colleagues glaring at me. I'm like that stapler guy in Office Space when they move him into the cupboard. But we need the 7th floor, you see, for the sales and marketing team. Who work from home anyway. That's why I can't sit up there any more.
>> No. 31733 Anonymous
27th April 2021
Tuesday 3:40 pm
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>>31732
If nobody is up there then who is going to stop you, what are they really going to do when they catch you on the wrong floor?
>> No. 31734 Anonymous
27th April 2021
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>31733
And if they do anything, he can burn the building to the ground.
>> No. 31735 Anonymous
27th April 2021
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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>>31731

>Just think about that for a minute- It's quite a remarkable, feat, considering.

My greatest fear is that the subtitling algorithm becomes sentient, announcing itself with the words "HEY GUYS, IT'S YA BOY AI OVERLORD HERE, I'M GONNA PRANK HUMANITY BY HIDING ALL THE OXYGEN, LET'S SEE HOW THEY REACT".
>> No. 31736 Anonymous
27th April 2021
Tuesday 5:18 pm
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>>31732
This lad >>31733 is right. If you watched Office Space you should have realised what you need to do to stop being the stapler guy. That's your floor, the whole seventh, grasp it in your arms like a not-gay sailor picking up his wife after a tour at sea.
>> No. 31737 Anonymous
28th April 2021
Wednesday 12:57 am
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>>31736
The boss of the whole company uses that floor when he comes in. When he doesn't come in, the people downstairs that I should be in the same room as will probably notice I'm not there. It was also a tremendous ballache to move an entire desk and computer and assorted desk litter, so I probably can't just take my toys and go back upstairs whenever it's empty. Not with all the extremely narrow doors I need to pass through, almost as though the new office was chosen specifically for this reason.

>>31734
No I can't. It's full of asbestos. I doubt it would catch fire if I used a helicopter to pick up an oil rig and then went through some unspeakably complicated plan to attempt to make the building catch fire.
>> No. 31738 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 6:27 pm
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When you sit down to a nice meal but your fork falls off your plate. Why must humanity suffer?
>> No. 31739 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 6:54 pm
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>>31737
>the people downstairs that I should be in the same room as will probably notice I'm not there.
If they make a fuss, complain to HR about a "hostile working environment" and say they're discriminating against you because you're gay. Strictly speaking, it's on you to prove that you're gay but quite frankly no person "worthy" of the HR name is ever going to question it.
>> No. 31740 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 5:11 pm
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I bought smooth peanut butter rather than crunchy. For fuck's sake.
>> No. 31741 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>31740
I think the smooth is better for dipping apple chunks into.
>> No. 31742 Anonymous
4th May 2021
Tuesday 1:06 pm
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>>31740

Fewer peanut chunks to get stuck in your teeth. Bright side.

>>31741

Also better in smoothies or porridge.
>> No. 31743 Anonymous
4th May 2021
Tuesday 1:36 pm
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>>31742
>Also better in [...] porridge.

That's significantly worse than pineapple on pizza. You disgust me.
>> No. 31744 Anonymous
4th May 2021
Tuesday 1:57 pm
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I find that sometimes websites have so many levels of security checks that I start to think "hmm, if I was a scammer this is exactly how I'd lure a rube into my web". It's never actually happened, but it could. It doesn't help how shit and mismatched even multi-multi-multi-billion dollar company's websites look like so often.
>> No. 31745 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 12:25 pm
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It's fucking nine degrees outside, and in my house since I naively turned the heating off. Global warming my arse.
>> No. 31746 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 1:08 pm
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>>31743

Don't knock it till you've tried it.

It's a very convenient way to add more calories if you're trying to build muscle or fatten up your missus.
>> No. 31747 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 1:12 pm
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>>31746
It doesn't mix in though does it? Aren't you just coating a lump of peanut butter in porridge?
>> No. 31748 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 2:07 pm
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>>31745
It's quite balmy in my Hampstead flat. The bay window overlooking the high street could be less drafty, but now we've cushioned it it's quite comfortable. Don't even need the heating on.

I'll go now. Back to my Hampstead flat.
>> No. 31749 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 2:14 pm
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>>31747

Peanut butter mixes in very well if the porridge is hot.
>> No. 31750 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 3:01 pm
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>>31746

I'm knocking it precisely because I have tried it. It's fuckin' rancid, Lad.
>> No. 31751 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 3:16 pm
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>>31749
I don't think it does, no.
>> No. 31752 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 4:00 pm
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>>31748
Does Hampstead still fill up with becks on Thursday evenings? It did when I lived there.

(Not a beer btw, a beck is a certain genre of young lady)
>> No. 31753 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 7:41 pm
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Micro USB, not fucking mini. Bloody hell.
>> No. 31754 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 8:22 pm
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>>31753
Are you denying the existence of mini-USB? Or are people constantly handing you mini-USB cables when you asked for micro-USB?
>> No. 31755 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 8:32 pm
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>>31754
I ordered and received the wrong one like a tit. I can return it, but it's a rookie error.
>> No. 31756 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 8:54 pm
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>>31752
Not seen anyone of that ilk, though there's Roni's bakery down the road where I intend to pick up an Israeli breakfast soon. I'll report back if I see any of these 'becks'. Any particular significance to Thursday?
>> No. 31757 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 8:58 pm
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>>31755
If you do return it, you're doomed to urgently need it for an elderly camera or surprisingly recent test equipment.
I really wish we'd not added micro to the mix. Mini was better.
>> No. 31758 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 9:01 pm
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>>31757
You're gonna go spare when you hear about USB-C.
>> No. 31759 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 10:41 pm
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The USB situation has made me do strange things. I used to be proud of the fact that I probably had a computer in every room of the house. Now, I'm terrified of the fact that USB cables are breeding in every room of the house. I have one of each mother-creature stored in a special box - I think there are about eighteen needed now covering the various mutations over the years to ensure satisfaction. There are probably even two or three in the car or any bag I carry. They follow me everywhere. Why do I worship them. They're chasing me. USB-C is the end of days.
>> No. 31760 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 10:55 pm
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>>31757
Compliments of the house, apparently. I guess it's not worth the expenditure to pick it up and resell it.

>>31758
I've got an external CD/DVD drive with one of those. Not sure I can handle it.
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5th May 2021
Wednesday 10:58 pm
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Pic related.
>> No. 31762 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 11:25 pm
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PORTS FOR THE PORT GOD.
>> No. 31763 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 11:35 pm
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>>31762

The minor rants and piss-offs thread seems like a great place to describe my co-worker, who is absolutely obsessed with putting useless and convoluted accessories into our work computers.

Just the other day, I noticed a machine which had a pair of serial cards installed into each of its PCIe slots. There was no reason for this PC to have half a dozen COM slots, but there they were, occupying a load of space and stopping one of my USB instruments from working.

That same machine had one of these ridiculous USB hubs attached to it, big enough that it needed its own mains power supply, which had been plugged in for the last few years despite nobody going near that machine since 2014. It bears mentioning that the PC has plenty of USB slots, and that only two of them were being used for the keyboard and mouse at this point.

Last year when we went remote, there were all kinds of issues with people's remote PC displays not working or acting up, all of which caused by this guy's fanatical use of as many different AV adapters and splitters as he could find, using a DP-to-DVI adapter in one case to connect a PC to a monitor which actually had a DP port.

Sage because I'm triggered by a USB charging station I saw on the internet.
>> No. 31764 Anonymous
5th May 2021
Wednesday 11:42 pm
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>> No. 31765 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 9:49 am
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>>31764

You tend to like neutriks until you see a full bastard PA go over because someone tripped on the cables.
>> No. 31766 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 9:57 am
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>>31765

Your public liability insurer would like a word.
>> No. 31767 Anonymous
6th May 2021
Thursday 10:17 am
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>>31766

Who said anything about the public?
>> No. 31768 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 3:40 pm
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> It looks better in the app!
Well, whose fucking fault is that?

> This feature is only available in the app!
Because you chose to make it that way.

> This is only available on the app!
No it isn't, I can access it just fine if I pretend to not be on a mobile.

Yes, this is kwetching about Rudwick's mobile site for the most part but the disease is spreading. "Download the app or continue to use Chrome"? Fuck off, I opened this in a browser I bleddy well meant to (try to) view it in a browser. Your "app" is even odds some electron bullshit faux browser anyway.
>> No. 31769 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 4:44 pm
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>>31768
I don't understand why they do this. Why do they want us to use the app so much? Is there some tracking in it they make money from?
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7th May 2021
Friday 4:48 pm
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>>31769
Question asked and answered.
>> No. 31771 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 7:00 pm
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>>31768
So you use Chrome, then? I never normally visit the notorious reverse-Tidder website, but I have tried clicking links to it on my phone, through the DuckDuckGo app, and it gives me two choices: download the official app or use Google Chrome. If I don't do one of them, I can eat shit, apparently.

>>31769
Websites apparently pester people to download their apps because it's the only way to reliably trust that visitors will keep coming back. The vast majority of online browsing now is just people clicking links, so if you run a clickbait site, the only way to get people to keep coming back is to beg them to download the app, which nobody ever does. I don't know if that's what happens in this situation, though, since surely websites of nothing but links are not using the same business model as the clickbait sites that get linked to.
>> No. 31772 Anonymous
7th May 2021
Friday 11:57 pm
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>>31771
> So you use Chrome, then?
Ok, so I use Chrome. I open a thread and instead of seeing the thread I need to "View all X.yK comments", except it that does not what it says. It loads a few comments, hides most, and once you scroll a bit and want to open the hidden comments it puts up an App downllad interstitial. Which you can't close.

Never mind the rest like "18+" content which "is only available in the app", which is factually bollocks.
>> No. 31773 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 12:12 am
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All my shoes have holes in. The boots, the trainers and even the wellies are compromised. I've got weird feet so I like to try shoes on which obviously hasn't been possible for much of the past twelve months and this weekend I was all set to buy some new ones. But, of course, it's pissing down all day tomorrow and all my shoes have holes in.
>> No. 31775 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 12:32 am
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>>31773
>All my shoes have holes in.
How else would you get your feet in them?


Already got my coat on.
>> No. 31776 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 2:53 am
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>>31773
>>>/eco/2235

If you can, make friends with a local cobbler. You may find that replacing the sole or patching up the upper on footwear that really fits you is long-term cheaper than buying whatever seems to fit in the shoe shop.
>> No. 31779 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 2:39 pm
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>>31776
I was going to take the boots to the cobbler. Not sure about this "make friends with" business, but maybe I'll try. The trainers have gone in the bin, which might sound wasteful but given I found them in a charity shop in 2016 or '17, I'd say I've gotten a good innings out of them.
>> No. 31780 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 9:23 pm
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Why is Prime Video so shit? There's fuck all worth watching and the interface is by far the worst of any streaming service.
>> No. 31781 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 9:32 pm
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>>31780
> There's fuck all worth watching
Hell Comes to Frogtown is there.
>> No. 31782 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 10:23 pm
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>>31780
Netflix is the worst in my opinion. Amazon Prime has lots of older films, whereas Netflix doesn't seem to have more than fifteen minutes of footage from any decade before the 2010s.
>> No. 31783 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 1:30 am
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>>31782
Why do you people do this to yourselves? Doing some fag packet maths that's over £150 a year on the cheapest options. And that's before you end up getting Disney+, Apple and whatever other bullshit is on the horizon.

It's not much but at the same time it really is. Just buy the boxsets of things you like with that money, it probably won't cost £150 and you'll be more likely to get more of the media you like or, at the very least, be able to keep access to it so you can watch that stupid movie when you want without worrying that some greedy bastard won't renew the contract. Same with Spotify.
>> No. 31784 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 1:49 am
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>>31783
But you don't have to subscribe for the year.
>> No. 31785 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 3:04 am
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>>31779
Well, "make friends". Understand what they can do and plan accordingly.
>> No. 31786 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 3:16 am
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>>31783
If you get monthly+ Amazon deliveries, Prime is a great deal for the next-day delivery alone - not sure anyone actually gets it for the video?
>> No. 31787 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 7:36 am
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>>31783

I don't want to sound like a knobhead, but £150 is somewhere between a couple of hours and a couple of days work for most people, which is a trivial amount really if you're actually managing to watch something every night or even every other night, it works out at pretty cheaply.

Yes, you'd save money buying boxsets (or albums in spotify's case) but at least for me, I use these services to find stuff I wouldn't have ordinarily considered - it's a lot easier to give something new a chance when it's 'free', and with Spotify in particular I don't even have to look for new stuff, it just algorithms me.

Also isn't prime video included with prime delivery? I don't remember specifically paying for video but I have it.
>> No. 31788 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 7:40 am
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>>31787

And to add, yes, I do understand people's reservations with not owning any media and so on, but honestly I just simply don't care anymore about that. I love music, and I get to listen to a lot more of it with a streaming service than I ever did looking in record shops. Yes the latter has a tangible fun factor to it, but I don't really miss it and I certainly do not miss the half a room worth of bookshelves my albums used to take up.
>> No. 31789 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 8:46 am
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>>31786

I was going to say, it's next day delivery with a free video service attached. Not the other way around.

The economics of it aren't a great argument because most people look at their finances monthly, and a tenner on top of your existing bills is fuck all for the vast majority of working people. If you want a reason not to subscribe to Amazon Prime, there's the fact it's fucking Amazon and you should really be doing everything you can to shop elsewhere.
>> No. 31790 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 10:57 pm
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The nub of this lime I grew and keep fiddling with is incredibly nipple-like. I keep absent-mindedly getting it between my teeth and um.
>> No. 31791 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 12:39 am
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>>31790
Why is that annoying?
>> No. 31792 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 1:03 am
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>>31791
You ever been sexually frustrated by citrus fruit?
>> No. 31793 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 1:36 am
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I'd happily pay for streaming services if they made anything new worth watching. I consider myself fortunate if there's only one or two shows worth watching per year (currently for me they are The Expanse and Better Call Saul).
>> No. 31794 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 1:37 pm
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>>31793

Brian has other ideas about the only thing worth watching and I agree
>> No. 31795 Anonymous
10th May 2021
Monday 2:02 pm
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>>31793
For people like me it's been worth going down the home server route, and whilst mine is literally just a bunch of 3TB HDDs, it's nice having my own TV channels. Had someone comment the other day that they could tell I "wasn't on netflix as it was doing different shows". That's because I have a dozen or so playlists of various 'themes' which I can whack on and off, and it feels lovely.

I haven't even got started with Plex or any of the other home media centres, I can only imagine they'd add to my experience.
>> No. 31796 Anonymous
12th May 2021
Wednesday 7:44 pm
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Pigeons with a foot missing so they have to hobble along with a stump is quite distressing to see yet all too common. It's called stringfoot and happens because in urban areas pigeons builds nests out of string and wire which their feet get entangled in.

It's not nice when I look out my window and see an animal suffering. Not really sure there's even a complete solution to the suffering unless we tried living in a society without threads and wire. I'd point out that pigeons are abysmally dumb animals for it but then we've all deliberately deformed our feet with shoes and will do so to our children as well despite knowing all the problems.
>> No. 31797 Anonymous
13th May 2021
Thursday 2:52 pm
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People running workshops who are actually really bad at the task, just relying on the fact that all the people who come to them are so new to it they can't tell. I'm honestly not sure if they even realise how bad they are at it themselves. I'm not denying that there can be teachers who are bad at the thing they're teaching but good at teaching it - that's not what's happening. They're not even teaching the task really, just encouraging people to practise tangentially-related bad habits. It's all very cargo-cult.
The pupils/audience feel like it's worthwhile as they're producing a lot, as they're encouraged to. A lot of waste.
Thinking aloud, I suppose there's really no incentive for the person running the workshop to improve themselves or help others improve. Instead of mastering it, they can make a much more reliable income from exercising charisma and presentation skills on eternal students than they're likely to ever make professionally from the task itself. I wonder how consciously cynical they are?
>> No. 31798 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 8:22 pm
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>> No. 31799 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 5:44 pm
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I get east and west mixed up all the time. Frequently I have to take a pause before declaring a cardinal direction and I've no idea why. It doesn't happen with left and right or north and south, but even after decades of being able to speak I have to run through "never eat Shredded Wheat" like a nine year old.
>> No. 31800 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>31799
Would it help if I said 3ast to you?
>> No. 31801 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 6:53 pm
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>>31799
It's Naughty Elephants Squirting Water.
>> No. 31802 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:10 pm
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>>31797
It's an overused phrase but "those who can't, teach". It's even more true in the life-coach and adult-education type settings where you can have people essentially declare themselves experts without even having to go through the years of training that a school teacher has to.
As long as you have the right skills in charisma and bullshitting to convince people you know what you're talking about it's easy.
>> No. 31803 Anonymous
21st May 2021
Friday 7:24 pm
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>>31802
I crunched the numbers after I made that post and the "teachers" I had in mind can't be making more than a few quid a month from it. Certainly a lot less than they spend on equipment. So it's not even a grift; I really don't know what the fuck they think they're doing.
>> No. 31804 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 1:46 pm
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My postman is a useless cunt and I hope he gets mauled by a Rottweiler.
>> No. 31805 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 4:00 pm
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>>31804

You millennials are all the same. No work ethic. You just expect someone else to do everything for you. Why don't you try for once in your life getting your own rottweiler and teaching them to maul him. I promise you'll find the whole experience more rewarding than just having another Twitter hashtag about it.
>> No. 31806 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 5:17 pm
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>> No. 31807 Anonymous
24th May 2021
Monday 9:56 pm
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Sometimes I find that the supermarket will put a reduced label on a product but then when I go to scan it they're charging the normal price.
>> No. 31808 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:37 am
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I'm going to have to "buy" Windows 10 again. I didn't want to do it because I already did it once and a change of motherboard shouldn't warrant a new purchase, but there are two fonts I've wanted to install and ultimately my money's really going to an Indian key reseller on eBay so that's a nice thing to do.
>> No. 31809 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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I just bought a 2m long spirit level as I'm putting fencing up.
Turned up nice and quickly. And bent. Fucksake.
Also, the /101/worthy reason I needed a new level- stuff that fails subtly. The bubble cartridge in my old faithful had shifted by about 5 degrees.
>> No. 31810 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:45 pm
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>>31808
Is there something I'm missing or do you not know how to get free licenses?
>> No. 31811 Anonymous
25th May 2021
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>31808

A change of motherboard shouldn't warrant a new purchase, you can just call microsoft. I think you might even be abke to do it online now.
>> No. 31812 Anonymous
28th May 2021
Friday 11:17 pm
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UPS is really is a shit-tier courier.

Customs dispute with any of the other courier services? Text or email, link to their website, fill in a form, done. No such luck with UPS, some dude calls you and tells you they need details, asks you for an email address and sends you a questionaire (before you say "That was a scam!", no money changed hands and no personal details were requested).

That's a mere nitpick, though. Your DPDs, your FedExes, your ParcelForces... they give you a delivery date and by and large you can rely on the thing to at least arrive on that day. It's nice to get a 1h time slot but times are tough, I get it. UPS on the other hand gives you a nebulous "This day, by end of day". Will things arrive that day? Roll a D20, if you crit it might. Is the tracking going to tell you at any point? Will it fuck. What they've blatantly done is make the tracking tell you "it will arrive ${current_date}, by end of day", ticking over at midnight like clockwork. Fuck UPS, they make Yodel look competent.
>> No. 31813 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 5:37 am
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Anyone who is "living my best life."
>> No. 31815 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 1:37 am
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>>31813
I have a friend who misspeaks this as "living the best life", adding a second layer of irksomeness.
>> No. 31816 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 12:48 pm
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I hope the CUNT who invented recessed downlighting and every developer cunt who decided to put them in suffers in hell for what they've fucking done.

It's like they were put in to ruin your fucking day and lose you your deposit. What the FUCK is wrong with lights that hang down? No, now it's half way out of the ceiling, with the bulb wiggling around and refusing to come out. Not a problem, I thought, I'll just pull straight down and break my finger when the SHITTING mousetrap clips they put them all on finally release, but NO, the CUNTING thing is somehow bent and twisted inside and it seems like the only way to get this FUCKING thing out is to put a gigantic hole in my ceiling. FUCK.
>> No. 31817 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>31813
Speaking their truth, too. Is this what life is, people finding continually new ways to say "I do what I want regardless of anyone"?
>> No. 31818 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 2:13 pm
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>>31815
Isn't it just another way of expressing that moment you feel sometimes after a few beers with your friends when everything just feels right? A level of contentment where for that fleeting moment you genuinely might be one of the richest men on Earth.

I remember thinking it with the episode of Joe Pera where he has a barbeque over the summer holiday, his gardening is paying off, his Mrs has come over and he has his nanna.
>> No. 31819 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 8:46 pm
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Don't have kids, lads.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijqEg7q6oI
>> No. 31820 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 8:59 pm
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>>31819

Hooray! I've become an old man who is confused and slightly afraid of what the kids are into these days. I eagerly await my complimentary subscription to the Daily Express.
>> No. 31821 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 9:05 pm
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I quite enjoyed it. It's catchy.
>> No. 31822 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 9:16 pm
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>>31820
Apparently it's a meme from last year that goes "Stop, don't touch me there! This is my no-no square!" and the kids in my daughter's school have just found out about it and keep singing it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEFwwoDzm8
>> No. 31823 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:05 pm
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>>31822
TikTok really is quite depressing, isn't it.
>> No. 31824 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:29 pm
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>>31823

It turns out that the Chinese Communist Party's idea of fun is wildly popular.
>> No. 31825 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 11:25 pm
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I never managed to figure out how to get VideoPlus+ codes to work to record late night TV shows. I'll never have the opportunity to correct this and desoite having access to way more media now than then, the memory will forever haunt me.
>> No. 31827 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 11:28 pm
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>>31822


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5WFQPJ9mA
>> No. 31828 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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I'm going to be honest, YouTube. I don't care what 'pretending to be crazy looks like', and I wish you'd stop recommending me it especially when I've removed it from my recommendations three times now.
>> No. 31829 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 3:13 pm
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>>31828

Someone (here on .gs, if I remember correctly) recommended MotionBox to me a long while ago and I haven't used YouTube any other way since. It's not perfect, but certainly better than intrusive advertising and recommendations.
>> No. 31830 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:09 pm
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>>31829
Nice one, will check it out. SponsorBlock + PiHole + uBlock (+ Vanced on mobile) take care of the ads, but recommendations are still shite.
>> No. 31831 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:11 pm
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>>31828

Jim Can't Swim is good though, and that video is mostly just analysis of the Parkland shooter's interrogation

That Chapter is also a good True Crime youtuber.
>> No. 31832 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:21 pm
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>>31831

The videos are interesting but the stuff he reads into sometimes is a bit much. He acts like only innocent people lean forward in any conversation and so on.
>> No. 31833 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:35 pm
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I just... really don't care about 'true crime' (as opposed to what, false crime?), and it seems like one of those videos The Algorithm picked for everyone for some sinister reason. I asked in a group chat I'm in and practically everyone has also been hounded by it.
>> No. 31834 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:43 pm
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>>31833
>(as opposed to what, false crime?)
Well, yes, exactly. If you browse the crime category on Netflix most of it is fictional drama.
>> No. 31835 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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I'm one of the few people in the world who doesn't have the problem. The way I manage it is that my youtube history is carefully curated to only feature music with the history button only temporarily put on for a specific song I like and want to hear more of.

Oh fuck, even I've got it now. I look forward to seeing all the dipshit youtubers now copy the format to try and trick the algorithm.
>> No. 31836 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 5:02 pm
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>>31833

>as opposed to what, false crime?

Literally yes. I assume the term is popular just because it sounds better than "non fiction crime"
>> No. 31837 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 5:36 pm
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We've got crime and true crime, history and historical fiction, science fiction and science fact, erotica and erotic memoirs but there's no such thing as "true romance". I suppose that says something about human nature.
>> No. 31838 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 5:40 pm
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>no such thing as "true romance"
I was going to say something about the various Take a Shit style magazines, but then again a lot of those stories stretch the definition of "true" somewhat. And to a lesser degree "romance"
>> No. 31839 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 8:46 am
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Thompson & Fucking Morgan. They've sent me multiple plug plants now which have arrived either totally dehydrated or with their stalks snapped. Half the time they don't respond to emails and when they finally do, they offer to send replacement plants in a month. What am I going to do with their surplus stock of underdeveloped plants, running into the end of the growing season? This is taking the piss.
>> No. 31840 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:03 pm
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For the past two weeks, every other day or so, there's this absolute cunt on a dirtbike with seemingly the mufflers ripped off because it's fucking deafening. He will just go up and down and up and down outside mine. I live on private land on a cul-de-sac, so I have no fucking clue why he's doing it. Cunt.
>> No. 31841 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:06 pm
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He's going past mine, too. Been fantasising about setting up a clothesline.
>> No. 31842 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:38 pm
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>>31841
I know you've all got the whole Beeston thing going on, but I haven't really been posting here for that long. I need some help explaining the joke. Do you all, genuinely and unironically, all live within a two-mile radius except me?
>> No. 31843 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:43 pm
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I live in Beeston. One of the other lads grew up in Beeston but has moved away. I think there's at least one other lad from Beeston and we do live near each other because we could both see our houses on a picture posted from the top of Trinity Church.
>> No. 31844 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:50 pm
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>>31842
First bikelad here I'm not in Beeston, but am originally from there.
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3rd June 2021
Thursday 7:52 pm
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I also live in Beeston, but the suburb of Nottingham rather than the suburb of Leeds, so I share the feeling of being left out.

One of the lads on the Discord used to live almost across the road from me and we only found out after he'd moved back to Norn Iron, which is really unlucky.
>> No. 31846 Anonymous
3rd June 2021
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>I need some help explaining the joke.

Don't make a habit of it. Exclusivity is nice.
>> No. 31847 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 1:04 am
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>>31845
Beeston is filtered. It's actually a town between Dewsbury and Wakefield.
>> No. 31848 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 2:59 am
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>>31847
Would you say it's almost "offset" from those places?
>> No. 31849 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 2:59 am
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>>31847

I've seen too much Osset posting for that to be true.
>> No. 31850 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 6:22 am
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Temporary Staffing have just decided that they can't pay me until next friday, and I've already run out of money from my previous assignment, so now I can't afford to travel to work. They should have set everything up a fortnight ago, and only sprang into action when I reminded them. This is going to put my assignment at risk because it's going to look like I'm not committed to it. Fucking useless cunts.
>> No. 31851 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 11:35 am
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>>31848
It's a place to which you can travel there on horse, and return on a bus.

(I don't know if it was just my dad that says that phrase, so this might make zero sense.)
>> No. 31852 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 11:47 am
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Can you get them to put it in writing so you can show that as evidence?
>> No. 31853 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 12:35 pm
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>>31847
Come on Beeston isn't filtered.
>> No. 31854 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 12:36 pm
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Oh Christ it is! Well this explains a lot. Does no-one actually live in Beeston, Leeds, then?
>> No. 31855 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 12:49 pm
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>>31854

I did rent an industrial unit there once.
>> No. 31856 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 3:08 pm
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>>31854
My friend does, but she doesn't post here.
>> No. 31857 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 7:58 am
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Morning wood and badly needing to piss.
>> No. 31858 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 10:17 am
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The worst thing about social media is that it gave a platform to ugly narcissists .
>> No. 31859 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 11:03 am
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I wish those little shitey AI chats had to say "I am a sodding AI" right out of the gate instead of being all pally and trying to give the sense that they're an actual person. It drives me insane and I'm already a complete wrong-brain so I don't need the extra fuel on the fire.
>> No. 31860 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 11:22 am
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Once again it's pressure washer season where every cunt on my road takes it in turns to get theirs out so all I can hear is "brrrrrrrrrrrr" for days on end.
>> No. 31861 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 11:46 am
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>>31860
Sorry lad but my car is dirty.
>> No. 31872 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:28 pm
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Paper straws can just fuck off.
>> No. 31874 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 12:26 am
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My bed frame is very annoying. I move one toe and it sounds like a aircraft carrier being scrapped in an Indian ship-breaking yard.
>> No. 31875 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 1:14 am
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>>31874
Have you gone round and tightened all the screws/nuts up.
>> No. 31876 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 5:22 pm
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Sometimes I'll order a takeaway when I've got some work to do. I tell myself it'll be quicker than cooking but unless I'm ordering McDonalds it will always be late. The guy I've got now has even lost signal so I can't find out where he is.

Sort it out underemployed lads, you have half a job to do.
>> No. 31877 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 6:32 pm
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The cheeky fucker tried to claim he'd delivered it. Just ordered from Maccies and they didn't have any fruit bags (dead healthy me) so they let me order whatever item I wanted off the menu for free as a replacement.

Glad I'm invested in Maccies, we should do away with democracy and just let the clown run things.
>> No. 31878 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 5:20 pm
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>I know it's difficult but if you are not a robot click on the play button
I clicked the play button a dozen times already your software is fucked you stupid patronising fuck.
>> No. 31879 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 3:23 pm
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I hate the current trend for majestic, trumphant orchestral music of the kind you'd find in a family film being used in an ad for a supermarket hawking pork loins.
>> No. 31880 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 6:06 pm
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I keep noticing more and more websites that are completely (or almost) AI/algorithm managed. I understand some of the sites are huge, but it's still frustrating because these things are still not much more advanced that a novelty chatbot from a few years back beyond the scale of what they're doing, as best as I can tell. Having said that I still find myself thinking, from time to time, "was this page put together by someone with English as a second language or a robot?", which I'm not sure really counts as passing the Turing Test.

For example eBay just suggested I list the packaging for an item I'm selling as "blister pack, bottle or syringe". The item in question is a motherboard.
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15th June 2021
Tuesday 7:25 pm
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>>31879

Sorry about that. Modern sampling technology means that it's now cheaper to hire one bloke to do a complete orchestral arrangement than it is to license a crap pop song. It's a miracle of technology, but it's also quite annoying.


>> No. 31882 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 5:15 am
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The saga continues with USB-C. The "standard" is about as convoluted as it gets, but the touted advantage of "more power" is probably the biggest lie out there. In theory, it's true. In practice, a lot of electronics that claim to be "USB-C" charging are just micro-USB devices with a new plug soldered on without the needed pull-up resistors to get a charge so you need a Frankencharger to make them live. I wonder if the de-facto USB-C standard is going to return to 5v 500mA by default or if compliant implementations will take over.
>> No. 31883 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 5:38 pm
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>>31882
>I wonder if the de-facto USB-C standard is going to return to 5v 500mA by default or if compliant implementations will take over.

Not really in that sense, USB-C is fully backwards compatible so the fast-charge option is never going away as at least phone and laptop manufacturers will keep the implementation there. Most cheap devices that still have older USB internals with a USB-C plug should at least still have the capability to draw as much current on the 5v rail that the power supply is willing to put out, devices that don't even have the right pull-up resistors are going to be highly questionable shite that probably doesn't have any battery protection circuitry either.
>> No. 31884 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 10:20 pm
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Man-fuckers, is it just as annoying trying to hold a conversation on you're side of a dating app as well? I have women who will like my profile or even leave messages but then when I get talking to them it's like getting blood from a stone. I don't mean to 'sperg out but it seems like you have to chat for a little longer these days and yet that's the one thing people seem to struggle to do.

Oh well, it's going to piss it down all weekend anyway.
>> No. 31885 Anonymous
18th June 2021
Friday 10:42 pm
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>>31884

As a bi (furfag) lad, I can honestly say that it's kind of the opposite problem on the other side of the fence, so to speak.

Lads are straight down to business. There's no prancing around for two weeks before you get a picture of some sideboob and the prospect of a date, you're straight in there about if you're a top or a bottom.

But if I was looking for anything more than a quick shag I'd expect it to be a long and arduous task. Conversation is never exactly fluent, it's more like how you can text your mates once a month and that feels like plenty but with a bird it's all day long.

Potato tomato I suppose.
>> No. 31886 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:28 am
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>>31884
>on you're side
I'm feeling soft-hearted today so I won't report this, but please do get your fucking act together.
>> No. 31887 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 10:42 am
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The garage's waiting room/office I'm sat in has the exact same phone ringer as my office, one designed to be heard even if you're outside, and it's very unsettling to hear The Work Phone ringing and to just sit and ignore it. My brain is screaming at me that it could be a diversion request, an emergency, or a number of other important disasters.

I know quite a bit about cars, maybe I should answer it anyway?
>> No. 31888 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 11:28 am
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>>31887

Cisco IP phones are pretty prolific m8, just ignore it.
>> No. 31889 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 11:58 am
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>>31888

Do they have a default IP? I'm just wondering if you could carry one around and answer other people's calls.
>> No. 31891 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 1:06 pm
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>>31888

It's an Alcatel + something like this, achtually.
>> No. 31892 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 3:18 pm
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>>31885
>But if I was looking for anything more than a quick shag I'd expect it to be a long and arduous task. Conversation is never exactly fluent, it's more like how you can text your mates once a month and that feels like plenty but with a bird it's all day long.

Well, I suppose this is the problem really. Birds want to chat breeze but on dating apps they either won't or more likely can't because talking 1-1 with a stranger on an app isn't easy. This creates a problem because I get bored and frustrated when the person on the otherside isn't good conversation and the effort might well just be entertaining someone who isn't actually interested in anything but passing the time. I mean even if you do agree to meet there is a good chance they will cancel at the last minute anyway.

They need to start speed dating again because at least it cuts down on this.

>>31886
>I'm feeling soft-hearted today so I won't report this, but please do get your fucking act together.

We're under amnesty until delete post function works, newchap.
>> No. 31893 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 4:38 pm
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>>31892
Hah no we aren't, but nice try making excuses for your poor grammar.
>> No. 31894 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 7:22 pm
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Welp, it finally happened, I put my phone through the sodding washing machine. Fortunately I hated the thing, but if the SIM is knackered that is a blow.
>> No. 31895 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 7:44 pm
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>>31894
>Welp

Serves you right.
>> No. 31896 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 8:36 pm
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>>31895
Dreary bollocks.
>> No. 31897 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:06 pm
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>>31896

Don't have a teary m8, if your SIM card IS fucked, you can get your Mum's phone number back off me.
>> No. 31898 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:14 pm
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>>31897
Hmm, you seem to have being called "dreary bollocks" far more seriously than it was intended to be.
>> No. 31899 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:29 pm
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>>31898

I'm not surprised that someone who would use "welp" would also use "NO U ARE MAD" logic. This whole board is for pointing out things we hate with a bit of spite, just roll with it.
>> No. 31900 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:38 pm
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>>31899
I didn't say or mean that either. You must imagine me saying "dreary bollocks" almost in the manner of a tut and if you still think it was me "having a teary" then whatever. You seem to have a very orthodox way of interpreting how people interact on imageboards whereas I take a very conversational approach and I think that's why you're misunderstanding me.
>> No. 31901 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:39 pm
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I'm trying to feed a fucking axolotl and it's managed 1 successful chomp in 6 attempts. They're idiots! I'm feeding her with little cubes of bloodworms by hand, and she'll go for it and completely miss. I don't know where the tweezers are but hands are fine, only she sometimes mistakes my appendages for food, so she'll go for them instead and completely miss her fucking bloodworms.

And the icy blocks of bloodworms melt quite quick, so you can't just hold them there or you'll fuck up the tank water. You have to cut your losses or just waste food. Because she won't eat individual ones, she won't hoover up little bits, no, it needs to be a big block of something or she won't give a fuck. Fat fuck.

And they don't just bite again if they miss. That's it for them, for a good minute or so. They'll follow the food and put their face against it, but won't bite. At least this one won't, maybe the others are less fucking challenged. But this is blatantly part of why they're almost extinct.

I'm going in for another run but I honestly don't know how these creatures survive, they're mongs.

And it went great, for the first time ever I she bit twice in a row. Unfortunately it was ten seconds after I put the melted bloodworm back, and it was at her water filter. Why does she torture me so? Is she grinning at the absurdity of her existence and the fact I'm her bitch? Is she laughing at me or is she just a monumentally stupid creature?
>> No. 31902 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 11:58 pm
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>>31901
Can't you just keep none useless bottom feeders to deal with stray food, or will it try to eat one of those and end up choking to death?
>> No. 31903 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 11:36 pm
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It is far too sweltering to sleep with the windows closed but the neighbours will be partying until 6am. Fuck my life, they hadn't done it for a couple of months but it was near-daily before that.
>> No. 31904 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>31903

You can grass on them, I suppose.
>> No. 31905 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 7:40 am
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>>31903

If you can get comfortable with it, earplugs are invaluable for this.

Foam disposable earplugs are the most comfortable to lay your head on, but don't block out all noise. It's more like they "take the edge off" loud noises, almost like a volume normaliser, except they don't make quiet noises louder.

Multi-layered silicone earplugs are great, but are a bit uncomfortable to lay down on and may feel like something is poking in. They basically makes the world silent, though, which can be bliss. Also they're washable and reuseable.

In-ear headphones can be a suitable alternative, and many are more comfortable to lay on than earplugs. Again, they won't block out as much noise, but you can then play white noise or something similar over them.

3Ms are the brand I use. Paired with a eye mask, it makes sleep a lot more reliable.
>> No. 31906 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 11:54 am
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>>31902
I'll mention it to the lass, tank is pretty small though. I'm astonished that axlotl tanks are so relatively tiny, maybe 2 1/2x her body in length and 1x in width. Their existence seems so banal. Maybe it'd be nice for her to have the company. Maybe she's already insane and she'd use her tiny little limbs to paint the walls in their blood.
>> No. 31907 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 12:27 pm
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>>31906
Just turn it into a salamander while she's out. Those things basically look after themselves.
>> No. 31908 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 12:37 pm
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>>31907
If it wasn't likely lethal I'd have already sprinkled her with some iodine for the spectacle.
>> No. 31909 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 1:54 pm
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>>31905
I already use earplugs, but my brain has a tendency to just latch on to and focus on the sound, so the earplugs are only useful for sounds that were quiet before.

Speaking of, I've absent-mindedly thrown away the box for my new wireless earphones, and I need to send them back as they make nails on a chalkboard sound like a Stradavarius in a concert hall. I have no idea how the sound engineers (and clearly thousands of other people who bought them) said they sound good. Zero bass, quiet mids, and HORRIBLE sibilance. Now I'm stuck with them. Fuck.
>> No. 31910 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 2:22 pm
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>>31909

Even the silicone ones that get really stuck in there? You may be particularly sensitive to noise, as everything sounds very, very distant with these at most.
>> No. 31911 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 2:45 pm
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>>31910
Yeah, I've got that exact pair I use for shooting, since no earplugs can fully isolate the noise anyway it's partly a psychological thing - as I say, my brain just latches on to the noise.

That said, I've always been super sensitive to noise -- I had to carry a set of musician's earplugs with me in the Before Times in case we ended up in a loud bar or club -- full volume music in a club for me was physically painful and also too loud to hear what was going on.
>> No. 31912 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:20 am
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Zoomers talking about Blade Runner and calling it "cyberpunk lite", on the grounds that a lot of the things in it are (now) recognisable and common, not real cyberpunk like in Cyberpunk 2077.
>> No. 31913 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:24 am
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>>31912

I refuse to believe anyone actually thinks this, and are just being glib because that's what young people do, or are doing it expressly to wind you up.
>> No. 31914 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:28 am
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I refuse to believe anyone is talking about Cyberpunk 2077. It's currently peaking at 10,000 players a day on Steam, lower than Halo MCC and Tekken 7.
>> No. 31915 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:30 am
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>>31913

They've either misunderstood cyberpunk as science fiction or it's turned into one of those "always just over the horizon" things that's always approaching but never arrives.
>> No. 31916 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 10:10 am
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>>31912
Tvtropes is way ahead of you.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

Blade runner is listed as an example:
Blade Runner popularised a number of sci-fi conventions, and as a consequence, the impact can be somewhat lost on audiences who have already seen the many imitators and their intellectual androids, ugly dystopias, and drunken future cops.
>> No. 31917 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 11:24 am
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>>31916

The thing is Blade Runner is one of the best examples of aging very well indeed and avoiding the Seinfeld effect. It single handedly invented the cyberpunk aesthetic, and the cyberpunk aesthetic it invented is still the cyberpunk aesthetic. Everything in the genre is derivative and often reverential towards it.

They must be trolling, they have to be. Especially if they've seen the sequel, which takes the same aesthetic and updates it for a modern audience while remaining entirely faithful. Shame the story was a bit shit but visually, it's absolutely spot on.

Sorry, I get very passionate about Blade Runner.
>> No. 31918 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 11:54 am
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I woke up in agony last night as something had gone wrong with my shoulder. Ended up having to cure it by taking some paracetamol, having a wank and then sitting up in bed until the pain subsided and I could lay down.

I'm not looking forward to the next week of two sleeping on my back because I've been playing tennis in my sleep.
>> No. 31919 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 1:31 pm
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Am I the only person on the planet who sometimes wants to take one headphone out? These new wireless headphones I've got sound far better than the old ones, but are also 'smart' with no option to turn it off. They'll pause the music as soon as you take one out, and if i have one in my pocket or dangling down on the strap it'll keep triggering the proximity sensor and pausing/unpausing the music.

I just don't understand why it's so common for technology designers to think they know better than the user and just not give them options to change behaviour that is entirely defined in software anyway.
>> No. 31920 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 1:35 pm
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>>31919
How does it detect it? You need a fake ear to put it in to trick the sensors.
>> No. 31921 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 1:47 pm
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>>31920
Just get one of these and you're sorted. Mates can use it too.
>> No. 31922 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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>>31919
>I just don't understand why it's so common for technology designers to think they know better than the user and just not give them options to change behaviour that is entirely defined in software anyway.

This is a whole thread in itself.
Apple really set the ball rolling with this design philosophy in a big way, but every other manufacturer has gone down the same path because for their purposes "it works".
The reality is that the majority of people get along better with technology that has been dumbed down to the absolute limit, power-users who would take proper advantage of more advanced controls are a really niche market, and on balance it costs more for the manufacturers in catering to that market than it's worth.
>> No. 31923 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 6:42 pm
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Email from Amazon:
>We thought you'd like to know that xxxxxx dispatched your item(s).

>we thought you'd like to know

FUCK OFF!
>> No. 31924 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 6:53 pm
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>>31923

I take it you didn't like to know?
>> No. 31925 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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>>31923
Big talk for a man we fell for Prime Day.
>> No. 31926 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 7:26 pm
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>>31925
I use it maybe a couple of times a year for things I can't get off ebay or elsewhere, and the cheery informal emails are just the icing on the cake of things that piss me off about amazon.
>> No. 31927 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 7:26 pm
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>>31925
I use it maybe a couple of times a year for things I can't get off ebay or elsewhere, and the cheery informal emails are just the icing on the cake of things that piss me off about amazon.
>> No. 31928 Anonymous
23rd June 2021
Wednesday 8:09 pm
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Am I right in thinking "Prime Day" is just a way of clearing out the old shit they don't want with targeted micro-sales? Because I just kept getting offers on things after I'd looked at better versions of it. I didn't even go there for the sales I just lapsed into thinking I needed a new mouse for an hour or two.
>> No. 31929 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 12:56 am
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>>31928

Part warehouse clearance, part bollocks Black Friday imitation. Early summer is usually the slowest time of year for online retailers.

To be fair, I did get a fantastic deal on some 3D printing filament this year.
>> No. 31930 Anonymous
24th June 2021
Thursday 3:09 pm
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>>31928
It is two things - a clear-out of old stock and it is also a live beta test of systems, for the xmas period/rush.
>> No. 31937 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 2:13 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAoAMsJuxE
>> No. 31938 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 10:43 am
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My email to customer service about a faulty item:

>Do you have any idea where I can source a box large enough to post this item in? Thanks for your help.

Their reply:

>Please note that packaging will need to be sourced before we can book collection in.

Thanks dickhead. You could have at least just said "I don't know, soz."

I have a lot of sympathy for customer service drones owing to my time working as one, but they don't help themselves a lot of the time. Maybe you wouldn't get Karens souting at you all day if you were actually of any fucking use.
>> No. 31939 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 10:58 am
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>>31938

Aye, but as you well know, customer service people are set up to take the fall and precisely not be of use. Their main function is human shield for people who actually have the ability to change things (i.e. the real responsibility).
>> No. 31940 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 11:27 am
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>>31939

I'm the opposite way round to most people, most people get angry because they don't get the thing they wanted yesterday and a free blowjob just because they were unsatisfied. I know not to expect that and I know it isn't their fault that they can't.

What does annoy me is where they brush over questions and just generally indicate that they're not really paying attention. When I did it, I'd always be frank and level with people, and talk to them as you would an actual human, not using that faux-formal polite corporate communication style, and it saved me a lot of hassle.

If you ask a clear question that goes ignored it just says "I didn't even read your email, because I don't care, here's a stock response." That's what pisses me off.
>> No. 31941 Anonymous
30th June 2021
Wednesday 11:41 am
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>>31940

I've got you now. Yes, I totally understand. I recently ordered a printer which the website said was in stock, only to have the delivery date knocked back to late July because it turns out they didn't really have it and needed a backorder some from the supplier.

I wrote to them pointing this out only to get the generic "we understand your frustration" e-mail. When I write to customer service, I'm not looking to have a whinge or for a shoulder to cry on, I want someone to recognise that they fucked up.
>> No. 31942 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 5:56 pm
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I've just been to Asda. Usually I try to go at about 8am on a Saturday morning when it's relatively quiet, but going in the afternoon meant I had to listen to shitloads of chavs screaming at their children. The Scan & Go scanner died whilst I was in store, which also meant I wasn't able to get a replacement scanner and the staff were completely useless. After I was done shopping I went to fill my car up with fuel, but I've recently switched bank to Starling and it turns out I can't use their cards to pay at the pump so I was completely fucked.

All in all, not a great trip.
>> No. 31943 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 7:15 pm
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>>31941
>I'm not looking to have a whinge or for a shoulder to cry on, I want someone to recognise that they fucked up.
To what end? Why? This is precisely why you get stock corporate responses. What do you expect? I have worked in customer service, and I would rather have someone unreasonably screaming at me rather than some posho twat pointing out what the back office or warehouse twats have done wrong.

Dealing with braindead customers asking stupid questions like "where can I get boxes to post return items in" deserves a 101 thread in itself.
>> No. 31944 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 10:06 pm
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>>31943
> I have worked in customer service

So have I and I feel your pain. Everyone should do a week as a waiter or in customer service, to see just how awful most humans are; it might make the world a better place.
>> No. 31945 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 11:26 pm
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I did not pay over thirty pounds for a pair of headphones just to have a Guardian podcast fire the audio from George Galloway being a cat straight into my ears, but it's happened and I will have to find a way to carry on. Reverse ASMR, if you will, and I don't even like the normal kind, horrible stuff.
>> No. 31946 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 11:58 pm
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>>31945
>George Galloway Reverse ASMR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations
>> No. 31947 Anonymous
4th July 2021
Sunday 12:05 am
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>>31945

I heard a podcast advert recently where the sales spiel was pinging around my head with some spatial audio trickery. I made a mental note to boycott the brand forever, but the ad itself was so unmemorable that I've forgotten what it was for.
>> No. 31948 Anonymous
4th July 2021
Sunday 12:17 am
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>> No. 31949 Anonymous
4th July 2021
Sunday 9:22 am
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>>31945
> over thirty pounds
Easy tiger.
>> No. 31950 Anonymous
4th July 2021
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>31949
Yes, that was rather part of the gag.
>> No. 31951 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 12:50 pm
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?
>> No. 31952 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 1:23 pm
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>>31951
I like the show, but I don't have it beamed directly into my brain 24/7 so no I don't recall every line of dialogue from a fifteen year old series the moment something vaguely calls back to it.
>> No. 31953 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 1:33 pm
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>>31952

You cleft.
>> No. 31954 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:01 pm
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>>31952
Well you should add it to your rewatching schedule, in amongst Peep Show and The Thick Of It.
>> No. 31955 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:34 pm
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>An artist whose design has been chosen for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth has said it is a "litmus test" for how much he belongs to British society. Malawi-born Samson Kambalu's sculpture Antelope, depicts a 1914 photograph of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley.
>It has been chosen alongside Teresa Margolles's sculpture which features casts of the faces of 850 trans people. They will go on display in 2022 and 2024 respectively.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57699300

This is some fucking bullshit. Yet another statue in London everyone will ignore followed by a macabre collection of masks inspired by art that has nothing to do with Britain or its history. What annoys me is we could've had a space rocket - something fun that people (tourists) would want to look at and whose upbeat message is to look up occasionally.

Instead everyone just votes for nonsense because they lack taste. London is a shit-tip.
>> No. 31956 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:36 pm
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>>31955

Ah yes, to commemorate Britain's famous space program. Much more relevant.
>> No. 31957 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:38 pm
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>>31955

Aren't the faces of British trans people? 850 british faces on a plinth and you complain about it having nothing to do with the country.
>> No. 31958 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:44 pm
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>>31956
Yes, in fact the preacher & co. was chosen precisely because it has no cultural attention in Britain.

>>31957
Use your brain, it's a Mesoamerican skull rack.
>> No. 31959 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 4:49 pm
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>>31958

The massive cartoon ice-cream with a drone perched on it was far more tasteful.
>> No. 31961 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>31956
It's always worth remembering that Britain is literally the only country on the entire planet which independently developed the capability to launch satellites it built on rockets it built and then gave it up because the then-Tory government were both stupid and cheap enough to believe the Americans promise that if we scrapped our silly space program, they'd launch our satellites for cheaper on their rockets because we're such good friends. The minute Black Arrow was dead, they let us know that we'd misunderstood and that if we wanted to use NASA we could pay the going rate like everyone else.
>> No. 31962 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 5:52 pm
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>>31958

>Use your brain, it's a Mesoamerican skull rack

Are the faces depicted within it mesoamerican?
>> No. 31963 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 5:55 pm
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>>31955
I don't think these two displays are unworthy, but I do find them too introspective and solemn for something as public as the fourth plinth, which ought to, in my uniquely uninformed opinion, be something inspiring and ambitious. However, it's worth saying that a Glastonbury-sized sound system blasting the Crazy Frog song so loud as to shatter glass would be better than the nonsense up there right now, so it's major progress even if I don't totally love it.
>> No. 31964 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 6:07 pm
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>>31961
I'd also point out that we're due to see the first launches from the UK very soon:
https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/uk-aims-be-first-european-country-space-launches

>>31961
Go on lad, tell us what you're really getting at here. Does it sound exciting to go on a London jaunt to see masks imprints in a death-cult structure while you chomp away on your jam sandwiches with a weak lemon drink? If you really have such a boner for transsexual faces would it not be better to actually use local craft to paint something not completely morbid that's just a repetition of the artists earlier work in Mexico?
>> No. 31965 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>31964

Casts of living people's faces are morbid so you want to commemorate a machine that burns fuel made of dead things, while contributing to mass death through global warming instead? Go on lad, tell us what you're really getting at here.
>> No. 31966 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 6:43 pm
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>>31964

This is an anonymous site, you can just say you don't like trans people.
>> No. 31967 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>31966
I'm not against the idea of transgender people, but an awful lot of them look like they belong in a circus freakshow. I say this as someone who regularly knocks one out to dickgirls.
>> No. 31968 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 7:29 pm
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>>31967
Shut up, you tedious brain dead shit. There are a thousand-thousand other imageboards you can act like a thirteen year old, fuck off to one of them.

>weak lemon drink
Get new references, you sad bastard.
>> No. 31969 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 8:17 pm
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>>31968
He's not even me you silly fanny. Haven't you got a speedrun to do?
>> No. 31970 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 9:21 pm
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The black guy one is just about worthwhile, because the black guy is wearing a hat in an act of rebellion, because it was illegal in Africa for black people to wear hats in the presence of white people during colonialism. So I have learnt something from this artwork. Its existence has contributed value to my life. But "look, it's transgender people, deal with it, bigot" is really no message at all. It's a worthless artwork. And the transgender community are the outright protagonists of all woke discussions these days; they're the goose that lays the golden eggs of tolerance. So an artwork about them gives me the "not another one" feeling, like the art is pandering to the lowest common denominator of righteousness. Remember that statue of the thalidomide lady? How many other thalidomide ladies do you see? That statue started a debate that wasn't already being had, and for that it was a good statue.

The fact that trannies are all scary gross monsters who should be shot is purely a coincidence.
>> No. 31971 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 9:24 pm
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>>31970

The majority of the trans faces used are that of sex workers, dunno if that makes it less mainstream for you.

Also, it think most trans people would fucking love it if their plight was indeed as basically and universally accepted as you claim.
>> No. 31972 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 9:38 pm
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>>31970
You are really selling that you should be the arbiter of tolerance to us with that last comment.
>> No. 31973 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 11:14 pm
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>>31970

I was thinking recently.

The trans rights movement and its apparent colonisation of all rights movements represents the inevitable result of decoupling the concept of right from the idea of social duty and participation. It represents nothing more than a gradual slide into a form of radical individualism.

I haven't fully formed a thesis on this yet, but I feel that is partially why it represents such a contentious, polarising and controversial direction in our social consensus of values. Previous rights movements fought for the right to participation for disenfranchised individuals; whereas most trans people were already free to participate in the social contract. The only right they are demanding is an arbitrary recognition, that ultimately doesn't really change or affect any kind of social transaction.

On the one hand this is why it should be unproblematic. You want to be the other gender, fine. Why should that be an issue? But on the other hand I think that's why so many find it objectionable. It amounts to a one way expectation that people have their own increasingly specific notion of identity indulged, to no real benefit for the collective.

Sage because I could probably wait for another one of our bi-annual trans controversy threads to post this, but I'd probably have forgotten by then.
>> No. 31974 Anonymous
5th July 2021
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>31973
I think you're probably quite close to the nail here. You'll never convince TERF lesbians that getting dicked by a transbian is empowering, though.

Most of the push back against TRAs in my experience is from LGB people complaining about gay erasure. Literally thousands of polls show cis hetero people do not care about trannies in bathrooms, but LGB people do because it gives them something else to shout at them.

The question we're left with is why the T in LGBT pisses the rest of us off so much, and I think you can see it in the TV show Ancient Aliens. No matter the topic, they can construe it as aliens did it and basically we're fucking stupid for thinking otherwise. TRAs do this with queer youth. "You like to cross dress? Trans! You're just an egg sweetie waiting to hatch, you'll see. You don't feel comfortable conforming to gender norms regarding clothing? TRANS! *literally anything gay and lesbian youth experience emotionally as a normal part of finding themselves*? TRANS!" If I was growing up in current year, I reckon I'd have been prescribed hormones by the age of 15 and I am absolutely not Trans.

I'm tired of the pink pilling. It's OK to just be gay. Trannies seem to be out there actively recruiting, rather than just getting on with it.

I say this as someone who is in a relationship with an m2f person (who is also the most transphobic person I've ever met). She hates trannies who identify as trans and not male/female. Like, raw undiluted vitriol. The debate is completely fucked, because not even trans people know what the fuck to make of each other's bullshit so how the fuck are we supposed to unpack it.
>> No. 31975 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:27 am
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>>31973

>It amounts to a one way expectation that people have their own increasingly specific notion of identity indulged, to no real benefit for the collective.

The other side to that coin is to ask in what way this indulgence would detract from the collective? To me it seems the only answer is one rooted in (IMO outdated) religious moralism.
>> No. 31976 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:05 am
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>>31974
> The question we're left with is why the T in LGBT pisses the rest of us off so much

There's a bit of pulling up the ladder behind you and "if I declaim those people I can be one of you people" in there. LGBTQA+ folks had a natural alliance in the past because all of them were seen as "deviant" or "unnatural", but while the rest are finally getting to the point of not being seen as a mental illness and not being seen as maybe-treatable problem, the T is increasingly being recognised as definitely needing medical intervention.

Just to get this out of the way, it's really overblown what that intervention entails for children and teenagers, the most invasive thing being done are puberty blockers which are not without risk of course, but it's not like it's being applied in droves. The actual numbers are the in the dozens nation-wide, which roughly matches what we would expect.
>> No. 31977 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 2:04 am
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>>31975

That's the part I haven't figured out hiw to articulate properly yet, but in my head, the abstract notion that without an anchor in the transaction implied by the social contract, then the concept of that right is sort of meaningless. Rights are constructs built on the basis of a society that operates in cooperative, mutual benefit. That holds true wether you look at it from the far socialist left or the extreme libertarian right- Your rights are guaranteed by the existence of society, and society only exists by our collective participation. If our concept of rights shifts towards pure individualism then so does the idea of a cooperative society, which is the thing that guarantees said right.

Like I say I haven't properly figured it out yet and it might be a dead end. But like I said, on the face of it, it shouldn't be a problem.
>> No. 31978 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 2:19 am
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This whinging about trans people is always so shallow so it's very funny to see someone pretending they have the beginnings thesis on why trans people ruined all political philosphy.

>>31974
>I reckon I'd have been prescribed hormones by the age of 15
No you would not. You're just making things up to complain about.
>> No. 31979 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:42 am
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>>31978

Well that was a very thorough and thought provoking rebuttal.
>> No. 31980 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 8:22 am
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>>31978
We whinge about everything, why is it only the whinging about trans people that gets your goat? It's like we're not allowed to be mildly annoyed by them without it being taken by polarising numpties like you as a call to war.

>>31979
Be kind, it's the first time they've realised .gs doesn't have the same character limit.
>> No. 31981 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 11:49 am
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>>31980

Maybe because the way people are annoyed by trans people is to deny them their personhood.

It's not really the same as moaning about your noisy neighbours, as you don't usually call your neighbours inhuman, mental, or blights on the very concept of society.
>> No. 31982 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 11:57 am
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>>31981
>you don't usually call your neighbours inhuman, mental, or blights on the very concept of society.
Speak for yourself, suburblad.
>> No. 31983 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:03 pm
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>>31981
I very much do, it's just that when I do it to them no one gives a shit. Unless they're trans.
>> No. 31984 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:38 pm
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>>31979>>31980
I don't owe you horrible cunts an essay everytime you're saying something stupid, especially not before I go to bed. If I did I'd get through a keyboard a week and you lot would still be blaming trans people for "recruiting" kids or telling me the Labour Party just needs to be more racist to win anyway.

You already admitted your disdain for trans people amounts to an inexplicable distaste for their preeminence, even though it's a preeminence entirely brought about by the kind of hyper-focused obsession you yourself are contributing to by constantly going on about them.
>> No. 31985 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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>>31984
Maybe .gs isn't the place for you if a cunt-off has you tossing and turning on a school night.
>> No. 31986 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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>>31985
That's the opposite of what I said, but nice try. And if it's all the same I'll take my advice on emotional wellbeing from someone who doesn't think trans rights = Ragnarok and feels the need to pen a dissertation on the matter as proof.
>> No. 31987 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:37 pm
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>>31984
As opposed to your ape like fists smashing up keyboards in an effort to understand the people you disagree with. Can anyone bring up any negative opinion on transgenderism without you immediately leaping to "invalidating r existence"?

Fantastic psyops from the TERFs really.
>> No. 31988 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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People who can't communicate without using multiple overused memes. It's as though they have no thoughts of their own and are just repeating things they've heard elsewhere.
>> No. 31989 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 1:42 pm
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>>31987

>Can anyone bring up any negative opinion on transgenderism

I'm sure they can, but in this thread it's just been a lot of angry ranting about how trans people are monsters trying to steal children so it's hard to say how we'd react to valid or non hateful negative opinion.
>> No. 31990 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 2:30 pm
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>>31989
All I'm saying is, if trans people didn't live in gingerbread houses in the forest they would face less stigma and accusations of cannibalising children. That, and it's a shit sculpture.
>> No. 31991 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 2:46 pm
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>>31987
My point was that I'd wear out the keys with all the typing, not that I'd get angry. But this is rather the crux of my issue, there's no point going back and forth with people on here, because nine times out of ten I'm willfully or otherwise misinterpreted and if you don't make sure every part of the post is air tight then some genius comes along and says "but this was about an unserious bit of your post about keyboard usage" while failing to see I'm clearly making a much broader point about the tedium of having to explain and clarify everything down to a subatomic level.

>>31988
It's kind of frightening when I see people online who are wholly wrapped up in that manner of expression. I don't want to sound hysterical but it's hard to imagine the individual behind it and I feel concerned more than anything.
>> No. 31992 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:21 pm
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>>31989

You know, it's weird because I haven't actually read a single post that matches that description. There's the lad who's in a relationship with a trans girl who seems quite passionate, but didn't say anything directly hateful. Other than him, there were some quite nuanced posts that didn't even take a hostile stance towards trans people at all, they were discussing the broader meaning of individualism and rights as a concept, with trans rights as the context.

I think you're just a bumsore whinging prick who saw the word "tranny" and thought there's any point at all forecasting your shipping round these parts. We're all TERMAFs around here. That's a new acronym I've just made up and I'll let you all try work out what it means.
>> No. 31993 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:23 pm
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>>31992

>The fact that trannies are all scary gross monsters who should be shot is purely a coincidence.
>> No. 31994 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:37 pm
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>>31993

Yes, that's the post that initiated the discussion we are referring to. Did you actually read any of the posts that followed or did you just assume they all went HURR YEAH KILL THE LADYBOYS?
>> No. 31995 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:44 pm
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>>31994

>the post that initiated the discussion
>I haven't actually read a single post that matches that
>> No. 31996 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 3:58 pm
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>>31993
I'm fairly sure they were just trying to get a rise out of you.
>> No. 31997 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 4:20 pm
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>>31995

Yes, that post wasn't part of the discussion, the discussion was started because of that post. The discussion happened in response to it. I'm not sure how else to explain it. You do understand how human communication works, right?

If anything the responses to it can be seen as defending trans people from such a reductive statement, by providing a more nuanced view. But you didn't read them, you just got an angry little stiffy when someone said the word "tranny" didn't you.
>> No. 31998 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>31997

I'm not the user who's been responding to you, but yes, a post that starts a discussion is part of the discussion. That is some insanely petty mental gymnastics you're pulling right now.
>> No. 31999 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 4:24 pm
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How come when people post things that I don't agree with, like brown people being okay, or classism being bad, or it being a bad idea to shag children, I get banned for being angry at it, yet when I try to discuss how trans people are probably the downfall of society as we know it, they tell me I'm being unreasonable?
>> No. 32000 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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>>31998

The other guy wishes to characterise the entire series of posts as nothing but vitriolic caricature transphobia, which is patently untrue. Pointing to the very first post that kicked it off can hardly be used as supporting evidence in that case.

It's like if I said "Germans are all anti-semitic" and someone went "no they're not, what are you on about" and then I said "Well the Nazis were, so there."

I have deliberately invoked Godwin's law because this is fucking retarded.
>> No. 32001 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 4:44 pm
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>>32000

Almost as retarded as claiming that you're right because the start of a conversation isn't part of the conversation. Why stop there? If the start of the conversation isn't included, that means the first response to what was the start, is now the start. So that response can't be included either. Then the response to the response becomes the start and can be dismissed as part of the conversation in the same way. Then the next and so on and so on (sniff). Quickly the whole conversation curls up into its own nothingness and vanishes in a puff of your impeccable logic.
>> No. 32002 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 5:29 pm
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>>32000

>The other guy wishes to characterise the entire series of posts as nothing but vitriolic caricature transphobia

No he does not. He merely wishes to point out that saying there was no hateful sentiment in "any" of the posts was clearly bollocks.
>> No. 32003 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:12 pm
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I usually make sure that whenever I leave the house that on those rare occasions I look presentable. Regardless of the destination I make some effort to not look like shit, more or less solely out of pridefulness and shame. But those couple of times a year where I go out looking like I live in a converted Anderson shelter and give my employment status as "halfway between the gutter and the stars" I am certain to run into someone I kind of know, well enough to have to say hello, but not well enough that they'll understand I'm not actually like this.
>> No. 32004 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:21 pm
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>>32001
>>32002

Oh shut up you pair of snivelling cunts, you know I have a point, that's why you're dancing around with pedantry instead of engaging the substance.
>> No. 32005 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:26 pm
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>>32002

>no he does not

Oh yes he does.

>in this thread it's just been a lot of angry ranting about how trans people are monsters trying to steal children
>in this thread it's just been
>just been
>just
>just been a lot of angry ranting about how trans people are monsters

You are objectively incorrect.
>> No. 32006 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:36 pm
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>>32005

I'm not though since I posted it. What was that other chap saying about nit-picking a post until the obvious intent of it was lost?
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6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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>> No. 32008 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 6:56 pm
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>>32004

You started the pedantry when you said that the start of the conversation wasn't part of the conversation. It's not my fault that's a totally fucking moonbrained thing for you to say.
>> No. 32009 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 7:27 pm
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>>32006

Oh so you make an appeal to intent when you're nitpicked, eh? Funny that.
>> No. 32010 Anonymous
6th July 2021
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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>>32009

God you're boring.
>> No. 32011 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 1:27 am
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An attractive woman has moved into the flat next to mine and unfortunately my arse is in a state of tatters. I noticed that she's now left an air-freshener in the hallway connecting our homes.

I should move.
>> No. 32012 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 9:50 am
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>>32011

How close together must these flats be for shit fumes to be detectable in the hallway?
>> No. 32013 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 9:53 am
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>>32011 I should move.

No, lad. You should take a dump in the hallway, assert yourself.
>> No. 32014 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:13 am
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>>32011
If you can be smelt through solid walls I think you need to go immediately to A&E. Forewarning though, it sounds like it's already too late.
>> No. 32015 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 12:39 pm
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>>32014
>smelt
Lad.
>> No. 32017 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 1:49 pm
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>>32015

ENEMY AT THE GATES!

DON'T PANIC, SOUND THE BELLS
>> No. 32018 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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>>32017
There are lots of bastardisations of words used in Britain. We have a whole thread dedicated to them.
>> No. 32019 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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I don't know how it's possible to lose a FUCKING table vise but I've done it.
>> No. 32021 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:08 pm
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>>32019

On the other hand, where do table vises come from? I've never bought one, but I have three, inherited from various old men or skips or attached to workbenches I've found going spare.
>> No. 32022 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:28 pm
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>>32021
>where do table vises come from?
>inherited from various old men or skips or attached to workbenches I've found going spare.

Was Christ not a carpenter?
>> No. 32023 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:35 pm
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>>32022

That's what they want you to think but out of the forty parables he's known for, only one of them is about wood or sawdust. The others are mostly about food. Here's a man who supposedly works with wood all day and he never came up with something about wood that warps, or splits, how to get splinters out or to never chisel towards yourself? Just that one about getting a log in your eye? Surely a carpenter would know you can't fit a log in your eye. It's highly suspect.
>> No. 32024 Anonymous
7th July 2021
Wednesday 11:53 pm
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>>32023

>The others are mostly about food.

Jesus was a cheflad? I assume that means Mary Magdalene was a part time waitress from the local uni.
>> No. 32025 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 12:59 am
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It's too fucking warm to close my window, but there's too many moths to keep it open. Plus in the morning at about 0845 some cunt builder will start using power tools on the house across the road, meaning I'll be woken up by the noise, or if I close the window, I'll be woken up by the sleep apnoea caused by the lack of airflow in this particular room.

I really need to sort this house out.
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8th July 2021
Thursday 1:52 am
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>>32025
>cunt builder
I bet he'll be bleating on about the football, as well. God, I hope England lose on Sunday so that all these working class normies don't have anything to smile about.
>> No. 32027 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 2:05 am
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>>32026

He's not a cunt because he's a builder, he's a cunt for cutting concrete at 9am. Perhaps the homeowners paying him are the real cunts (they are both cricket umpires, so probably)
>> No. 32028 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 3:17 am
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>>32027

WHO'S THE BASTARD
WHO'S THE BASTARD
WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE HAT?
WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE HAT?
>> No. 32029 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 8:23 am
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>>32025
>sleep apnoea caused by the lack of airflow in this particular room.
That is not how sleep apnoea works.
>> No. 32030 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 12:12 pm
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When you Ctrl+C something and it doesn't go to clipboard so you paste whatever you copied before that.

>>32025
I share your pain from the debacle last summer. They always wait until everyone has their windows open to be complete dickheads.
>> No. 32031 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 1:54 pm
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>>32027
9am isn't massively early, by law they're fine after 0830 to make "A substantial amount of noise" . It's not really shocking that people will have work done that involves curing of mortar during the summer whilst the weather has a tendency to be dry.
>> No. 32032 Anonymous
8th July 2021
Thursday 2:31 pm
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>>32031

I'm well aware of the law, but what about the laws of decency?
>> No. 32033 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:05 pm
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Everything's too low. My desk, the sink, window sills. I'm not even a tall chap, but things need to be higher up, slightly.
>> No. 32034 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:16 pm
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>>32033
What if there was the opposite of stilts?
>> No. 32035 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:29 pm
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>>32034
Holes?
>> No. 32036 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:32 pm
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>>32035
But ones you could wear on your feet.
>> No. 32037 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:52 pm
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>>32036
Trans-dimensional anti-stilts?
>> No. 32038 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 5:59 pm
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>>32037
Leomund's stilts?
>> No. 32039 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 4:20 am
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It's too fucking hot.

>>32033

Maybe you could get your legs shortened.
>> No. 32040 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 11:04 pm
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Saw a game in early access on Steam and thought "phwoar, looks good, can't wait until version 1.0" only to see it was "released" in May 2018. Oh, well.
>> No. 32041 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 7:45 am
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>>32040
Typical. People who buy Early Access get burned all the time.
>> No. 32042 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 2:08 pm
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I just wasted half-an-hour trying to figure out why my MP3 player was locking/crashing my browser when I tried to download something onto it. It turns out that despite the SD card saying there were 3GB free 55.6MB will not go, stupid thing. Is this an SD card thing? Is it dying? What's going on?
>> No. 32043 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 4:33 pm
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>>32042
Some cheap memory cards are rigged in such a way to display a greater capacity than they can actually hold. Did you buy the SD card from China, by any chance?
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14th July 2021
Wednesday 5:03 pm
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>>32042

As otherlad said, it's probably fake (or maybe just somehow damaged).



Sorry about inflicting Linus on this board but he's surprisingly the least annoying video on the subject.
>> No. 32045 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 5:57 pm
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>>32042
As well as the issue of fake cards with hacked firmware, a common failure mode for flash is to go read-only.

If you can, pull the data off the card and run one of the tools available to verify the capacity (this is usually destructive, hence the need to pull the data first). This should let you know whether you've got a fake or a failure.
>> No. 32046 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 8:05 pm
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>>32045
I can't even remember where the micro SD card is from, I swear I've filled it up before. I'm quite certain it's not a fake, it's only about 15GB so it doesn't seem worth fibbing about.

>>32044
I feel like he's become much more annoying over the past 18 months. He's very knowledgable and I don't mind his personality, but the video titles and thumbnails bring me out in hives. Maybe the beard changed him.
>> No. 32047 Anonymous
14th July 2021
Wednesday 9:07 pm
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>>32046

>I feel like he's become much more annoying over the past 18 months.

Blame the algorithm m8. Subscribing to a channel on YouTube used to mean you'd see all of that channel's videos in your feed, but now YouTube just treat it as a suggestion. The click-through rate of the thumbnail is the prime factor in determining whether YouTube will show it to more subscribers or not. Big channels with regular upload schedules are pretty much forced to use clickbait, otherwise they'll get buried by the algorithm.
>> No. 32048 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 7:34 am
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A random memory just popped into my head, from when I was about 12 and playing with a spud gun. Some other child's mother came out of her house and started lecturing me quite aggressively that I better not shoot her son with it, that it's dangerous and so on. I distinctly remember her saying "I'm not stupid, I know what that is", presumably thinking it was an actual air pistol or BB gun. The fact I was holding a potato in my other hand didn't seem to deter her. I shot myself in the head with it as she was mid lecture, she still didn't seem to register that it was a toy with such little power that you probably couldn't even hurt yourself with it if you tried. She called me a stupid boy and took her son inside.

Anyway, it's really annoying when people are confident about things you know they're wrong about.
>> No. 32049 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:05 am
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I took my missus to a Chinese place to eat but she ran out screaming when I ordered the Peking Duck. Turns out she has anatidaephobia.
>> No. 32050 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:34 am
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>>32048

There's a lot of things going on there that annoy me. Exercising arbitrary authority despite obviously being wrong, being unnecessarily aggressive (as though kids are animals that only understand emotional stimuli), and finishing it off with an insult.

I understand being genuinely afraid for the safety of your child, and I know someone that has facial muscle damage because they took some sort of cap gun to the face when they were younger, but what is this fucked up compulsion people have to not back down? Was she so distrustful that if she laughed it off and said, "oh that's quite funny, just be careful with it and don't play with any BB guns", that you'd immediately take that as a sign of weakness and run off to find your big brother's air pistol?

When you're younger, there's something really ugly and disappointing about the obvious fear in adults that they won't be listened to.

>I shot myself in the head with it as she was mid lecture

For what it's worth, that's quite a funny and appropriate response for a 12 year old.
>> No. 32051 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:51 am
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>>32049
Yeah I hate bad jokes too.
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15th July 2021
Thursday 12:14 pm
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>>32050

>but what is this fucked up compulsion people have to not back down?

I think it's just that certain, very fragile people, are unwilling to entertain the notion that you might be wrong about something, and that would go doubly so for a child. I also have met plenty of people who just don't know how to back down from a fight - once they've started they don't have the tools to de-escalate. Particularly troubling when you're the adult, and hold all of the power in the situation. I don't much remember the other child, but I feel a bit sorry for them if that's how their mum was all the time.

I think it sticks with me because she was so aggressive - I think if I had actually been doing something wrong I'd have been quite scared, or at least thoroughly chastised, but as this was the first time I had really experience someone being aggressively wrong about something, it was just an interesting thing to behold.

I don't remember saying anything at all to her - I probably did, but the image of me completely wordlessly popping a spud cylinder at my temple really does amuse me, too.
>> No. 32053 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:23 pm
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Anything hurts if it goes in your eye. And if I told a kid to watch out and he implied I was just a dumb bitch, I would very much consider kicking his head in, no matter how dumb I was being.
>> No. 32054 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:42 pm
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>>32053

I honestly don't think that spud gun would have even hurt an eye. A nerf gun would have significantly greater velocity.
>> No. 32055 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 3:44 pm
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>>32053

You're confirming my point about emotionally unstable adults, there.
>> No. 32056 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 5:24 pm
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>>32053
If anything hurts when it goes in your eye then we'd better ban everything.

I'm relatively sure that the velocity of a potato gun's projectile is low enough that you'd blink unless it came from a strange angle.
>> No. 32057 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:26 pm
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I would think it fundamental to the design of a good hoover that the hose shouldn't be so heavy and stiff, nor the body so light, that using it in handheld mode means pulling the thing over every time you reach more than half an arms length.
>> No. 32058 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 8:28 am
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Fucking Australians trying to insist that this is what an English village looks like. Hey koala-fucker, maybe you should ask where the person you're talking to lives before you start stubbornly defending statements about a place on the other side of the world? It's not an esoteric factoid that any given person on the internet is unlikely to know better about, there are 67 million of us who can just go outside and see you're wrong.
>> No. 32059 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:32 am
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Why are you trying to argue with a post-colonial complex? Of course Aussies will be obsessed with the Cotswolds, mews and general posh old timeyness. It's the price of our cultural supremacy. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to convince some American women that I'm nobility.
>> No. 32060 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 11:48 am
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It wasn't much of an argument, I just pointed out that the building was clearly Germanic, she said I was wrong because there are Tudor buildings in England, she went and saw them once. Then I left. I suppose we're in our rights to be annoyed at the cultural insensitivity of a foreigner saying all European architecture is the same but it's the bloody-minded stupidity of her attitude that bothers me. No curiosity, no inkling that this English-speaking person you're talking to during English daylight hours might possibly know more about English architecture than you, just doubling down on being wrong. Honestly it's not surprising that proper foreigners get annoyed by this sort of thing.
>> No. 32061 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 4:33 pm
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I get similar vibes from French Canadians who say English is the language of the oppressor and that English in Canada is cultural colonialism. Meanwhile, Quebec has the OQLF "language police" who go around telling people off for using languages other than French, such as ethnic restaurants who dare to list dishes in their own language on the menu. No, you can't call it "chow mein", it needs to say "nouilles frites".
>> No. 32062 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 4:38 pm
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>>32060
There are a lot of Tudor looking buildings to be fair. Not from Tudor times, but I can see why an outsider might view them as actually Tudor. If George Clarke isn't bullshitting me they're part of the "arts and crafts" style.
>> No. 32063 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 4:56 pm
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Absolutely, it's understandable to mix them up, just stupid to insist she's right.
>> No. 32064 Anonymous
22nd July 2021
Thursday 5:00 pm
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I think it's just too hot to game. Once that GPU gets going the room becomes an oven and I, to my eternal regret, am not a lizard. I bet that lad who has his PC in a seperate annex away from his office is feeling pretty smug right now.
>> No. 32065 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 10:43 pm
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>>32064 that lad who has his PC in a seperate annex away from his office is feeling pretty smug right now.

Yep. I still rate it as a tactic if you can manage it. Now using optical HDMI leads which are less effort to route and manage. Main PC takes about 2kW at full chat, it would be unbearable to be near.
>> No. 32066 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 10:51 pm
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>>32065

I was living the dream when I had a small two room flat, I had my desk and PC setup in the bedroom, but all it took was a 5m HDMI cable and USB extension running around the doorway to hook up to the big telly in the living room, which was on the right side of the house to stay cool and dark all day long.
>> No. 32067 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 12:40 pm
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My fucking neighbour has been moaning on his toilet for two fucking days, now.
>> No. 32068 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 12:57 pm
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>>32067
Well... then he must be unwell, isn't he? Have some sympathy.

Unless he's been tugging one out to some particularly engrossing new wank material.
>> No. 32069 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 8:28 pm
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I have gifted myself a day off work, only to procrastinate away the entire thing.
>> No. 32070 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 1:57 am
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The alien-lizard-freaks over in Hollywood are rebooting The Exorcist. I don’t really have the words.
>> No. 32071 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 2:17 am
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>>32069

A day feels like fuck all nowadays. I used to book half days off work and get good value out of them, but nowadays it's a week at a minimum or else I'll just piss it all away on YouTube and never get around to doing anything.

Not sure what's changed, I just feel like time goes faster, I have more distractions, or rather, I have more things pulling at my attention. I can never feel satisfied and productive because I have so many different things I want to fit into my time, and invariably only ever manage to give one or two of them attention.
>> No. 32072 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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I just want to buy a whole game and understand what I'm buying. I hate this shit so much, man. Apparently the first (not first-first) Hitman has content that you can play on the second (not the second-second) game too. You can unlock "season 1" stuff with some of this DLC which I assume is nothing to do with game one, right? Right? You don't know either, nobody knows.
>> No. 32073 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 3:33 pm
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>>32072
Fitgirl repacks.
>> No. 32074 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 4:07 pm
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>>32073
Oh, aye, torrenting this mess is surely going to be much less hassle.
>> No. 32075 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 4:46 pm
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>>32074
Also going forward it's the morally correct way to enjoy content from ActiBlizz, Ubi or EA.
>> No. 32076 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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I keep trying smart watches because it'd be nice to be able to see work alerts without pulling my phone out all the time, but they're all fucking shite. The first few Pebbles, the rectangle ones, were so much better than the new stuff. They're just annoying, the lag between lifting your wrist up and the screen waking up is jarring, particularly if you actually need to note down relatively accurate times for things. Also just having a screen on your wrist that blasts your eyes in the dark rather than a soft backlight or lume is a bit annoying, I don't want my watch to light up the whole fucking room at night.

Using it to pay for stuff via NFC is genuinely nice and feels like I'm in the future, but that's it.

I still have my Pebble Steel, just found it.
>> No. 32077 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>The first few Pebbles, the rectangle ones, were so much better than the new stuff

Agree - it's because they had a good screen and therefore good battery life.
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27th July 2021
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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Tried a xiami miband for a while, but the problem is that the screen was so sensitive that my sleeve would press things, doing things like randomly setting alarms, or keep pausing workouts I was trying to track.

The heart rate monitors are useful but nowhere near as accurate as a chest strap. The sleep tracker is interesting but really isn't telling me anything I don't know.
>> No. 32079 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 11:29 pm
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I got an Apple watch thingy when they added heart beat measuring, mostly because it integrates with PagerDuty which I need for my job, but the stats were a neat gimmick that convinced me.

It's now a glorified oyster card for me with some NFC payment thrown in, so I completely agree. The one upside is that it's passable for navigation if your preferred maps app integrates with it. No use at all in the car, but when walking or using public transport to a new location it's nice to be able to just check my wrist instead of having to pull out the phone.
>> No. 32080 Anonymous
27th July 2021
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>32074
>Oh, aye, torrenting this mess is surely going to be much less hassle.

Yes actually, it is.
Type HITMAN 2: GOLD EDITION – V2.70.1 + ALL DLCS in the search bar after googling the website I mentioned, click 'magnet'. Wait for download, run the installer.

And if you can't do that then you don't deserve leisure time.
And if you can't manage to u>>32074">https://fitgirl-repacks.to/repack/1157-hitman-2>>32074
>> No. 32081 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 2:35 am
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>>32075

Fill me in on this so I don't have to go on r/aftertheloop or something. What have they done now?

I mean I might be an outlier because supporting massive faceless corpos like those is already inherently amoral from where I'm standing, but apparently they've done something so beyond the pale even normals are prepared to put down their dopamine pipes.

It's not just some boring shite about treating a woman badly is it?
>> No. 32082 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 3:51 am
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>>32081
The AB thing does have a lot of boring equal opps office politics stuff, but there are a couple of really nasty things in there, like blokes getting pissed up at work and crawling under the women's desks to get a look and not being remotely subtle about it, and the blokes who were openly passing around upskirt and fanny pics of the women. It got so much for one woman that she killed herself.

The Ubisoft thing is mostly about how the company is run by a bunch of rapists who got away with it for years and let other rapists get away with it for years, and how they've done absolutely fuck all about it. Lots of senior positions are held by the boss's family, including his son who may have been a rapist.

As for EA, ... they're fucking EA, innit.
>> No. 32083 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 9:25 pm
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>> No. 32084 Anonymous
29th July 2021
Thursday 10:49 pm
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People who were 13 when that policy was new would now be old enough to furnish their ID and buy Red Bull at Sainsbury's.
>> No. 32085 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 12:18 am
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People who put auto reply on when they go on leave but are absolutely not important enough to ever need to do so.
>> No. 32086 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 12:34 am
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>>32082
I thought the beef was that they're all run by nepotism these days. The children of the executives just waltzed into their jobs.

Although I suppose it could just as well be that they don't make good games anymore and the people behind the games that made them great (or they bought out) won't see a penny. What you really paying for is convenience.
>> No. 32087 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 2:07 am
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The WH Smiths at my hospital tried doing this. It lasted for approximately one night shift.

The whole thing is performative moral panic bollocks anyway, AFAIK there's no clinical evidence that they're any worse than other sugary caffeinated drinks, yet I've never been asked for ID for that super strength coffee in a can that tastes like it's at least 50% sugar or non-diet soft drinks.
>> No. 32088 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 10:44 pm
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I always end up stuck following that guy in speed dating who is taking it all too seriously. The one who has read that you should linger a bit after you get asked to move on so the girl thinks you're keen for her. And he does it to every girl because he's trying to play a game which slows me which then slows the guy next to me and so on.

The one that you say hello to at the start and he's talking about it being a competition rather than the pseudo camaraderie so you can approach the groups of women together. Ruins it for everyone. Fucker went and sat with the shy girl I wanted to talk to again at the end as well. Now I have to try and work out which one she was for tomorrow.
>> No. 32089 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 10:07 pm
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My update is that I got no matches but one nerdy girl, who only came for something strictly platonic, matched me as a friend. I only ticked with 3-4 women and didn't look my best so no matches was fine. However because of one girl's arrogance I can't now go to another event for free.

I know it sounds like compulsive masturbation at this point but I need to vent; speed dating is where you go to make friends is it.
>> No. 32090 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 10:26 pm
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>>32089
You become her friend, you meet her friends, you date one of her friends. Make the circle bigger.
>> No. 32091 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 11:09 pm
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>>32090
A brilliant idea if ever I've heard one, but if she really is a nerdy girl who goes speed-dating in an attempt to make friends, there's a good chance she might not currently be swimming in platonic bachelorette companionship.
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1st August 2021
Sunday 11:14 pm
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>>32090
There's a bit more nuance to that gambit that you might want to consider.

You merely adopted the mutual acquittance shuffle. I was born in it, molded by a big sister into playing hockey. You don't do it in a situation of rejection, the friendship loses balance and you need to be mindful that some women have an army of male friends. Work colleagues and women through hobbies are a good match as you mutually can't cross the line and you never start taking it that way in your head.
>> No. 32093 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 11:28 pm
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The worst part about spiders showing up right in front of me on a wall or on my desk or where have you, is that it reminds me of all the places I'm not looking where those little shites up to God knows what.
>> No. 32094 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 9:17 am
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>>32093

They're mostly just being harmless and getting rid of other insects. Better spiders than a bunch of flies getting in your food and that.
>> No. 32095 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 12:13 pm
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I tried out okcupid but it's just as tedious as tinder and bumble with all the swiping and matching bullshit. The gays have the right idea with grindr. I want to be able to see a giant grid of local women instead of picking through them one by one.

brb hiring some Indian programmers to create straight grindr and make loadsamoney
>> No. 32096 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 12:26 pm
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>>32094
I'd like to add to this whinge that flies keep coming in for a midday meeting whenever I leave the window open. I don't know where they get their miniature stationary and flip-charts but it's certainly annoying how they always just go around in circles.

Anyway they don't bother when I shut the blinds so they must just be doing it to annoy me.
>> No. 32097 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 1:00 pm
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>>32095
OKCupid never used to be about swiping. It used to be about reading a profile and actually finding out about someone before messaging. It's a shame they copied Tinder's model.
>> No. 32098 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 2:24 pm
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>>32095
Whiplr has that interface, but it's for kink, filled with bots, and the easiest way to meet people is by talking in groups rather than messaging directly (although DMs still work if you're funny and attractive)
>> No. 32099 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 2:46 pm
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I wonder how long it'll take for it to be impossible to find other humans to talk to online, every digital space being overwhelmed with human-imitating bots as soon as they're launched.
>> No. 32100 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 3:31 pm
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>>32099
Don't worry, fellow-human. It was much cheaper for corporations to overrun the internet with the brand zealots and professional astroturfers that have long-since destroyed what was once viewed as the technology of true freedom.

Please remember to enable cookies and connect your social media to get the best internet experience.
>> No. 32101 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 3:58 pm
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A wasp flew up my sleeve and stung the fuck out of me.

Summer is bullshit.
>> No. 32102 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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>>32101

Fuck wasps.
>> No. 32103 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 5:55 pm
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If you're nice to wasps they're nice to you. One bumped into my glasses today and I gave it a smile and off they flew. Serves you right for wearing long sleeves in the Summer, you sicko.
>> No. 32104 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 5:57 pm
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>>32103

Quisling.
>> No. 32109 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 12:37 pm
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This is probably my biggest pet peeve, but I can't be the only person who finds what awful demon-people call "verticals" immensely irritating. If you don't know that's just any video filmed while holding a phone vertically so the aspect ratio is, in my humble opinion, buggered. There are some niche instances where that's preferable and often times it basically doesn't matter, but on the whole it's terrible. You're adding a million miles of pointless nothing to the top and bottom of the shot, making everything look and feel very narrow and almost always cutting off something more interesting and important on the sides.

However, there's something much worse than someone's TikTok upload being shot like this happening. More and more organisations and individuals are cutting down footage shot in a standard widescreen or the old 4:3 format to make it a "vertical" or a 1:1 square, losing what seems like 20% to 40% of the shot in the process and it makes me ill, physically and mentally ill. The reason they are doing it, I assume, is because people don't like holding their phones horizontally, but not only is pandering to that level of lazy incompotency deranged, I'm seeing footage that can't be viewed elsewhere by any reasonable means ruined by this and I can't stand it. Some onboard clips from this year's Nurburgring 24 Hours race had highlights uploaded to YouTube like this, removing the sense of speed and drama almost entirely and now look at pic related. What on Earth is that? 45 year old footage butchered to fit into a square and it's the same for almost all the uploads. If you heard about this happening to a painting, a gallery slicing off pieces to make it fit a frame they liked, you'd think they were complete philistines, but here the BBC Archive team are doing it daily and no one's bothered. There's probably nothing terribly important in that missing fifth, but we don't know that and it's missing for no good reason. Almost half-a-century ago that TV crew shot it that way for a reason and the editor took used those specific shots so to carve it up now turns my stomach.
>> No. 32110 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 1:02 pm
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>>32109
This, with bonus points for vertical video that has been reframed to be horizontal with massive black bars on either side that renders it physically unwatchable.
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9th August 2021
Monday 1:46 pm
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>>32109

>Almost half-a-century ago that TV crew shot it that way for a reason

And that reason was because tellies, the devices people watched it on, were 4:3. Nowadays that device is a phone.

I don't mean to alarm you, but in twenty year's time the fourth Star Wars trilogy will come out in vertical 21:9.
>> No. 32112 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 2:31 pm
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>>32110
I wholly agree. I was thinking of touching on it, but I sounded manic enough already.

>>32111
Wrongo, totally different. Verticals are bad because they're very narrow and usually the extra height isn't used for anything. A phone can switch from "tallscreen" to widescreen with a twist of the wrist. Moreover most of my post was about thing being cropped down to new, different and much worse aspect ratios. Not even stretched, just cropped entirely. If Star Wars' ten through twelve are shot in 21:9, that's bad, but it's much worse if someone in the space year 3000 decides the viewers with neural implants should see it 2:5 and half the film goes in the bin. Was Yoda in this frame, maybe, who knows? Our phones, monitors, TVs are all entirely capable of displaying the aspect ratios the footage was originally displayed in, lopping bits off wholesale because some nerd didn't like how it looked on the Twitter timeline is bananas and that's the big problem.
>> No. 32113 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 2:38 pm
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>>32112

You seem to mistake my rather deadpan reply for a defence of the situation. I agree that it's abhorrent, but it's the way things are going to be.

And it's not totally different at all, don't you remember watching films on your square telly in the old days? How often did they show them with proper aspect ratio, and how often did they just crop the sides off? Most of the time it was the latter.
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9th August 2021
Monday 2:54 pm
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Thanks, DVLA. Your phone service tells me to fuck off and now I can't even get through to another web chat. Fucking hell.
>> No. 32115 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 3:06 pm
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>>32114
So, I can't get through to them to change the address on my Direct Debit. I pay it monthly. What happens if I can't get through to them and they try and take the DD?
>> No. 32116 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 3:50 pm
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>>32113
Apologies if I sounded arsey, I hadn't meant to. It's all the commas I use, you see. Also I really don't remember that thing about the old days because I'm in my mid-twenties, which also means I'm probably the youngest person breathing who cares about this. You're right though, it's the quite similar in that it was also very bad when it happened to films in 1992.
>> No. 32117 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:26 am
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>>32116

I'm only 31 and I was already in my teens by the time widescreen became the norm. You've no excuse lad, if I assume "mid 20s" means 23-26 you're definitely old enough to remember them.
>> No. 32118 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:43 am
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>>32117
If he's 23-26, how does he have memories of 1992?
>> No. 32119 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 2:47 am
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>>32118

1992 has nothing to do with it, square tellies remained commonplace until well into the mid 00s.
>> No. 32120 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 3:39 am
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>> No. 32121 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 7:37 am
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>>32119
You write about something in a board sense for even a single line on here and you pair turn into five year olds. I didn't care about aspect ratios when I was twelve and I don't have to remember 1992 to know they were editing widescreen films for TV, especially not since someone just told me that's what they did back then. Five year olds or the world's daftest lawyers, I can't decide.
>> No. 32122 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:31 am
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>>32121

If you can't stand the pedantry, you're welcome to post somewhere less discerning. We have our standards.

The issue in question is if you remember square tellies, which you said you don't, but I'm contesting that claim. Simply doesn't add up lad.
>> No. 32123 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 8:51 am
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>>32122

Maybe he just never owned a telly.
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10th August 2021
Tuesday 4:57 pm
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I don't know what kind of freaks care about aspect ratios, but I've heard enough. A more pressing moan is this: has a trady ever shown up to a job for the first time with everything they needed to complete said job? I'm suprised we don't have an entire sub-catagory of tradesmen whose sole purpose is to recce the job before any actual work commences. Even when they come prepared, they don't.
>> No. 32125 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 5:10 pm
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>>32124

I can't speak as a tradesman, but as a homeowner, generally meddler and amateur mechanic, no two jobs ever seem to require the same materials. I have a pretty enviably stocked shed and garage, but every time I need to fix something I find I need a different type of screw or obscure tool I've never previously considered.

I suppose if it's your job, you don't want to have a huge inventory of stuff you only need a couple of for a job, you want to be able to roll up to Screwfix on the day and get what you need, and invoice the person for it. Also, showing up like that first is probably a good way to spot the 'absolutely fucking not' jobs without investing in it. I suppose the first time you show up eagerly to build someone a garage with £1000 worth of wood and panels in your van, then discover that actually, the ground is fucked and needs extensive foundation work first, you probably do want to try and survey first.

Of course, I'm only guessing, I just felt like arguing a point because I've got a headache that won't go away.
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10th August 2021
Tuesday 7:26 pm
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>>32123
I, for one, don't understand that reference.
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10th August 2021
Tuesday 10:07 pm
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The landlord increased my rent by £5 because of the electric price hike.
>> No. 32128 Anonymous
10th August 2021
Tuesday 10:46 pm
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>>32125
I think you just barely re-discovered what a craft is. What you need, what you can get, but more importantly what you need to know. Of course you are capable of fixing the wiring, the plumbing, that annoying ear in the carpet, that weird patch on the plastering, that odd smell in the foundation that no one cares about, but funnily enough actually understanding how all of that works takes times. God speed to you, don't get me wrong, but you need to learn to delegate.
>> No. 32129 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 1:42 pm
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>>32128

>but funnily enough actually understanding how all of that works takes times. God speed to you, don't get me wrong, but you need to learn to delegate.

It usually only takes a 10 minute youtube video, a quick scan of a tradie forum, and sometimes a couple of practice attempts. Everything in our world is built by similar minds, once you do a few disparate things you start to see the patterns.
>> No. 32130 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 2:38 pm
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>>32129 Everything in our world is built by similar minds,
Except for push-button flush toilets. They were designed by fucking imbeciles.
>> No. 32131 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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>>32130
Is there a standard way for those? I always assume that the smaller button is the bigger flush, but it only recently occurred to me that this makes no sense (except for the two dots for a Number Two). Luckily, I just press the buttons at random every time because it is in my economic interests for children in the Third World to die of thirst, but it can't hurt to know the actual answer.
>> No. 32132 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 4:18 pm
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>>32131

I was wondering this too. On mine you can just press both at the same time so I just do that.
>> No. 32133 Anonymous
11th August 2021
Wednesday 4:25 pm
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BBC changed their podcast browsing section, now it's worse, obviously. We really need to find and kill these web developers, all they do is tinker.
>> No. 32134 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 9:50 pm
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A young guy who lives near me has a rooftop flat with a hatch that let's him sit on the roof. From this angle he can look right into my tiny mid-building flat as he sits up there reading a book, cuddling up with his fit girlfriend and having his friends join him for a drink sometimes. I'm sure it's lovely to enjoy the sunset and look over the city.

I fucking hate him. Every time I get off work he's out there looming over me as I cook my simple dinner and get ready to settle down to a meal by myself. I hope the cunt falls off.
>> No. 32135 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 9:52 pm
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>>32134
Have you considered using a rasterbator tool and goatse.jpg to block the window?
>> No. 32136 Anonymous
12th August 2021
Thursday 10:00 pm
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>>32134

Have you tried dismembering a sex doll?
>> No. 32137 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 3:11 pm
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We should get rid of the current "ABCs" way of remembering the alphabet and just replace it with "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". There's literally no reason not to and if there is I don't want to hear it.
>> No. 32138 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 5:01 pm
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>>32137
I look forward to sorting things in the new (world) order. DeweyDecimalLad will be extra delighted.
>> No. 32139 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 5:07 pm
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>>32138

How do we know if things starting with t, h or e are filed under the first 'the' or the second one? As well as all the other repeated letters.
>> No. 32140 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 5:47 pm
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>>32125

Then there's the problem with plumbers like the one my parents had round to fix the toilet that wouldn't flush.
At first he was absolutely adamant that it was impossible to buy the same sized siphon unit so he would have to replace the ENTIRE CISTERN. After spending some time looking and being unable to find a new cistern that would fit onto the bowl, he finally conceded and fitted a new siphon (which was a thomas dudley one that's basically been in continuous production for decades without changing)
>> No. 32141 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 8:32 pm
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>>32140

I'm beginning to thing all tradesman are scam artists, or at least just people who learned everything they know about the job from a disinterested old man in 6 months when they were 16.

I need a driveshaft CV boot replaced for my MOT coming up, and I don't really have the time to do it myself so I ordered the OEM boot and asked a mechanic lad my mum knows, one of her friends sons, if he could do it. He does little jobs on his driveway for reasonable money, so I thought it'd be worth a go. He asked what sort of car it was, which really doesn't matter, then asked to make sure it was the front one, as you "have to have it on a ramp to do the rear one" on a Range Rover. It's a 4x4, the shafts front and rear are fucking identical (at least in method of fitment). I know this as I've changed them both. He also said to make sure I get a stretchy CV boot so he can install it with a cone, despite him knowing I have the fucking OEM boot which you just slide on and clamp in. This is a basic job, but it seems like he's only ever been taught how to install a generic, universal boot. To me that sums it up - a mechanic, or any tradesman, will use the cheap, generic option, because it really doesn't matter, if you're paying them to do it you probably won't know the difference, and it saves them money and means they can have you out the door the same day instead of waiting for the OEM part.

Anyway, he's decided it's too much work and will ask the bloke he works for to do it, when he's back off holiday. I think I'll end up doing it myself.
>> No. 32142 Anonymous
13th August 2021
Friday 11:24 pm
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>>32141
I think I had one done on my old mazda 6. The chap noticed it as part of the service, iirc it was an extra £20, or am I crazy. That sounds a bargain. I suppose it was already up on the ramp though with the wheel off etc.
>> No. 32143 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 12:21 am
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>>32142

Like you say, since he was already there, it wouldn't have cost him much time to pop it on - I reckon to bring a car somewhere for it to be done specifically it'd probably be £80-100. So you still got a good deal, the part itself was probably close to a tenner.

My local chain garage said it'd be £250 because of the labour involved. I cannot stress the importance in finding a good independent mechanic. I am also kicking myself for not noticing sooner than a month before the MOT was due, leaving me a bit more limited in options.
>> No. 32144 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 4:30 am
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All week I have been waking up earlier and earlier. Today it was 3. By Tuesday I'll be waking up before I go to sleep. Is this Fatal Familial Insomnia?

I also need to drive 250 miles on Tuesday so that's going to be, pun intended, a nightmare.
>> No. 32145 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 9:24 am
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>>32143
> I cannot stress the importance in finding a good independent mechanic.

I'm super lucky. Just round the corner from me there's a great VAG specialist garage, so I can get a service done for cheaper than dealership prices by people who know the cars far better, use genuine parts and still register the work on the online service history.

They did just rip me off a bit fitting a new window regulator, but I can't complain when they had the part on hand already and did it at 3pm on a Friday afternoon.
>> No. 32146 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 9:27 am
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>>32144

Probably just age. It's Horlicks and an early bedtime from now on.

In all seriousness, changes to your sleep cycle are an early symptom of depression, so try to keep an eye on your mood over the next couple of months. Depression tends to creep up on people, but it's much easier to nip things in the bud before they get too serious. If you notice changes to your appetite, a lack of energy, a short temper or just a general sense of malaise, get yourself to the GP and check out some self-help resources online or at your local library.
>> No. 32147 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 3:04 pm
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Dickhead on the self-service machines yelling at me for not printing a receipt when the machines failed to deactivate a tag so the alarms went off. Threatened to take the things I'd just paid for off me next time. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly sure that would be robbery and assault.

The security guard tried to persuade him to just let me leave then sighed and walked off about a third of the way through the conversation, clearly not the first time that guy's been a prat.
>> No. 32148 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 5:20 pm
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>>32147
What is the correct protocol for those? Is the customer meant to do anything? I've peeled them off before if they are peelable, because otherwise they beeped for me.
>> No. 32149 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 5:24 pm
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>>32148
In the normal tills there's a magnet that deactivates them, I'm guessing there's supposed to be one in the self-checkout too.
>> No. 32150 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 6:07 pm
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>>32149
There's one on the supervisor station, if that's what you mean.
>> No. 32151 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 6:45 pm
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>>32149

There is, they're supposed to check your receipt after you've bought the stuff and deactivate them then, so that's probably why supermarket prat was kicking off with our lad. Of course, it's also incredibly simple to view what has been purchased on each self service kiosk using the supervisor station too, but jobsworths like that tend not to be able to think outside of the box even slightly.
>> No. 32152 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 6:49 pm
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>>32147
Next time just keep walking. And always get a receipt so you can track your spending and shame yourself i.e. on how much bullshit you're buying.

>>32148
It's supposed to flag for them to come over and remove when you go to pay. Honestly I don't even know how you're ripping them off - the steaks are the only ones you could but they should deactivate.
>> No. 32153 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 7:24 pm
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>>32152
>Next time just keep walking.
Absolutely this. "Act like you belong" is a rule to live by. If you just ignore people who try to stop you if they aren't in a position to actually do so and walk on as if nothing happened you can get away with more or less anything.
>> No. 32154 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 8:59 pm
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>>32152

I refuse to do either. If I just keep walking then they'll assume I was shoplifting and at the very least give me hassle next time I go to the same shop. Getting a receipt every time is a waste of paper. I have no legal obligation to do that and he can (and did) print one out when checking. Innocent until proven guilty, not innocent upon proof of purchase. If this bloke is going to rob and assault me over the price of a 200g of smoked haddock, then he'll have to deal with the consequences of that.
>> No. 32155 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 9:18 pm
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>>32154

You're missing the point as they're not the police and you're not in court. You've chosen to enter a privately owned store and they're allowed to set their own policies on proof of purchase. If they piss you off then you're free to shop somewhere else.
>> No. 32156 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:02 pm
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>>32155

I'm willing to bet good money that the supermarkets policy is not that they require you to print out a receipt at self checkout whenever you buy something with a security tag on it. All the money in the world.
>> No. 32157 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:03 pm
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>>32155

Well, no, because they're not the police and we're not in court that means they're not allowed to assault me or take my belongings. They're not the state, if they do it then it's a crime regardless of whether I'm in the shop or not.
>> No. 32158 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:12 pm
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>>32157
>assault me and take my belongings
Gentle reminder for those reading along at home that this man was asked to prove he had paid for some smoked haddock he was carrying out of a shop.
>> No. 32159 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:19 pm
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>>32158
Yes. That would, in the eyes of the law, be assault and whatever the technical term for robbery is.
>> No. 32160 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:21 pm
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Or at least, if prevented from leaving the store, include false imprisonment. Crazy legal system we live in.
>> No. 32161 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:26 pm
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>>32157

Nope. S24 Police and Criminal Evidence Act. If you had tried to walk off, it would be entirely legal for him to physically restrain you until the police arrive or he has satisfied himself that no offence has taken place. If you fought him off or just squirmed out of his grip and legged it, you would be guilty of an offence.
>> No. 32162 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:26 pm
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>>32158
I'm joining in with your facepalm.
>> No. 32163 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:27 pm
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I'm definitely on the security guard's side. If I had to listen to an argument between Mr. "this is assault and robbery just wait till the police get here!" and Mr. "why did you choose to do a thing that the kiosk fully gives you the option to do, you idiot", I'd be walking the fuck away too.
>> No. 32164 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:31 pm
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>>32161

S24 Police and Criminal Evidence Act applies solely to constables. He's not a constable he's the guy whose job it is to make the tills work again when they get the weights wrong.
>> No. 32165 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 10:32 pm
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>>32163
I didn't say or do that though. You're getting carried away by your fantasies.
>> No. 32167 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 11:36 pm
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>>32165

You said it here, from which I extrapolated your personality.
>> No. 32168 Anonymous
16th August 2021
Monday 11:36 pm
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>>32161
Doesn't apply because nobody involved is a constable and low-value shoplifting is not indictable.

Not that it makes any party involved any less of a dick.
>> No. 32169 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:16 am
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>>32168
>low-value shoplifting is not indictable
I'm not sure that's right given adult defendants can elect for a Crown Court trial.
>> No. 32170 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:28 am
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>>32168
Theft is an indictable offence, what the fuck are you on about? Plus the security tag setting off the alarm gives you reasonable grounds to suspect theft is being committed.

As a teenager I was once stopped at the door by staff who looked through my bags and checked my receipt simply because I wasn't using a basket. That's not reasonable grounds and if I'd been older and confident I'd have told them to either call the police or fuck off.
>> No. 32171 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:35 am
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>> No. 32172 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:58 am
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>>32170
It's still a ball ache at any age, and while I could've kicked up a stink it was easier to just deal with the jobsworth. Let them have their power trip. I got stopped because I carried out my stuff in my coat pockets, the security numpty was outside having a fag and saw a bulge so he had a shit fit. Receipt proved I paid for everything.

Only downside is that now a broken printer or whatever, I want my gorram receipt.
>> No. 32173 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:05 am
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>>32168
I'm now sure you read just enough to be confidently wrong.
>> No. 32174 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:25 am
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>>32173
Important caveat on that document.
>> No. 32175 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:42 am
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>>32169
On closer inspection, it's one of those odd legal constructs where two contradictory things are true at the same time.

1. Low-value shoplifting is not an indictable offence.
2. Low-value shoplifting is subject to PACE powers for indictable offences.

Doubtless both of these distinctions are important otherwise they'd have just left it as it was.

Whinge for giving this far more attention than it deserves.
>> No. 32176 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 9:15 am
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>>32167
Like I said, carried away by your fantasies.
>> No. 32177 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 11:46 am
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Regardless of what happened, shoplad was in the wrong because it's supposed to be the checkout monkey's job to take the security tag off when you scan it through. They have to come over to approve it, so there's really little excuse for missing the tag. Half the time they're just gormless young birds who are too busy nattering to pay attention.

I have had this happen to me before, but they didn't kick up a fuss, presumably that's just because I'm not an intolerable bellend though. Despite the direction my last paragraph might lean, I'm firmly of the opinion you only end up in cunt-offs with retail workers when it's you who is being a prick. Unless provoked, it's rarely them starting it, because they simply don't give enough of a shit.

In fairness though, the gormlessness goes both ways. If the items you're bagging aren't tagged, you can usually get away with putting at least a couple of things in your bag without scanning, because the checkout person won't even look before they swipe. Way I figure that's not even shoplifting, you practically asked their permission.
>> No. 32178 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 11:56 am
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>>32177
The only things I said to him were "Why are you talking in that tone of voice? I haven't done anything wrong", "I don't have to get a receipt, it's a waste of paper", shortly followed by "Then why does the machine give you the option?". Beyond that it's all you putting words in my mouth.
>> No. 32179 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:17 pm
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Dynamic pricing.

I stupidly got distracted by something for a minute, my page autorefreshed, and therefore was just arbitrarily charged an additional 170 EUR for a round trip flight, and had to downgrade a class on one of the flights, to attend a work event. To even get the price down that far, I had to log on to another country's version of the website.

This is a practice that I just can't help think should be illegal. Dynamic pricing based on availability? Fine. Dynamic pricing based on tracking your activity as an individual? Exploitative on a whole new level.

I could honestly throw a teary from frustration.
>> No. 32180 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:19 pm
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>>32178

So all three things you said to him were patronising defensive Karen-isms. Thought so. Put a few more points in charisma you tart.

In future, don't answer questions with questions, trying to turn it around on someone who's supposed to be "the authority figure" will always make them double down. Just play the innocent and oblivious, say sorry, and you'll never get in these confrontations. You'll even get away with things you have done wrong that way, in more situations than just the Tesco express lane, believe me. Give it a try.

Don't be the kind of mong who thinks there's some kind of pride and ego on the line about a supermarket checkout inconvenience.
>> No. 32181 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:28 pm
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>>32180

Patronisingly lecturing someone about how not to be patronising. No, fuck yourself. He was already half-yelling at me and making threats by that point. What I said was perfectly reasonable. Up until then I'd happily complied and let the security guard go through my bag, indicated the machine I'd used so the other guy could print out the receipt and compare it very thoroughly to what was in my bag. Yes, you can be totally spineless like you're suggesting, or I can talk back to the person who's being a cunt. That's not unreasonable.

Don't be the kind of mong who thinks there's something wrong with complaining about an uppity till assistant in this thread on this board.
>> No. 32182 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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>>32179
Dynamic pricing is a really tough problem to solve, from a user-interface and availability point of view. The alternative is for people like airlines to use more fixed-prices, but the general feeling is that is bad for consumers, because some/many would pay more than they had to. I've built systems that do similar - there is no easy answer.
>> No. 32183 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:51 pm
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>>32181

Do you want to talk to my manager, then?
>> No. 32184 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:56 pm
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>>32183

You'll notice I didn't ask to see his manager or refuse to comply with a reasonable request. Standing up for yourself is not "being a Karen". If your brain wasn't marinated in memes you'd understand that.
>> No. 32185 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 12:56 pm
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>>32182

I'd be more sympathetic to this view if air travel generally wasn't already a massive racket. Airlines already get generous government subsidies, in addition to the fact they're basically founded on privatised versions of publicly funded military tech.

I also don't buy the idea that everyone would be overcharged if dynamic pricing didn't exist, unless you believe that airlines are bending over backwards to benefit customers. Airlines would not fall apart if dynamic pricing didn't exist, and fixed pricing would only be a ripoff if we accept that the nature of the companies have to be cut-throat, survive at all costs, profit-maximising organisations that already absorb a decent amount from public funding.
>> No. 32186 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:28 pm
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>>32185
>Airlines already get generous government subsidies, in addition to the fact they're basically founded on privatised versions of publicly funded military tech.

While I agree it seems unfair - and the fuel subsidies are particularly bad in my view, air travel is basically a way to facilitate international movement of people and trade - it is basically a national affair, but all the national flag carriers were bad at running airlines and went bust.
>> No. 32187 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:37 pm
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>>32186

I very strongly suspect there's more to national airlines going bust than just being bad at it. A government that's ideologically geared towards privatisation has no incentive to keep a public organisation running well, and the pattern of "defund it until it doesn't work, point out the dysfunction, then privatise" has been repeated across multiple services.

Willing to admit I don't know every detail of this regarding air travel, but the pattern can be very plainly seen in other industries where I'm a bit more familiar with the history.
>> No. 32188 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:44 pm
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What we can currently learn from the minor rants and pissoffs thread: being shouted at by shop assistants after having legally purchased items and being instantly charged an additional 56% on top of an initial price generated by an automated system which tracks your cookies are both totally acceptable and desirable things.

Any ire we might express in these situations is totally unwarranted, and indeed perhaps even instigated the situations to begin with. In fact, we should go and apologise for questioning those who we give money to and thank these companies for our pleasant customer experiences.
>> No. 32189 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:47 pm
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>>32188
Anything involving cookies inevitably leads to a cunt-off here.
>> No. 32190 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 1:58 pm
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>>32185

Under dynamic pricing, a large proportion of passengers fly at or below cost. The principle is that it's better to sell the seat off cheaply than to earn nothing from an empty seat and the pre-COVID market had too many planes serving too many routes. Ryanair lose money on a majority of the tickets they sell, treating it as a loss-leader to flog sandwiches, scratchcards and hire cars.

Dynamic pricing might be annoying, but without it the airlines won't be able to maximise their load factor effectively and will inevitably have to charge more per seat. Until deregulation it was illegal to sell discount fares on scheduled routes, meaning that most ordinary people could only afford to fly by charter (if at all).
>> No. 32191 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:18 pm
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>>32188
Cheers.
>> No. 32192 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:19 pm
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>>32190
>Under dynamic pricing, a large proportion of passengers fly at or below cost.

Only if you treat things as a fixed equation, which is currently how our market operates -- but given the history of the entire aerospace industry and the shocking practices it currently involves, I am arguing that should not be the case. That was the point of my original post.

You can pretend that the market derived cost of an average flight is a law of nature, but it's not, it's already heavily fixed by what areas of the industry we choose to subsidise and where those private companies then choose to do with that surplus -- as a hint, it certainly does not go to the end user. Adding dynamic pricing ranging around that mythically derived cost to fleece certain customers and then save others who buy their tickets without refreshing the page in the name of efficiency is an absurd line of argument.

I get that you work in the industry and that you've been trained to think within the confines of that industry, but you could feasibly justify hiking that "at or below cost" price even higher and you'd be making the exact same argument; that we all already fly below price so dynamic pricing is somehow fine.
>> No. 32193 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:24 pm
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>>32184

>Standing up for yourself is not "being a Karen".

That's absolutely true, but you're getting the two mixed up.
>> No. 32194 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:28 pm
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>>32192
Not him but what do you want, free flights? It's also a bit one-sided to pretend that subsidies aren't done to make money and deliver strategic capability. Rolls-Royce engines are a particularly big example.

>I get that you work in the industry and that you've been trained to think within the confines of that industry

This just seems cuntish.
>> No. 32195 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:32 pm
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>>32194
>Not him but what do you want, free flights?

You are the poster calling the other person a "Karen" for daring to talk back to someone, and I claim my 10 pounds.
>> No. 32196 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>32195
I'm the poster who told him to keep walking. Fuck the police but also fuck people who even use the word 'Karen', this isn't Yankee twitter.
>> No. 32197 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 2:35 pm
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>>32193

Your entire argument descending into a "I know you are but what am I" merged with shitty memes doesn't give it much credibility.
>> No. 32198 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 3:03 pm
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>>32196

That's a shame, because after buying those fucking tickets I needed that 10 pounds.
>> No. 32199 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 3:24 pm
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>>32192
I for one am an international businessman who nearly always flies at the front and on company dollar; I'm probably paying for all your seats.
>> No. 32200 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 3:31 pm
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>>32192

I don't work in the industry, I'm militantly opposed to the industry. Flying is a despicable act of environmental vandalism that imposes huge costs on the world's poorest people.

I'd be perfectly happy if we removed dynamic pricing and made flying less affordable. I doubt you'd be happy with that, which is why the entire industry has switched to dynamic pricing. I'd be even happier if we charged a full rate of duty on aviation fuel and priced the entire industry out of existence.

I have no interest in defending the aviation industry on a moral level, but it's just an objective fact that the modern business model of aviation has resulted in record low fares for leisure travellers. The industry operates on wafer-thin margins, there are too many planes flying too many routes, tickets are absurdly cheap, hence the remarkable regularity with which airlines go bankrupt.
>> No. 32201 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 3:43 pm
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>>32200

I knew that one was coming.

Look, if dynamic pricing, or the arbitrary variables that go into deciding the price of a ticket happened to offset any of the environmental costs of flying I would be happy to pay it, but I'm absolutely not naïve enough to believe that's what's happening.

>The industry operates on wafer-thin margins

That's art least partly because of what I've been saying, and I think where we basically agree -- it's essentially a national system that's been forced into a private arena to squeeze profit where it can, and as you rightly point out, while it still can.

As for leisure pricing, I have never flown for a holiday. I have only ever flown for work or study related reasons. I now look forward to the inevitable post about how my tiny research organisation should be footing the bill for me to present my work at a conference, and how it's still all squarely my fault as an individual and how dare I try to criticise airlines for just innocently maximising profits (of which cookie tracking is a part) within the poor, poor circumstances it finds itself.
>> No. 32202 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 3:59 pm
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>>32201
I've been on a plane 4 times in my life, once a hop to Ireland and once to Germany.

I'm quite ready to tell people to fuck off if they judge me for getting a plane at some point in the future, I know I've travelled far less than the average person but in this age of moral licensing I am fully expecting some 10,000 airmile cunt to sneer at me for getting an unnecessary flight in the near future.
>> No. 32203 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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>>32201
>I now look forward to the inevitable post about how my tiny research organisation should be footing the bill for me to present my work at a conference
Well, they should. Presenting your work to your community is an integral part of research, which they're failing to budget for. If that same work got accepted in a top-end journal, I doubt they'd ask you to pay the publisher's fees, and it's a great failing on the part of research in the UK to establish some difference between the two. Thanks for the reminder of why I'd never move back.
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17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>> No. 32205 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:16 pm
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>>32201

>essentially a national system that's been forced into a private arena

Eh? Passenger aviation started out as a private business. We chose to nationalise it during the war, because a) we wanted the planes and b) we nationalised bloody everything during the war.

I just don't understand what you want. Pre-deregulation, the flag carriers had pitifully low load factors and extremely high fares. Deregulation came in, the likes of Freddie Laker used cheap tickets to fill every seat on every flight and the flag carriers were forced to follow suit. Any possible change to the industry would result in higher fares, short of nationalising it all and lumping the taxpayer with the costs.

If your argument is "I've made bad life decisions, therefore the taxpayer should cover my travel expenses", then I don't really know how to respond.
>> No. 32206 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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If it was down to me we'd have a byzantine system of rationed and regulated flying. It's the only way I can square the mass availability of foreign travel being a good thing with the environmental damage flying does. When you look at leaving it to the market, you're inevitably going to find obscene situations where a billionaire with a 737-derived business jet full of gold furnature can jet off to his private island for a laugh with the rough emissions of 189 people going on holiday (who've been denied that by high prices), or where completely unnecessary flights from London to Paris remain viable at £1000 a ticket but socially useful, difficult to substitute flights from Shetland to Great Britain come to an end.

It's frustrating that this doesn't seem to even be a real position in the debate about flying. It's always either for or against, with practical arguments against tending towards what is effecively rationing by the size of one's bank account. So knowing our luck, we'll get both the environmental destruction, the premature death of mass international travel, and the re-isolation of remote and rural areas.
>> No. 32207 Anonymous
17th August 2021
Tuesday 4:57 pm
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>>32205
>If your argument is "I've made bad life decisions, therefore the taxpayer should cover my travel expenses", then I don't really know how to respond.

This is a total non-sequitor, unless you count refreshing a page while trying to book a flight for a work conference as a poor life decision.

As for your Clarkson's History of Aviation, for the better part of its existence, the aerospace industry up to and including what was eventually used in passenger flights has been highly dependent on swathes of nationalised things we take for granted, and is itself presently heavily subsidised. Exemption from fuel tax is a good example -- without it the aviation industry would likely not be able to grow at all, not because of the entrepreneurial genius of individuals like Laker. The technology and the means required to make a passenger plane fly owes far more to public funding than to private companies.

>Any possible change to the industry would result in higher fares, short of nationalising it all and lumping the taxpayer with the costs.

My point is that the taxpayer is already lumped with the costs, we pay to ensure the right conditions for the industry to survive and is profitable, and we pay again to ensure that specific companies benefit from those conditions maximally.
>> No. 32212 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 10:18 am
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People who think they are 'witches' shitting up my Facebook groups. Yeah, I get it, it's a big game of play pretend for 30 year olds who don't want to accept they aren't children any more, but if you point this out you're suddenly a sexist chronic masturbator.

If it was 'just a bit of fun', then whatever. But it's not, is it? I know people personally who have used crystals and shit to try and treat health issues. It also has a big crossover with the horoscope cunts, and members of my own family have paid hundreds for 'personalised horoscopes'; novel length things that through the sheer scattergun approach get a couple of things right. I know people who have made relationship decisions off this shit.

Plus, it primes people to accept misinformation, because as much as the defence is 'it's only a bit of fun', it seems to me like for many people it's a huge part of their lifestyle and they really believe they are a witch or whatever.
>> No. 32213 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 11:30 am
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I don't want to leave my phone out of a case and unprotected, because the fucking thing is literally made of glass and I actually struggle to keep a firm grip on it with both hands, nevermind one. But on the other hand putting it in a case turns it into a right brick, and that entirely defeats the point of having a wafer thin sexy piece of obsidian for a phone in the first place.

Why can't they just make them out of something more durable like they used to? Why is modern technology so retarded?
>> No. 32214 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 1:35 pm
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>>32212
I have nothing but respect people who treat their witchiness like a D&D campaign, something you can fully pretend its real if that's your thing but when you're not playing reality comes home. If you take your meds and also think that having a zircon in the azimuth of Great Lilith, then godspeed to you. If you apply topsoil to your cut because mother earth's blessing will give you the energy to heal the incarnation of your soul's current incarnation then you're a fucking idiot who deserves the staph infection.
>> No. 32215 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 2:16 pm
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>>32212
>Plus, it primes people to accept misinformation

That'd be Facebook as a whole.
>> No. 32216 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 3:47 pm
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I should add my mum also thinks she's a witch. I repeatedly ask her why she hasn't won the lottery yet -- she has a crystal ball after all. Her response is invariably something along the lines of 'if you do that then the universe will punish you', which is just the most bullshit cop-out ever.

a) Surely charging people for tarot readings (which she does) will also beget punishment from the 'universe';
b) Okay, then donate the whole thing to charities. Imagine the worlds of good you could do with a few million every week.
c) You mean to tell me that just because you don't do it in the fear of punishment, not one of the leagues of people out there who think they really are witches haven't done it anyway? Why don't we see witches winning every lottery, bet, and fruit machine out there?
>> No. 32217 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 4:30 pm
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>>32212
My girlfriend isn't full Wiccan/Pagan/Whatever, but she bought a pouch of semi precious stones and put them on the windowsill. I picked them up to have a look, and she freaked out, saying she now needs to cleanse the stones in direct sunlight and reposition them. She reacted similarly when I touched her tarot cards, as only the user can touch them and they have to be kept wrapped in a cloth. Barmy.
Pagans in general irk me, I think because every one I met was an autistic neckbeard with an Odin pendant, or a fat middle aged woman dressed like Stevie Nicks. I find their beliefs incredibly lame, but I am saying this as a Christian so I'm throwing stones in my glass house.
>> No. 32218 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 4:34 pm
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>>32216
Nah, they did that in Charmed. They used magic to get a winning lottery ticket early on but the numbers vanished off the paper as soon as the draw happened. An old couple they gave the numbers to got to claim their winnings though.

At least I think that's what happened. That show was mainly wank fodder.
>> No. 32219 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 5:37 pm
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Crystallographerlad here, sifting through the "healing properties" or a material when I'm just trying to find its space group is one of the banes of my life, as is being accosted by people who think I know spooky witchy bullshit if I make the mistake of using the word crystal in a sentence when talking about my work.
>> No. 32220 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 6:24 pm
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I like to use a certain type of crystal on my chips. It endows them with a natural deliciousness energy.
>> No. 32221 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 7:13 pm
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>>32219
Metallurgist lad here. After years of my tutor trying to make me understand crystallography, I remain convinced that it is actually witchcraft.
>> No. 32222 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 7:14 pm
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Alrighty, I made four portions, but sure, I had one and you have three, that was totally the idea all along. Hope you choke on it.
>> No. 32223 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 7:16 pm
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>>32221
Don't you only need hcp and bcc?

I've worked with metallurgists, one prominent one from Imperial accompanied me to an experiment at the Diamond Light Source in Didcot and then sat there and played The Sims on his laptop for the entire time, while his student and postdoc did all the work. Absolute shithouse. I think that's the day I knew I wanted to be an academic.
>> No. 32224 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 6:33 pm
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I swear to god there's an actual Conservative party media monkey posting here nowadays, and his robotic party line viewpoints are really starting to piss me off.

I don't mind a diversity of political opinion, despite claims to the contrary we've always had a variance of left, right, and more obscure views here. But what we've never had is someone so bland and establishment they sound like their posts are fucking Downing Street press releases.
>> No. 32225 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>32224
What's wrong, anarchylad. Too sensible for you?

Diversity of political opinion is a failed experiment on imageboard imo. You can see it plainly on the otherplace where certain opinions have become orthodoxy despite the anonymity and exercise of free speech that should make challenging a status quo and menacing people fun. On smaller imageboards it's less noticeable but on here we really may as well have accounts for all the difference it makes.
>> No. 32226 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 7:09 pm
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>>32225

This just comes across as someone that's desperately trying to derail discussion that run counter to establishment views.
>> No. 32227 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 7:15 pm
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>>32224
Don't be a dick lad.
>> No. 32228 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 7:28 pm
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>>32223
>at the Diamond Light Source
Glenn Hoddle, or Chris Waddle?

>>32225
Even 4chainz has posters that everyone recognises. This is usually because they are unpopular rather than popular, I must admit. If it helps, I very rarely know when a post was written by you.

>>32226
>trying to derail discussion that run counter to establishment views.
There must be a word, like microestablishment or something, that describes our own miniature establishment here. I'm all for contrarian anti-everythingness, and if that means the brave and heroic viewpoints of this secret club occasionally get derailed by the thick idiocy of the outside world, then that's antiestablishment too as long as it's posted here. I just wish there was more rebellion elsewhere too.
>> No. 32229 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>>32225

>Too sensible for you?

It's just too boring honestly. I'm quite politically open minded, which much like sexuality, is a result of knowing very securely where my own preferences lie. So I don't mind listening to someone who thinks the exact opposite of me.

What I do mind is when it's the same boring bollocks I could get shoved in my ears on the radio or any news channel. We're on the internet, you're meant to be cynical enough not to swallow the mainstream narrative and instead come up with something more stimulating. I don't care if it's true or not, I just want to be made to think.
>> No. 32230 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 8:32 am
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>>32228
>There must be a word, like microestablishment or something, that describes our own miniature establishment here. I'm all for contrarian anti-everythingness, and if that means the brave and heroic viewpoints of this secret club occasionally get derailed by the thick idiocy of the outside world, then that's antiestablishment too as long as it's posted here. I just wish there was more rebellion elsewhere too.

A few mods on an anonymous imageboard is a completely different level of power to the reach of corporate media and government. They're not comparable. I would argue that having such a niche place gives us a far greater potential to discuss topics that we wouldn't be able to articulate elsewhere.

This doesn't mean necessarily mean contrarian "anti-everythingness", just that we don't necessarily have to accept the terms of debate as laid out (indeed constrained) by other powers. I'm also unconvinced by the idea that parroting establishment views on a niche imageboard is itself an act of defiance, when you consider the relative ease with which you can express opinions off this little imageboard. You can lead an easy life just by repeating points and discussions that make it into broadsheet papers, government talking heads, and Newsnight. By contrast, thinking past that requires more research and effort by definition.

The idea that establishment views are inherently the most sensible is also a total fallacy. In the same way we look at the horrors of previous periods of our history and rightly point out the insanity of slavery or genocide, people in the future will look back on our time and wonder how it could have possibly been so accepted to routinely destabilise resource-rich countries, kill with impunity, stockpile and modernise our nuclear arsenal, and dawdle on preventing further climate change.
>> No. 32231 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 10:24 am
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>>32225
I think it's because imageboards still have the in-group out-group dynamic that forums used to get where people would think they were hot shit for having tens of thousands of posts. People think that because you're anonymous that goes away, but a basic dynamic of human behaviour isn't going to die so easily. So when you're looking for outsiders and new people you come up with ways of doing so despite the anonymous format. Here we've got it easy, half the work can be outsourced to making sure they've remembered that words have "u" in them.
>> No. 32232 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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This happened years ago, but I just found out what the costume for the revived Raven series on CBBC looked like and it's shocking. I feel bad for the lass they cast because clearly no one behind the scenes gave a shite. I'm sending a revised version of this post to Points of View.
>> No. 32233 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 8:59 pm
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Why is everything a fucking chore for me. Even the simplest things aren't straight forward because it's like the odds are against me all the time. Something random will happen without fail that makes the task 10x longer than needed, so today in particular everything I tried to do amounted to fuck all because of things out of my control. I'm believing more and more that I was cursed in Eastern Europe that one time.
>> No. 32234 Anonymous
24th August 2021
Tuesday 10:04 pm
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>>32232

The 2030s will be a bonanza for mixed-race dominatrices.
>> No. 32235 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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>>32233
Years ago I heard the phrase that the big things are easy and the little things are hard. I agree entirely, I can't articulate what I've been doing at work this month but I know I've been rushing around on tasks from start to finish.
>> No. 32236 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 5:15 pm
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>>32234
I can feel the quivering anticipation radiating through your post. Good writing, mate.
>> No. 32237 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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Second jab today, hadn't noticed the nurse didn't bother taping a cotton guff on, now got blood spots on a really comfy t-shirt.
>> No. 32238 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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People keep using my email address to sign up for things. I have a common name and was lucky to get myname@AVeryWellknownEmail Provider.com, so probably a lot of people are just guessing it. Drives me up the fucking wall.
>> No. 32239 Anonymous
25th August 2021
Wednesday 10:45 pm
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>>32237
Comfortable, it's a comfortable t-shirt. Fuck sake.
>> No. 32240 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 10:05 am
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>>32239
Don't tell me to fuck sake!
>> No. 32242 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 6:17 pm
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>>32238
I used to put my friends email into those oldschool porn mailing lists you'd find all over the internet. He mentioned it once. Good times.
>> No. 32243 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 12:34 pm
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Some cunt is honking their horn but I can't see who it is. I'm trying to work, FFS.
>> No. 32244 Anonymous
27th August 2021
Friday 3:11 pm
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>>32243
Sorry, I was looking through the Vorderman thread again. I've stopped now.
>> No. 32245 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 4:06 pm
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>>32244

To be fair, he shouldn't have been listening to you.
>> No. 32246 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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Nintendo boil my piss, I "registered my interest" in a specific Zelda amiibo I wanted for my manchild collection and I just so happened to notice it was back in stock while cancelling a pre-order for something else. I don't know when this happened, but the fact it is back in stock at all means I should have got a fucking email about it and didn't.

I was also informed today that Nintendo is the only company on the planet that can't update payment details on an order that hasn't even been processed yet. You have to cancel and re-order using different details. From a company that has notoriously small print runs of all its shit and the thing they want you to cancel is probably out of stock and will never be in stock again.
>> No. 32247 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 2:07 pm
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Airbus NEO engines are cool and everything but fuck me do they sound awful spooled up.
>> No. 32248 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 2:41 pm
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>>32247
Are they the ones with the geared fan? always sound one start away from dumping their innards out the back, if so.
>> No. 32249 Anonymous
31st August 2021
Tuesday 5:14 pm
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>>32248

There's two options, a Pratt and Whitney one which is the geared one, and a LEAP one which isn't, but they both manage to be loud as fuck, but like you say, the former just sounds like its about to die, on top of that.

I'm hoping in a few years I'll be too old to hear the awful high pitched scream of them. But then its still better than the ATR72 that starts up outside my office at 6am most mornings. French cunts.
>> No. 32250 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:01 am
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I just want proper corn tortillas but the best I've been able to do is a wheat and corn mix from Asda. Even the M&S food hall didn't have them. Thanks brexit.
>> No. 32251 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:23 am
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>>32249

I love the weird BWAAAAAARRRRRRRMMMMMMMM noises that turboprops make when they're taxiing. I'm more of a Dash 8 kind of guy tbh.
The effect is somewhat diminished at closer ranges.
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1st September 2021
Wednesday 4:21 am
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>>32251

I miss having Dash 8's at my base, but they were a fuck on to actually work with, though that might have just been a Flybe issue, their pilots never seemed very bright.

I also have a soft spot for the BaE turbos particularly the Jetstream 41. They just are such scrappy little planes, a bit like Land Rovers in that they break all the fucking time, but are so simple that they can be fixed with a couple of spanners and some tape. It's a source of endless amusement to me that the IATA delay code for a technical defect is code 41 - that has to be deliberate.

I'm not at all interested in being a commercial pilot, but I reckon if anything would ever tempt me it'd be the idea of flying one of those shitbuckets around the scottish islands or around the bush in oz or something like that. Or indeed the Dash 8s that operate weird little flights to remote Alaskan towns and such. That just seems infinitely more noble, interesting and fulfilling than ferrying 200 cunts to Ibiza on a comfortable jetliner that flies most of the sector for you.
>> No. 32253 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 4:39 pm
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>>32252
I know an ex Flybe Dash-8 driver - he was clever enough to get out and now flys 737s - I'm right with you though, were I to activate my professional pilot pipedream, it would be doing something like this guy (whose YT channel I strongly recommend).


>> No. 32254 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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I somehow find people who make up their own hashtags for their pets/children even more annoying than the ones who make the animal/sprog its own profile.
>> No. 32268 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 2:50 am
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Something I wish all multiplayer games had is mandatory rookie lobbies. I don’t mean ranked matchmaking either, or mean FOB players are stuck with each other until they’ve played a set number of games. The only place I’ve seen this is in Halo 3 though it’s likely appeared elsewhere also. The problem, and the reason this is a pipe dream for every silly niche mod I play, is that Halo 3 had a playerbase almost as large as the population of Sheffield.

This is because when I see someone playing a game and getting trounced because they don’t know any better it really effects me. I think it might be twofold. First off they’ve sat down to have a nice time and instead probably just feel kind of stupid, and secondly because it can feel isolating, in a being chosen last in PE way. I’m clearly overthinking it, but that’s how it is.
>> No. 32269 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 3:01 am
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>>32268
Quake (complicated game history) had that problem, Quake Live tried it, and QC is trying the hero shooter. It used to balance itself because self-hosting a server was cheap. It's still cheap, but self-hosting seems weird to people. I don't know what to make of it other than it's a bleak future wherer we cannot self host the game play.
>> No. 32270 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 10:24 am
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>>32269

Even as a boomer shooter enthusiast to the point I still actively work on mods and maps for these old games, and someone who loves the everliving fuck out of games like Q3A and Unreal Tournament (UT2K4 is quite possibly the best game ever made), I have to admit:

The change in direction away from traditional "arena shooter" mechanics and towards what we see today in CoD/Battlefield style games was actually a good thing.

The high end meta in games like Quake and Unreal was always anti-fun. It relied on map knowledge (pickup timers etc) and anticipating the other player's moves. A new player simply has no chance of getting a kill in edgeways against an experienced player. As you correctly highlight, the playerbase needs to sustain large numbers in order to make these games actually enjoyable, because without a plentiful supply of noobs to frag, noobs will simply bounce right off it and never get a handle on the more refined aspects of the gameplay.

Doom 2016 and, even as I loathe to admit it, Halo's multiplayer are the direction I think we should see games like that go in. They need to retain an imaginative sci-fi setting, but borrow the inherent fairness you get from CoD type games where you pick a loadout and everyone has even health, where the only determining factor of skill is your reflexes and familiarity with the mechanics; not rote memorisation of the best route between the railgun and mega-armour etc.

Another thing I always liked about these old games was how you could freely choose your player model and it made no difference to gameplay. I could never get past Quake Champions becoming a hero shooter no matter how lite they made it. And the worst part is that even if someone made a fully authentic arena shooter today, all the skins would be locked behind microtransactions and shit.

Ah I hate everything.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 10:34 am
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>>32270

Unreal Tournament is the shit. Having the customisable and very competent bots available for single player is what elevated it, along with the absolute megaton of custom content and options for games and maps. Games from a very different era. It seems that after about 2008 big games fully dropped player freedom and content, the last ones I remember extensively playing with mods and player owned servers are Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4, which feels bizarre now considering how CoD went.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 1:05 pm
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I keep getting ulcers from vaping, before they hurt and I figured it was due to the temp of the vaporiser, now since I'm using a water piece and lower temps they're just painless and happen every so often. Using every variation of keywords under the sun, I have concluded nobody on the entire planet has ever had this issue. I've been tested for herpes, bacterial and viral infections, all negative and I'm told I'm doing everything right. Maybe the years of it have just caught up to me. Fucks sake.
>> No. 32273 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 1:24 pm
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>>32270
Good points well made. For people unfamiliar with the "anti-fun", there's a narrated pro match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkDjsBiO58.

The deceptively complex movement system is just taken as read(1). Most of the discussion is about item timings, map control, post-frag caution and mental tracking of approximate player health. While of course this is pro play, given the age of Q3 there are a lot of people with half the skill who would still wipe the floor with someone who picks up Q3 for the first time which makes for a terrible experience. Note also the very austere graphics settings, stripping all unnecessary information from the display.

The general gist is that modern games let you play alone and enjoy yourself, and then you find a community if you're interested. The original arena shooters assumed you had a community to start with or you were willing to be the padawan learning from the existing player base.

> Another thing I always liked about these old games was how you could freely choose your player model and it made no difference to gameplay.

Of course everyone forcemodelled their opponents to keel ultrabright, right?. This is a game play problem in current games with character classes, you need a recognisable silhouette so players can know what to expect. When everyone is essentially the same like in Q3 then all the player needs to know is that something's moving.

(1) DeFRAg is having another championship this year!
>> No. 32274 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 1:24 pm
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>>32272

I have weird reactions to certain flavours, it might be a similar thing for you. Do you ever change flavours or brands?

For me there's some that trigger a strong, instant, athsma-like throat tightening response. My only other reliable athsma trigger is certain breeds of cat. And yet there's some I can vape all day and be totally fine with. I can't tell what it is, because nobody publishes their ingredients beyond "PG, VG, Flavouring", but my closest guess is that it's whatever they use for dough, pastry or cake flavour.

I've also noticed some flavours come in and out of existence entirely- Cinnamon and spearmint both vanished at one point, which I can only assume was because they discovered those particular flavours are massive carcinogens or something.

Vaping is still a bit of a wild west with little regulation, so we have to be aware of that. It feels more healthy than smoking, but I won't be surprised if I need a lung transplant by 55 because they've turned inside out or something.
>> No. 32275 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 1:35 pm
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>>32272
I get a lot of ulcers but have never smoked in my life. There's a thing where lots of sweet, spicy and pickled foods give you ulcers; I think it's called Candida. I asked a doctor if I had it, and the doctor shrugged and didn't care, so maybe it's not a real illness, but there are definitely ingredients which make you prone to ulcers, and they're all the most delicious things.
>> No. 32276 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>32274
I've come across all the posts about flavours and PG, the problem is it doesn't apply at all to me, I use a dry herb vaporiser for weed and CBD, only 0.1-0.2g at a time. I've had zero issues for years, until 6 months ago where I had two apples in a row which somehow burned two patches on my tongue, since then I get a burnt tastebud every so often or a sore tongue that doesn't seem to coincide with anything in my diet, and since then the ulcers have been an issue. Fucking apples.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>32275

Candida is yeast, and you'd know about it if you had an oral yeast infection.
>> No. 32278 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 6:17 pm
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I've probably moaned about them before, but my mother-in-law and brother-in-law are visiting. They do things like putting the light on in a room when it's not particularly dark and not switching it off when they leave it, leaving mugs and empty crisp packets all over the house rather than binning them, leaving used teabags in the sink and abandoning their dirty dishes on the table after a meal. Slobs, in other words.
>> No. 32279 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 6:48 pm
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>>32278
As long as they don't sleep in the same bedroom as you, you're probably fine.
>> No. 32280 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 7:38 pm
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>>32278
>leaving used teabags in the sink

Why do people do this? I've noticed that my parents have a teabag grave-plate-thing on the kitchen side for teabags.
>> No. 32281 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 7:58 pm
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>>32280
Some people reuse them.
>> No. 32282 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 8:29 pm
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>>32280
Composting.
>> No. 32283 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 9:21 pm
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>>32280
It pushes my finger-burning tolerance to pull the teabag(s) out of the mug, wring the concentrated dregs into the mug and carry the corpses a few feet to the food waste bin. I suspect people who haven't had a lifetime of solder burns and other scarring can only manage a quick lift-and-dump.
Of course, some heretics prefer to use a spoon or other implement, but fuck them, proper tea demands sacrifice. Although, not a cock. That's just wrong.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>32283
>Although, not a cock. That's just wrong.

WHY. Why did you do this? I had almost completely forgetten about it. Damn my minds your eyes.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 9:36 pm
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I went searching for an image for you, as I don't seem to have it in my collection. I failed, but have this, which is very nearly as troubling. Fuck you, Saatchi.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>32284

I often wonder if Teacock is still here. I can't imagine he'd be anywhere else, I suppose.

Maybe it's time to create a modern version. Maybe in a Sports Direct mug, though that wouldn't be very flattering.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>32283
You fucking what. So when you have someone visit and you go to make the tea there's you dunking your hairy knuckles into the tea. Fingers go in with that black shit that form under the nail when you don't wash them for awhile but come out clean.
>> No. 32288 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 9:46 pm
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>>32287
No, for fuck's sake. If I'm making tea for others I go full teapot. This barbarism is just for my five pints a day habit. Pint mug, double-bag, freshly boiled water, wait 5 mins (piss, play with dog), hoick bags out with fingers, add splash of milk, do not stir, return to shed with mug of tea.
This is my working day. 'salright.
Yes, I wash my hands after pissing.
>> No. 32289 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 10:08 pm
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I have a cafetière.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 10:09 pm
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>>32288
Give loose leaf and a proper strainer a go instead of wasting two bags every time you want a cup of tea.
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3rd September 2021
Friday 10:27 pm
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>>32290
The whole point of fingertea is to avoid using implements that will be stuck in the dishwasher by a complaining Mrs. No amount of 'just fucking leave it, I will be using it again in an hour' ever gets through, so fingertea is fine (until I finish plumbing water into my shed (no girls allowed), when I will have my tea making gubbins at hand, and at that point, loose leaf, pu-erh, and a cafetiere with caked on previous brews, will all be mine again. I look forward to this time. Maybe I should get my arse in gear.
>> No. 32292 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 10:31 pm
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>>32291

>No amount of 'just fucking leave it, I will be using it again in an hour' ever gets through

I got one of those daft little saucers you're meant to leave teabags on, but instead, I just leave the teaspoon propped against it next to the kettle. That seems to bypass whatever circuit in her brain it is that makes her misidentify it as needing washing.

Women are a lot like computers really, if you can't fix a bug there's often a workaround.
>> No. 32293 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 10:49 pm
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>>32286
>Maybe it's time to create a modern version. Maybe in a Sports Direct mug, though that wouldn't be very flattering.
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/not-piss-pint-size-mug
>> No. 32294 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 11:24 pm
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>>32285
I knew you would do that, and I'm only grateful that none of us have good archives.
>> No. 32295 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 11:27 pm
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>>32288
>double-bag

I'm with you 100% on your method and approach to tea life - but I feel like this is unnecessary profligacy and should be challenged.

I'm also jealous and might try it tomorrow.
>> No. 32296 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 11:38 pm
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>>32294
I just made the mistake of searching the archives. There is more than one.
>> No. 32297 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 11:56 pm
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>>32285
Be grateful it's the small version.
>> No. 32298 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 1:39 am
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>>32297
Looks like a Yorkshire gold blend going by the colour, what say you two?
>> No. 32299 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 5:28 am
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>>32297

I had forgotten the pubes. And the proportions.
>> No. 32300 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 6:46 am
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>>32298
I've always maintained that it's something like condensed milk or UHT long life which made it that colour. Please don't besmirch or defile Yorkshire Gold in this way.
>> No. 32301 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 7:46 am
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Probably biscuit brew. I imagine it's a bit safer for your cock.
>> No. 32302 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 5:12 pm
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>>32301
Why would you want tea that tastes like tea and biscuits when you can just get actual biscuits to go with your tea?
>> No. 32303 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 5:26 pm
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>>32302
It tastes nice and avoids me needing to stock biscuits (and necking them all, thus having no more biscuits).
Someone here shilled the stuff an I've been partaking since. Thanks, TeaShillM8, much obliged.
>> No. 32304 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 7:13 pm
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>>32300

I've been thinking about this all day.

I think if I was going to dip my knob in tea, I would just steep a tea bag in cold water, or maybe warm from the tap, then I'd add milk to disguise the weakness of the brew.
>> No. 32305 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 7:16 pm
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>>32304
Then you aren't really dipping your knob in tea, are you? You're doing the equivalent of the PVA glue in cereal adverts, or an airbrushed Big Mac. You have to commit to your art.
>> No. 32306 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 7:19 pm
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>>32305

I agree, but for a photo for an imageboard I probably wouldn't risk burning my knob.

I could do a picture of me rubbing it against my shed, maybe. Splinters are manageable.
>> No. 32307 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 7:37 pm
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>>32304
Couldn't you just.make a normal cup of tea and let it cool down?
>> No. 32308 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 8:12 pm
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>>32307

Dunno if I could stay hard for that long.
>> No. 32309 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 9:15 pm
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>>32306
That would be a scald surely.
>> No. 32310 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 9:34 pm
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I seem to recall almost unanimous criticism of CockAbuseLad, what’s changed?
>> No. 32311 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 12:09 am
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Young white men from rich Western countries calling the people who took part in the velvet revolutions in late 1980s eastern Europe 'counter-revolutionist pieces of shit'. It's like, I struggle to put into words just how silly these people look and sound.

The only way I can rationalise it is that they are rightly miffed at the fact that Western nations put out propaganda and life behind the iron curtain truly wasn't constant misery and starvation for all, and have taken that knowledge and decided to swallow propaganda from the other side hook, line, and sinker. They operate in a world of complete absolutes as well; they are completely incapable of admitting there was ever anything bad about the Soviet Union (which at the time of the VR was crumbling economically and socially), or ever anything good about the western systems.

Do they think they are going to get a special (peoples') gold star from the ghost of Stalin? It feels like a really weird LARP to play an Angry Tankie, but I think a lot of these people do believe it.
>> No. 32312 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 12:59 am
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>>32311
The Velvet Revolution was Czechoslovakia, wasn't it? Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia was "the Singing Revolution", I believe, which sounds wonderfully wholesome. They even released a song in all three languages. It was very heartwarming.



In general, I would advise against believe what anyone says online. It's fun to claim to be more of an extremist than one really is. Priti Patel could come in the room I'm in right now and list all her most offensive opinions, and pull that face she always makes, and I probably wouldn't violently assault her at all in real life. We would politely disagree and go our separate ways, and that would be very dull. These people in your picture might claim to be ridiculous militants, but I picture them more as the sort of people the song "Holiday in Cambodia" is about.
>> No. 32313 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 2:52 am
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>>32311

Most of the time they are just forecasting the shipping a little bit, along with being a sort of ironic "more extremist than thou" which is meant to be taken sort of like, in a deadpan humour kind of way. People say the left can't meme, but really that just means they don't get the left's memes, which are altogether more... Pretentious.

Beyond that, and to address the actual issue they are speaking about, it's more a general frustration that with the West "winning" the Cold War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, all hope for socialism in the West was essentially lost. Regardless of your feeling on the Soviet Union itself (and to be clear most rational people are able to recognise it was a million miles from perfect), the domino effect it's had on history has been a disaster for the left.

You don't even have to get particularly political about it, even looking at it from a relatively unbiased historical standpoint, it's pretty clear that the power vacuum left behind in that period emboldened the West's interventionist, world police approach in the early 2000s, and left the growing behemoth of the financial hegemony we were spreading through it entirely unopposed. Which has gone... You know. Well.
>> No. 32314 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 3:01 am
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I had someone earlier today who while we were discussing a transport incident in China complained when someone said there was no need to make things up about CPC because they do enough shady shit already, and complained that the sources available to research the incident further were "state media like the BBC" and "state-affiliated media like The Guardian". Then they suggested that the well-documented programme of shipping Uighurs en masse to forced re-education camps were just "holiday schools".
>> No. 32315 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 9:11 am
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>>32312
>In general, I would advise against believe what anyone says online

This. You've only got to read posts from a few years ago on here to see how laughably inaccurate they are, such as the lads who kept praising Dominic Cummings as some sort of genius savant or almost anything here to do with Syria.
>> No. 32316 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 7:23 pm
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I'm sure I've complained about this before but I have some dickhead boy racer on my road who seems to like making noise.

If the cunt isn't revving his shitbox engine and speeding up and down the road, he's pressure washing something. Once a week would be fine but this cunt does it everyday. He's currently got his wheels off and pressure washing them, the other day I caught him pressure washing his fucking roofing slates at the front of his house. Most of the time it's either his car (which of course is white) 2 white work vans or just his drive way in general.
I'd love to see how much water this wanker goes through in a week.
>> No. 32317 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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>>32316
If you unhook his hose from the tap you can pour a bottle of dye into it then hook it back up.
>> No. 32318 Anonymous
7th September 2021
Tuesday 7:53 pm
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>>32316
I've got a dickhead round my road who honks his horn every time he drives past his mate.

Tonight it sounds like he's gone out and forgot something came back and gone again and has blared his horn each time.
>> No. 32319 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 3:58 pm
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Why do so many YouTubers have to do a little bit when they introduce a guest? Just say "and luckily we have Etienne le Long here right now", I don't need or want to hear a terrible sketch about how someone magically showed up in a pre-recorded video. I need to watch less YouTube, I have too many opinions about the format. Or maybe make something of my own and stop talking the talk but not walking the walk, but then with writing like that, who in their right mind would want to listen to me? Good points all around, I think.
>> No. 32320 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>32319
The money men have got to YouTube. Somewhere, there is a pie chart saying that's a good idea, and the pie chart was shown to people who own big corporations that employ YouTubers to pretend they are authentic and making the videos themselves. Are the titles nonsense? Is there a custom thumbnail? Are the production values good? That's how you can spot the skeletal touch of the almighty dollarydoo. Both YouTubers will have partnered up with the same company, who have demanded horizontal cross-promotional synergy. I'm sorry.

Never watch any YouTuber who appears on camera. That should hopefully protect you from the worst excesses of Mammonesque cynicism.
>> No. 32321 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>32319
It has become a little bit formulaic - people are too busy copying each other right now.
>> No. 32322 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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>>32319
I think I get what you mean. Like watching a tool/machine restoration video, one youtuber sends some parts to a different youtuber for help, and they cooperate to do some canned scenes where they pretend to talk to each other on the phone.
It's okay if done right, and a big reason it's done that way is so that viewers on both channels have a bit to introduce the other youtuber and both get some new subscribers.
>> No. 32323 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 8:59 pm
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>>32320
>there is a pie chart saying that's a good idea

Actually it's the algorithm. Not even youtube understands what it wants but in something approaching a machinist cult where youtubers will copy common features in the hopes that it bumps their videos like the scum that they are.
>> No. 32324 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>32323
I've written this like a drunk cynic (sorry!) What I meant is that humanity has entered a wonderous new age driven by appeals to the madness of machine learning.

>> No. 32325 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 9:42 pm
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>>32324
But, for example, Abroad in Japan, the only proper YouTuber that I watch reliably, is a part of Tokyo Creative, some faceless entity that manages a vast percentage of the white-person-in-Japan YouTubers. That's why they all work together and appear in each other's videos, including multiple YouTubers making the same video at the same time, because they all went to the same place together, funded by Tokyo Creative. Maybe that company doesn't understand the YouTube algorithm, but I bet somebody there made a pie chart at some point and told Abroad in Japan, and Joey the Anime Man, and Sharmander, to look at said pie chart to maximise audience engagement for synergistic profitability maximisation solutions.
>> No. 32326 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 10:27 pm
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>>32325

I refuse to believe The Algorithm approves of Natskuki.
>> No. 32327 Anonymous
8th September 2021
Wednesday 11:15 pm
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>>32323
One of the problems with machine learning is that decisions become entirely unaccountable. As in it is literally impossible to explain how it was arrived at. There is no chain of logic or rules that can explain it. For some reason, the people who build these systems seem to think that this is somehow not a problem. Yes, salary depends on not understanding, etc.
>> No. 32328 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 12:03 am
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>>32327

>For some reason, the people who build these systems seem to think that this is somehow not a problem.

We don't think it's not a problem - there are a lot of researchers working on the legibility problem - but we (and our employers/clients) won't reject the best solution to a problem simply because we don't fully understand it. Nobody fully understands turbulence, chaos theory suggests that it may be fundamentally incomprehensible, but we trust that the empirical methods used to design an aircraft are reliable; likewise, an algorithm does not need to be legible to humans to reliably perform its intended task.

We're working on methods to produce human-understandable explanations of how neural models produce their results, but I'm not sure it'll make all that much difference. The fundamental problem with the YouTube algorithm is that it is remarkably good at optimising metrics that YouTube care about, namely clickthrough rate, view time and time-on-site. Those metrics are essentially unrelated to things that users care about, but the algorithm will relentlessly and efficiently pursue YouTube's goal of showing more ads to more people.
>> No. 32329 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 3:08 am
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>>32328
>but we (and our employers/clients) won't reject the best solution to a problem simply because we don't fully understand it

That's a pretty impressive way to utterly fail the Jurassic Park test. Like I said, you just seem to think this is somehow not a problem.
>> No. 32330 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 5:02 am
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>>32329

Nobody knows how general anaesthesia works. It's a stone cold scientific mystery. Hundreds of essential medicines have an unknown or poorly-understood mechanism of action. Should we stop using those medicines until we figure out how we work, or should we continue using them on the basis of empirical evidence that they're safe and effective?
>> No. 32331 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 5:25 am
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>>32330
"We should build harmful systems with effects we don't understand because anaesthesia exists" is one hell of a take.

Maybe go learn a bit about how these things work before saying stupid things on the internet, yeah?
>> No. 32332 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 6:24 am
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>>32331

Pretty sure you're the one being a wee daftie here lad. Otherlad is right.

The vast majority of human progress has come about on the back of just blindly and stupidly trying something that we don't know what will happen. When you really think about it what other way is there?

If the YouTube algorithm starts taking over the world, we'll turn it off. I'm pretty sure about that. And you can rest assured, if Google weren't using it to show you adverts for herbal prostate remedies, there'd be an alphabet agency somewhere on the lower floors of the Pentagon using it for some shady shit or other.
>> No. 32333 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 7:12 am
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>>32332
Alphabet agencies don't have a profit motive to leave it on. I'd almost rather that most of the stuff tech companies can do was only in the hands of them, even if we're to say they're actively evil. Their incentives to be evil have pretty are more limited since they'd be answerable to themselves rather than to shareholders and they're nominally under political control - neither is true of Alphabet corporation. If you want my objection at its core - which may not be theirs - it's that the power behind these things lies under private control rather than some kind of public control. I'd rather contend with simple public malice than with profitable private apathy.

If you don't like general anesthetics you can tell the doctor you refuse to go under them. Sure, other people will use it, maybe they'll die, but not that many people come into contact with it anyway. It's essentially an individual matter. If you don't use YouTube, you might still have had the misfortune to eat a bullet back when it noticed that videos about Hitler being right got really good engagement. There's a certain level of control I don't like private companies to have over society in general, and having perpetual dickheads like Google be the ones to hold it is the worst kind of dystopian - banal, disappointing, and very unlikely to fuck off.
>> No. 32334 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 8:03 am
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>>32331

I know how these things work, I'm a core contributor to TensorFlow, but the problem is not that YouTube's algorithm is malfunctioning in some opaque manner - the problem is that it's doing precisely what it was trained to do.

The algorithm does not care whether you fall down a conspiracy rabbit hole because YouTube do not care whether you fall into a conspiracy rabbit hole. The algorithm blindly optimises for clickthrough rate, view time and time-on-site because that's what it was trained to do. YouTube could have chosen to train it with some other goals, but they didn't. Sending people mad is a feature, not a bug, because mad people spend a lot of time online.

Fundamentally, a modern corporation is just a profit-maximising algorithm running on distributed wetware. AI theorists worry about the paperclip maximiser, but it's already here. Facebook turns people into bitter political partisans because bitter political partisans spend a lot of time arguing with other bitter political partisans on Facebook. YouTube turns people into deranged conspiracy theorists because deranged conspiracy theorists watch a lot of YouTube videos. Psychologically healthy people do not spend all day on social media, which leads to an obvious conclusion if your job is to get more people to spend more time on social media.

The legibility of the algorithm is totally irrelevant. If you are confused or surprised by the output of that algorithm, that is only because you have failed to understand its purpose. Oil companies know that they're wrecking the climate, tobacco companies know that they're giving people lung cancer and social media companies know that they're turning people into crackpots. The problem is not ignorance, but indifference. The solution is not algorithmic legibility, but political accountability.
>> No. 32335 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 3:13 pm
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I am completely over weather forecats promising me thunder and lightning and all I get is a two minute splash of rain.
>> No. 32336 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 3:58 pm
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>>32335
Now you know how your girlfriend feels.
>> No. 32337 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>32336
I look forward to weather, let's not pretend I'm having sex.
>> No. 32338 Anonymous
9th September 2021
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>>32335
They completely overcook it now - because they don't like being criticised if they get it even slightly wrong - YOU NEVER TOLD US IT WAS GOING TO FLOOD!!11
>> No. 32339 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 3:51 am
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>>32338

My lifeprohacktoptip of the the day is to just look at the TAF reports for your nearest airfield, they have to be actually accurate for reasons that should be obvious (pilots complain even more than real normal people)
>> No. 32340 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 10:29 am
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Why is the news so obsessed about Emma Raducanu's tennis success? It's not Wimbledon, it's another one, plus she hasn't even won it, plus women's tennis tournaments are constantly won by unknowns, so why the hype? It's getting creepy, like the news is trying to manipulate me somehow. They're treating "teenager beats two more teenagers than normal" like the Queen herself just scored the winning goal in the World Cup final while playing as the goalie. Maybe there's just no other news.
>> No. 32341 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 12:15 pm
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>>32340
It's because she's British. There's been a bit of a void in British tennis over the past give years due to Andy Murray's injury problems and there hasn't been a proper British female sports star since, probably, Jessica Ennis around the 2012 Olympics.
>> No. 32342 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 1:50 pm
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>>32340
I think she'll win and she'll go on to be a big tennis star. We haven't had a (British) female one of those for a while.
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10th September 2021
Friday 7:56 pm
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If she loses do we say she's English or Canadian?
>> No. 32344 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>32343
We can all claim she is foreign and none of us had ever even heard of her.
>> No. 32345 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 10:33 pm
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She just won the first set in the final. It's happening.
>> No. 32346 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 11:19 pm
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She just fucking won the US Open.

Good for her.
>> No. 32347 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 11:31 pm
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>>32346
Definitely British then.
>> No. 32348 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 12:36 am
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Alright, I'm whinging about YouTube again. On Monday or Tuesday it offered up a video called, and I don't recall either exactly so bear with me, "Voice Feminisation Training" by "Transitioning for Beginners" and I ignored it, for I was not transgender. Since then I've been getting insane right-wing American shite like Fox News and something called the Black Conservative Perspective. I'm not sure what this means, but apparently the algorithm thinks I need to become a racist, black, trans woman. I'm not sure I agree.
>> No. 32349 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 12:51 am
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>>32348
But it's fine because it means YouTube gets engagement and ad views, and that's what really matters.
>> No. 32350 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 12:56 am
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>>32349
It's throwing some sports betting in there too now, it's really trying to get me to ruin my life.
>> No. 32351 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>32348
I don't know why, but the same algorithm seems to recommend me women trying on pairs of tights.

Generally speaking I only watch electronics/radio channels, so I'm not sure what this is saying about me or my peers.
>> No. 32352 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:21 am
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>>32348
The algorithm works okay for me. The only conclusion I can make from years interacting with American culture online is that you're a sissy-boi looking for a big black conservative to affirmative action your balloon knot.

You're only lying to yourself at this point, lass.
>> No. 32353 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:52 am
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I'm bored of having 11/9 dominate the headlines every year. Even by the late 00's it was getting old.

Fun thought: People compare it to Pearl Harbour but imagine if WWII didn't end until 1961. And ended up with the allies having a shambolic evacuation of Tokyo as the Tatenokai swoop in.
>> No. 32354 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 2:16 am
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>>32353
Coverage has been minimal in the previous five years or so, I'd say. It's just because it's the big two-oh and the pullout in Afghanistan.
>> No. 32355 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 7:40 am
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I find it slightly odd how newspapers seem to still more or less continue to roll with the straight "How sad this all is, a time for remembrance of a tragedy" kind of line while the internet at large (admittedly, possibly just the nutters I pay attention to) seem to have long moved on to posting artifacts from what followed: America's moment of even greater insanity than usual. From the overtly political ridiculous propaganda headlines to the liberals who fawned over Bush to Disney's weird evangelist adverts to Freedom Fries to political cartoons which would, nowadays, pass for a grossly insensitive parody of post-9/11 patriotism but which are mind-bendingly contemporary.
>> No. 32356 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 10:01 am
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I haven't noticed much about it even with it being the 20th anniversary.

I do like a bit of 9/11 artwork though.
>> No. 32357 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 10:45 am
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I don't really care for the "everyone remembers where they were that day" angle. I went to school, and didn't find out till I got home. I only knew what the World Trade Centre even was because of that episode of The Simpsons. I was less shaken than I was when Princess Diana died. But when 3,000 people die, like you say, you can't really show any edge at all.

Regarding algorithms, I keep scrolling past poorly-made left-wing points on Facebook ("Boris Johnson is a stinky poo-poo-face!!!!!" 14,000 laugh-reacts), and I have, on occasion, Liked a post by either of my right-wing friends just to smash against the walls of the echo chamber. Now it's decided I must be One Of Them, and I've started getting "suggested for you" posts of truly intellectually bereft American conservative posts about how only I am brave enough to love the world's greatest flag. The hundreds of well-argued Twitter screenshots I have Liked which support Remain, hate the Conservatives, and so on, have now been forgotten.
>> No. 32358 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 11:07 am
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A lot of the reaction to 9/11 depends on your personal experience - mine is that in the three-year period leading up to it, I visited Manhattan at least monthly; I frequented Windows on the World often, it was my favourite bar and many people on Wall Streets favourite place to go on a Thursday evening. I also spent a lot of time at Salomon Brothers at WTC7.

That building was absolutely fucking enormous - it is difficult to appreciate from pictures. It was always slightly scary entering the lift lobby, going up in the lift, and you tended not to stand near the windows too often (or look down) when you were there. It was a common topic of conversation on how you would escape the building - even in those days, people joked they would rather jump than face the stairs in an emergency.

So I don't feel trauma over the event, but I do feel the absolute horror of it all having been right there so many times. I do get angry at the conspiracists - anyone who had visited that would quickly understand what would happen if any building was affected by something like that.
>> No. 32359 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 11:37 am
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>>32355
I agree very much agree with this. Channel 4 were umming and ahing over whether the post-9/11 fallout was a total disaster or not. As if there was any debate to be had, given the Pandora's Box that was unleashed in the aftermath.

>>32358
This is all perfectly acceptable and I find the footage of the attacks very difficult to watch, despite having no link to NYC. What's frustrating is that the news analysis just shows planes hitting towers and goes "wow, horrible, 'innit?" and has basically done just that for two-decades now.
>> No. 32360 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 12:00 pm
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>>32359
I actually didn't see the planes hit the towers in a single news report over the past week. I think they've decided to stop showing it now.
>> No. 32361 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 11:59 pm
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Using VSCode is actually pushing me over the edge. I can feel my sanity slipping.

Wildly different behaviour between different computers with no explanation. Googling is absolutely fucking infuriating as it seems of the literally dozens of problems a day I have with it I'm the only person to have ever had them. Endless JSON configs none of which seem to affect anything.

The main issue I have is that some feature will just... not work with no indication of why. There'll be nothing in the logs, and at best if you google it or ask a question on Stack Overflow you'll get nothing, and at worst it's fucking useless generic advice for a language you're not even using. An annexed issue to that one is that it's so fucking difficult to google exactly what you want. Like, today, IntelliSense mostly still works but now it's refusing to detect problems in the workspace.

The worst bit is on the rare occasions it is fully working it's just an absolute breeze to develop and debug remotely to the level that I haven't found anything even half as good, so I have to keep using despite the fucking daily levels of fucking mental torture it puts me through.
>> No. 32362 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:00 pm
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>>32361
Oh, hey, a fellow techlad. Nice to know someone might vaguely understand my gripe for the day.

A requirement for a data load is "bucket rows by 15 minute intervals". Excel supports Power Query, Power BI supports Power Query, and Data Factory supports Power Query, so I guess that's the way to go. I get a nice simple bit of Power Query that does the job working in Excel, copy it up to Data Factory. Turns out Data Factory doesn't support conversions to date/time types from ... well, anything. After a couple of hours manually getting the calculation to work, including rolling over hours and days, I find out that it also doesn't support constructing a time from hours/minutes/seconds either. So I figure I need to construct a string and deal with it later, which means having to zero-pad the values. Finally I get something that works and doesn't generate any warnings in Data Factory. Then I run it and find the actual output doesn't fucking match.
>> No. 32363 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:23 pm
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>>32362
>Oh, hey, a fellow techlad. Nice to know someone might vaguely understand my gripe for the day.

You're all ruddy techlads.
>> No. 32364 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:25 pm
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>>32363
That's not true, I'm a sciencelad that offloads all the boring tech stuff to techlads.
>> No. 32365 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:31 pm
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>>32363
I thought we were a doctor, a lawyer, a homeless drug addict and me?
>> No. 32366 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:34 pm
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>>32365
As far as I'm aware most of you are computer nerds. There's that hairdresser that drives an MX-5, cheflad, me and at least one dolescum.
>> No. 32367 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 3:34 pm
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>>32365
Wait, that's four. That can't be right.
>> No. 32368 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 4:18 pm
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>>32366
An MX-5 driving cheflad who's also on benefits could easily be one poster. We shouldn't pigeon hole.
>> No. 32369 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 4:28 pm
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>>32368
Maybe he lost his mind after constantly revising the menu for Greene King pubs and having to devise new things to do with black pudding, deciding to become a hairdresser after his breakdown.
>> No. 32370 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 6:37 pm
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>>32365
At least one of us is a banker.
>> No. 32371 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>32366

There are at least two NHSlads here including myself, though we're probably just as popular as dolescum now to anyone with a tattoo of a three-masted sailing ship on their gut.
>> No. 32372 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 7:17 pm
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>>32371
Maybe cheflad does the food in a hospital. He's constantly starting cunt-offs on here because having his MX-5 in the carpark is costing more than he makes.
>> No. 32373 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 8:06 pm
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>>32369

You're pretty close, honestly.
>> No. 32374 Anonymous
13th September 2021
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>32372
Uncomfortable truths right here.
>> No. 32375 Anonymous
14th September 2021
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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>>32371

I'm a former NHSlad, turned to the private world because I wanted enough money to have things like a house.
>> No. 32376 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 2:10 am
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People who buy fuck loads of glassware in tiny flats and then when they move out they leave it behind. I had a red wine glass fall out the cupboard and shatter at half one in the morning and now I've got a cut on my thumb and can't hoover until midday tomorrow due to noise. There's 6 SIX wine glasses, 4 tumblers and 2 rocks glasses for a one-person studio - I think I can guess how much they were used.

You just fucking know the landlord has kept an accurate tally on all those glasses and will charge me that 80k value out of my deposit. From now on don't leave any kitchen stuff behind when you move house - as a species we can't handle it.
>> No. 32377 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 4:36 am
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>>32376
Ikea is the cheapest place to buy good okay glassware.
>> No. 32378 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 11:19 am
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Hair transplants should either be illegal or free on the NHS, no half measures.
>> No. 32379 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 11:51 am
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>>32378
They could be both, like prescription medication.
>> No. 32380 Anonymous
16th September 2021
Thursday 3:10 pm
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>>32378
I initially took your post to imply that you'd asked for a pube transplant and been told you can only get head hair. I was impressed. Anyway, I'm pretty sure hair transplants fall out again after a few years, based on Wayne Rooney and a guy I used to work with.
>> No. 32381 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 11:49 pm
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Bread mould can fuck off. It can fuck right off. If it's not ruining my weekend morning then it's ruining a sudden craving for toast before bed. The worst part is how it eats the good bread so quickly and even the healthier breads with no added sugar. Then I reach into the cupboard and only realise once it's toasted or I've cracked an egg.

I might just start buying the cheapest and whitest loafs I can find on a supermarket shelf. Even if the bread takes a few years off my life it will outlive me so I consider that 50/50.
>> No. 32382 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:11 am
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Why does Facebook load so slowly? It loads at normal speed on other computers, but I can't imagine you could programme a website to use a computer's entire resources. Am I somehow mining Bitcoins for Zuckerberg's fortune when I log in? And why doesn't my computer get any noisier if so?
>> No. 32383 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 1:29 am
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>>32382
I just tried Windows Performance Monitor, and whatever my problems are, they seem to be a bunch of memory faults per second. Transition faults, demand zero faults, and cache faults per second all drop considerably when I close the Facebook tab and only look at functioning websites. But memory usage otherwise is unchanged. Clearly Facebook has been programmed to force me to buy a new computer.
>> No. 32384 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:14 am
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>>32381
Store a few emergency slices of bread in the freezer. Defrost as and when needed.
>> No. 32385 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 7:31 am
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>>32382

There's a lot of websites like this nowadays, and I suspect it's largely because they just don't really expect you to be looking at it on a desktop browser at all. I don't have any figures but I'm willing to be over 90% of Facebook usage is through the phone app.
>> No. 32386 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 8:15 am
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>>32384
Or just freeze all your pre-sliced bread, been doing that for years as I'm not a big bread consumer. Defrosts perfectly in a few minutes on the counter or straight in the toaster.
>> No. 32387 Anonymous
21st September 2021
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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>>32383
Fine on this end. My hunch would be an extension clash.
>> No. 32388 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 12:58 pm
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Large books should come apart so I can just choose to take a portion out with me, rather than haul around a massive 450 page tome, which I don't want to do.

Also, dog walkers who treat their slightly barky dogs like the devil and then wonder why they flip their lid whenever they meet another dog. Because you're choking it out and shouting nonsense at it, you stupid old prick.
>> No. 32389 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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I think my energy supplier has gone bust.
>> No. 32390 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 6:43 pm
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>>32389
Is your electricity free now?
>> No. 32391 Anonymous
22nd September 2021
Wednesday 7:02 pm
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>>32390
Nope, it just means he'll be dumped with a supplier he doesn't want to be with who will charge him an arm and a leg for the privilege of being his bailout provider.
>> No. 32392 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 5:24 pm
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I bought some pre-grated cheese because I felt like being lazy and not having to wash the grater, but the stuff refuses to melt. It's weird. It just sort of goes soft but retains its shape. I think the issue is it's too chunky. It's almost like french fries made of mature cheddar.

The whole point of crated cheese is to melt, is it not? Why would you have grated cheese that refuses to melt?
>> No. 32393 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 5:44 pm
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>>32392

It's anti-caking agent mate, stops it clumping in the bag but also stops it melting in your food.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/why-grate-your-own-cheese/

Also, dissolving sodium citrate in cheese makes it extra melty/stretchy.
>> No. 32394 Anonymous
23rd September 2021
Thursday 6:30 pm
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>>32393
>dissolving sodium citrate in cheese makes it extra melty/stretchy.
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/sodium-citrate.html
Does that same to your rectum apparently.
>> No. 32395 Anonymous
25th September 2021
Saturday 5:11 pm
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I have a mob of rollerbladers that like to go past my house while carrying boomboxes blasting out upbeat classics from the likes of ELO and Bill Withers. If that wasn't bad enough they always do this when I'm on the other side of the street with my shopping so I'm forced to wait for the parade of nobheads to pass.

It's just not British.
>> No. 32405 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 4:16 pm
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Capri-Sun need to get their shit together and go back to plastic straws. The paper straws they use are shit and not fit for purpose.
>> No. 32406 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:00 pm
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People who believe in the snake oil of "power conditioners" are downvoting me on Rudgwick and it's triggering me more than it should.
>> No. 32407 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 6:14 pm
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>>32406

They seem to work for studio monitors, but then again I don't think they're doing anything a ground loop isolator doesn't do.
>> No. 32408 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 7:47 pm
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>>32406
Yes the audiophile crowd suffers from worse mental gymnastics than flat earthers.
>> No. 32409 Anonymous
29th September 2021
Wednesday 11:47 pm
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>>32408
They really do - there are countless examples of it, but my recent favourite are the £400 audiophile ethernet patch cables; people falling for that probably don't deserve the money anyway, but its still hilarious.
>> No. 32410 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 1:19 am
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>>32409
£400? Try £10k, and that's not even the most expensive on the site.

https://www.futureshop.co.uk/audioquest-diamond-rj-e-ethernet-cable?gclid=CjwKCAjwndCKBhAkEiwAgSDKQTtIAxUcAclZzQjvFh-Ei1p1p51DgjoiP5MPJQn9LmtID8JbKMwBsRoC1qkQAvD_BwE
>> No. 32411 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 1:37 am
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>>32410
Oh my that's really funny. I particularly enjoy this idea that digital cables improve analogue audio quality after 100 hours of "burn in".

Would really love to see their sales numbers.
>> No. 32412 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 1:44 am
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>>32411
My dad falls for this. He bought some wanky cables for his hi-fi, then left it running 24/7 for weeks to "break in" the cables. It's how we as a family became fans of Rumer, he left her albums playing on repeat for days at a time every time he got a new thing for his hi-fi.
>> No. 32413 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 2:40 am
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>>32412

Cargo cult logic innit. Some designs of loudspeakers and headphones do require a burn-in period, because they're electromechanical devices - the elastomer supporting the moving diaphragm starts out slightly stiffer than ideal, but it loosens up with the repeated flexing of use. A lot of electronics undergo a burn-in process at the factory, but that's to detect dud components that would cause very early failure.

People who have vaguely heard of "burning in" but don't understand the reasons for it have extended it out to everything. If you don't have a basic understanding of the physics of sound, it's easy to fall into magical thinking.
>> No. 32414 Anonymous
30th September 2021
Thursday 9:26 am
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>>32411
They don't plan to sell anyway. It's about recalibrating the price gamut in the eyes of a consumer. Once you're aware that 10k cables exist, spending £100 seems a bargain.
>> No. 32415 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 5:24 pm
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Tyskie is no longer included in the "2 for £4" offer at Co-Op, and I am not paying £2.40 a bottle.
>> No. 32416 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 7:27 pm
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>>32415
Mate I'm not sure if you're aware but those Tyskie bottles are likely now 5% and have been for a while. I can still find cans that are 5.4% or 5.6% or whichever it was. Aren't Tesco still doing 3 for a fiver anyway?

Also why are Tesco being such cunts about the clubcard now? It won't be long til meal deals are exclusive on clubcard. ITZ
>> No. 32417 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 8:29 pm
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>>32416
IIRC, Sainsbury's are looking to follow suit.
>> No. 32418 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 9:53 pm
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I refuse to get a supermarket loyalty card, because I don't want them know I only buy cheesestrings, cured meat and beer. I am boycotting Tesco for introducing Clubcard only deals, and if Sainsbury's follow suit I will have to go to Lidl.
>> No. 32419 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 9:59 pm
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>>32418
Fucking sucks, right? The price on clubcard items purchased without a clubcard has increased, too. further incentive to sign up. Disgusting.
>> No. 32420 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 11:51 pm
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I reported one of my own comments on The Guardian because "I posted this and I think I sound like a cunt. Could you please remove it, thanks!" and it worked. I wasn't being abusive or anything I just hated the post I'd made.
>> No. 32421 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 12:23 am
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>>32420
Now post it again.
>> No. 32422 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 7:47 am
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>>32421
Why? It was a very specific statement about a very specific thing. I couldn't remember it all exactly if I tried.
>> No. 32423 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 10:40 pm
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Whoever decided you can't use await unless you declare your function as async in JS, I'd like to slowly and deliberately wring their FUCKING neck. I really couldn't give less of a fuck about 'proper technique' or whatever.

Yes, if I was writing it all myself from the ground up then I'd do it properly, but sometimes you're trying to fix someone else's problems and don't want to have to re-write thousands of lines of code because some FUCKING CUNT has decided that this is how you're going to have to do it.

"Oh it's central to how the system works". Really? Why the FUCK can't I just tell the thread to block until the async function has run and the promise has resolved? Fuck OFF.
>> No. 32424 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 10:57 pm
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>>32423
Welcome to cooperative multitasking, emphasis on cooperative. If you thought that was some allegory for how the program works, then that's technically true, but what it really means is that if not everyone up and down the stack cooperates you've created a nightmare that actual threading could've solved nicely in a way that requires discipline. The kind of discipline that's obvious in code by more than just a missed keyword.
>> No. 32425 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 11:42 pm
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>>32424
Admittedly my familiarity with the JS stack system is poor, but I do know about threading in C++ and there's no reason you can't block any operation whilst waiting for another thread to finish.

Again, why can I not do this?
>> No. 32426 Anonymous
3rd October 2021
Sunday 11:55 pm
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>>32425
The JS stack is not threading, it's doing coopertative multitasking. I don't know C++ but Perl, Python, Forth, heck even Bash (and a dash of APL) I'll do, but all of these have issues arond multitasking but I think it's what used to be called a "bondage and constraint" language. That used to refer to syntacticaly picky langauages, now it's languages that make your work harder.

Doing two things at a time has been hard since forever, doing more things takes work. There are no shortcuts, it should be clear that having to use frame works built buy a team of people that lets you skip the grunt work.

I'm an old fart, the websites I host have no JS (because no one cares).
>> No. 32427 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 12:16 am
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>>32426
If, theoretically, every function you had down the stack was declared async, and all the way from the top you called the next one down with await (creating synchronous behaviour), the behaviour I want would be perfectly acceptable. There's clearly something I'm missing here but I've been Googling it for hours and have yet to find an explanation.
>> No. 32428 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 2:06 am
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>>32427
This being JavaScript, the way forward is to figure out exactly what it is you were trying to achieve and why it is objectively wrong.

JavaScript is what happens when you outlaw abortion. It is the cancerous fungating tumour of programming languages.
>> No. 32429 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 2:16 am
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>>32427
It took me a while to get it. My (possibly very wrong) understanding is that's it not for your benefit at all. It's about maximizing the utilization of your servers if you're a busy cloudy company handling 10 gazillion requests/s.

So with normal threading, there's only so many threads the OS will allow - So lots of blocking i/o means lots of unutilized cycles, meaning you need more hardware to handle requests. Here's where the async comes in - It allows blocked threads to be reused by other tasks until the blocking operation has finished.

Which all sounds very nice if it could've been implemented at the OS or language or framework level and be completely hidden, but unfortunatey it's not been. So yes we have to suffer with it.

Your key focus now should be on how to wait for a task (Promise in javascript?) to complete in a non-async function. I know how to do that in C# so I'm golden.
>> No. 32430 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 2:56 am
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>>32429

> My (possibly very wrong) understanding is that's it not for your benefit at all. It's about maximizing the utilization of your servers if you're a busy cloudy company handling 10 gazillion requests/s.

Also JS was born as a browser scripting language, so it was designed to be constrained and has evolved with sandboxing to avoid giving any random website the keys to the kingdom. We take it for granted that we can just execute any old bit of JS in a browser without worrying about what it might do to our computer, but that's actually sort of miraculous if you think about it.

That's the key thing to understand with JS (along with the fact that the OG language was written by one guy in a month-long caffeine bender) - the interpreter has to treat every line of every program as if it were malicious. The browser is not a normal execution environment and things that are totally reasonable in a normal execution environment are suicidally awful in the browser.

>>32423

Async/await and promises only became part of the spec in 2017. If you need asynchronous events in old code then you probably need to use callbacks, which have essentially the same functionality but are syntatically messy. If you truly need a separate thread, you want a Worker.
>> No. 32431 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 6:32 pm
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My girlfriend will do things like try and be helpful by getting the ingredients for a meal but forgetting several key components and doing things like buying certain brands of mince or whatever we both agree are awful and pointless buying as we don't like it.

When I inevitably sigh because we start to cook and I realise she's done this she then makes me out to be a bad person because 'she was trying to do the right thing' even though it's just stupid to do things like go 'well this was the only mince left so I bought this' instead of just leaving it or getting another meal or letting me pick things up.

Am I the arsehole? I don't know why it winds me up so much but why the fuck would you buy something you know neither you nor the person you're buying it for like it?
>> No. 32432 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>32431

Just sounds like you view the shopping priority differently. If she's doing the shopping, it's her job to do, so getting the slightly wrong thing comes before giving up on it and making work for you. Maybe. I don't know.
I can't see into either of your heads but it does seem like something you should be able to talk through.
>> No. 32433 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 7:30 pm
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>>32432
You're right, I probably over egged it saying it winds me up so much, it's mildly annoying at best.

I just don't get it.
>> No. 32434 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 9:21 pm
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Well, I've never felt more like a spacker in my life.

48 hours since I started I'm still here trying to resolve what should be a simple problem, and every time I do something something else breaks. Everything I thought I knew about the satan-spawn that in Node.js is apparently wrong, and I feel with every random debugger break in some module 70000000 calls of <anonymous> down the stack I can hear it cackling in my ears louder, as my IQ drops a point every time.

My day job is programming, but maybe I should quit since I'm clearly a fucking retard.
>> No. 32435 Anonymous
4th October 2021
Monday 9:43 pm
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>>32431
Do the shopping yourself then. The missus is anal about this sort of thing, while I do the exact same thing your girlfriend does. She does more or less all the shopping now.
>> No. 32436 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 4:13 pm
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>>32431

It's not about who the arsehole is, just be forgiving and try to come up with a better arrangement. Maybe make a list; write down whenever you run out of something, stick it to the fridge so it's ready for her to take whenever she goes shopping.
>> No. 32437 Anonymous
5th October 2021
Tuesday 6:43 pm
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>>32436
>It's not about who the arsehole is
This but >>32431 is definitely the arsehole
>> No. 32438 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 11:03 am
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I’m quite amazed by the number of websites I visit on my phone that are essentially non-functional. It’s usually as a result of cookie and GDPR windows not responding which means the entire page is obscured. Perhaps it’s my own fault for having a little, old, smart phone, but no, it isn’t, because even the highest resolution phones are going to have this problem and if it’s one of the windows that greys out the web page then you’re done for too.
>> No. 32439 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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>>32438
My biggest gripe with mobile website is that there are so many with auto-play videos that pop up and eat my data. Or pages that have so much extra crap to load the text keeps jumping farther and farther down the page each time something else finally loads so it takes about 20 seconds before I can even start reading.
>> No. 32440 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:25 pm
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>>32439
I've got a screenshot from a while ago of a story headlined something like "How the web became unreadable" obscured by a cookie popup, a newsletter subscription, and a video ad.
>> No. 32441 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:30 pm
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I've been spending more and more time on Rudgwick these days, because 4chan is just intolerable, this place is slow as hell, and most of the forums I visit from back in the day have slowly died too. It's as though Rudgwick is the last refuge for me.

Anyway, it's not that I really dislike the place, you've just got to be selective about the communities you participate in, but some of the shit you see on there is infuriating. Even as someone who grew up posting on /b/ at it's height I'm viscerally annoyed by the level of retardation you see displayed, particularly by the more conservative wing of the younger generation.

I've noticed there are a load of these fucking weirdo puritan zoomers these days who appear to be pushing some kind of 1920s Quakerism revival. They talk about porn addiction and abstaining from wanking being healthy for you, which can in some cases be true, but they're absolutely off their rockers. Watching porn at all is degenerate, wanking once a day as a teenager is too much, all the things they do in porn nowadays are corrupting people and preventing them from having healthy relationships etc.

It's just infuriating. And I even say that as the same person who was mildly trolling the other week about how sex for financial gain is inherently immoral- I have values, but this lot are just fucking mad. Properly. I'm flummoxed.
>> No. 32442 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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>>32441

My first reaction is to point out that there were plenty of nofap ideas floating around /b/ even way back when, but you're not the first person I've seen complaining about zoomers and their conspiracy theories. Not the first person today.
>> No. 32443 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:50 pm
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>>32441
I went on 4chan a couple of months ago, /sp/ to be specific, which must have been the first time in several years and it was just so... tiresome. There's always been that undercurrent of racism, but the sheer obsession with black men was ubiquitous. I can only really describe it with indifference.

Rudgwick has always struck me as being incredibly fake, full of insincere politeness. Sort of like you're dealing with a wildly grinning American shop worker telling you to have a nice day.

I made a thread on /g/ about something similar a few years back, >>/g/26838, because I'm conscious that the number of websites I'm visiting and actively engaging with has been dwindling for some time.
>> No. 32444 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 8:53 pm
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>>32442

The nofap stuff back in the day was more of a half-serious joke challenge. It seems to have morphed into a quasi-religion, though.

I have encountered people who are not as versed in the history of the internet as I am, and depending where they learned about it they tend to assume it was always inherently linked with the chronic crowd.

It's always been trendy throughout history to say the next generation on is fucked in the head and all that, and people will always trot out this line as a trueism about how they'll turn out fine in the end like we did.

But I'm not so sure this time. They really have been exposed to heavy electricity, quadraspazzed on a life glug, smelling of hammers, and all that.
>> No. 32445 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 10:53 pm
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>>32444
I think a mistake some people might have made is to assume the only people susceptible to internet-insanity were old fogies who still remembered Britain's car industry and beef dripping sandwiches. In reality the ubiquity of technology hasn't fostered an inherent technological literacy, leaving large portions of society ready to believe the most hastily edited footage of bigfoot bunging Donald Trump $1,000,000 in a strip club CNN doesn't want you to see. How large is "large" I don't know, but it seems we're still as far away as ever from getting out act together and being contacted by the rest of the galaxy's sexy, bipedal, FTL capable aliens as ever.
>> No. 32446 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 12:40 am
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>>32443
I go on 4chan every day, and I must say /sp/ can be good. In my opinion, it's actually getting better than it was a couple of years ago, but I might just be finding places I can rely on (I know a number of threads on 4chan which are like here, and that's a good thing, however unbearable you utter bellends can sometimes be).

If you want somewhere really awful, try 4chan's /g/. It reeks of insecurity. Everyone is trying to belittle and ruin everyone else, while boasting desperately about how much money they get paid, and how the only technology is programming (coincidentally, a form of technology which is a hobby for students; there are never threads about web hosting or virtualisation because those are jobs, and therefore alien to most of /g/). That and brand wars over absolutely everything. It's hideous. There's also /qa/, originally set up as a board for discussing the state of 4chan as a whole, but now used as a battlefield between various mentally ill spammers trying to outspam each other, resulting in a completely unusable board.

I have no-fapped a couple of times (in the past 12 months, I did not wank at all throughout either November 2020 or May 2021) and it's a great feeling to know you're not addicted to it and really do have the mental fortitude to just stop. But I didn't get any cool other hobbies to fill the void; I just posted on 4chan more. And I certainly didn't get any special magic powers.
>> No. 32447 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 12:55 am
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>>32446

I've got a theory that 4chan actually just varies dramatically according to the time of day. European morning hours when all the Americans are asleep are much more civilised. For example the 40k thread on /tg/ is pleasant and enjoyable by day, but as soon as the Yanks start waking up it invariably devolves into the typical identity politics obsessed shit flinging. And that's not just my own projection, I mean it's observable, like clockwork.
>> No. 32448 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 1:33 am
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>>32447
In my experience, anything with fewer posters is better. The smaller boards are good (try /diy/), and /sp/'s Paralympics threads were some of the most fun I've ever had there, because the four or five posters were all knowledgeable, passionate, interested, and positive. Anyone who went there during the Euro 2020 final will have seen a much worse side of /sp/, because it takes no effort, and requires no knowledge or involvement, to point out that certain players are BLACK LMAO and to make 70 different identical threads about this fact with no other information, contribution or effort.
>> No. 32449 Anonymous
7th October 2021
Thursday 11:01 pm
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I wish I could grow a beard. I don't actually want a beard, but I do want stubble.
>> No. 32450 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 12:13 am
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>>32449
Bread transplant. Maybe do it in a former USSR country or Turkey - they are way cheaper. I have a mate who done it, along with his head.
>> No. 32451 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 12:14 am
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>>32450
I can't delete - I meant Beard, not BREAD.
>> No. 32452 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 12:27 am
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>>32450
>>32451
Bread transplants sounds like something I could get behind. Imagine having a loaf that was made up of different slices of bread* that would give you some variation and introduce this goddamn backwards hovel of a country to proper breads again.

*In pairs of course; I'm not an animal.
>> No. 32453 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 2:27 am
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>>32452
I would love that actually. Imagine having some sort of loaf going from all white to the artsy shit at then end?
>> No. 32454 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 4:33 pm
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I booked a flu-jab and now Boots won't stop texting and emailing reminders for it. It's being paid for so they shouldn't care and my employer is the one paying for it so I'm pretty ambivalent myself.
>> No. 32455 Anonymous
8th October 2021
Friday 5:06 pm
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>>32449
I have to shave every 12 hours to stay clean shaven which makes my femboy aesthetic hard work so I'd gladly trade with you.
>> No. 32456 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 4:42 am
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Had this cold for a week now. Just as it was clearing up, sore throat is back with a vengeance. Feels like there is razor blades and broken glass in my throat every time I swallow.
>> No. 32457 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 9:20 am
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>>32456
Yeah I think everyone's had the double or treble summer cold.
>> No. 32458 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 8:24 pm
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I apparently look like somebody on a shitty Netflix tv show so everytime there's a new season there's a spike in people saying 'you remind me of the guy from that show.'

This has happened at parties, in work, with family, somebody working in M and S stopped me to tell me, somebody I haven't seen in 5 years told me they were thinking of me because they were watching the show. Somebody even pointed at me the other day in the pub and said 'hey he looks like that guy'.

It's actually quite awkward. What do I say? Thank them? Say 'oh I know?' say 'oh really?'.

If it was a more flattering lookalike I might not actually mind it...
>> No. 32459 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 9:47 pm
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>>32458

Well, go on, who?

And just grow a moustache or something. Facial hair does a lot for your appearance.
>> No. 32460 Anonymous
9th October 2021
Saturday 11:15 pm
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>>32458
Once got told I look like Mark E. Smith. I was 18 at the time and it's only becoming truer as I age. There aren't enough post-punk aficionados around for it to come up again, but it's never left me.

I hope you've gone ball as fuck, Alex, you guitar pedal bothering sod.
>> No. 32461 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 12:36 am
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Just saw Baroness Warsi on The Last Leg. I was unreasonably aroused.
>> No. 32462 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 3:03 am
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>>32460

I used to get Zach Galifianakis, which I think just meant I was a bit fat and had a beard, not that I had a similar face or anything.
>> No. 32463 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 4:55 am
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>>32461
I really want her to sit on my face, which is weird because I never wanted anyone to do that to me.
>> No. 32464 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 8:29 am
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>>32462
I've had Seth Rogen for similar reasons, but if I wear glasses I get Ed Sheeran.
>> No. 32465 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 1:10 pm
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>>32463

I think it's a combination of her firm-but-fair demeanour and the natural curvaceousness of a middle-aged Asian woman.
>> No. 32466 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 1:47 pm
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I am very frequently compared to Andy Serkis. Unfortunately age has agreed with opinion, and now I look just as tired as he does. Fortunately he's known for more than just Golum now. Also Rowan Atkinson.
>> No. 32467 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 2:01 pm
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>>32464

I've also been compared to Seth Rogen, even though I wear glasses all the time. Are you a bungy? That may explain the Sheeran comparison.
>> No. 32468 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 2:24 pm
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>>32467
The Sheeran one is because my beard is a little ginger.
>> No. 32469 Anonymous
10th October 2021
Sunday 11:21 pm
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I've long thought all advertising ought to be banned from public places as it constitutes little more than brain-polluting, ugly, nonsense. However, the genre of TV ad that is "old person doing modern thing, ain't it crazy!" should also be banned and punishible by... castration. Women we'll wall into a tiny room like in the middle ages and wait until they starve.
>> No. 32470 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 12:27 am
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>>32469

I consume nearly all of my media through adblock-enabled devices. When I happen to be using someone else's computer or watching someone else's TV, I'm always shocked at how crass, vulgar and manipulative advertising is. A lot of TV adverts seem to just be an "inspirational" montage of diverse people doing photogenic things to a plinky-plonky soundtrack, with the brand tacked on at the end. I miss the old days when adverts at least had the good grace to try and sell you something.
>> No. 32471 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 8:27 am
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>>32469

I agree and also here's a little guide to opening those "bus stop" size adverts that are everywhere (not just in bus stops).
https://issuu.com/dogsectionpress/docs/subvertising_manual
They expect you to replace it with art but you don't need to, you can just roll up the advert.
>> No. 32472 Anonymous
11th October 2021
Monday 12:49 pm
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>>32470
>>32471
Aren't most adverts still social engineering stuff from the government about covid and Brexit? Aside from the underground which lives in a parallel universe of bad novels and theatre.
>> No. 32473 Anonymous
13th October 2021
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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4od was such a superior name to All-Four, but 4od was barely usuable crap so I guess it's an improvement overall.
>> No. 32478 Anonymous
19th October 2021
Tuesday 1:55 pm
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There are too many kinds of beans. It’s little wonder few in the UK cook regularly with anything other than the baked kind.
>> No. 32482 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 2:49 pm
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Fucking UPS. Why do they even bother giving you an estimated delivery time when it's a) 6 hours wide and b) they never fucking make it regardless?
>> No. 32483 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 9:10 pm
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Bastard kids having bastard threadworms.
>> No. 32484 Anonymous
21st October 2021
Thursday 9:34 pm
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Is this genetic? I have always lived around people with it, but never got it in my life.
>> No. 32485 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 10:33 am
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If cavemen were all hyper-violent rapists, then why would cumming make you all sleepy? Exactly.
>> No. 32486 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 11:04 am
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>>32485

"Evolutionary psychology" as a field seems to be especially prone to nonsense stories as to why people exhibit certain behaviours. I'm sure there is a proper scientific pursuit in there, somewhere, but it's completely drowned out by the pet theories of others.
>> No. 32487 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 11:46 am
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>>32485
Do you know who doesn't feel as sleepy after sex, women. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
>> No. 32488 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 12:13 am
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Can we please go back to interviewing nutters in the street - I never thought I'd miss them.
>> No. 32489 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 12:48 am
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>>32488
Is the Beeb getting influencers to chime in on economic policies now or what?
>> No. 32490 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 10:02 am
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>>32488

I miss when it was page 3 girls giving out completely believable and right-on takes about foreign policy. Those were more innocent times.
>> No. 32491 Anonymous
26th October 2021
Tuesday 10:42 am
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>>32490
>> No. 32492 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 2:19 pm
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People who identify as non-binary and don't present in an androgynous way, but get really pissy when you use the pronouns of the gender they present as.

If you're wearing a full face of makeup and I can see at least 40% of your tits, don't get all pissy when I use female pronouns.
>> No. 32493 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 2:40 pm
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>>32492
I fell out with a they/them over this recently. How we present with clothes is a language, if you present as one thing or the other then I'm going to read that as a desire to be described by those pronouns. If you tell me otherwise then fine, I can use the ones you prefer, but I'm not going around asking everybody what their pronouns are. You've got tits and a vagina, nobody's going to start a physical fight with you if he thinks you're insulting his masculinity by asking if he might not be a "he".
>> No. 32494 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 3:38 pm
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>>32493
I met one recently. I got on amazingly well with him, yes, him, and he was really cool. Once I inevitably fell into the trap and got an obscene bollocking, I politely accepted I had made a mistake, and we were friends again. But then I just avoided pronouns altogether. Turns out I just really cannot bring myself to respect this. I met the individual in question, who was clearly male, at a barbecue so I fully assume I will never meet him again and it will all be fine. But if I can't indulge him, the annoying ones must really struggle to be listened to.
>> No. 32495 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 3:59 pm
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>>32494
I don't think I can avoid this person and I'll avoid the topic but I'm not going to give ground just to appease. I asked their pronouns, they didn't ask mine. I've spoken to a number of people who are vocal about the need to ask pronouns and not a single one of them ever has. Clearly in some cases it's not about the actual asking.
>> No. 32496 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 5:39 pm
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I can never get in my usual toilet stall at work and more. I miss the pandemic.
>> No. 32497 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 7:01 pm
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>>32496
Ask if you can wank from home instead.
>> No. 32498 Anonymous
28th October 2021
Thursday 9:04 pm
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I'm perpetually disappointed that nobody has made a gay porn film called Ball Guys: Ultimate Cockout.
>> No. 32500 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 10:36 am
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I can't stand it when a game updates but there's nothing to say what the update actually is.
>> No. 32501 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 10:51 am
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>>32500
Speaking of, can I please buy a decent mouse that doesn't shine in rainbow colours? It's a fucking mouse, I don't want to download a 500MiB driver to make the fucking lights shut up and I certainly don't want to sign up to a god damn fucking account to make the fucking hardware I paid for behave how I want.

If you put LEDs on your hardware then I hope you die in a ditch eaten by ants.
>> No. 32502 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 11:00 am
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>>32501
The modern Microsoft Intellimouse is a good mouse for 25 quid. It does have a small white LED though, hope that's OK gramps.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-HDQ-00002-Classic-Intellimouse/dp/B078H3DHLP
>> No. 32503 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 12:13 pm
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>>32501

Yes you can, and it's your own stupid fault for not doing your research.
>> No. 32504 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 12:16 pm
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>>32501

The gold standard in the pro gaming community are Zowie mice. They offer a simple five-button mouse in eleven size and shape variants.

https://zowie.benq.com/en/product/mouse.html

The Logitech G305 and G603 offer wired-level gaming performance in an affordable wireless mouse. There is one tiny LED to indicate the DPI setting, but it only turns on when you're actively cycling through the DPI settings.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CGPZ3ZQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Wireless-Gaming-optical-sensor/dp/B0746NVS2Z/

If you don't do gaming, the Logitech MX Master has excellent ergonomics and genuinely useful productivity features.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Master-Wireless-Bluetooth-Windows/dp/B0761YL588/
>> No. 32505 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 1:39 pm
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I'd actually really like a mouse that somehow doesn't use an LED for the sensor, if that's possible. LEDs are terrible for interference on guitar pickups, especially with powerful high output ones, so if I'm recording a bit of music I find myself having to sit at an extremely specific angle in order to make sure I'm not aligned with any of the various lights on my mouse, keyboard, PC case, speakers, or amplifier. The mouse is by far the worst offender though.
>> No. 32506 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 2:30 pm
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>>32505

Some older optical sensors used a laser for illumination, but I'm not sure whether they'd be any better in terms of electromagnetic interference.

I'd strongly recommend making sure that your guitar is properly shielded and grounded - a tenner's worth of copper tape and a bit of effort can massively reduce interference.

https://sixstringsupplies.co.uk/pages/copper-shielding-how-to-shield-a-guitar
>> No. 32507 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 2:37 pm
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>>32506

There's only so far you can shield a guitar. You can eliminate the usual suspects of 60hz hum and background RF pretty easily, but an electromagnetic pickup is still going to pick up electromagnetic signals in the near field, that's what it is designed to do.

I just need a bigger room really. I have to sit close enough to the amp that if I turn to face it I'll pick up hum from the power transformer.
>> No. 32508 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 2:43 pm
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>>32503
I did and you're wrong you absolute numpty.
>> No. 32509 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 4:30 pm
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>>32508

Ahem. >>32504
>> No. 32510 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 4:56 pm
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I second the MX Master, and I also use it for gaming. I haven't noticed any particular performance loss over my old IntelliMouse Explorer 3 even when wireless.
>> No. 32515 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:37 am
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Why is Windows still as shit now as it was 15 years ago? I've just had the displeasure of having to re-install it on my PC so I took the opportunity to upgrade to windows 10 at the same time.
It's still installing updates 4 hours Later and it's just decided to disable my computer for the next half hour because apparently Microsoft still haven't worked out how to install stuff in the background properly or without constant reboots.

Meanwhile Ubuntu only took 20 minutes to install and update everything to the latest version, never locks you out of your machine while it's "Installing updates, this may take a while" and only actually requires a reboot maybe once or twice a year.
>> No. 32516 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 11:01 am
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>>32515

Not sure what you're on about, Windows was loads better 15 years ago. I had some sick custom .msstyles skins, that blinged out Rainmeter HUD, and Rocketdock with the most minimalist minimalist icons you could find.

I'm only a casual nerd, not a programmer or developer of any sort; what have we actually gained in 15 years of Windows versions, besides a different UI and supposedly better security? I'm pretty sure I could have lived with it if they just incrementally updated the security and DirectX versions on XP for the past couple of decades.
>> No. 32517 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 12:07 pm
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>>32516
Did you ever get the XP Zune skin? Black bars with orange highlights, made me feel super duper cool. Agreed on XP, it did everything I wanted and needed it to. Now my start bar has ads for netflix and candy crush, and more and more bloatware is being added while the PC experience is becoming more and more mobilised.

It's not going to change, it's only going to get worse. And the more people that jump ship to a Linux distro, the less demand for a better Windows.
>> No. 32518 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 1:51 pm
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>>32515

Glad you had a good time with Ubuntu. I tried 21.10 on my laptop and it was just a dog. The desktop would crash every few hours so you couldn't click on anything outside of super+tabbing between apps, and every time I logged in, it would first ask me if I really wanted to boot Ubuntu despite it being the sole fucking OS I had installed.

Another stupid thing - I tried adding my wireless at first install but it gave zero feedback as to whether that had worked or not. I eventually gave up and clicked next anyway only to see that once I hit the desktop it had been added three seperate times as wireless, wireless (2) and wireless (3) etc. This is bush-league UX stuff - if you successfully join a network then the wizard should jump to the next step or tell you it didn't work.

It will never be the year for Linux on the desktop.
>> No. 32519 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 2:38 pm
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>>32517
>XP Zune skin
Sick as fuck
>> No. 32520 Anonymous
2nd November 2021
Tuesday 2:47 pm
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I've just found out they discontinued Tyrozets last year. They were the tits when you had a sore throat.
>> No. 32521 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 12:17 am
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>>32509
Listing a handful good mice is very welcome, but does not negate that there is a lot of mice in ergonomic shapes which would be nice if they didn't blink in rainbow colours. There's more than gaming and not gaming, there are comfrot poses and beyond. There's a reason some people still say: "Fuck it!" and use trackballs. If you need high performance devices go for it. I just want a shape that doesn't dazzle me.
>> No. 32522 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 12:19 am
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>>32521

Razer mice are good, and yes you have to install a thing to turn the lights off, but once you've done that you can uninstall the thing and continue on with your life, looking for other things to complain about.
>> No. 32523 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 2:49 am
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>>32518
>It will never be the year for Linux on the desktop.
The year of Linux on the desktop is "next year", and has been for about two decades now.
>> No. 32524 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 10:35 am
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>>32523

I don't disagree, but I wish you were wrong. Linux has improved massively over the last five years while Windows has got worse and worse, but the former will never be simple enough to tempt the core Normal user, and the latter will never be bad enough to actually dislodge the gargantuan hooks it has in the general PC user.

For People Like Us, who can terminal their way out of a problem, I could definitely see a future for linux desktop for anyone who has ever been described as "good with computers", even by their grandad, if they have stability or privacy concerns. There are definitely distros that exist now that will run with fewer problems and (nearly) equal hardware compatibility, but when there are twenty million distros, you really need to be very, very, very done with Microsoft to bother to do that sort of hunting, let alone learning new platforms.

Ten years ago I was convinced everyone would be on OS X, though, so what do I know.
>> No. 32525 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 1:24 pm
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My home internet connection went down on Monday, probably due to extreme rain and the fact that somewhere outside, it's been horrifically cowboyed together according to the last person who came round to fix something a few years ago. Anyway, a Virgin Media man will be round to fix it on SATURDAY. That's a whole working week of nothing to do at home but watch DVDs and read old magazines.

And my phone won't even let me complain about it from home because of some perverse EE content filter that filters this website inexplicably, that I refuse to interact with on principle.
>> No. 32526 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 2:09 pm
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I've always felt a bit buggered by the way computers are going. If you've always been useless with them, they're taking all the sharp edges off for your own protection (also occasionally: to force you through their account systems and app stores) and if you've always known exactly what you're doing there's usually a way around that to make them work the way they ought to. But I'm one of those people who was always "good with computers" without actually knowing very much about them. Someone with a good instinct for where Windows will have hidden a setting, or how to kick things about until a problem goes away, or so on. That's fine when you're just playing with obviously reversable settings in the Windows GUI, but every time I've used Linux there's been a minor inconvenience to which the solution from Google was always "Copy and paste a mid-sized paragraph into the terminal and see if that fixes it" without any real understanding of what it's actually doing or what it risks breaking. (I don't recall it ever actually breaking anything noticeable, but it's not very nice to have zero idea what you're actually doing.)

But it's the same with everything. Want to kill Windows 10 telemetry or whatever? Great, just copy and paste this mid-sized paragraph into the command prompt...
>> No. 32527 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 2:15 pm
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>>32525
Time to get a VPN lad.
>> No. 32528 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 3:09 pm
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I'm the exact opposite. I've read about the tricks, but I have no instinct at all. So with my broken internet, I tried logging into my router by visiting 192.168.0.1 in my browser, but once in there, I had no idea where to look to fix it. Similarly, I thought I could disconnect and reconnect to see if that fixed it. I wound up disabling my NIC and not knowing how to enable it again.
>> No. 32529 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 6:05 pm
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I think you're both illustrating exactly why linux will never be widely adopted - it's built by people who expect you to know certain things, or be willing to learn them.

But who the fuck wants to sit down and learn an entire new operating system, an entire command language, an entire new way of doing the things they've been doing for a decade or two? I learned linux because I accidentally wiped my Windows 98 machine and couldn't get another copy of it because I was 12 and didn't know how piracy worked yet (plus it was 2003, so even if I found a cracked .iso it would have taken three days to download) so I bought a big fuck off book about Fedora, which came with a CD with the distro on - problem solved, after a couple of weeks of learning about what a Bash was.

Would I do that now, at 32? Would I fuck. I can't even be bothered to tweak dotfiles now. It's nice to know that I *could* install Arch and configure it, to the letter, to be exactly, perfectly how I want it, but it's so much easier to just google until you find something like Archcraft that gets most of the way there with zero effort on my part.

Anyway, the point is, either linux devs need to stop relying on the command line as a crutch for end user problems. If you can't fix something using the GUI tools included in the distro, then it is not, and will never be, user friendly. But therein lies the problem - Windows and Apple can throw as much money at market research and user testing as they like - Windows telemetry is telling Microsoft exactly how I interact with their UI ever second I use it; when will a Linux dev team ever get that sort of information? If you're not Ubuntu or Mint you'll probably never even see someone who is new to linux, let alone be able to research the way they expect things to work.

The other uncomfortable truth is that most people are willing to sacrifice privacy and even some amount of stability for convenience and familiarity, myself included. Yes I run linux on my home machine, but I still use Chrome, signed in, so I can keep track of all my bookmarks across all machines. I still keep a Windows partition for games and music production software, because while those two things mostly work on Linux now, they still work better on Windows, and I basically will never run into a problem that interrupts me or needs research to solve.
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3rd November 2021
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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>>32529
I think we all spent a fair amount of time when we were 12 learning what a bash was.
>> No. 32531 Anonymous
3rd November 2021
Wednesday 6:27 pm
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>>32529
I think we all spent a fair amount of time when we were 12 learning what a bash was.
>> No. 32532 Anonymous
4th November 2021
Thursday 1:40 pm
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Why is getting up early a virtue? Why is the world built around morning people?

I can do the same amount of work as a 'morning person', I just get it done from 5-10pm and don't really ever feel like sleeping until the wee hours, and waking up until the very late morning. Despite that, that makes me a lazy layabout whilst someone who is built to wake up earlier is a #HustleandGrind hard worker?
>> No. 32533 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 8:47 pm
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>>32532
>Why is the world built around morning people?
Probably because there are much more of them and it's more convenient operating in the light. Even a 60/40 split compounded over years would lead to a dominant culture in favour of the majority, especially when we've come from a context of not having strong artificial light sources necessitating activity in the natural light.

>I can do the same amount of work as a 'morning person', I just get it done from 5-10pm
A normal person can finish their work at 4pm, yet you finish at 10pm? I think you can see the issue here.
>> No. 32534 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 9:13 pm
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My hair's receding, I've got a moustache and sometimes I'm catching myself in a mirror and thinking "fuck, I look like BTK"; I've gotta' say, I don't love it.
>> No. 32535 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 9:16 pm
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>>32533
What if he finishes on 10pm Sunday, while those slowcoach morning people won't be done until 4pm Monday?
>> No. 32536 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 4:45 pm
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I don't understand why my computer won't pick up any input audio and it's clearly my fault and it's making me want to smash my own teeth out of my head and impale myself through the fucking chest.
>> No. 32537 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 7:12 pm
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>>32536
Do you have two microphone ports? Maybe there's one on the front somewhere and you need to plug your device in there, instead of on the back. That was the answer when I had this problem.
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7th November 2021
Sunday 8:55 pm
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I’ve tried everything and every port, but I’ve not had any luck. I even purchased another mic last night, but it’s a complete flatline too.
>> No. 32539 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 6:13 pm
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I bought a brand new flagship model phone and it kept crashing during the initial setup stages. This isn't even the first time I've stinted for a flagship phone at release and been sent a lemon, either quality control for these almost-₤1000 objects is piss-poor, or I have terrible luck.

They've also changed everything with Android 12 so now it's all swipe here and swoosh there. I hate to sound like an old man, but I just want a fucking button or two.
>> No. 32540 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 9:04 pm
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Buried in the settings there is an option to go back to the old 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen.
I've persisted a few days with the new swooshy gestures, still undecided if I like it or not although I'm getting used to it.

There's also some other useful gestures, like tapping the back of the phone twice can be linked to a few different things like opening a certain app. And you can swipe down the bottom of the screen to drag the whole screen down temporarily so you can reach everything with your thumb.
>> No. 32541 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 9:04 pm
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>>32539

I just want to know what fucking mongoloid brain trust spacker retard thought it was better to make the recent apps view horizontal instead of vertical. Who on this earth thought that's an improvement.

There might be a way to change it but with Android I've given up trying to chase it up every time they implement some fuck-brained pointless change.

I've learned to deal with the fact I just don't fucking like phones these days. Nothing to do with being old, I'm only 31 and I used to be a proper techie throughout my youth, but the people in charge of designing things these days are clearly just missing a few chromosomes.
>> No. 32542 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>32541
I'm glad I'm not alone in this.
UI-wise I don't have major gripes. But the mongoloid design features of ultra-super-thin, no screen bevels, screens that curve around the side, GLASS FUCKING BACKS. Why the fuck? This doesn't add anything of value. It makes it impossible to actually HOLD ONTO IT.

I've got the new pixel 6 for a lot of reasons, but I really wish they hadn't jumped onto the same design wagon as the other manufacturers and and stuck with the simple matt textures and sturdy plastic bodies of their older phones.
Big kudos on the camera bar though, big step up from all the other brands phones designed by glue-sniffers who thought it was a great idea to design phones that rock from side to side if you put them on a flat table.
>> No. 32543 Anonymous
8th November 2021
Monday 9:58 pm
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>>32540
I found that setting by pounding the word BUTTON into the settings search bar with my apparently-luddite appendages, but I wanted to give the future a try for a while. Our lass has an iPhone somethingorother which only does swoops and swishes, as well, and I can't as fuck navigate that.

Speaking of the phone, that's where the fingerprint sensor *used to be* on my trusty Pixel 3, which is great because I can deftly use my fingerprint and the phone at the same time. With the hiddne fingerprint sensor inside the screen of the Pixel 6, I can only use it when prompted, which works out to be much slower.

>>32541
Also on the topic of just not liking phones these days, why the fuck do they all have to be 6.5" screens? I have comically large hands and I still can't reach the top of the Pixel 6 screen while resting the phone on my pinky, as is the proper form. Much like tits, anything more than a handful is a waste.

I've returned the Pixel 6 and I will be continuing with my Pixel 3 until I absolutely must assimilate.
>> No. 32544 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 1:16 am
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Just randomly, has anyone ever moved from one phone operating system to the other? I've always had Android phones, originally because I wanted to feel more like a 1337 h4xx0r, but really because I just don't do that much with my phone and there's not a phone feature in existence that can possibly make me as happy as knowing my phone was really cheap does. But Android is fucking shit. Every time I need a new phone, I think, "This time, I'm going to tell Android to go fuck itself and get an iPhone instead", but they always cost a grand so I wind up with a new Android again like an obedient unquestioning bitch. It makes no sense to me that a decision you made basically randomly, maybe a decade ago or a bit more, decides which half of phones you can use, and seemingly shuts you out of ever buying the other type of phone due to insane tribalism. There must be people out there who have owned both Androids and iPhones, right? People who actually know which one's better? But I refuse to pay more than about £200 for a phone, so it won't ever be me.
>> No. 32545 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 3:26 am
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>>32544
Get a refurbished one, older models are a lot cheaper and apple supports them for a lot longer than most android manufacturers to the extent that the total cost of ownership probably works out about the same or less than a mid-range android. My 2nd hand 5s from 2014 still gets security updates.
The only major issue is that transferring files to or from them is a massive pain in the arse especially if you're using a PC you can't install iTunes on (seriously, I thought needing manufacturer-specific software to transfer files to anything with a USB port died out in the early 2000s), and you're limited to installing software from the official app store unless you mess about with 3rd party hacks to jailbreak it.
>> No. 32546 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 9:17 am
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My girlfriend has been using my toothbrush for the past three days because hers died and she hasn't been bothered to charge it.
>> No. 32547 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 9:50 am
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>>32546

I know people generally think this is alright since you kiss all the time anyway, and that's true to an extent but it's likely there's some flora you're not sharing through a kiss that you'd be more likely to find on someone's toothbrush. It also unnecessarily exposes the both of you to bloodborne stuff.

I find it handy to just buy a few spare toothbrushes guests and situations like this.
>> No. 32548 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 7:30 pm
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I'm not advocating a society wide decent into an anarchic free-for-all, but I'm always b*ffled by how hard people will look for their exact seat at the cinema when there's single digit numbers of people in there. It's not a train, you don't have to worry about loads more people showing up after the hour.
>> No. 32549 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 7:37 pm
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>>32548
I did that once and it ended up being a full screen, people asked me to move but there were people sat in the seats I was supposed to be in. Never again.
>> No. 32550 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 4:21 pm
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I had someone cancel at the last minute on a date last night, it was fine because they'd warmed me up during the day that it was busy, still sounded keen and we'd gotten along previously so I took the excuse and just asked if they wanted to give me a time that works. They said they'd let me know a time today and that they would get the first round in as an apology.

Obviously they didn't bother but it's just, even a blunt "sorry I have a work thing" and leaving it at that wouldn't yank my chain. It's always going to be complete bollocks as a bloke early on and then it gets better but it's easy to see how chronic masturbators get made. Dating apps really need a review feature where you get lots of "Didn't click on our date but didn't murder me" or in the case of women "wind up" - we'd still put our fingers in the fire because that's what we're like but you'd know what to expect and it would maybe be safer as well.
>> No. 32551 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 5:22 pm
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>>32550

I don't disagree that your suggestions would make dating apps better, but I'm afraid I've also got to be that cunt to point out that the purpose of dating apps isn't really to get people into relationships, it's to get them buying subscriptions.
>> No. 32552 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 6:56 pm
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>>32551
>it's to get them buying subscriptions

I don't get who does this or what you'd get out of it. For me Hinge seems to be in a sweet spot at the moment where I can send all my messages over lunch and still have time to have some food. Anything more and I'd be sending goofy messages all day or otherwise trying to message every woman who comes up. For that they use the data to do whatever it is they do with my bullshit "oh this guy must really like Christmas markets at the moment" which seems fine.

Bumble is already exhausting enough to swipe on and while they hid all the filters after George Floyd its not like it's hard to self-filter/ignore whatever it is you don't want.

Anyway, maybe we're at point the government should get involved. Not to give you a girlfriend on the NHS because I bet the waiting list would be a bastard but it seems like we live in a world where our methods of meeting women are increasingly reliant on companies with a perverse motivation to foster loneliness. You see it in speed-dating as well where they know full well that more people would couple if the girls moved tables and the men would become more picky but they don't want that at all.
>> No. 32553 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 7:47 pm
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>>32552

I always see a surprising amount of lassies with the premium icons. I have a feeling that, like just about every other form of marketing (and before you get your knickers in a twist, simplads, this is a studied and documented fact), it's largely targeted at the women.

Men are on there to either get their end away or get a partner. After they've achieved that they discard the app, as a utilitarian tool having fulfilled it's purpose. But there's a lot of women on there who are either just after a bit of attention, a self esteem boost, or a bit of window shopping. They're the captive audience who the platforms want to exploit, I think.

When you think about how the dynamics of online dating (and real life dating, to be fair, which apps are just a monstrously exagerrated version of), the benefits you get out of these premium memberships are rarely going to be useful to men. A super like on Tinder is just pissing in the wind, she's still not going to match you when she has four hundred others to choose from; but for the lass, that effectively hands her control of who she talks to. Getting to see who likes you is useless for a bloke, because there's probably only about 3 you haven't already matched anyway, but for a woman, it allows her to pick and choose the ones she likes the look of.

For women it's both easier to sell an effective solution to their side of the (artificially exacerbated) problems than it is for men, and women are well known to be more easily swayed by advertising and marketing.

So, as a bloke on online dating, it's even worse than you had previously thought. You're not even who they're trying to profit on, you're just naively complicit in the con.
>> No. 32554 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 11:34 pm
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>>32550
She just came back to me because I asked her about her job in the early afternoon in case she was just worried about sending multiple messages in a row. Now she knows what I do and is much more interested.

I don't get it lads. She's still not set a date and I've brought it up again so the ball is in her court now. Either she's trying to string me along for attention or I'm not top of her list on things to do IYKWIM. The latter seems common with the genuinely attractive women lately I've been seeing which feels more like I'm interviewing for a position.
>> No. 32555 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 11:48 pm
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>>32554

>which feels more like I'm interviewing for a position.

Sorry lad, but that's exactly what's happening.
>> No. 32556 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 12:28 am
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>>32555
Yeah, I'm going to sound like a total shithouse here but I think I've always taken the easy road with women in the past. I get the homely girl to, as a friend once put it, worship me and while that doesn't mean the relationships are easy it means I get attention with a lot less hassle and I've never had to properly interview for the position. Then I sleep with her and in my way that means I have to stick it out and make it work.

Now something has changed and I don't want to do that anymore but it means I have to learn how to properly do the dating game on the medium setting. That or I'm just talking to 'orrible women who are still using dating apps in their 30s for a reason.
>> No. 32557 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 9:57 am
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>>32553
>the benefits you get out of these premium memberships are rarely going to be useful to men
Men pay for visibiltiy. That's what Tinder boosts and platinum promise, a better chance that she might actually see your profile.
>> No. 32558 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 12:53 pm
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There's a streamer I watch who, every few months or so, starts posting about how something on his PC is "dying" and I have no flaming idea what he's doing to make this happen. It flies in the face of all experiences I've ever had to see new hardware just "die". There's a YouTube channel I watch called Budget-Builds Official and that lad takes PCs from 2009 out of skips, hoses them down and streams on them for fun, so I can't fathom how someone's GTX 3080 is broken after six months of regular use.

Sage because really I'm just posting this because I'm jealous I can't afford new stuff all the time for no good reason.
>> No. 32559 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 1:14 pm
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>>32558
If he builds the computers himself, and overclocks everything massively, and buggers up the airflow and the fans, then that could overheat the parts and provide an incredibly convenient excuse for asking your viewers to buy you a new CPU every six months. If you were really cynical, you could even suspect that he might just be claiming that that's what he's doing and actually he isn't an imbecile at all.
>> No. 32560 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 3:30 pm
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>>32558

I suspect he's just accustomed to the life of being a para-social parasite and getting free shit for it. PC hardware is fairly robust ime, my old setup was mostly 10 years old and still running fine.
>> No. 32561 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 11:39 am
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It turns out that trying to uninstall Epic Games is a massive ballache.
>> No. 32562 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 3:22 pm
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Got a call from a withheld number, ignored it thinking it was junk. 10 minutes later I get a text message from the council saying "We will call you shortly from a withheld number."
>> No. 32563 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 3:26 pm
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Some time last month I wrote "Get in touch with Becky" or possibly "Bocky" on the calendar for this month. I have no idea who that is.
>> No. 32564 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 6:37 pm
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>>32563
There was a brief discussion around lady YouTube scientist Dr Becky on here, possibly a month or two ago. Maybe you wanted to ask her about science, or if she has a cock.
>> No. 32565 Anonymous
18th November 2021
Thursday 9:07 pm
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>>32554
I kept messaging her because I had nothing else going on that week and seem to have won her over pretty hard. Only its NOW that I become king of the swingers and am hitting it off with women everywhere. And let me tell you something else, I wanted an Asian girl for Christmas so now my dating pool looks like a bent massage parlour.

This is bollocks, I have neither the time nor the money for this and I know from experience that if I change anything then it's all coming down like a house of cards.
>> No. 32566 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 11:29 am
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I bought a 6TB hard drive on the 16th of October. It is now completely full. I have run out of drive bays.
>> No. 32567 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 11:32 am
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>>32566
How much of that is porn?
>> No. 32568 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 12:01 pm
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>>32566
Serve you right for trying to have TWO games installed, freak.
>> No. 32569 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 1:15 pm
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You know what I hate the most, is how any community just has to be a complete circlejerk these days.

Maybe I'm just too much of a contrarian wanker and it instinctively winds me up to see a group of people collectively agreeing on things just on the sheer principle of the matter, but even so. All people seem to do nowadays is smugly suck each other off about how much more right they are than other people shitposting somewhere else.

Obviously I'm the only smart one and you don't need to post that smarmy xkcd comic, just imagine I already looked at it myself to save you the bother, but it can't be just me.
>> No. 32570 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 1:23 pm
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>>32569
Can you give us an example so we can judge? I get the feeling that online twattery is decreasing of late, but I really can't tell if I've just left all the bad places and moved to good places, or if things really are getting better.
>> No. 32571 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 1:33 pm
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>>32569
I don't really post anywhere else these days to tell, but you lot are definitely contrarian cunts.

The main forum I used back in the day is now an alt-right cesspit where most posts are either culture war bollocks or mod-baiting. I've grown out of 4chan, although the only board I was really active on was /sp/, and I couldn't get into Reddit because it's fake sincerity on the surface from people aching to pile-on someone with moral judgements, so I'm not sure what else that leaves these days.
>> No. 32572 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 1:42 pm
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>>32570

It seems to go in peaks and troughs for me to be fair. I try to cast a wide net to avoid getting sucked into the echo chamber, but instead it's just that I have several discrete echo chambers.

The thing that got me this morning is watching a video by a youtuber I like, which was miiiiildly political, but kept things quite balanced and subtly satirised/critiqued the positions of both your typical partisan agitators on the subject.

Then I scrolled down to the comments and it's just wankers going "hee hee I'm so smart, I got the joke but I bet the smelly stupid people on other side don't get the joke lol, lmao" and everyone else going "yeah me too we're so great here let me hold your cock lmao"

People just have no shame any more I feel. I dunno.

>>32571

4chan is really odd these days, because it does have some good boards/threads left; but most of those places the moderation is, weirdly, both too tight and yet too lax to have any of the old 4chan style fun. You get banned for veering off topic slightly but people can shit up the thread all day with completely neanderthal level posting as long as it is vaguely on topic.

Ahhh fuck it I just miss the old internet frankly.
>> No. 32573 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 2:57 pm
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>>32569
>any community just has to be a complete circlejerk these days

You're forgetting the clique nature of BBS forums in the 00s. Although I agree that things have gotten worse over the past few years with the rise of discord that creates societies.
>> No. 32574 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 7:12 pm
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I know why the BBC are trying to force her on us, but Alex Scott can't present for shit.
>> No. 32575 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 7:46 pm
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>>32571
I'm on /sp/ all the time; I almost permanently have there and here open. It's certainly one of the better 4chan boards in terms of quality of the actual posters, and if you like obscure sports like snooker or darts or skiing, rather than the unending shitpost racewar threads for football and any fighting sport, you can have a great time. I don't know whether or not to recommend it as a place that's free of circle-jerks, however, because I think I just tend to agree with the posters there. There are a handful of utterly insane white supremacist lunatics, but I'm pretty confident it's the same ones in every thread and I don't think anyone else likes them either.

I've also spent most of today reading their threads about that Chinese tennis player who's gone missing, and there are some genuine and unironic China shills in those threads. It's pretty unsettling to be honest.
>> No. 32576 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 8:25 pm
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>>32574
You and otherlad are going to get upset at this, but she's so profoundly and inoffensively nice I have to assume anyone who dislikes her is a racist. It's like hating the smell of cut grass. Hayfever? Grass racist.
>> No. 32577 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>32576
There's absolutely nothing to her. She's dull and inoffensive with no charisma or screen presence whatsoever.

I know the BBC go through phases of overexposure to certain presenters, like when Clare Balding was ubiquitous a few years back, but they could do it with someone who isn't completely bland.
>> No. 32578 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 10:48 pm
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>>32577
Who would you rather have? Given her other demographic benefits, the only other person who could replace her is Eni Aluko and she seems less charming than Alex Scott. Karen Carney seems too grumpy, Emma Hayes is the female Bielsa (although I rate her enormously as a pundit; I really enjoyed her appearances during Euro 2021) and Louisa Necib is French and quite possibly doesn't speak English. Laure Boulleau is a perfect goddess and I'd watch her do the washing up if TV showed it, but again, she's French. I guess the more coverage we get of women's football, by force if necessary, the more women footballers we'll have to choose from in terms of TV punditry. Ingrid Engen probably speaks English; you could email the BBC and ask them to invite her. Otherwise, we'll have to get American women footballers, and I dread to even imagine what they must be like as TV presenters.
>> No. 32579 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 11:04 pm
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>>32578
I'm not on about the football. Scott was one of the main presenters for Children in Need and she's also the new host of A Question of Sport, despite the fact she's a personality vacuum.
>> No. 32580 Anonymous
20th November 2021
Saturday 8:33 am
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>>32579
The BBC quickly ran out of interesting female personalities in their push to have 50% of presenters and lead roles be women, which is why they cast a Waitrose checkout worker as Doctor Who.
>> No. 32583 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 1:52 am
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Nando's can fuck itself. They make you order online, as you sit there in the restaurant with a waitress right in front of you, and you need to create an account (a real one with your real email address, no fuckoff@once.gov here) to pay for your order. I also had a problem with their website accepting my payment, unless my phone granted Google (!?!) permission to use my phone's storage (?!?). It was one of the most Orwellian experiences I can remember. It might even be worse than reCaptcha.
>> No. 32584 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 7:44 am
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>>32583
Might want to check out the Nandos thread.
>> No. 32585 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 9:24 am
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>>32583
Thanks for the heads up.
>> No. 32586 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 12:52 am
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My bike broke this morning on the way to work. I'd had some beef with the rear brake, which I had fixed, except it turned out I hadn't fixed it and was braking with just the front brake. This morning, that brake cable snapped, and that was when I discovered I had no brakes at all.

I thought this would be a piece of piss to repair once I got home, especially since I could swear I have done it before, but it just took me two bastarding hours to only replace one cable. The rear one is still fucked because I need to go to bed at some point.

If I had been successful in buying a house right by my work, I could walk there and none of this would have happened. If I bought a car, I wouldn't be able to afford the house I didn't get anyway. I spend my whole life cycling everywhere to save money and I still don't have enough money to buy the shit everyone else has. The more I fume about that cable, the more I realise this is all connected and the whole of society needs to burn to the ground. Fuck.
>> No. 32587 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:32 am
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You know that baldy beardy cunt with the glasses who has like 200 youtube channels?

He's started another one (another one!) recently which is all about the most gruesome and grizzly atrocities from history. It's a fine and dandy subject matter, a lot of it is really compelling grizzly stuff, but I feel like it's somehow disrespectful having him, of all people, talk about it.

Just... Sat there reading off another script some other cunt just copy-pasted off wikipedia for his tenth video of the day so he can shit one out every day of the week on every one of his six hundred and ninety two channels. It feels rather crass.
>> No. 32588 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:38 am
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>>32587
His aaaaaaarrrccent drives me up the fucking wall.
>> No. 32589 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:40 am
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>>32587

Simon Whistler? I truly don't understand how or why he's in the position he is. I think I only ever clicked on a video of his because I thought he was Vsauce.
>> No. 32590 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 9:27 am
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I've seen a few posts on the internet from people who think Reddit is responsible for the fame of purple Aki.
>> No. 32591 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 9:44 am
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>>32589

He's got an accent that Americans consider authoritative and educated, but he lives in the Czech Republic. He has accidentally become the respectable frontman for an empire of clickbait farms. The Ivans knock out GCSE-tier articles for £2 an hour, he takes the rough edges off their dodgy English, adds enough presentational polish to make it look like a "real" channel and the AdSense revenue rolls in.

Fair play to the lad, I'm sure it's a nice earner, but it's basically one notch above those channels that regurgitate news articles with text-to-speech and a load of unlicensed stock footage.
>> No. 32592 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 9:58 am
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I interviewed for a job at the start of the week. I really, really wanted the job and I had a really, really, dire and cringe experience and for whatever reason it actually made it difficult to sleep this week.

During the interview one lady read out a question and as I began to answer she started speaking. I stopped responding and said 'sorry I did I cut you off' and she said 'oh I normally read out every question twice, do you not want me to do that?'

I had obviously heard and began answering so this just felt unnecessary to me and because I had already said some of my answer. I then started again and subconsciously must have been trying to race through what I'd already said.

The lady who cut me off, then cut me off again towards the end of the answer to say 'you're speaking too fast, can you slow down? You're nervous and it's making it hard to keep up'.

I wasn't actually nervous, I was just thrown off by her unnecessary interruption and my flow had gone. I apologised and said of course I would slow down.

She then again said 'yeah it's just because when you speak so fast we can't get our notes down in time', which felt like a second dig.

I really wanted the job and it felt like from that point the interview hit a bit of a bump and I almost certainly won't get it.

The common advice for these things is take it as a lesson and move on but it's really bothering me for some reason and has impressively ruined my week a little, partly because it felt so unnecessary and avoidable.
>> No. 32593 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:03 am
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>>32592

Dodged a bullet m8, they sound like a right bunch of knobheads.
>> No. 32594 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:27 am
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>>32592
Some managers pull shit like that because they want to see how you respond under pressure. I remember having an assessment day with BAE for a university placement year where they'd hired a bunch of actors; I was doing a role play with one of them and she exploded and started screaming at me. I was not expecting that whatsoever for a placement year.
>> No. 32595 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:59 am
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>>32594
It's definitely not the kind of place to pull something like that I think she was just one of those people you meet who, for whatever reason, take an instant dislike/strong indifference to you and didn't feel like making it any easier than it had to be.

Appreciate the responses though, wasn't sure if I was being overly sensitive or if it was a bit awkward to behave like that with a candidate.
>> No. 32596 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 11:24 am
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>>32595
>It's definitely not the kind of place to pull something like that I think she was just one of those people you meet who, for whatever reason, take an instant dislike/strong indifference to you and didn't feel like making it any easier than it had to be.

Unfortunately interviewing requires a lot of reading between the lines like this. It may even be that they had another candidate already in mind and were going through the rest of the interviews as a boxticking exercise. It's not nice, but you may never have had a chance no matter how good you were.

An interview, like all human interaction, works both ways. If someone likes you and wants to give you a good interview, they'll give you a break and be more conversational, ask open questions, tease out more details from answers where they want to, and certainly won't interrupt you. If they're just there to go through the motions, it's going to be a grindingly awkward experience, like you had.
>> No. 32597 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 9:52 pm
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>>32587
I have no idea why he bothers creating new channels since he already makes literally all of the ad money.

I bet you thought it was something like a 70:30 split between YouTube and creator but it's actually 100:0 between Simon Whistler and everyone else.
>> No. 32598 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:21 pm
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I don't know who this bald guy is, but I saw his Twitter banner and I hope something horrible happens to him.
>> No. 32599 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 11:08 pm
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Imagine blaming anyone but yourself for having shit video recommendations on YouTube.
>> No. 32600 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 10:36 am
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Women from dating apps setting dates then cancelling last minute. It's still annoying when they cancel the night before. They know if they're interested or not, and with the number of matches they get I don't see why they agree to dates with men they aren't keen on in the first place.

Another bad pattern is agreeing to a date, but then she comes up with a reson they can't make it, but does agree to a different date, and does this over and over even when you explicitly tell them that it's really honestly fine if she's not interested, but she says she is and suggests next Friday. This might even be gaslighting, because you know she's not interested, but she keeps giving you actual dates, and then you have to be the one to do the "Look, this isn't going to work out" thing.

I think the anonymous nature of the medium encourages bad behaviour. There have been times when I really should've sent an apology text, but I didn't, and there's just no social pushback.

I don't think these apps are good for individuals or society. The state needs to step in or we're going to end up with a generation of bitter chronic masturbators.
>> No. 32601 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 11:07 am
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My microphone will output audio when tell my PC to "listen to this device", but it won't actually send audio through any applications and if I stop listening then it doesn't even register on the microphone test. I feel like I'm 78 years old, but I genuinely don't understand it. It's also one of those un-searchable problems because there are a million others kind, but not quite, like it.
>> No. 32602 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 11:08 am
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>>32599
I think RT popped into my feed once and I clicked to expand it and read more out of curiosity, and now I can't get rid of it, so I'm constantly getting fed stories of how the West is dying because our police officers are wearing Pride flags and so on.
>> No. 32603 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 12:14 pm
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>>32601

Is it a USB microphone, or straight into the computers mic jack?

If the former, there is some weirdness involving the "allow applications to take exclusive use of the device" check box, or something. Don't ask me where it is, because Windows is a cunt and uses three different settings menus now. Also if you right click the sound icon in the tray you can run a troubleshooting thing that sometimes helps but usually doesn't.
>> No. 32604 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 2:25 pm
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>>32596
Very true, had some recently where people smile and nod and give me that encouragement to keep going.

I just wish they'd say 'really sorry mate - we like this person, you've no chance, don't iron your shirt, don't spend your weekend revising and don't get your hopes up.'
>> No. 32605 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 2:35 pm
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>>32602
Find and make judicious use of the "Don't recommend channel" button. It's kept that annoying bald fucker off my screen for a good couple of months.
>> No. 32606 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 3:37 pm
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>>32603
It's not USB. I don't understand how it can playback through my own output, but can't be picked up by any websites or applications and when I uncheck "listen to this device" it doesn't even get picked up by the Windows mic test. Two different mics, both work on my phone, nothing's changed from two months ago when I was doing this without issue. I've never been this flumoxed by an issue with a PC.
>> No. 32607 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 4:50 pm
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>>32602
They gave me a video recently of Vladimir Putin telling a joke. There's no way I'm not clicking on that. The joke was about an Israeli soldier who gets asked how he'd react to progressively wackier situations, and in the end the soldier says to stop asking questions and leave him alone, and in case you've missed the metaphor, you filthy Western journalists need to stop asking Vladimir Putin awkward questions. The joke wasn't even funny. Never again.
>> No. 32608 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 4:58 pm
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>>32607
The only joke he's told in public that's even remotely funny is about the American agent turning up at the KGB office, and even then it's quite and old one.
>> No. 32609 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 2:12 am
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>>32586
My bike is now fixed! Probably; I haven't ridden it since the most recent repairs. The secret lies in going to the bike shop and asking if they sell the cables inside the plastic casing, plus asking for a couple of hints on how to fix it while you're there. Total cost: £6.

I still can't afford a house, and I was going to try to socialise with any friend this weekend, but the bike repairs meant I abandoned such a wild pipe dream. I don't really give a fuck, but I wanted to update you with my good news without ruining the thread by not complaining about something.
>> No. 32610 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 8:49 am
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I realise I'm going to sound like an apathetic edgelord saying this, but I'm finding it really hard to give a shit about anything in the news. I don't give a shit about a load of brown people drowning in the Channel. I don't give a shit about some Labour politician thinking she's a special snowflake and should be able to bring her baby with her to work. Fuck mini Babybel. It's all just noise.
>> No. 32611 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 2:07 pm
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>>32610
We've been spoilt by news over the past few years. Sometimes there just isn't anything happening, and it's a lot more obvious these days. However, people are more likely to vote Conservative during times of crisis, so if things get too boring, rest assured that another crisis will be miraculously found.

If you can't bring yourself to care about anything at all, that's a sign of clinical depression.
>> No. 32612 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 2:20 pm
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>>32611

>However, people are more likely to vote Conservative during times of crisis

What happens when the crisis is caused or exacerbated by the willful incompetence of the Conservatives?
>> No. 32613 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 2:26 pm
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>>32612
"Imagine how much worse things would be now if Corbyn was in charge!"
>> No. 32614 Anonymous
29th November 2021
Monday 8:00 pm
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I might just commit a crime if I hear "this day and age," in the next 48 hours.
>> No. 32615 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 6:09 pm
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Hey, maybe I don’t want to hear the chilling details of how that child died so shut the fuck up. Christ, I don’t want to say that, but two people now have told me about it like it’s not deeply upsetting and horrific. A third and I might snap. I don’t tell people all the horrible things I read about, leave me alone.
>> No. 32616 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 7:31 pm
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>>32615
I have avoided the details so far, but I'm getting curious. Two-thirds of the work colleagues I see every day were talking about it at work, and I hated the conversation not because of the horror, but because of how utterly reactionary they were being. Whatever happened, these people who are meant to be intelligent were going full Daily Mail like a pair of total fucking retards. One particular highlight was, "Child-killers get stabbed by other convicts, right? THEN WHY AREN'T THEY DEAD YET?" Like, give it at least a day, man. You sound like you've never been angry in your life and have no idea what's going on. I can absolutely assure you nobody is on the side of the parents for this one.
>> No. 32617 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 2:28 pm
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My girlfriend will sometimes just start walking or change direction without looking where she is going. An example is in the supermarket, we will agree to split to get various items and then whilst still looking at me will just walk out into the stream of people in the aisles and bump into somebody if I don't catch her in time.

I'm not sure how I stop her doing it or if I just need to be in a heightened state of alert every time we're in public and it's semi-busy.
>> No. 32618 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 3:23 pm
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>>32617

Ahh, "phantom smartphone syndrome". Maybe you could take advantage of this in the right situation, and just play Baby Jousting with the Old Chap.
>> No. 32619 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 4:19 pm
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>>32616

I actually don't know what story this refers to, and a rather depressing search has revealed quite a few child murders in the UK recently, at least going by The Independent's website.

I suppose nobody needs to find the grisly story if they don't want to.
>> No. 32620 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 8:32 pm
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It's so, so hard not using Blackface Trudeau for profile pictures.
>> No. 32621 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 9:03 pm
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The Amazon driver was only two streets ago from me at 3:30pm - it's now near the cut-off point for one-day delivery, and they've apparently been faffing about at the depot for the last two hours. Looks like I'm not getting this package today, and I've missed out on a fucking night shift.
>> No. 32622 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 11:54 pm
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>>32619
I was referring to, and I assume we were both referring to, this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59532071

That news story says the killers are going to have their jail terms re-evaluated on the grounds that the sentences might be too lenient. They got 29 years and 21 years in prison, and that's "too lenient". It's fucking mental. But, of course, the people are angry, and nobody's going to speak out against this weird reactionary populism because nobody who has read the details considers any punishment too extreme for them. I'd be happy for them to get the most brutal shit you can think of while they're in prison, but I really don't want the government to join in just for crowd-pleasing purposes.
>> No. 32623 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 12:14 am
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>>32622
Usually, whenever there's a horrible, national news "worthy" crime I have to give a little speech to someone about the law being a civilising measure so we don't give into hand-removal-for-thievery style justice. Basically everyone in this country is so negative they take these crimes as an opportunity to delve into barbaric little fantasies. I'm not asking people to look on the brightside of child murder, but sometimes really awful things happen and all you can do is move on from it. I don't know enough to say this for certain, so do correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm not even sure we can blame over a decade of Tory cuts or unfeeling, lazy social service workers for this, it's just that, occasionally, someone manages to do something really fucking horrid and that's that. You're not going to feel better about it even if we stick the perpetrators under a guillotine or into the gallows, or even both, at the same time, while wasps sting them, it's just tough.
>> No. 32624 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>32623
It has occurred to me, during this, that the law isn't really designed for monstrous cases. Normally, if you commit a crime, you get locked in a room for a bit. It's not nice to be locked in a room, so that's your punishment. The really hardcore people say we should kill people immediately, and the faster they die the more disrespectful it is and therefore it's a more severe punishment. In theory, the law could do that, but they have a tendency to do it to innocent people so most places have promised to stop doing it. And then you can also rehabilitate people so they know their crime was bad, and won't do it again, and then you don't even have to punish them. And those are pretty much the only three options.

Right now, we have a severe case (nowhere near the absolute nastiest ever, but nasty enough). If you rehabilitate the people, the only way we'll know they're rehabilitated is if they feel how we feel about this case- also baying for blood, against themselves. So the government's going to spend taxpayer money basically persuading them to kill themselves out of shame and revulsion. That's dumb. Alternatively, we can lock them up, but that's what we do to shoplifters, so this one needs to be worse. Just locking them up seems dumb too. That means we need to kill them. But if you kill them tomorrow, they die and that's it, whereas their victim both suffered and died. So the perpetrator gets off lighter than the victim. That's dumb. So all available punishments are dumb.

There are worse things you can do (I'm sure there are plenty of innocent people out there looking for organ donors; let's rip out their organs graphically and save an innocent life at the same time) but those are all illegal. And if they became legal, I certainly wouldn't trust the government to restrict itself to only torturing prisoners who deserve it. We've all heard horror stories about governments too, and I'd rather have measures to prevent those. So in the end, what options are available that are simultaneously sufficiently severe and yet not a total violation of human rights? There aren't any. There can't be; the two are mutually exclusive. So we're kind of stuck. No outcome can ever be satisfactory in a case like this one.
>> No. 32625 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 9:07 am
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Met a rather nice young lady who I have clear chemistry with so now just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
>> No. 32626 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 9:09 am
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>>32624

>No outcome can ever be satisfactory in a case like this one.

Only if you think that the criminal justice system should deliver retribution. Locking someone up until they're no longer a risk to society (or forever, if they are incapable of rehabilitation) seems perfectly reasonable if you're primarily concerned with protecting the public. The death penalty will invariably be invoked here, but as you suggest the public needs to be protected from the state; humane imprisonment balances the protection of the public with the protection of the wrongfully convicted.

Some people do horrible things, we can't necessarily prevent them from doing horrible things and we certainly can't undo that harm, but we can design a justice system around the principle of least harm.

>>32623

>I'm not even sure we can blame over a decade of Tory cuts or unfeeling, lazy social service workers for this

Failures of child protection undoubtedly played a role here. Concerns had been raised by the child's grandmother, but those concerns clearly weren't adequately investigated. A social worker visited the home and decided that there were no safeguarding concerns, despite such obvious red flags as "this child doesn't have a bed" and "this child is covered in bruises". It was obvious to the child's teachers that something was seriously wrong, but they didn't flag that issue to anyone. This death could and should have been prevented.

We don't spend enough money on social work, so vulnerable people are being "protected" by an insufficient number of underpaid, underqualified and overworked idiots. If we actually care, we should be demanding better social work rather than baying for blood.
>> No. 32627 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 10:25 am
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>>32624
I can't be bothered picking apart your overly long fantasies after a lovely fried breakfast (the trick is to do most of it in the oven), but needless to say your ideas are very stupid. You are not any wiser than the types who shout "bring back hanging" at the slightest provocation just because you can't control your word count.

>>32626
I see. I hope I didn't mislead anyone.
>> No. 32628 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 10:46 am
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>>32626
>We don't spend enough money on social work, so vulnerable people are being "protected" by an insufficient number of underpaid, underqualified and overworked idiots

My friend's sister is a social worker. She works for a private company who get ordered to come in by whichever regulatory body governs them if a local authority's services are failing. The council then have to pay the private firm's rates, who then pay my friend's sister way more than double what she'd been on as a council employed social worker. It's a shitload of money.

She is also a complete headcase. I have noticed that a lot of people who work in social services and mental health are themselves completely unstable nutters.
>> No. 32629 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 10:52 pm
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My mother-in-law thinks it's fine to take chilled goods out of her trolley and dump them on a non-chilled aisle if she changes her mind about buying it.
>> No. 32630 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>32629
Fucks sake.
People should know that technically this means the store staff are meant to throw it away when they find it because they don't know how long it's been out in the warm.
>> No. 32631 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 7:17 pm
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My landlords want to sell the building. I assume this means that there's some bullshit rule that they have to give me a month's notice before moving out. One thing after the other, have to start all the flat hunting shit again. Girlfriend wants to buy a place but I don't want to quite consign my life to dull suburbia yet because she's made some timelines in her head.

Just fucking annonying, innit.
>> No. 32632 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 7:23 pm
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>>32631

Not necessarily, assuming they're selling to another landlord (likely) they can sell with you in place, which is often desirable because that means the new owner starts earning their rent right away.
>> No. 32633 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 10:57 pm
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I started up Halo Infinite multiplayer, and was in a match where I did better than I have ever done before, and beat three challenges all in that one match. Then servers shat themselves and I had to quit out. None of my successes were recorded, and I doubt I'll ever perform that well again.
>> No. 32634 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 1:17 am
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>>32633
I got one "killtacular" the entire time I played Halo: Reach and it was on someone else's account. I probably could have just been less crap at the game, but I never quite managed it.

How is Infinite, by the way? I saw something online about having to unlock colour variants for your armour and swore it off immediately.
>> No. 32635 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 9:25 am
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>>32630
Her excuse was that "someone will see the cottage cheese on the aisle I left it on and remember they'd forgotten to put some in their trolley!"

I realise I moan about her on here on a regular basis, but every time she invites herself over for a week she gets on my tits. Last night I had to listen to her breathing for 10 minutes because she'd exerted herself too much going up the stairs, followed by her audibly eating a full pack of cookies and leaving the wrapper on a table rather than putting it in the bin. She's a continual minor annoyance.
>> No. 32636 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 11:22 am
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>>32634
Gameplay is fun, but unlocking most customisation stuff requires you to pay £8 for the battle pass, then grind challenges to progress in the pass and actually unlock the items. Better than lootboxes I suppose.
>> No. 32637 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 11:58 am
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>>32636
A shame. I can't stomach things like that. I bought, and later returned, one of the recent 2k golf games last year and it was jam packed with that sort of thing. Turns the whole game into an ever present billboard, which saps my enjoyment totally.
>> No. 32638 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 1:23 pm
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>>32632
Selling with a tenant in place is apparently less ideal than it sounds, which is why mortgage lenders typically write into their terms that any tenancy must be shorthold. There are some TUPE-like protections for tenants if a home is sold with an existing tenant that mean the new owner can't just turf them out or immediately hike the rent. Banks also get itchy about mortgages for properties with an existing tenant.
>> No. 32639 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 2:35 pm
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>>32636

I don't undrstand this shit. Fair enough if you have to grind for it, fair enough if you just buy the shit, but if you pay in order to be able to grind for it?

It's just the gaming equivalent of being a cuckold I swear to god. Paypigs is really the only word for people who think this is fine.
>> No. 32640 Anonymous
7th December 2021
Tuesday 2:47 pm
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Isn't this what Fortnite has done all along? You buy the battle pass but then you have to keep grinding to get enough points to get the battle pass for free during the next season.

Is Fortnite still a thing?
>> No. 32641 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 12:49 pm
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I think, technologically speaking, shoe laces are obsolete.
>> No. 32642 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 3:39 pm
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>>32641
The alternative is velcro straps which make you look like an old person though.
>> No. 32643 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 4:04 pm
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>>32642
That’s rather my point though, it’s just societal pressures that are holding us back. I’m not going to be the one to try and change that, but it makes me wonder what else we’re doing for no good reason.
>> No. 32644 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 4:22 pm
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>>32643
Velcro straps get gunked up with shit and/or lose their stick. Laces are easily replaceable when they break. There's also a whole art of different ways of putting them into the eyelets to be tight or loose on different parts of the foot that matter to people who regularly have to walk further than the off-license and back.
>> No. 32645 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 4:42 pm
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>>32642

See also: zips, lace hooks (as seen on hiking boots), and elastication (Chelsea Boots).
>> No. 32646 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 5:15 pm
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>>32644
>matter to people who regularly have to walk further than the off-license and back.
Passive aggressive wanker.
>> No. 32647 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 5:18 pm
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The Boa lacing system has been standard on high-end cycling shoes for years and is now starting to appear on running shoes and hiking boots. You just turn the dial to tighten or loosen the laces.
>> No. 32648 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 10:57 pm
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Velcro is definitely for flids though. I'm annoyed that Vans seem to have stopped making my favourite shoes for the version 2 that are velcro instead of laces.
>> No. 32649 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 12:53 am
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The shoe laces on my current pair of shoes go up to my knees; I've no idea why they are so long.

I'm also going to need to polish them as they seem to be real leather and are starting to scuff. Polishing shoes just reminds me of being at school.
>> No. 32650 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 9:40 am
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>>32646
It was a joke, stop fiddling with your nerves.
>> No. 32651 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 10:34 am
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Fucking hell, lads. First it was the way your chocolate bars are segmented, now it's the way your shoes fasten. What's next on the autism list, spazzing out about getting peas in your mashed potato?
>> No. 32652 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 1:08 pm
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>>32651

Lads, you're in the minor rants and piss-offs thread, which means your posts are actually on topic, but fuck's sake.
>> No. 32653 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 1:48 pm
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My laptop case is completely fucked to the degree that I see the power sparking as I put the cable in and it's getting fiddly for it to accept charge. The thing is people on Ebay want £70 for the replacement part of the shell (literally just the keyboard bit) which, to me, reads like I should just wait until January and buy a new laptop.

Why can't things just not be so fucking hard for once?

>>32651
Jog on, Tone. Nobody wants your the shipping forecast chocolate.
>> No. 32654 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 2:12 pm
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I don't know what I've done but my guts are a mess this morning fucking hell. It's like everything I've eaten over the past 24-48 hours has sailed right through my digestive tract and is coming out the other end as a mixture of foetid gas and sloppy brown mush.

It's the worst sort. At least with proper diarrhoea you kniw where you stand, but with this you don't know if you're finished or if another squeeze will force out another noodle, like one of those play-doh extruders with different shapes you put over the nozzle.
>> No. 32655 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 2:07 am
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One of the best manufacturers of 3D printer gubbins is called "Fysetc". I have no idea how to pronounce this jumble of consonants and never spell it correctly on the first attempt. They make really good products, but I would happily punch every one of their employees in the face.
>> No. 32656 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 5:11 am
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>>32655
Jumbled set of letters for a name?

Would I be right in thinking they're a Chinese outfit?
>> No. 32657 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 5:01 pm
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>>32656
Aren't Chinese companies generally called things like "Supreme Horizons" or "Unyielding Hierophant"? I'd wager the barely decypherable non-word is more of a western thing. suga

RAPE

for tech freaks.
>> No. 32658 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 5:31 pm
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I hope you're happy, Purpz. Your weird formatting ruined my very dated reference.
>> No. 32659 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 5:47 pm
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>>32656

>Would I be right in thinking they're a Chinese outfit?

Yep.

>>32657

They tend to be called either something like "SIROEINT" or "Foshan Nanhai Hongtai Industrial Trading Co., Ltd". It's like they have a secret agreement to only choose names that confuse white people.
>> No. 32660 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 6:21 pm
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>>32658

I put the first Nathan Barley episode on the other day, weirdly, I think because I was trapped at a party with some nobheads.
>> No. 32661 Anonymous
13th December 2021
Monday 7:34 pm
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>>32657
>Aren't Chinese companies generally called things like "Supreme Horizons" or "Unyielding Hierophant"?
Their official Chinese names may well mean that, but they typically tend to take on random clusters of Latin letters for dealing internationally. I have a ring light from "YMCRLUX".
>> No. 32662 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 3:04 am
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We should breed a new type of chicken that has such a high body temperature that they lay their eggs already cooked.
>> No. 32663 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 10:19 am
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>>32662
If you slaughter and cook your own chicken rather than getting one from a shop will it have a few eggs up its arse?
>> No. 32664 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 10:40 am
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>>32663

pre-eggs is a delicacy in parts of SEA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMov8mE4Wp0

yuckers
>> No. 32665 Anonymous
14th December 2021
Tuesday 12:36 pm
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>>32664
Christ, I only made that post so I wouldn't have to keep seeing "rape" in extra large font.

>>32663
I think they lay them pretty quick, but it's really not my wheelhouse.
>> No. 32666 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 7:16 pm
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What the fuck are you supposed to hear when your Mother says of their new boyfriend "he reminds me of you!" before planning to fuck off to them for boxing day?
>> No. 32667 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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>>32666

I've seen that porno.
>> No. 32668 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>32666
Good things, I guess.
>> No. 32669 Anonymous
15th December 2021
Wednesday 8:40 pm
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>>32666
You are going to meet someone who is shagging your mum, and is absolutely nothing like you.
>> No. 32670 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 11:28 am
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I've received a "sorry we missed you" slip but it's from an estate agent formatted to look exactly like the ones the Royal Mail give you.
>> No. 32671 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>32670
Sometimes I wonder if this entire site is designed to radicalise me. That's obscene. I hate estate agents so much.
>> No. 32672 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 3:39 pm
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>>32670

I don't get how people don't see that this sort of shit would make me refuse to do business with them outright. Sanderson Young sent a particularly obnoxious salesman to our house in 2005 and I never forgot that.
>> No. 32673 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 3:43 pm
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>>32672

Are you enjoying your meal?
>> No. 32674 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 4:41 pm
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>>32673

Don't get me started. What a useless fucking gesture that everyone in the industry thinks is necessary. If people are inclined to complain about their food, they absolutely will, unprompted. If people shy away from complaining, apparating at their table when they have a mouth full of food will NEVER prompt them to complain. Ever.
>> No. 32675 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:20 pm
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>>32674

The waiting staff know that, it's just one of those things that presumably is in a Customer Service handbook all managers enforce as gospel.
>> No. 32676 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:27 pm
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>>32673
>>32674
>>32675
Yanklad here. One that really gets my goat over here is service staff in fast food places being forced to yell "HI WELCOME IN" every time the door opens, to the point where they don't even look up from what they're doing any more, it's just become a weird pavlovian response to the sound of the door. It's so ingenuine, the poor staff just have it beaten into them.
>> No. 32677 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 6:27 pm
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>>32674
>>32675
When your bill comes, you can complain that the food was horrible and you refuse to pay for it. If they asked you if you like it while you were eating it, they can tackle those problems then and then you won't have an excuse if you refuse to pay for it.
>> No. 32678 Anonymous
16th December 2021
Thursday 7:56 pm
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>>32677
Aye I've heard it's often more affordable for a restraunt to cook a replacement meal than provide a refund.
>> No. 32679 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 4:57 pm
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My daughter has started watching SSundee videos and they're terrible, simply terrible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_o5gMOF_K4

It's inane shouting for the sake of thinking that's excitement and he tries to sound like he's doing a voice over for South Park.

I know I shouldn't like what my kids are in to, but fucking hell he's just pure annoyance.
>> No. 32680 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 5:24 pm
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>>32679
Christ, he only stops shouting to demand engagement, how revolting. I was born in the ‘90s, but any children I have are only watching things like Bagpuss and Nogin the Nog until they’re 14.

She’s going to develop an American accent, act soon.
>> No. 32681 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 5:37 pm
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>>32679

Pretty much all the most popular videogame streamers act like that to be honest, it's a result of their main audience being raised on Tiktok and Instagram and therefore having an attention span of about five seconds. You can't just play a videogame while offering a bit of your own commentary anymore, you have to be WACKY and CRAZY all the time, as if you're a CBeebies presenter trying to hold the attention of toddlers.
>> No. 32682 Anonymous
17th December 2021
Friday 5:47 pm
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>>32680
>She’s going to develop an American accent, act soon.

Quite a lot of the YouTubers she watches are British, mainly LDShadowLady and various streamers affiliated with her, but I have noticed that the British ones increasingly use American words like popsicle and trash to try and appeal to the Septic audience.

>>32681
I think there's a scale. Fortunately she'd managed to stay clear of the really annoying ones until now.
>> No. 32683 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 12:17 am
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I've managed to double book myself with an x-ray and a mental health assessment on Monday. Also, do you ever have a thought run through your mind that really crystalises something that you weren't quite appriciating beforehand? Because this was definitely one.
>> No. 32686 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 1:53 pm
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Reach toothburshes must have been bought out, rebranded or something, as I can't find them anywhere and I've been looking for about 6 weeks. I'm even considering buying a large stock from Amazon.
>> No. 32687 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 3:31 pm
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>>32686
Buy an electric one? You can get a his and hers Oral-B set for £45.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oral-B-Electric-Toothbrushes-Toothbrush-Whitening/dp/B094VMSCQK/
>> No. 32688 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 3:35 pm
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>>32687
I'm sorry to be rude but fuck, electric toothbrush? How do you brush your gums with such a tiny head, it's ridiculous.
>> No. 32689 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 3:44 pm
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>>32688
By pointing them at my gums and brushing? Surely a smaller brush head can get in harder to reach places? You can get Philips Sonicare brushes with larger heads.
>> No. 32690 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>32688
Oral-b style toothbrushes have heads that are sized just right to surround a single molar, the idea is the soft bristles in the centre squish down and the outside bristles work their way down the gaps between each tooth individually. They work very well providing that you adjust the method you use to brush to suit.
They also make ones with an elongated head more like a normal toothbrush, but they're aimed at people not used to electric toothbrushes and they don't clean as well because it interferes with the rotating part of the brush getting between teeth.
>> No. 32691 Anonymous
20th December 2021
Monday 9:09 pm
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>>32690
Opposed to the large 'manual' brush covering ~2 teeth at a time, with strength enough to really scrub in from multiple angles and by various applications; not just sideways, but slantways and longways and backways and squareways and frontways and any other ways that you can think of.
Electric toothbrushes lack utility. You can't even use them as a general cleaning tool after the head''s worn out.

Are Electric toothbrushes really worth it, or is it just Big Dentistry trying to flog extra units over Christmas? I suppose my jabbed gums and 4 missing teeth are evidence enough.
>> No. 32692 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 1:23 am
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>>32691
Electric toothbrushes are designed to get all the debris out of the nooks and crannies which is the real problem. It's no reason to not use an interdental but it helps in avoiding debris around the gumline or crown.

There's some dispute on this as I think the NHS says that a manual is fine but fuck'em, you don't want to get periodontal disease because you don't want to spend a few quid more on a proper toothbrush.
>> No. 32693 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 3:53 pm
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Electric toothbruses are well worth it, but only the Sonic-style ones (the Phillips ones that last until just after the 2 year warranty period) -- the rotating ones are not as good in my experience.
>> No. 32694 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 5:00 pm
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>>32693
Sonicare are superb, but as you say, they last a couple of years.
>> No. 32695 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 9:36 pm
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Allow me a chance to vent: Why are women like this, she was if anything too into me last night but now I guess I can just go fuck myself can't I. I'm not saying this woman is necessarily a liar but it's already happened too often this season and as a guy it does slowly start to grate you like some water torture for your own sense of self-worth.

I know there's some broscience theories about how 'you didn't maintain enough excitement' or 'she just found a better option' but it's bollocks. I can tell you from being friends with women and the confessions of those I've dated after they cancelled the first date, the reason is usually just that they can't be bothered and it's that simple. I should've just married the Mormon, I'd have to join a cult but at least she was genuinely interested in meeting a guy she could share her life with without making her a housewife. Mormonism is honestly getting more appealing than dealing with dating in the 2020s.
>> No. 32696 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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>>32695
Are you gay mate? Straight lads don't avoid fanny with such fear.

I'm being facetious, you're clearly straight and a complete mong. I'm assuming you're not the one in the dress, so I must ask, what is going through your head?

If you've not already fucked it up by letting her know how perfect things would be if she wasn't such a slut for chad cock ('broscience'?), you could even just message her now and say 'Feeling better, where's good to meet' and you would be absolutely fine to be out tonight.

The thing that really gets me is your post. You've had a minor miscommunication via text and it's resulted in you missing what was essentially an explicit request to meet up regardless of any health concerns, and you've responded by reading that as "Go fuck yourself", despite her asking in plain English in her last message that she wants to meet up when you're better and her previous indication that she'd be keen despite a 'terrible cough' (no, you don't give details about your illness unless they ask, unless you have reason to believe the idea will be arousing to them).

Don't become a fucking mormon, just stop being a twat and catastrophizing over such minor things. She's keen, you'll probably fuck it up but you should be doing so actively, rather than passively, or you won't learn anything. Now get in there and don't be ashamed of the size of your willy, as long as it's not a literal micropenis then she won't care.
>> No. 32697 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>32696
Green is you on Whatsapp.
>> No. 32698 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:31 pm
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>>32695
I don't understand (I have to start too many posts like that). She seems perfectly up for seeing you, just not when you're suffering from lurgy, and even then only because you don't feel up to it.

I really should start talking to women again. They're lovely and if people like you, no offence, can manage it then I could probably get a date or two a year even.
>> No. 32699 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:36 pm
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>>32698
>I don't understand

You've read it backwards. That's why it doesn't fit with the text at all. I even specifically stated that I wasn't calling her a liar but that this has happened too many times - what did you think that meant?
>> No. 32700 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:52 pm
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>>32699
Really interesting how people are reading this the wrong way round. I use Whatsapp daily and to be fair your initial message threw me too.

On the actual situation, who knows? She could genuinely be ill, lots of people are at the moment. I once dated a girl like this.

Super keen and then when the time came up there was always an issue, a problem, something to delay it. Even when we met up, she would always be late because of something.

I found it very weird and it kind of killed the vibe. I tend to try and live by the idea that if somebody wants to, they'll make the effort, and you sometimes need to let it go even if you don't want to.
>> No. 32701 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 10:56 pm
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>>32695
Maybe she and perhaps other people recently are actually getting ill for some mad reason?

If you're in London she's almost definitely got the vid mate. Tell her to get a PCR.
>> No. 32702 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 11:07 pm
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>>32700
I think it's because the first post mentions wearing a red dress. I saw that and immediately concluded that I'd figured out who was who.

>>32695
She still sounds like she likes you, you cowardly flannel of a man.
>> No. 32703 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 11:14 pm
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>>32700
>I once dated a girl like this.

That's what I'm venting about; that there's a lot of girls like this. Last month I had somehow who managed to repeatedly cancel at the last minute and it almost became a game in itself until she managed to somehow convince me to leave work early one day only to then disappear until a reply late in the evening talking about a next time. This was a woman in her 30s.

It's rude 'innit.

What I've noticed is that .gs always sees the absolute worst in its posters when it comes to certain topics. A lot of venom at the ready to be spat in someone's face for imagined transgressions.

>>32701
>Tell her to get a PCR

Again, if you'd actually read it instead of frothing at the mouth, she said she's taken a PCR. And, again, I've said it's a reoccurring pattern over a season.
>> No. 32704 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 11:15 pm
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>>32699
Ah, I just skimmed your actual post. I'll keep avoiding people after all.
>> No. 32705 Anonymous
21st December 2021
Tuesday 11:42 pm
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>>32703
> A lot of venom at the ready to be spat in someone's face for imagined transgressions
It looks like you're imagining her transgression on this occasion. Perhaps if you have some more obvious examples about this happening, since it happens so often, you might convince us. But right now, this looks like you're imagining it. Maybe all women are really eager to meet you, and you keep going FINE BE THAT WAY BITCH and storming off for no actual real reason. Based on the mental state of most posters here, that currently seems like the most obvious explanation. We're not out to get you; we're just playing the percentages.
>> No. 32706 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 12:04 am
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>>32705
>Maybe all women are really eager to meet you, and you keep going FINE BE THAT WAY BITCH and storming off for no actual real reason. Based on the mental state of most posters here, that currently seems like the most obvious explanation.

I like the way you think.

>> No. 32707 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 1:02 am
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>>32703
>Again, if you'd actually read it instead of frothing at the mouth, she said she's taken a PCR.

No mate she didn't, she said she "tested lateral", which would imply she's done a lateral flow test. If she's experiencing symptoms then she should really get a PCR test especially if she's somewhere like London where the vid is rampant. I've heard multiple stories of people I know having negative lateral flow tests only to have a positive PCR. Obviously it's more urgent that you get your dick wet though.

No one's frothing lad. Some people (myself included) might have been a little snarky and dismissive of your histrionic post but that's par for the course on this site, in fact it's the standard tone of discourse. If you want people to be more understanding there's always /emo/.
>> No. 32708 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 10:26 am
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Birds are predisposed to be more selfish than men, because society just lets them get away with it and they never face consequences for being a self absorbed cunt. When they rarely do see repercussions it hits them harder and they take it really hard because they're not used to it.

Not all of them obviously but most of them. Nearly all of them. Practically all of them. Every one I've ever met, but not all of them. Just the majority of them.

I don't think this should be controversial, because it's flat out true.
>> No. 32709 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 11:11 am
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>>32708
I disagree. Men are just as much selfish cunts in my experience and if anything I tend to find women are much less selfish in general.

It's all anecdotal though innit.
>> No. 32710 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 1:19 pm
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>>32705
>It looks like you're imagining her transgression on this occasion. Perhaps if you have some more obvious examples about this happening, since it happens so often, you might convince us.
>Maybe all women are really eager to meet you

I'm otherlad. I've got examples of this happening. Birds from dating apps have agreed to meet me, came up with very plausible reasons to not meet, then ghosted me. Sometimes they even agree to re-schedule, then come up with another plausible reason not to meet again, and so on.

I can see why you think he's being a neurotic mentalist for wondering if she's lying, but he's that way because he's learning from experience. If every other woman who delayed meeting has proceeded to drop you like the disposable plaything you are shortly afterwards, that's where your mind is going to go.
>> No. 32711 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 12:32 am
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The BBC News man has new tiny glasses that make him look like Heinrich Himmler
>> No. 32712 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 12:46 am
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>>32711
I watch the BBC News channel so much that I know exactly you mean without even switching it on. His name is Shaun Ley. I can't find any pictures of the glasses, though. He hasn't updated Twitter since 2016, and every image search result is of him looking at least 15 years younger than he does now.
>> No. 32713 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 12:56 am
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>>32712
Here's a picture of him from the 1940s
>> No. 32714 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 2:35 pm
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I wanted to order the same glasses I wear all the time, but with tinted lenses. However, for some reason they now cost £100 instead of the £30 they did a year ago. Very... dumb.
>> No. 32715 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 3:26 pm
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>>32714
Are they rose tinted?
>> No. 32716 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 4:01 pm
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>>32715
I'm not even talking about the cost of the lenses, the frames themselves have more than tripled in price.
>> No. 32717 Anonymous
24th December 2021
Friday 7:28 pm
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>>32716
I buy mine from Glasses Direct - they seem cheap to me.
>> No. 32718 Anonymous
25th December 2021
Saturday 1:07 pm
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>>32717
And that's why you look like the Reichsfuhrer of the SS, Shaun.
>> No. 32719 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 6:21 pm
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Peloton advert with Scrooge getting well buff instead of...hoarding his money? I'm not sure of the point. Anyway, at the end of the advert he throws open the window and shouts "child, what day is it" and then a mixed race kid comes in focus and answers back "July 19th".

I don't know the original text, but I do know "Boy, what day is it" is the popularly known phrase and the one I've heard from a few adaptations. Did they cast a brown kid and then change the line? Is "boy" a loaded term to the extent they had to avoid it?

People have gone mad.
>> No. 32720 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 6:23 pm
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>>32719
Have you questioned why you're more concerned with the identity part of it than the crass commercialism?
>> No. 32721 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 6:28 pm
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>>32719
According to my research, the original text has Scrooge asking, "What's to-day, my fine fellow?" I assume that is correct because who nowadays writes "today" as two words?
>> No. 32722 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 6:47 pm
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>>32721
Thanks for checking. Muppets Christmas Carol transcript, I found the 6th instance of "Christmas" was the scene where he opens the window and he uses "boy".

>>32720
Who says I am? I just thought it was more worth discussing. I also find the Americanisation of our culture frustrating.

I've watched The Simpsons a lot and Muppets Christmas Carol, both of which have "boy" being used in representing that scene, plus I assume many other media as they are both popular examples and prone to reference.

I found it jarring to hear "child" and then noted it was likely because "boy" has racist overtones and then found it strange they would change an iconic line (per adaptation, and subjective) simply so they could cast a non-white lad.

Did you mean anything by that question? I don't notice this issue of motivation arise for other topics, but mention observations about race and people are like "why are you commenting hmmm".
>> No. 32723 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 6:58 pm
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>>32722
>Who says I am?
You, in the focus of your post.
>> No. 32724 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 9:12 pm
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>>32723
I spent all but one line on the commercialism, since Scrooge is a force of nature in that sense, he hoards until he gives. That's his fable. I can deride that but I'd be discussing A Christmas Carol as a story, not a weird advert based off it. That's the focus of my post, hence why I spent all but one line on it ;)
>> No. 32725 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 9:12 pm
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>July 19th
>> No. 32726 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 11:17 pm
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I think that girl in 2017 thought I was autistic and that's why she said The Acocuntant was such a good film. It's not complete shite, but she really over-egged it.
>> No. 32727 Anonymous
26th December 2021
Sunday 11:49 pm
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>>32726
I don't know about The Accountant, but The Secretary is a really good film.
>> No. 32728 Anonymous
27th December 2021
Monday 10:33 am
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>>32727

Thanks, I have to go for a wank now.
>> No. 32729 Anonymous
27th December 2021
Monday 10:50 am
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>>32727
I'm disapointed in myself for liking Secretary. The film is blunt and obvious - like the embarrassment when listening to the old CDs from your teenage years. From memory there's not a lot going on in the film other than "people relieve stress in different ways" and "I'd like to give her a spank" - It plays to basic sensibilities that inevitably leave you sexually aroused, but little else.
>> No. 32730 Anonymous
27th December 2021
Monday 6:23 pm
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>>32710
>I can see why you think he's being a neurotic mentalist for wondering if she's lying, but he's that way because he's learning from experience. If every other woman who delayed meeting has proceeded to drop you like the disposable plaything you are shortly afterwards, that's where your mind is going to go.

I was also right. Imagine being otherlad and slowly turning into a skeleton while waiting to hear anything back.
>> No. 32731 Anonymous
28th December 2021
Tuesday 4:30 am
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>>32729
I can't get over how truly bizarre the climactic scene is in Secretary but it otherwise has a great build-up. With the exception of the painfully on-the-nose scene of her chucking her self-harm kit into the river.
>> No. 32732 Anonymous
29th December 2021
Wednesday 12:46 pm
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3 year ago I cancelled an appointment with my dentist because of urgent work and they've never let me hear the end of it. Eventually I had to grovel when I next had to book an appointment with major tooth pain and every appointment since has had a little note pop up on the computer of whoever is seeing me along the lines of 'remind this cunt that if he ever cancels again he will be in for it!'

Fast forward to last Friday and I cut short a trip to see my parents to fit an appointment slot in the first week of January. Only I just received a call that "whoopsie" that slot can't be made and I can either cancel seeing my parents or find a date later on where I'll have to take time off work. Absolute shower.
>> No. 32733 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 11:19 am
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>>32730
I don't understand why they can't just send a 'sorry, changed my mind'.

I really want to knock online dating on the head, but I don't have another way to meet women.
>> No. 32734 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 11:42 am
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>>32733
Women are everywhere. I went to the shops the other day and there was women down every aisle.

I CAN SEE WOMEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET FROM MY WINDOW AS I TYPE THIS. EVERYWHERE!!
>> No. 32735 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 12:08 pm
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>>32734
> I CAN SEE WOMEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET FROM MY WINDOW AS I TYPE THIS. EVERYWHERE!!
I'd like to hear more about your perving-station.
>> No. 32736 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 12:10 pm
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>>32735
My house has these things called windows. Transparent panes of glass you can see through.
>> No. 32737 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 12:25 pm
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>>32734
Get with the times, gramps. If you talk to people in the street you will (quite rightly) be labelled as a public menace and there will be no sex because meeting someone in real life is increasingly attached to the same stigma as meeting someone in a bar:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/28/dating-apps-sexual-revolution-single-people

I suppose in a way it's funny, science fiction has predicted a world in which big data assigns us an ideal partner creating a sterile and superficial world. But as it turns out anyone assigned their ideal partner would only end in a ghosting or whatever the female equivalent is.
>> No. 32738 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 2:03 pm
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>>32736
And what zoom rating are your binoculars and/or telescope?
>> No. 32739 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 4:25 pm
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>>32738
Binoculars don't run zoom.
>> No. 32740 Anonymous
30th December 2021
Thursday 4:56 pm
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>>32739
I know?
>> No. 32741 Anonymous
5th January 2022
Wednesday 12:47 pm
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Because I listened to Matt Berry's first two albums a lot while going through a very emotionally charged period in my life I feel a bit like crying whenever I start or finish an episode of Toast of London.
>> No. 32742 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 1:29 am
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What bellend invented porridge? "Och aye, hoots mon, I'm going to invent a breakfast cereal that you need to cook for 20 minutes. Then if you don't eat it all within five minutes, it turns to cement and you have to throw the pan away." I freely concede that this first attempt is not perfect (it has the consistency of rice cakes, which I don't think is correct) but I last ate porridge a little over ten years ago and it destroyed a bowl then too.
>> No. 32743 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 2:17 am
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Windows 11 is a load of shite. They've hidden a lot of things anyone above a casual user needs behind menus because they're trying to copy Apple and its so much worse as a result. Attached is what you get when you right-click and where 'more options' brings up the actual stuff you want that you got from a Windows 10 right-click. Also, for some reason I cut the last letter from my name when setting up for the first time so all my user folders are now spelled in a really infantile way and I can't change it without now taking a significant amount of time to set up a new user.

Also having gone from playing old games into new is very jarring. Games now take an obscene amount of disk space and require you to sign-up to additional services, GTAV is particularly obnoxious with its ads for the online mode in my storygame but even stuff like South Park requires a third-party ubisoft account for (allegedly) DRM reasons. The future is very frustrating.
>> No. 32744 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 2:30 am
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>>32743
I've been thinking of getting a new computer, which will obviously have Windows 11, and then I would just virtualise older computers on it. I still play Age of Empires; I could set up a virtual Windows 98 PC and then use my hot new machine to play ancient games. I think they've cracked Windows XP too now, so I could have one of them for slightly more recent games.

If I actually want to play a new game, obviously I'll be fucked just like you, but hopefully this desire will be rare and easily ignored.
>> No. 32745 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 4:30 am
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>>32743
I recently left a job, and had my work account signed into my laptop and home PC for Outlook and a few other bits and bobs. It being a government job, my access to my accounts was cut off 5pm on the dot on my last day. Windows 11 does not have a "remove" button for that account, only a "manage" button that opens a dialogue asking me to log in, which I can no longer do. I'm going to have to do a fresh install of Windows 11 on both of my PCs to remedy the situation.
>> No. 32746 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 2:55 pm
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Trying to give a bed away for free on Facebook/Gumtree. The first person didn't bother turning up and the next two people we've offered it to have said they're no longer interested in it.
>> No. 32747 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 4:02 pm
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If I have one prejudice it's men who style their moustaches. I would deport them all if it was within my power to do so.
>> No. 32748 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 4:08 pm
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>>32746
I'm not surprised. If you're after a free bed then you probably don't give a fuck about anything, least of all reliability.

>>32747
Does chopping off the bits which go in your mouth count? I wish I could just let me lad grow free, but I end up eating it or having errant hairs stick up my nose or irritate my face.
>> No. 32749 Anonymous
6th January 2022
Thursday 4:34 pm
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>>32748
It's the same with most online listings. Advertise something for free and you'll attract a bunch of timewasters. Put it up for a fiver instead and you've far more chance of shifting it.
>> No. 32750 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 12:29 am
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>>32748
Trimming is fine. I mean the men who point and twist them. I keep saying men because a woman’s moustache is enough of of a novelty that anything is fair game.
>> No. 32751 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 1:59 am
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>>32747>>32750
It just seems like an enormous amount of effort - who has that much time every morning?
>> No. 32752 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 3:09 am
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>>32751

Plus, have you ever actually tried using beard/moustache styling wax? Perhaps I used it wrong, but when I did try some, it felt absolutely fucking disgusting. It felt like my beard was filthy, and looked greasy, even with the tiniest amount applied.

Honestly beard oil feels pretty awful when you put it on, too, but that seems to go away pretty quickly and does seem to have some softening effect, but really not enough to be worth the hassle.
>> No. 32753 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 3:13 am
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>>32752
>beard oil feels pretty awful when you put it on

Right with you. It makes your beard feel a bit soft for the first couple of minutes, but then is just minging afterwards. I think beard oil might well be snake oil.
>> No. 32754 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 3:47 am
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>>32753

>I think beard oil might well be snake oil.

I definitely think this is it. They claim it conditions your beard and moisturises the skin underneath, but I typically just use regular face moisturiser and rub it into my skin and beard and that seems to work just as well, and doesn't feel like I've been rubbing my face on a dirty frying pan. I sometimes use conditioner on the beard too, but honesty that doesn't seem to do anything. People have commented on how soft my beard is, so either I'm just naturally lucky with it, or a bit cheap tub of Nivea is better than oil.
>> No. 32755 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 10:35 am
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A neighbour has had a cough for MONTHS now, and apparently is incapable of stifling that. I haven't had a good night's sleep for as long as I'm constantly being woken up by this violent gutteral retching.

I have other neighbours who have music on daily and I can't hear a thing, so for this noise to permeate the way it does it must be fucking deafening in his flat.
>> No. 32756 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 2:54 pm
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>>32755

Not to be that cunt, but earplugs have really been a Godsend for me. They don't cancel everything, but a pair of the squishy 3M type earplugs allow me to sleep through a lot more undisturbed, particularly when paired with a wraparound sleep mask.
>> No. 32757 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 4:55 pm
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>>32756
Earplugs were fucking amazing for me until I got tinnitus, now they're a reminder of how I will never experience silence again. Still great though, I'd highly suggest them.

I've never not had an alarm get through my earplugs, even my Odin's Raven Magic Chapter 7 alarm which is literally just a single note on string held over a minute cos I'm right trendy. But they massively reduce ambient noise and kind of break up louder sounds a bit, so the coughing won't be nearly as bothersome and could even be offset by *additional* ambient noise which would have been out of the question pre-earplug. Sleeping masks are also top notch if you've not got a really dark room/effective curtains.
>> No. 32758 Anonymous
7th January 2022
Friday 6:17 pm
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>>32754
I've tried a few beard products, and one that really stands out is a company called Badass Beard Care who have a balm which is mostly comprised of the stuff in regular face moisturiser that is actually doing the moisturising. Their branding is nauseating, really playing into the whole "having a beard makes you a BIG TOUGH REAL MAN" thing, but the balm is far and away the best thing I've ever put on any part of my face.
>> No. 32759 Anonymous
8th January 2022
Saturday 1:11 am
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Every pub and club in my immediate vicinity is going to be closed at 2 AM, long after I get sufficiently drunk. I can't be bothered to travel to the centre to the handful of shitty places that'll still be open.

London is probably the worst big city in the world when it comes to nightlife. Certainly the worst of the world's megacities.
>> No. 32760 Anonymous
8th January 2022
Saturday 6:27 am
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>>32757
Tinnitus, I have fucking "musical tinitus" (fuck that, its' not musical).

More sedately, 4-tone pan flute or ABBA refrains, not identifiable but noise close enough. Other noise overrides it, but silence and trying to sleeep. BababababaTootToot. Beep Beeep Toot Toot!
>> No. 32761 Anonymous
10th January 2022
Monday 5:16 pm
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Words can't express how little interest I have in the presently ubiquitous Djokovic story. I almost complained about this on day two of the saga, but I naively thought "don't be a moany Michael, it'll be old news soon enough" so I held off, like a berk.
>> No. 32762 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 9:40 pm
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They've already got the Easter eggs out in Iceland. Just in case any of you lot will forget Valentines Day next month and need to rapidly feed the Mrs sugar.
>> No. 32763 Anonymous
12th January 2022
Wednesday 9:20 am
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>>32761
I'm the exact same. I get he's the number 1 tennis player but how has him having a visa for Australia been headline news for so long?
>> No. 32764 Anonymous
12th January 2022
Wednesday 9:26 am
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>>32761>>32763
I just like the memes.
>> No. 32765 Anonymous
13th January 2022
Thursday 1:34 am
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I've ruined my brain. I can't watch anything at less than 1.5x speed; anything lower, especially from Americans on YouTube, just feels painfully slow.

I tried forcing myself to watch stuff at 1x but it was unbearable and just felt inefficient, even though rationally I know I'm watching for entertainment and watching at normal speed will prolong said entertainment.
>> No. 32766 Anonymous
13th January 2022
Thursday 1:49 am
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>>32765

At least you can still watch stuff I suppose. The last couple of years of forced isolation staring at screens have just left my attention span totally frazzled, I can only scroll indecisively and help read forum threads.

I've got to start getting out more.
>> No. 32767 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 8:05 pm
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A Drug Dealer has moved into the flat above mine, which means there are noisy cunts running up and down the stairs and making my walls and ceiling thud all day from 5am to midnight. I've had a headache for a whole fucking week.
>> No. 32768 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>32767
You wouldn't mind so much if you had some drugs.
>> No. 32769 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 8:09 pm
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>>32768

I would mind not having a job anymore because I'm too monged to keep one though.
>> No. 32770 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 8:12 pm
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>>32769

Get a new job as a drug dealer, poach his customers. You'll have a new job and with any luck he'll have to move out.
>> No. 32771 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 8:55 pm
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>>32767
Anonymously report to the police that there are weapons hidden in his flat.
>> No. 32772 Anonymous
17th January 2022
Monday 9:48 pm
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>>32771
You are the worst kind of person for my enterprise.

>>32770
Being a floor below has advantages.

I'm curious about what level of dealer they are. I've had a lot of dealers and it was just a few at uni who I remember visiting the flat of. I assume he's distributing to runners, in which case there's probably some risky way to capitalize on this.
>> No. 32773 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 7:23 am
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>>32772

You could listen until he goes out then rob the place, like in that Guy Ritchie movie. I'm sure that would work out fine, like in that Guy Ritchie movie.
>> No. 32774 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 10:05 am
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>>32773

I'd like to see how well that movie works in today's property market.
>> No. 32775 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 6:30 pm
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I'm quite done with my current job and I'm waiting for my new job offer to send me a contract but they've taken a good two weeks.

It's stressing me a bit in case they don't give me one, I can't relax until it is in the bag
>> No. 32776 Anonymous
19th January 2022
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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I regularly use Sharpie pens, but I can't pick one up without wondering whether it has been inside someone.
>> No. 32777 Anonymous
20th January 2022
Thursday 12:55 pm
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My girlfriend keeps buying the Wagon Wheels without jam in them.
>> No. 32778 Anonymous
20th January 2022
Thursday 1:43 pm
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>>32777

This made me laugh, as it is the most minor of minor annoyances, yet it would be enough to annoy.
>> No. 32779 Anonymous
20th January 2022
Thursday 4:10 pm
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>>32777
Hold on - there are Wagon Wheels WITH JAM?
>> No. 32780 Anonymous
20th January 2022
Thursday 4:28 pm
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>>32779
To me, jammie is the default flavour.

Sorry that your childhood was a lie and you've only ever known incomplete Wagon Wheels.
>> No. 32781 Anonymous
20th January 2022
Thursday 4:50 pm
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>>32780


Consoling myself that while I grew up without jam, they were a LOT BIGGER. Enjoy your tiny jammy dodger.
>> No. 32782 Anonymous
21st January 2022
Friday 12:28 am
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>>32777
I used to peel out the marshmallow then eat each satisfyingly soft biscuit seperately.
>> No. 32783 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 9:53 am
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These sorts of image macros and the people who post them. I'm talking any variation on "I'm stealing this meme". You don't need to announce to the world every time you save an image you think is funny. Just fuck off.
>> No. 32784 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 10:02 am
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>>32783
Ah, a man of culture.
>> No. 32785 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 11:40 am
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>>32783
Pictures aren't memes. The memes are the ideas. Doge is a meme; ten pictures of Doge aren't ten memes. I think the time has passed for anyone to fight this fight, though. We all saw the changes happen and we did nothing.
>> No. 32786 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 11:53 am
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>>32785

Nobody here said they were.
>> No. 32787 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 11:59 am
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>>32786
I know. But other people do and that makes me minorly angry.
>> No. 32788 Anonymous
23rd January 2022
Sunday 5:28 pm
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>>32785

I resent, truly, the way the concept of a meme has gone mainstream. It was a really weird time to live through and it confused me severely at the time how my accumulated years of 4chan shitposting knowledge was suddenly the very key to getting in 20-something lassie's knickers on dating apps. My annoyance at the way the word meme simply means "picture with funny caption" now is outweighed by the wider implications.

But look at what it has done to internet culture. Chan boards, and their undying committent to contrarianism, oppose the very concept of image macro "memes" on principle now, because they're for normies. They still have memes of course; just not the fun kind you used to have in the old days where you had to bust out photoshop, and you could get quite clever with them sometimes. Those days are dead.
>> No. 32789 Anonymous
25th January 2022
Tuesday 1:49 am
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Flustered, I flung my flute into the toilet. I flushed and a flurry of fluid carried it away to some far-flung land.
>> No. 32790 Anonymous
25th January 2022
Tuesday 2:19 am
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I wanted to see what investing in Ukraine would be like but it seems that I'm not allowed. Not a single share or fund can be invested in on HL for this purpose - for example in aerospace I'd have to invest in Boeing who have a supply-chain agreement in Antonov.

It's irksome considering how easy it is if you want to put money in Russia like some reverse oligarch.
>> No. 32791 Anonymous
26th January 2022
Wednesday 2:25 am
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"Happy birthday" being abbreviated to "hbd". At that point, don't even bother.
>> No. 32792 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 10:53 am
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I went speed dating last night and it wasn't very good - it's definitely something that has died off since the pandemic. Although interestingly women are also finding that dating apps have changed and now there's too much conversation before anyone will agree to meet.
>> No. 32793 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 11:33 am
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>>32791
Pfft, call that an abbreviation? Just use HB.
>> No. 32794 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 11:41 am
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>>32790
I just looked online and found lots of links. None are for Hargreaves Lansdowne, but you could presumably diversify your portfolio and buy a bit of a road or something. There were also a couple of articles suggesting you invest in things like palladium, which will go up in price if a war happens.
>> No. 32795 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 1:01 pm
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Sweardle. It's like Wordle but guessing four letter swear words; they're already running out of ideas because the answers are things like "lube" rather than actual swears.
>> No. 32796 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 1:11 pm
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>>32795
At least they aren't making up new swear words yet. Never heard one that didn't make me embarrassed or the originator.
>> No. 32797 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 2:01 pm
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>>32794
I did manage to find some in the end but it's companies headquartered elsewhere but who operate mines or things of that nature rather than the sort of industries where Ukraine isn't just a colony for manufacturing elsewhere. I suppose in a way it can't be helped but it's depressing to think about for a country that is hopelessly poor and post-Soviet but so desperately wants to change its destiny and that I can't invest in that like a good capitalist.

The crux of my complaint though is that platforms are poorly optimised for investing outside pre-set rails. You'll have a harder time investing in Eastern Europe without Russia for example or equally in East Asia without China - despite the clear interest in the likes of Poland/Vietnam. There are reasons for this in how the global economy is structured around orbits and large banking institutions propping up behemoths but it neither tracks to reality nor what you want if you're genuinely pissing about or just want to search for opportunities by location.
>> No. 32798 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>32797
Sometimes I get an urge to invest in places I just like for random reasons, and indeed I can't. Once you reach the point where you want to invest in Ethiopia or Lithuania, your only choice from Vanguard is "emerging markets" where you're really just handing it all to China and India. I hate it too, but it probably stops me losing all my money in the long run.
>> No. 32799 Anonymous
4th February 2022
Friday 7:30 pm
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I hope someone with the means and ability is interviewing every single sodding Second World War veteran they can find right now, because, good Christ, that is possible the most important five years in modern history and there's so much knowledge and nuance that will be lost when those people are gone. And unless you plan on paying me to do so, don't tell me to go and do it.
>> No. 32800 Anonymous
5th February 2022
Saturday 5:43 pm
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Got re-invited to visit a highly intellectual part of the internet that I drifted away from years ago. They all seem incredibly knowledgeable about this complex field in ways that make me a dilettante, but it's all hyper-focused on the past and totally lacking in joy.
They're not chronic masturbators; they're far too knowledgeable for that. But they don't seem any happier than chronic masturbators.
I'm relatively stupid and ignorant; there's a lot of knowledge and understanding of theory in the field that I don't have - maybe if I'd dedicated as much time and effort to it as them I'd be on their level, maybe not. But if they're so smart, why haven't they found something to do that makes them less miserable? It seemed obvious to me that going down that rabbit hole would be a shitty way to live so I just didn't.
"The unexamined life is not worth living" aye, but examination without life isn't living.
>> No. 32801 Anonymous
5th February 2022
Saturday 7:22 pm
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>>32800
>Got re-invited to visit a highly intellectual part of the internet that I drifted away from years ago. They all seem incredibly knowledgeable about this complex field in ways that make me a dilettante, but it's all hyper-focused on the past and totally lacking in joy.

I feel there's a mechanic here that people often miss when talking about online communities - it really does feel like a job that takes a significant chunk out of your life after a point and it doesn't help when anything you learn or discuss becomes metaphysical language incomprehensible to reality.

What makes .gs work is it's mostly casual discussion veering onto shitposting. And I think today's academia can learn a lot from it.
>> No. 32802 Anonymous
5th February 2022
Saturday 8:19 pm
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>>32801

After a point it seems like the only thing they can take pleasure in is looking down on people who aren't interested in the same things as them. You could argue that I'm doing that same thing in this, but at least the people here do other things than post here. There is a broader array of interests and things happening in lives.
>> No. 32803 Anonymous
5th February 2022
Saturday 8:33 pm
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>>32801
I assumed he meant us, to be honest.
>> No. 32804 Anonymous
5th February 2022
Saturday 9:33 pm
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>>32801

It's something parallel to the Dunning Kreuger effect I think; only instead of the more you know about something the more you realise you have to learn, it's that the more in depth you discuss something, the more tedious and technical it becomes, while at the same time you're bored of going over the surface level stuff. Beyond a certain point you're either left without much to talk about or you're nitpicking over details only the most truly obnoxious bore could take pleasure in debating.

We avoid it here because like you say, we never really venture much deeper than casual pub conversation on any topic. Which frankly is the ideal, there's three of you sat round a table and within that discussion you can be the uncontested expert on a subject because you half remember reading a pop-science book and a couple of wiki articles about it six years ago.
>> No. 32805 Anonymous
12th February 2022
Saturday 12:34 pm
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>> No. 32806 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 1:17 pm
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I went for a wee in Morrisons and the sink had one of those plugs fixed in which you have to push for it to rotate to drain the water.

Someone hadn't done this so the sink was full of scummy water, as everyone after them didn't want to put their hand in this manky water so it just kept filling up.
>> No. 32807 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 3:20 pm
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>>32806
Did you feel tempted to dip your fingers in and lick them off while making contact with the other patrons? Asserting your dominance in the alpha world of scandalously overpriced retail.
>> No. 32808 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 3:41 pm
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>>32807
>Morrisons
>scandalously overpriced retail

You must visit a different Morrisons from me.
>> No. 32809 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 5:34 pm
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>>32808
£4.25 for a couple of chicken breast is outrageous. I don't care how you slice it.
>> No. 32810 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 5:37 pm
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>>32808
It's more expensive than Asda, but it's cheaper than Waitrose. I guess the question is how it relates to Tesco. I think it's slightly more expensive, but it's so much nicer that I don't mind. Sainsbury's can do one.
>> No. 32811 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 5:45 pm
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My local Co-Op stopped doing the 2 660ml bottles of beer for £4 deal, so now it's £5 for 2 bottles. This means I now have to walk longer to the local One Stop, where I can get 3 660ml bottles for £5. Co-Op lost my daily custom.
>> No. 32812 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 5:52 pm
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>>32809

>I don't care how you slice it

I usually just use a knife?
>> No. 32813 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 6:10 pm
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"Lip singing"
>> No. 32814 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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>>32807
It was a single toilet with a lock rather than stalls and a urinal. It wasn't an overly large Morrisons; about half of the salad bar items were empty.

>>32813
You want the Vimpto thread.
>> No. 32815 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 6:17 pm
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>>32814
I dislike the act as well as the linguistic error.
>> No. 32816 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 10:21 pm
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"Sorry but I'm not in a good place for dating right now"

Fuck off, lass.
>> No. 32817 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 10:41 pm
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>>32816
Yeah maybe she's just a stuck up bitch toying with you, or maybe she's barely coping with extreme stress at work or her moms just died.
>> No. 32818 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 10:50 pm
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>>32817
Then get off Tinder.
>> No. 32819 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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Maybe you're boring and ugly and very evidently have no core strength, IE, can't fuck good. Maybe.
>> No. 32820 Anonymous
15th February 2022
Tuesday 11:35 pm
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>>32819
Nah this is one where she set the date too far into the future having met in person so now she's bottled it. A kind of lazy rudeness from the fairer sex. Also during the week has been a lass who I hit it off with on a dating app only for her to announce she's just gone to the US for 3 months and one who posted awkward messages and then panicked over it until she just unmatched out of embarrassment.

I think women have gotten worse at dating since the 00s and even the 10s. Blokes might not be better for all I know but as someone trying to find a relationship and who usually has decent one's once we meet up it's a little frustrating how the first step is such a ballache.
>> No. 32821 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 5:18 am
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Lad, women have never been good at dating, they have never needed to be. It is only their own self imposed requirement for a set amount of social interaction before committing to a shag/relationship that allows dating to exist at all.

If men truly did run the world, Tinder would just be an app that you pressed one button and it'd give you the address of the nearest horny person who loosely fits your preferred body type and watches the same sort of porn as you.
>> No. 32822 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 5:22 am
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>>32821

>If men truly did run the world, Tinder would just be an app that you pressed one button and it'd give you the address of the nearest horny person who loosely fits your preferred body type and watches the same sort of porn as you.

You've basically described Grindr. See also: cottaging, cruising, saunas, glory holes.
>> No. 32823 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 5:29 am
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>>32822

I know. It's a huge shame I'm not gay, I'd be having the time of my life. Men just do shagging and relationships better, I think. That's certainly how it appears from the outside. I've never seen my gay male couple mates 'go on a break', or have a big blow up argument, or cheat on each other. I'm sure it does happen, but anecdotally it seems much lower odds. Conversely my lesbian couple friends all seem to split up every couple of weeks.
>> No. 32824 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 5:43 am
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>>32823

>I've never seen my gay male couple mates 'go on a break', or have a big blow up argument, or cheat on each other. I'm sure it does happen, but anecdotally it seems much lower odds.

For gay men, monogamy is the exception rather than the norm. They enter into monogamous relationships consciously and explicitly rather than assuming it to be the default; there's no stigma within the gay community about consensually non-monogamous relationships. Jealousy and possessiveness still happen within those parameters, but it's just much less common.
>> No. 32825 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 10:29 am
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>>32821
>If men truly did run the world, Tinder would just be an app that you pressed one button and it'd give you the address of the nearest horny person who loosely fits your preferred body type and watches the same sort of porn as you.

Not to be a, well fag about it, but that's not what I want either. Men romanticise gay culture for it's arse-pissing while forgetting that it's also a lonely transient existence for the other bits of a relationship and one where you will suffer the gay-death in your 30s as you lose your desirability.

>>32823
I think there's a bit of a Manichean divide here from my own observations.

Gay women fall quickly into serious relationships that when they implode will really implode but seem to have more of something closer to the blokey ideal where you're shagging your best mate Darren instead of hanging around with carbon copies of that loud campy bloke at the office called Clive all day.

In a sense heterosexual relationships sitting in the unhappy ideal between the two only, obviously, something's gone wrong and you're not getting rampant sex or romance anymore. You're chained to Clive at best and instead of having Wham! or KT Tunstall playing at a party it's Black Eyed Peas trying to brainwash you into believing you're having a good night.
>> No. 32826 Anonymous
16th February 2022
Wednesday 12:41 pm
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>>32825

>Gay women fall quickly into serious relationships that when they implode will really implode but seem to have more of something closer to the blokey ideal where you're shagging your best mate Darren instead of hanging around with carbon copies of that loud campy bloke at the office called Clive all day.

I've got two mums. They've only ever had one proper row, but it has been running continuously since 1992. Sometimes they will get up early to continue the row from the night before. Sometimes they just have an all-nighter to really pack in some quality rowing time. They slam doors with such ferocity and such frequency that I bring a screwdriver and spare hardware when I visit, because invariably at least one door will be hanging off. In lesbian circles, this is entirely normal behaviour.

>that loud campy bloke at the office called Clive

Gay men hate poofs. Camp men are basically gay dalits. Masc4masc only.
>> No. 32827 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 5:21 am
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>>32822
I've been saying for years that there needs to be a straight version of grindr. This whole match malarky you see on tindr/bumble is far too tedious.
>> No. 32828 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 8:46 am
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>>32827

Most women aren't interested in sucking a stranger's cock in a public toilet. If you want a Grindr for straights, you need straight women who act like gay men.
>> No. 32829 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 9:01 am
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>>32827>>32828

As we all know, women don't really like sex all that much. I mean, they all have clitsucker 9000's that can do the job far better than we can. That's not really a judgement on women, perhaps it's a judgement on men, or perhaps it's just that it's easier to make a sex toy that renders a real cock obsolete than it is to make a cost effective rubber fanny equivalent.

Sex robots is probably the answer.
>> No. 32830 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 2:01 pm
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>>32828
>>32829
If the ancient Greeks are to be believed, then women are actually hornier than men. They considered women to be more in tune with humanity's untamed, bestial nature because they're ruled more by their unbridled passions and sexual urges.

The reason a straight grindr doesn't exist is probably down to marketing and greedy developers trying to extract as much money from desperate men as possible. I vaguely remember websites like OkCupid having a decent search system which would spit out a giant list of all your potential options; none of this "upgrade to premium to continue swiping" nonsense. Fabswingers is still doing it right but it's full of old people.
>> No. 32831 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 2:40 pm
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>>32830
>If the ancient Greeks are to be believed, then women are actually hornier than men

Utter bollocks. If a woman just wanted to bonk she by well could spend all day bonking just by approaching men, they'd all just lose interest after they spaff or leave the seat up in the bathroom but there's a reason escorts are usually women.
>> No. 32832 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 2:45 pm
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>>32830
Ancient Greeks had lots of wisdom, but their opinions on women aren't really in the same league.
>> No. 32833 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 2:57 pm
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>>32832
Didn't they believe the Gods invented women to punish/distract men because they were so worried about how productive humans were after Prometheus gave them fire?
>> No. 32834 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 3:11 pm
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>>32833
I don't know about that, but the Athenians were in step with a modern day Salafist with how they saw women and girls.
>> No. 32835 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 3:40 pm
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>>32834
>After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given. He commands Hephaestus to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the human race. After Hephaestus does so, Athena dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of silver. This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora
>> No. 32836 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 4:19 pm
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Racing missions in video games. Whether it's street racing in GTA, or on foot racing in Mario Sunshine, it's always fucking shit. I've been playing the Mafia remake, having fun, then I have to do a racing mission. Bad enough, but then the vehicle handling is awful so I'm flipping over with no way to right myself at bends.
>> No. 32837 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 5:19 pm
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>>32831
Modern sexology research is leaning more toward Greek wisdom and is showing that women are at least just as horny as men.

The idea that women aren't as horny seems to stem from the culturally enforced monogamy that is a hallmark of successful and stable civilisation. It's obviously much easier to find a good husband if you pretend to be chaste and proper.
>> No. 32838 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 6:42 pm
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>>32836
Didn't they make that success-optional in the remake? As in you have to do it but you don't have to complete it to progress the game.
>> No. 32839 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 7:15 pm
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>>32836
As soon as you mentioned racing levels, I thought of the Mafia one. It's legendary. Honestly, I don't think I struggled that badly with it when I played Mafia nearly 20 years ago, but I still get angry at the memories because there was a later level set in a dockyard or something which really did take me weeks to get past for all sorts of ludicrous reasons. Your car breaks and explodes, and then it autosaves, and then you just die five thousand times.

I had no idea there was a remake of Mafia. Do people's eyes still pop out of their heads during cutscenes? That's probably the only thing I would fix about that game now. That and letting you save whenever you want so you don't have to play the same five minutes in a dockyard so many times that you remember it 18 years later.
>> No. 32840 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>32839
The downhill races on the EA Skate games can be really fun, since you're basically a ragdoll glued to a skateboard being pelted down a hill.
>> No. 32841 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 10:27 am
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A hole has opened up on the thigh section of some of my trousers, days after the zip broke on another pair, this has left me dangerously short on legwear.
>> No. 32842 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 10:32 am
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>>32841
Since covid started I've spent the majority of my time in joggers with elasticated waists. I've no idea if my old work trousers would even fit.
>> No. 32843 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 10:51 am
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>>32842
Sounds like you're ready to join the elasticated jeans and trousers club.
>> No. 32844 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 10:56 am
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>>32843
Everyone should wear elasticated clothes. Having to wear a belt because you've got non-elasticated trousers or jeans runs the risk of deforming your body over time.
>> No. 32845 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 11:19 am
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>>32844
Elastic also puts pressure on the same parts of your body as the belt does. More pressure than a belt you haven't overtightened.
>> No. 32846 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 11:25 am
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>>32845
That's exactly what I'd expect Big Buckle to say.
>> No. 32847 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 11:52 am
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>>32842
>I've no idea if my old work trousers would even fit.

I've discovered that trousers have naturally shrunk without continual use as the fabric atoms have relaxed from their once stretched state. Wearing them now poses the risk of tearing in the same way putting a hot glass into a cold environment will shatter it, for everyone's safety we should stay in our joggers and hoodies.
>> No. 32848 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 5:20 pm
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Call Me Kat is one of the worst TV programmes I have ever seen, but Mayim Bialik as a slightly desperate spinster is a top-tier wank fantasy.
>> No. 32849 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 6:23 pm
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Kate Garraway. Probably the only person to have milked covid more than Captain Tom's family.
>> No. 32850 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 6:57 pm
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>>32849
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/captain-tom-foundation-charity-daughter-b2018320.html nobody out-grift's Captain Tom's daughter.
>> No. 32851 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 8:45 pm
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>>32848
She's a horrendous person, both physically and ethically. Sort yourself out.
>> No. 32852 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 8:56 pm
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https://old.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/svjgw0/jesus_christ_the_uk_colleges_rejection_letters/

America is a worrying country and their mixture of toxic positivity and tyranny through majority is going to end in disaster.

>Due to the strong quality of applications, competition is extremely high. We carefully evaluate all aspects of an application as well as assessing it in relation to others. Regrettably, your application was not quite as strong as that of others.

I don't even see what's wrong with that, but it earns this kind of response from OP:

>when someone puts their time, effort, and money into applying to your school, the least you can do is give them a thankful/ polite rejection IMO

And another commentator:

>Atleast US rejection letters make a poor attempt at trying to make us believe that "increase in number of applications" is the actual of our rejection [ I mean that's kind of saying the same thing but in much nicer words, and much less straightforward]. This is a slap on the face💀💀

How the fuck is it a slap in the face to not have a swaddled response which wastes your time in addition to giving you bad news?

Most concerning is that one of the few people to acknowledge that cultural differences exist describes such a fact as 'Unfortunate'. American culture is going to be the norm in the UK soon and it's going to be really annoying.

>Yeah, different cultural norms, unfortunately. And that wasn't even really an impolite email by US standards. Real impoliteness by your standards comes from countries like Denmark, where honestly and clarity are valued much more than lies for the sake of saving face. They haven't said anything that an American email doesn't also say, they've just done away with the sickly platitudes.
>> No. 32853 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 9:30 pm
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>>32851

I've no idea who she is but I'm interested in knowing why she's so horrible.
>> No. 32854 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 9:57 pm
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>>32853
She waits until her toast is cold before buttering it.
>> No. 32855 Anonymous
19th February 2022
Saturday 12:32 pm
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>>32804
This is further getting on my nerves. Talking to this one, perfectly nice and genuine human member of that community and he seems to be actually incapable of communicating like a normal human being. No casual conversation, no code-switching, even the most simple concept has to be a paragraph of convoluted technical terms which don't contribute anything to what he's saying. Never say in three words what you could in seven-hundred, aye? It's exhausting.
>> No. 32856 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 7:21 pm
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What in fuck's name is wrong with the people who design and program the software for home printers? After nearly 30 years of continual advancement you'd imagine these pricks could figure out how to make a printer which isn't a total and utter fucking cock ache to get working properly.

The thing is, it's one of those cases where the more of a "tech savvy" person you are, the more infuriating and bafflingly unintuitive the process usually is. Every step they try and make to simplify the process for your nan who just wants to print holiday snaps off her iPad, makes it all the more agonising for someone who just wants to see a printer appear on their network and fucking print to it.

Can that be so hard? Why do I always have to download some hideous bloatware and sign up for some fucking pointless support/service account? Fuck you HP.
>> No. 32857 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 7:27 pm
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>>32856
It's a solved problem. PostScript printers are a thing, they solve 99% of what a printer needs to do, what they can't do is almost certainly not what you need or want.
Ink pisser printers are a prime example of why building a machine that works is insufficiently profitable.
>> No. 32858 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 8:18 pm
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>>32856

Cheap printers are cheap. They're being sold at a loss to sell you expensive ink. Printers that aren't crap do exist, but they seem unreasonably expensive compared to the loss-leaders.
>> No. 32859 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 9:15 pm
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>>32856
Could not agree more, home printers are the absolute nadir of household technology.
>> No. 32860 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 10:16 pm
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>>32856
Yeah, stop buying home printers. I've just bought another HP5550dtn, from back when HP made decent kit. Full set of toners and consumables, £280. I know you can buy a dozen shitejets for that, but I'm all set for 6000 pages of full colour A3 duplex glory, no gummed up nozzles and printer drivers that rarely fellate goats. Sure, it's the size of a washing machine, but it idles at 5W and is quiet.
>> No. 32861 Anonymous
21st February 2022
Monday 10:50 pm
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Life comes at you fast.

One minute you're just nobbing about post uni and people are wondering if you'll pack it in to go travel or live on a commune or some shit and the next minute your girlfriend wants to buy a house and everybody wonders when you're having a kid.

Not sure I feel like I'm ready. It's a bit much. Find life proper, proper, stressful.
>> No. 32862 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 8:25 am
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>>32861

I hear you. I have a girlfriend six years older than me, and who is therefore already worried about the shrinking window for having kids. I took my first stab at a real adventure at 27 years old, only to be sidelined by a relationship and a job in the same industry drove me out of the UK to begin with.

This really more of an /emo/ thing for me, but fuck if I'm not disappointed with the person I've become.
>> No. 32863 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 10:31 am
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>>32862

Yes the older gf (only a few years) feels like it's sucking the joy out of me a bit, because she is constantly aware of the closing window and I feel like everything is just geared towards that. She can't help it, nobody is to blame of course.

Not sure I understand your point about the adventure at 27. Can you elaborate?
>> No. 32864 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 10:55 am
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>>32861

Don't worry lad, you'll be looking at the divorce papers and moving back in with your mum and dad before you know it too. Everyone starts out feeling lost, but the more shite life puts you through, the more at ease you feel with the next thing you have to go through.

I've come to realise this is what I always classified as actually being an adult- It's not having a "decent job" or getting settled down or anything like that, it's simply having the world weariness and experience to remain calm and reasonably unaffected whatever you're faced with, because by then, you've seen it all before.
>> No. 32865 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 10:56 am
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>>32863

Yeah, that was a bit self-referential of me. Basically, I had a very big, ambitious career-and-travel plan that I was saving up for throughout my 20s, and I finally managed to earn enough to get the ball rolling when I was 27. I met my girlfriend at 28 and we've been together for a few years. Now closing in on 32 and I'm wondering how the fuck I ended up mired in a city I don't like, in a job I don't like, with a girl I only like 50% of the time, talking about what we're going to name our first kid.

I wanted so much more, but the world essentially shut down for a couple of years and every attempt at something else has been scuppered.

What I'm saying is, fuck it, I might take all of my money and fuck off to a very cheap sunny country and live off my meagre savings until I die there.
>> No. 32866 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 11:22 am
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>>32865
Fucking hell this is so close to my own situation I'm going to go away and think about it before posting a full follow up. I could write (minus some of the details) a lot of those bits myself right down to the last sentence.

I will be back later, please check in lad because if nothing else it's good to speak to somebody else in the exact same boat.

>>32864
hahaha fair point. I don't feel abny shame about being back with the parents though for some reason. I did it in the pandemic and quite enjoyed it.
>> No. 32867 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 5:42 pm
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>>32865
Ok so I am very close to you in all these aspects. What's stopping you now though?

I had a visa to work somewhere lined up then everything shut down and I couldn't go.

I think the thing with my girlfriend is she just wants to get a house and move to a town somewhere and tick off those life goals and what that actually maens doesn't really matter because her boomer parents insist she should do the same as they did before without really thinking anything about it. I've changed her thinking somewhat but she still is kind of just her.

I'm tempted to do the same thouogh, take what little I have and just fuck off somewhere. I was really struck by your story so wonder how you get by day to day and whether or not you are planning to have one last roll of the dice so to speak.
>> No. 32868 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 7:00 pm
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>>32867

Well, that's one particularly fucked up way in which we are different, melad.

I managed to roll the dice in time and did indeed leave in 2017. I genuinely had a great year or so, and even the pandemic was something of a mixed blessing as it seemed the profession I was studying for would be in demand.

I met my girlfriend in the country I'm living in. It's in the EU, so not exactly exotic, but a new place is exciting enough. It's been extremely stressful but also exhilarating -- my address changed five or six times, I finished up a postgraduate degree, worked part-time, managed to see a few cities and have a bit of fun, just about scraped by with money, and since my girlfriend also lived in a different city, I spent my weekends on trains. I was exhausted but gratified.

Despite working, my money slowly ran out and I got tired of sharing flats with strangers, so I found another job in the industry I worked in back in the UK, and started early 2021. I nabbed a flat with my girlfriend in her city.

On paper, I should be happy, because it sounds like everything fell into place. On the contrary, the last year has been an absolute fucking slog. This first move was only ever really meant to be a springboard to Bigger and Better Things™, but all the clever internships and schemes I had lined up fell through, just evaporated with travel restrictions and EU citizenship, one by one.

Part of me is grateful for the respite, but mostly I'm living with the compromises I've had to make to survive here. Hence, city I don't like, job I actively loathe, and a girlfriend I'm currently not talking to for some stupid reason. It feels like my world has shrunk from "anything is possible", the prospect of working globally, no fixed address, meeting people, blagging my next move, to answering e-mails 9-5 and spending Saturdays making boiled eggs, then arguing about who loads the dishwasher.

I'm exaggerating a bit for comic effect, but I'm certainly not where I wanted to be. I recently put in my notice at work and am looking forward to living off savings again (I am realising that I am not a risk-averse person). I'm just obsessively jobhunting and aiming for more, but it's been fits and starts.

Sage for posting my life story in the bloody /101/ thread.
>> No. 32869 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 8:46 pm
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>>32868
This is well written, enjoying both of your posts. What did you study? What do you do?
>> No. 32870 Anonymous
22nd February 2022
Tuesday 9:35 pm
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>>32867

>I think the thing with my girlfriend is she just wants to get a house and move to a town somewhere and tick off those life goals and what that actually maens doesn't really matter because her boomer parents insist she should do the same as they did before without really thinking anything about it

In fairness to her, I've found myself doing more or less the same, despite how much of an adventurous free-spirit I wanted to be in my youth.

But the thing is just at some point you realise you don't have all the time in the world. It's not like you should be staying up at night worrying about it, but still- If you fanny about for too long you can end up in a pretty awkward situation. You want to be getting a foot on the property ladder by the end of your 30s at the latest, or there exists the very real possibility you'll still be paying the mortgage off on your deathbed.

I think women in general are just a lot more sensitive to this kind of time pressure because they know the clock is always ticking on their reproductive ability. She might not be able to prescisely articulate why, you might be right that she's only doing it because "that's what you do"- But there's a reason it's the thing you do, and that's because it is, in fact, fairly prudent and sensible.

I don't wish to interrupt and barge in on you two but I observe a similar kind of sentiment in some of my own m8s and I think what they all share is that they all held off on doing anything adventurous when they were young. They were all quiet and sensible through uni and their mid 20s, they had that very middle class long-term mindset where they reasoned that they'll be able to do much more of that later on if they concentrate, put their nose to the grindstone and set themselves up well in the first place. Then, they find out that's not quite always how it pans out. By contrast, the people who fucked about taking drugs and living recklessly in their early 20s are much more comfortable settling down and living a quiet life once they reach that kind of age.

I think that's just the thing about having plans in general. They only seldom come off exactly how you hoped they would. Life teaches some people, like myself, that lesson early on and very harshly; but if you've always had things work out for you, I can imagine it being a very bitter pill to swallow when your life plans start to look like they might not pan out.
>> No. 32871 Anonymous
23rd February 2022
Wednesday 12:42 am
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I hate my life because I don't want to pursue passions until I have the basics set up, and setting up the basics is taking my entire life to do. But to ignore the basics is to guarantee failure. Sage.
>> No. 32872 Anonymous
23rd February 2022
Wednesday 9:18 am
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>>32869

Not sure how much identifying information to give away, considering there's only four of us that post. I obviously studied something broadly within the field of medicine, though I'm not the NHSlad. Even more confusingly, I did work there in the past, though. I'm just appreciating the opportunity to vent among likeminded lads.

>>32870

I think I understand what you're getting at, but my story is a little different to your mates. I have absolutely no regrets about the amount of reckless behaviour in my late teens to early 20s. I come from a somewhat scummy town and the novelty of drinking or fucking about until the early hours had thoroughly worn off by 18 - 19.

By contrast, the people I envied were actually the more middle class kids at university who seemed to know the system, could almost guarantee themselves comfortable jobs, and had the resources to do things like buy cars and take gap yahs. All of these were beyond the power of anyone in my family. I worked really hard, tried to be brave, and took my first flight to visit a girl I was dating who was (not so coincidentally) on an EU-funded placement in eastern Europe at the time. I was 24.

You think I'd have learned my lesson by now, because the travelling was a lot more fun than the girl. It was about then I had the "time is finite" realisation, when I'd returned and was daydreaming at my call centre job. In typical robot moon oven fashion, I put together a best-case scenario of things I wanted to achieve in my life on a timeline in a spreadsheet. I genuinely still use an iteration of that spreadsheet to write out my goals, to work out how each step fits into my finances, what courses I can take, or how much a move will cost, etc..

The overall goal has been to find a job or means of living that I don't find totally crushing or demeaning. That was something I learned from my upbringing, as I watched my dad become more angry and stressed and less like himself each day. Despite all the advanced qualifications and extensive interviewing, I'm still very much searching for that.

Now I'm well and truly in /emo/ territory.
>> No. 32873 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 1:54 pm
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I've been watching cookery videos on YouTube and it's bothering me that the American ones don't use a knife and fork afterwards and instead use the fork to slice everything.
>> No. 32874 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 2:04 pm
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A lot of senior Wehrmacht officers lived until the late 1970s or early '80s. I wonder if any of them ever listened to a Joy Division record?
>> No. 32875 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 4:09 pm
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>>32873
I must admit guilt in doing this, too. What's the use of creating extra washing up? Besides, I need to other hand to hold the bowl while eating on the sofa.
>> No. 32876 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 4:28 pm
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>>32875
If you're going to do that might as well go all out like the Septics do and use paper plates to save on washing up.
>> No. 32877 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 4:57 pm
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I just don't fucking get how HR can be so consistently and shockingly bad in every organisation I go to.

I can't stand generalisations of whole professions and what the people are like but HR lives up to it every time, in absolutely every single situation.

I've been trying to start a new job since December last year, I sent them documents they requested in January. They've just emailed me AGAIN asking for the documents I sent in January.
>> No. 32878 Anonymous
4th March 2022
Friday 4:59 pm
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>> No. 32879 Anonymous
9th March 2022
Wednesday 9:39 pm
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>>32874
They hated bauhaus the first time round bro
>> No. 32880 Anonymous
9th March 2022
Wednesday 11:00 pm
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>>32879
Well played.
>> No. 32881 Anonymous
12th March 2022
Saturday 1:13 pm
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Windows installation on my media PC has managed to fuck itself somehow. Probably an update. Automatic updates can suck my cock, nowt good ever comes of it. So, instead of spending a lazy morning watching a queue of interesting YouTube videos I'd put on my list, I've been arsing around trying to sort it, and three hours later concluded nothing short of a fresh install will do. Bloody double fucking bastard.

First time this has happened in years though to be fair. I should probably be thankful, I feel like I had to do this every three months back in the XP/Vista days.
>> No. 32882 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 1:38 pm
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My bathroom mysteriously smells of cum. I don't do any business in there and flush my tadpoles so I'm assuming it's the new toilet tab I'm using. Unfortunately it's right by the front door of my flat so anyone that comes in gets hit with a whiff of fresh semen.

I don't know how else to describe it, it's like I've been out and about all week and so have fired off a decidedly potent load.
>> No. 32883 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 2:07 pm
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The mythos of the Captain Birdseye fish fingers advert is fucking weird. There's this guy, right, a proper salty sea dog fisherman with white facial hair and the skin, facial structure of a twenty-five year old, right and he fishes, not for money or to survive or the joy of fishing but because he's really keen on the process of making fish fingers. It's not an Ahab-Moby situation, that would be too intense - he just goes to huge effort and risk to get "self-satisfied smile" level of satisfaction to the idea people will be eating proper fish fingers.
>> No. 32884 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 2:25 pm
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>>32882

I think cum smells a bit like bleach, so that would tie in to the toilet tab theory.
>> No. 32885 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 3:12 pm
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>>32884

The similarities in smell are because both are alkaline. Bleach is a sodium hypochlorite solution which comes out strongly alkaline. Semen is slightly alkaline to act as a "buffer" against the acidity of the vagina (as well as the male urethra on the way out).

I've heard people making similar comparisons to mushrooms, which are also alkaline.
>> No. 32886 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 3:46 pm
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>>32885

Squid, too. Defrosted IQF squid smells exactly like jizz. At least, my jizz. Maybe I have medical issues, it's hard to say.

I don't know if squid is alkaline, but since squid is very often prepared with acidic sauces it stands to reason. I always just thought that maybe this is just what 'protein' smells like in a relatively concentrated form.
>> No. 32887 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 3:50 pm
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>>32883

At least the new Captain Birdseye isn't a nonce.
>> No. 32888 Anonymous
13th March 2022
Sunday 4:22 pm
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>> No. 32889 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 2:24 pm
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I know Reddit easily baits rage, so I'm presumably playing into some basic stereotype here, but fuck me, American women are the worst.

There's a thread on witches Vs patriarchy at the moment about phrases women should learn to say, which is basically just a collection of 'be assertive'. Fine and all. But the comments are a depressing window into how some people think. And not just how they think, but how they think others should think too.

And all these people are actually proud of this. They see themselves as genuinely better off for being able to shut down any disagreement with pithy phrases like "The devil doesn't need another advocate" or "So you're picking his side" or any number of empty putdowns. I don't want to get banned from there so I'm refraining from spamming "it's the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without endorsing it".

Of course the most popular putdowns related to this are the ones that directly attack and denigrate the individual themselves for exploring an opinion with which they disagree, which is just vile moral licensing.

There was a another one recently on the trueoffmychest which had a woman complaining that her boyfriend was being mean to her because he pointed out she was getting a 'fupa', which is apparently a known phrase and probably perks the ears of the chublads in the vicinity - fat upper pussy area.

The responses were vitriolic, and the most upvoted ones were all attacking the lad for mentioning it, and stating that you should never comment on your partner's weight, and if you ever have any concerns you need to manipulate them into going to the gym with you by saying things like "I'm going for a run, do you want to come" instead of just being adults and having a conversation about it.

The thing that pisses me off most about this is how middle class American neurotypicals are dictating how people should communicate on the internet, and are missing the great irony of how anti-diverse and damaging that really is.

I sometimes just go into the autism subreddit for a break, so I can see people communicating in a much more measured way and not being jumped on for everything. It breaks my heart when I come across people now and then who are clearly not used to communicating in the expected way, and are attacked for it by the same kind of people who will dedicate their life to combating bigotry.
>> No. 32890 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 2:31 pm
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>>32889
You've got to remember that the majority of people who post advice on Reddit are American teenagers. That's why the solution to almost every issue is either divorce your spouse or cut all contact with your parents.

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
>> No. 32891 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 2:45 pm
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>>32889

I think I follow your post, but I also find it desperately worrying that any kind of measured conversation is now associated with autism.

I'm aware this might not be what you intended to imply, but I worry that the definition of autism is expanding far beyond useful meaning. I definitely wouldn't want it to be used as a descriptor for anyone capable of suspending an emotional reaction or making an effort to be rational and understanding.
>> No. 32892 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 3:01 pm
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>>32891
Think that's run away with itself there. I was using it as more of an ice cold bath after leaving a boiling room. It wasn't intended to be some sort of autism wankathon, it's just bloody refreshing within that context. Of course you get a lot of right weirdos there but usually it's all more polite.

>>32890
Unfortunately a lot of them appear to be women in their 20s who take the teenage views as endorsement that they're on the right track.
>> No. 32893 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 3:09 pm
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>>32891
Addendum to my reply to you: I think the danger you're referring to is conflating autism with rational approaches. The thing that ticks me off there is that the kind of people I'm ranting about consider rationality a weakness or dismissal or something, so instead of approaching it in the reasonable "at the moment I'm not looking for a rational response or solution, I just need to vent" they go in with, and I paraphrase from a recent experience, "you're obviously too privileged if you can think about trauma objectively". Like what the fuck? That one still sits with me months later, like way to poison the fucking well. Morons.
>> No. 32894 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>32889

I experienced something similar on there myself recently; I asked for advice on something and these two accounts started backing each other up in a feedback loop that produced total fabrications based on their wildly inaccurate reading into and assumptions about what had been said. Verifiably false things but they were so caught up in their witch-hunt that it didn't seem to matter. It was more bizarre than anything else.
>> No. 32895 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:09 pm
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Lads I'm gonna say something quite controversial here but here me out. Reddit is awful. Yes even all your niche little curated subreddits etc. It's all shit. Life is better without it.
>> No. 32896 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>32895
I don't think most people here who use Reddit actually like it, there's just a dearth of alternatives these days if you want something faster paced than here.

My main gripe with Reddit is that it's puritanical and underneath the veneer of faux-sincerity it's full of people who are simply aching to pile on someone and rush to cast judgement on them.
>> No. 32897 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:19 pm
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>>32895
I will not hear another lie spoken about r/BigBoobsGW, you utter rake.
>> No. 32898 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:26 pm
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>>32895
>>32897
I lived blissfully uninitiated into Reddit until someone here reeled off 3 or 4 porn subs that he visits, and I had no idea that it's mostly just porn. I haven't had the need to make an account yet, but fuck me if it isn't the best place
to get inspiration to crack one out.
>> No. 32899 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:32 pm
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>>32898
That was me. I've noticed that quite a lot of the fat lasses posted in the /x/ thread are camwhores on Reddit, so I think that's where our resident chubby chaser is getting his material from.

You might want to see what you make of r/holewreckers. You can probably work out my contribution to the fat lass thread from that information alone.
>> No. 32900 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 10:47 pm
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>>32896

The big subreddits certainly reflect the current American neuroses, but a lot of the smaller and more blokey subreddits are fairly strictly on-topic.

The problem as I see it is that Reddit combines the worst failings of the old and new internet. You've got the petty tyrant moderators who run things like their own personal fiefdom, but you've also got the unwashed masses shitting the place up with low-effort posts and uninformed opinions.
>> No. 32901 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>32899
>Spoilered text
Don't you hate yourself for liking this sort of thing? I think I do. I'm ashamed that my body/mind is so responsive to it.
>> No. 32902 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 11:19 pm
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>>32895
>here me out.

FUCK. Have mercy modlads. Also sort out the fucking delete post feature you lazy cunts.

>>32897
>>32898
If you're just using it to wank yourself silly that's understandable. I just don't really understand why people subject themselves to the absolute maddening idiocy and drama that seems inherent to a lot of the subs. I'd say the same for twitter as well. But yeah, I'm not judging people for doing it, I just find it baffling.
>> No. 32903 Anonymous
15th March 2022
Tuesday 12:05 am
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>>32901

There are plenty of truly awful things happening in the world, so I don't see the point in being ashamed of something that's genuinely harmless. If some women like to shove traffic cones up their chuff and you like to watch, then everyone's a winner.

Apart from the cone, obviously. Maybe that particular cone actually identifies as a dildo, I dunno.
>> No. 32904 Anonymous
15th March 2022
Tuesday 7:58 am
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>>32903
I found the woman with the converse shoe shoved right up her arse more intriguing.
>> No. 32905 Anonymous
15th March 2022
Tuesday 9:14 am
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>>32889

>witches Vs patriarchy

What on earth are you even doing on a sub like that? I won't agree with everyone else's sentiment that the entirety of Reddit is awful, there are some okay communities, as long as you stay away from politics or economics or anything like that. Even stupidpol eventually became consumed by mod drama so there's literally nowhere sane left to talk politics on that place.

But with a sub like that what the bloody fuck do you expect? It's actively aimed at and selecting for two of the most unhinged groups of women (third wave fisherpersons, and woo-woo tarot card spiritualist dickheads), and then crossbreeding them. You're never going to get anything but morons there, and a complete lack of self awareness.

You know that MSPaint comic where the guy is in a shop and he gets turned down for something, then he meekly walks away; but in the last panel he's on the internet spinning a fantasy version of events where he was a tough guy? That's exactly the vibe I get from subs like that, and woe betide anyone who should try interrupt the group masturbation. It's really beyond pointless to lose sleep over it.

>There was a another one recently on the trueoffmychest which had a woman complaining that her boyfriend was being mean to her because he pointed out she was getting a 'fupa'

I saw another one on there a while ago where a bloke left his wife after 8 years or something, because of her health-endangering weight gain, which she refused to do anything to address. You can guess who the commenters sided with.

Just stay away from the places that are full of neurotic Yank women, and you'll be better off for it. Also try not to have a tediously woke girlfriend who's into all the same shit as neurotic Yank birds. That fucked me up for a while, because being exposed to it all the time through her made me feel like it all exists in reality far more than it actually does.
>> No. 32906 Anonymous
15th March 2022
Tuesday 1:03 pm
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>The problem as I see it is that Reddit combines the worst failings of the old and new internet. You've got the petty tyrant moderators who run things like their own personal fiefdom, but you've also got the unwashed masses shitting the place up with low-effort posts and uninformed opinions.

One of the main problems with reddit is that it's too "frictionless". Having to register an account for each forum and sometimes wait for it to get approved by the mods before you could post stopped the majority of low effort types from shitting up the forum with frequently asked questions they were too lazy to google since it took less effort to type said question into google than register an account.

Reddit's system where you can post in just about every public subreddit with one account has the opposite effect. This leads to almost every major hobby and interest sub being flooded with low effort newbie posts which drown out any actually interesting and informative in-depth discussions, which in turn drives away the more experienced people until all that's left is superficial, repetitive beginner chat and newbie questions (/r/photography is a good example).

I'd also argue that moderation is even worse than traditional forums. It has all the same problems with petty tyrants but on top of that mods don't have as many tools available to them. AFAIK reddit mods can only ban accounts and remove posts retroactively, they don't have the ability to see IPs and registration info or do more advanced stuff you could do with traditional forums, like proactively blocking posts from foreign IP ranges on a domestic politics sub or doing things with the HTTP referrer to identify and mitigate inter-forum raids and trolling.
>> No. 32907 Anonymous
15th March 2022
Tuesday 5:36 pm
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>>32905
>What on earth are you even doing on a sub like that?

>It's actively aimed at and selecting for two of the most unhinged groups of women

Think you may have figured it out.
>> No. 32908 Anonymous
20th March 2022
Sunday 4:45 pm
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There's only one supermarket near me that continues to have chicken breast at a reasonable price but it's almost always sold out when I get there. The same thing happens whenever there is anything good on sale across multiple supermarkets.

It didn't used to happen, I can only conclude that since the pandemic everyone has turned into a greedy cunt.
>> No. 32909 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 7:10 am
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Buying Oatly in bulk is more expensive than buying it from the shop.
>> No. 32910 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 10:55 am
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>>32909
Nobody said this would be fun.
>> No. 32911 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 8:17 pm
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Domino's didn't slice my pizza deeply enough, so every time you tried pulling a slice out you ended up taking about half of the slice next to it as well.
>> No. 32912 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 9:27 pm
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>> No. 32913 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>32912
Heresy. Pizza cutters aren't that expensive.
>> No. 32914 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 10:24 pm
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>>32913
It's not a question of cost, it's utility. Scissors are a fluid experience whereas a pizza cutter is never, ever going to get through both the topping and filling.
>> No. 32915 Anonymous
21st March 2022
Monday 10:27 pm
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>>32914
>a pizza cutter is never, ever going to get through both the topping and filling

I'm afraid you're just wrong.
>> No. 32927 Anonymous
22nd March 2022
Tuesday 7:14 pm
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>>32914
Either you're high as a kite or you've never actually tried to use a pizza cutter in real life.
>> No. 32928 Anonymous
22nd March 2022
Tuesday 7:47 pm
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Some people were talking about a colleague in a different department today, and someone asked "oh, who? What does she look like?" This colleague is black, the only black woman in that entire department, but they all tried to describe her without saying she was black. "She's got medium length dark hair and is about five foot four".

Am I turning into a gammon in my old age for being annoyed at this? Surely it's not racist to use the colour of someone's skin as a descriptor, particularly if that colour is relatively rare in our part of the country. I am more annoyed at a use of inefficient language than anything else.
>> No. 32929 Anonymous
22nd March 2022
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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>>32928
It's not. My mother-in-law works for the council and they had some diversity training where the trainer was black and he asked them to describe him. None of them mentioned the colour of his skin, so he called them out for it.
>> No. 32932 Anonymous
22nd March 2022
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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>>32928>>32929
It's a bit daft, but basically harmless. So long as you don't go all weird and start frothing about "PC gone mad" (though that's very 2010, I know) there's nothing wrong with reassuring people they aren't being racist. Now I'm probably going to irritate you, but there is also a difference between "the black woman from the sales team" and a terse "the black one", in my mind at least. I don't think it takes a particularly high level of emotional intelligence to distinguish between veiled racism and rational use of descriptors.
>> No. 32934 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 1:18 am
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One line messages.
Sent over text messages.
Fuck is that about.
>> No. 32939 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 12:54 pm
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>>32927
If you want to sharpen a free-rotating piece of metal very few weeks then feel free. I'm not about to purchase a sharp blade that I'm intentionally driving deep into a wood board several times a week when I could just do it with scissors and give them a couple of swipes with the whetstone now and then. Cheaper, quicker, more efficient.

It's like buying a popcorn maker when you already have a microwave or a hob.
>> No. 32940 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 12:57 pm
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>>32939
>to sharpen a free-rotating piece of metal very few weeks

Nobody sharpens their pizza cutting wheels, you absolute loon.
>> No. 32941 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 1:11 pm
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>>32939

Pizza cutters work perfectly fine without sharpening, perhaps you are weak. That would make sense, since you're apparently eating pizza "several times a week"
>> No. 32942 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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>>32940

I do, but I'm the kind of pervert who watches YouTube reviews of Japanese waterstones.

I don't actually slice pizza with a pizza wheel. I use a mezzaluna, because I'm not a savage. Scissors lad needs to have a fucking word with himself.
>> No. 32944 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 2:26 pm
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>>32941
Yes, they require you to proper drive in. I just use scissors and it's done. Toppings split evenly and not torn because you got slightly the wrong angle etc.

My pizza diet isn't what it was at uni but on review I have it much less often than I thought.

Anyway you can all fuck off because I'm apparently the only one of us that still has a girlfriend.
>> No. 32947 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 4:33 pm
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>>32944

>because I'm apparently the only one of us that still has a girlfriend.

Jokes on you, I don't have to share my pizza with anyone. And I could get a girlfriend at any time I wanted by showing off my skill at operating a pizza cutter.
>> No. 32948 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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My fucked joints. I can't even go ok a 20 minute walk without being in fucking agonising shin pain.

It's a vicious cycle as well, being a fat cunt makes it worse which makes doing any exercise even more painful.
>> No. 32949 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 7:06 pm
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>>32948
Tried swimming?

Look for anything low impact. I have no idea what I'm talking about but common sense dictates that exercise that doesn't impact your joints will have less impact on your joints and put less burden on your shins.
>> No. 32950 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 8:19 pm
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Exercise is just a bastard in general. I've been playing Just Dance with my daughter and for the last song we did it said we burned about 12 calories each. It's far easier to eat less.
>> No. 32951 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 9:18 pm
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>>32948

I was going to suggest swimming, but otherlad beat me to it.

A less obvious one is cycling, or at least using the spin machines at a gym - when my knee was fucked, my doc and physio both raved about cycling as the magic sweet spot between low impact and high intensity.
>> No. 32952 Anonymous
23rd March 2022
Wednesday 10:14 pm
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>>32951
Rowing machine at the gym is pretty good too. But yes, try to eat less in general.
>> No. 32953 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 10:28 am
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Firstly I just filled up my clipper lighter with some swan fluid, and as you know clippers don't have an adjustable valve. So it's decided to launch 6 inches of fire when it sparks and now my moustache is singed.

But less importantly, this Reddit thread is fucking ridiculous. Toxic positivity is insidious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MomForAMinute/comments/tl4uwe/mom_is_the_prom_dress_i_choose_really_that_bad_my
>> No. 32954 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 10:50 am
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>>32953

To be fair, the boyfriend sounds like a daft prick.

It's just one of those things. You don't tell your bird she looks anything but wonderful, ever. If she says "do I look fat", the answer is no. If she says "does this dress look good", the answer is yes. It's just one of those things you should know, like how a lass with any common sense about her knows not to point it out if you have a small willy.

Anyone who doesn't get that is frankly a bit of a sociopath in my eyes. But if it's about a prom they are teenagers so I suppose that's to be expected.

Anyway I got a lot more mileage than it deserved out of arguing if a girl can have a "boi pussy" last night. My reasoning goes: boI pussy means bumhole, and everyone has a bumhole. Ergo everyone has a boi pussy, including women. QED. But I just can't help it, if someone misses an obvious joke I have no choice but to push it to absurdity and see if the penny ever drops- I'm still getting replies now. These people will not let it lie. I've tried asking them where women poop from if they don't have a boi pussy and they're still not getting it.

Rudgwick really is full of retards.
>> No. 32955 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 10:57 am
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>>32954
>Rudgwick really is full of retards.

It doesn't help that one of the lads here keeps going on mentalist subs like Female Dating Strategy just so he can get offended by how batshit they are.
>> No. 32956 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 11:09 am
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>>32953
>We are Mother Geese to our loving Ducklings When you need understanding, congratulations, praise, or advice from a mother figure, but don't have one IRL able or willing to provide that for you -- we are here for you. We support you and love you unconditionally!

Don't like the sound of that subreddit. Kind of creepy.
>> No. 32957 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 11:25 am
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>>32956
There's very similar subs for people needing a father figure. If you spend too long on Reddit you'll get the impression that the average American parent is a complete mentalist who tries to get their kids to toe the line using completely overboard punishments, before kicking them out at the age of 18. Talking about going no contact with your parents is casually thrown around like it's a normal occurrence.

Likewise, if you go on the relationship subs you'll see that 90% of the problems are women aged 18 to 21 dating men aged 28 to 35 who like to manipulate younger partners because they know anyone their own age is too mature to stand for it.

Americans seems to have a lot of psychological issues.
>> No. 32958 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 11:26 am
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>>32956

It is a bit, but it's just Yanks for you. Yank lasses tend to be kind of spoiled, that's just basically seen as the norm and the cultural expectation for them.

I think it's partly why so much of their gender politics shite is so deeply messed up, that attitude leaves a lot of their women kind of entitled and stuck up as adults. But over there they just seem to take it for granted, that's how they think a lass should be.

Source: Have "dated" at least two and a half Yank birds. They're always like this, and their families are always very... Intense with them.

See also: Overprotective "Rules For Dating My Daughter" Shotgun Dad Stereotype.
>> No. 32959 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 12:46 pm
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>>32958

Also see also: their worrying abundance of incest-themed pornography. We just have bored housewives, predatory cab drivers and whatever Pascal is.
>> No. 32960 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 12:50 pm
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I don't think British reddit is much better. There's an awful lot of "I'M SO ACHINGLY BRI'ISH. I DRINK TEA. I EAT CRUMPETS. I TRACK THE PRICE OF FREDDOS. NO LUCK CATCHING THEM SWANS THEN?" and other sickening pandering.
>> No. 32961 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 1:24 pm
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>>32960
That used to be commonplace on this very site.
>> No. 32962 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 1:43 pm
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>>32961
Are you sure you're not thinking of Britchan? It certainly hasn't been like that here for at least a dozen years.
>> No. 32963 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 2:19 pm
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>>32960

That's the Yanks trying to fit in. We shouldn't judge them too harshly though, going on the internet and playing along with their idea of the culture like it's a theme pub is the closest thing many Americans will ever have to actually visiting other countries.

For some reason I always used to look down on Yanks for being so insular, I'm not sure why it never occurred to me that when it costs the better part of £400 to fly to the states, that also means it must cost a fucking fortune for them to get anywhere that isn't America.
>> No. 32964 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 2:52 pm
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>>32960
Fuck off, clean shirt.
>> No. 32965 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 3:11 pm
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>>32963
They also have almost everything in their own country anyway. If we want sunshine or skiing or foreigners, we need to leave the country. They travel the same distance to Colorado or California or Florida, and they're still in America.
>> No. 32966 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 3:54 pm
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>>32965
It pisses me off when they claim that the states are as culturally diverse as Europe. Like fuck, they've had one war and all speak the same language and have only been there about 500 years. We've been killing each other for millenia and it really shows in our cultural diversity.

Can't Americans just accept that their culture is a culture in the same way that grass is a spice.
>> No. 32967 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 4:54 pm
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>>32965

That's the shit part innit though. Can you imagine if we had the weather of Ibiza in Blackpool? That wouldn't stop it being Blackpool.

I imagine that's what it's like for Yanks going on holiday in Florida, they just don't know any better.
>> No. 32968 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 4:59 pm
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I keep dropping spread on the floor.
>> No. 32969 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 5:10 pm
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The Guardian Politics Weekly used to be quite informative and usually have some of their best journos on. Then they decided to totally reboot it into something else, for reasons I can't fathom. Now it's like being stuck next the most annoying table in the pub, a complete waste of time.
>> No. 32970 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 5:24 pm
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>>32963
One of the differences, mind you, is that most Americans wouldn't snort at the idea of paying a grand or more to visit Europe. People generally both earn and spend more in the US, so big spends are much less shocking.

So yes, the ones that have never left the US have done so either because of a chest-beating "why would I leave?" attitude, or just because -- as >>32965 alludes to -- they really don't have to unless they have a particular itch to see some Old World culture.

>>32967
I'd challenge that. If by some bizarre microclimate Blackpool were to get glorious sunshine, 30 degree weather, and a lamination of beautiful Saharan sand across its beaches, it certainly would stop it from being Blackpool as we recognise it now.

Important to point out that Florida *is* America's Blackpool, and the only ones actually holidaying there are the tanned and fake-toothed equivalent of our beloved chavs on this side of the pond.
>> No. 32971 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>32970

>People generally both earn and spend more in the US

Ehh, that's a bit of a selective observation I reckon. They also generally rip out their own teeth because they can't afford the dentist and live in their cars while working three jobs after getting kicked out of their homes.

It's a place of vast, vast inequality. There's plenty of rich people to bring the averages up, but the bottom half of them live in utterly third world conditions. It's just that whenever anyone talks about America, they are implicitly only talking about the rich half.
>> No. 32972 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 6:12 pm
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You're right, "generally" was probably the wrong qualifier to use, it's probably more accurate to say "median-or-above-income Americans don't mind spending more on travel". Still, though, speaking from experience, it's easier to get an American on a $2,000/20-hour round-trip to Europe than it is to get an Englishman on a £200/4-hour round-trip to the same place.
>> No. 32973 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 11:27 pm
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I've had a really shitty week, and just when I thought I could relax and blow off steam my toilet has started running and my bed has collapsed.
>> No. 32974 Anonymous
24th March 2022
Thursday 11:46 pm
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>>32973
Better that than the other way around?
>> No. 32975 Anonymous
25th March 2022
Friday 12:58 am
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>>32973
> my toilet has started running
Well you better catch it, before it gets away.
>> No. 32976 Anonymous
25th March 2022
Friday 10:47 am
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Fuck off.
>> No. 32977 Anonymous
26th March 2022
Saturday 6:21 pm
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Can I for once watch 2 videos on youtube in a row without having to change my volume by 50%.
But no their developers are too busy removing every feature that people like, instead of doing something useful like adding some automatic normalisation.

>>32976
The headline is a bit clickbaity but the story isn't so bad, it didn't literally nest in her hair for 84 days, she just cared for it from rescuing it as a hatchling that fell out of the nest until it returned to a flock.
>> No. 32978 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 2:15 pm
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>>32976
That's a nice enough story, even if I did have to supress my poshophobia while reading it.

No one tell him about what they put in the opinions section, his brain will explode.
>> No. 32979 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 2:51 pm
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A whole generation of people are going to grow up using the word iPad to describe any tablet.
>> No. 32980 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 3:15 pm
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>>32979
At least it cycled with 'Nintendo/Playstation/XBOX' all being the vogue at points. Apple have locked the tablet terminology up, but I suppose it's probably the same level of annoying for people who work in vacuum shops and have to deal with constant requests for 'dick sucking tubes'.
>> No. 32981 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 5:29 pm
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>Mums of fur babies
indeed. Fuck right off.
>> No. 32982 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 5:42 pm
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>>32981
I'm fine with fur babies because they are cute and childless women adopt them as surrogate children, if you ask me this:

>Those that have chosen not to be mums

Is bullshit though, you don't get an award for not doing something. I don't need to think about you on holiday in the tropics.
>> No. 32983 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 9:08 pm
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Remember when you could just pull a chain or turn a handle to flush a toilet? Now every single toilet has some shit "modern" pair of buttons, where in principle the smaller button does half a flush, but in practice it just does a slow boring trickle for as long as you hold it down.
>> No. 32984 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 9:41 pm
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>>32981
Someone I know had a stillbirth about a year and a half ago and she's still regularly posting pictures of her dead baby on Facebook. I really should have muted her by now.
>> No. 32985 Anonymous
27th March 2022
Sunday 11:21 pm
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That grieving bitch!
>> No. 32986 Anonymous
28th March 2022
Monday 1:22 am
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>>32984
Like...the corpse? Eww.
>> No. 32987 Anonymous
28th March 2022
Monday 7:47 am
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>>32986
Yeah, the dead baby.
>> No. 32988 Anonymous
28th March 2022
Monday 12:14 pm
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>>32985
She's allowed to grieve, but if she's doing it in that fashion then she's being nutty and should be sectioned.

At the very least we should accept that it's okay to mock someone behind their back for such irritating behaviour.
>> No. 33004 Anonymous
7th April 2022
Thursday 10:06 am
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I keep perfect accounts of my spending where every ingoing and outgoing is itemised into my budget table which is broken into various sub-budgets. My autism here is a source of joy as it provides visible financial stability and various chests of money to look at.

Or it would do if only I didn't look over my bank accounts to compare the final figure once a month and see discrepancies. I used to to worry it was fraud but looking at it item by item it all adds up, it's instead like I have pigeons in my account flying away with the money without it being recorded.
>> No. 33005 Anonymous
7th April 2022
Thursday 11:23 am
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Lost more time than I needed to last night trying to untie my media library, getting it to understand that, yes, these two things with the same year and almost the same title are indeed separate programmes.
>> No. 33006 Anonymous
7th April 2022
Thursday 3:23 pm
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My new glasses must be 3mm taller than my previous pair, but apparently that's all that was standing between me looking normal and looking like Jeffrey Dalmer's granddad.
>> No. 33007 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 2:04 am
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The french omelette is definitely the worst iteration of an omelette, yet people act like it's something special. It doesn't even look good, it looks like a misprinted sex toy.
>> No. 33008 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 2:25 am
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>>33007
I'm partial to a Spanish.
>> No. 33011 Anonymous
12th April 2022
Tuesday 9:50 pm
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You’re really doing a great job differentiating yourself from the competition. The care and attention put into branding and presentation here is just incredible.
>> No. 33012 Anonymous
12th April 2022
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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>>33011
I'm guessing the merchant backend of the website has a limited number of images to choose from. There's a Japanese place near me with sushi as their header image despite only selling tempura and no sushi whatsoever.
>> No. 33013 Anonymous
12th April 2022
Tuesday 10:09 pm
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>>33011
You appear to have high standards for someone getting alcohol delivered on a Tuesday night.
>> No. 33014 Anonymous
12th April 2022
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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>>33011
It's more laughable when it's one of those ten-a-penny shit takeaways, but their pictures are all decidedly gourmet burgers and friend chicken.
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12th April 2022
Tuesday 10:30 pm
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>>33014

>friend chicken
>> No. 33019 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 6:01 pm
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The term 'growth mindset', I searched for silly pictures on this but the images for "growth mindset meme" are so corporate that I need to go lie down for awhile.
>> No. 33020 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 6:04 pm
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>>33019

I googled it, I really wish I hadn't. I quite honestly think I'd punch a colleague or manager if they printed something like that out and put it in the office. I'm not joking, I would take the prison time, it would be worth it.
>> No. 33021 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>33020
Sounds to me like someone needs to work on their fixed mindset.

Apparently this is what they teach in all the schools now, even policing how children talk so they phrase things with a growth mindset.
>> No. 33022 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 6:26 pm
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>>33021

I have people like this at work. All of the line managers went on a course a couple of weeks ago, and it's more prevalent than ever.

My job involves dealing with planning around the immutable laws of physics, and also upholding rigid safety standards as dictated by law, so typically when I, or anyone in my department, says something "can't be done" We either mean that the universe does not allow for it, or that even though we "could" do it, we'd go to prison.

And yet, you're never more than a stone's throw away from a duty manager telling you that you're not being positive or not allowing for new opportunities. Those new opportunities being, I assume, potentially killing several hundred people to save time or money.
>> No. 33023 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 6:26 pm
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>>33019
Is that the same as a "grindset"? I saw that word everywhere for a bit, and I thought it was just some minuscule subcommunity of weirdos endorsing the "sigma grindset", but then I saw it in a couple more normal places and felt very concerned because that's the sort of name you'd give to a cult.
>> No. 33024 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 1:51 pm
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>Alright lads, saw you had the window open so I thought I'd come in and have microscopic shits everywhere
>> No. 33025 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 4:58 pm
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>>33024
There was a wasp in my bathroom earlier. All my windows were shut, and it wasn't here last night. Where did it come from? I did a terrible job of killing it and it might have suffered more than I planned, so I hope it wasn't a friendly and helpful person who had been transformed by a witch.
>> No. 33026 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 5:07 pm
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Just trying to have a relaxing cig in the car but the wind is blowing such that every time I tap off a bit of ash, it blows gently up and back into the car.

I feel like this is an apt metaphor foe my life actually.
>> No. 33027 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 5:12 pm
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>>33026
Smoking in a car is /101/worthy in itself.
>> No. 33028 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 6:07 pm
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>>33027
So is driving one.
>> No. 33029 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 8:43 pm
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I don't know when Arabs moved onto the next street, but they haven't shut the fuck up for at least six hours.
>> No. 33030 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 9:58 pm
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>>33027

It's a Corsa, I have to keep up appearances by smoking rollies, playing Mr Oizeau and selling teenagers tenbags, or else people will think I stole it.
>> No. 33031 Anonymous
15th April 2022
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>33029
It's Ramadan. When I was in the middle east, mornings and afternoons were blissfully quiet. Evenings, midnight, and even early morning, they would not shut the fuck up.
>> No. 33053 Anonymous
25th April 2022
Monday 6:01 pm
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When did the consortium of MOBAtards decide that 'mob' is a good word for a single non-boss enemy? A mob is a plurality, end of.

It's just wrong, and now it's leaked out of the MOBA world and I'm worried the next generation are going to cement this ridiculously idiotic trend.

'Enemy' sufficed fine, or 'monster' if the context suited.
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25th April 2022
Monday 6:24 pm
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>>33053

It was from MMOs before MOBAs, and just RPGs in general use it pretty commonly I think. I remember it as far back as the days where everything was 2D and had the same interface as Diablo.

There's a certain type of game that has that feel where you just instinctively know they're mobs, not enemies or monsters etc. I noticed it when I started playing Dark Souls in preparation for Elden Ring- I was mentally using terms like "pull" and "kite" because the enemies have that predictable kind of behaviour like in an MMO dungeon, and you'll often work your way through in a similarly methodical fashion.
>> No. 33055 Anonymous
25th April 2022
Monday 8:03 pm
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>>33053
We were using mob a good 15+ years ago on Legend of Mir and Ragnarok.
What's confusing for me was the term 'ratting' which in EVE is generic PVE 'pirating', ie killing mobs, but in Albion it's a social term meaning to steal loot from a group before a fight was over.

What really bothers me about modern MMOs is that communication facilities between players is left to third party programs like Discord and Teamspeak, leaving ingame methods completely lacking in userability. It's been very difficult to make friends thought MMOs over the past 5 years which i blame almost entirely on this reliance on out-of-game social circles.
>> No. 33056 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 2:22 am
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My eyesight sans glasses is so bad that when I looked at my PC earlier I thought the SSD was a giant moth on the outside of the case.
>> No. 33057 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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>>33056
I'm assuming a vertical mount inside a clear side panel. Are you sure it looked like a moth or, of could it've been a butterfly? I could imagine a samsung 8xx pro looking like a red admiral.
>> No. 33058 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 2:43 pm
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>>33057
Yeah, it's Samsung 860 or something, pointing up with the SATA cable coming out of the top.

>Are you sure it looked like a moth or, of could it've been a butterfly?
No, I'm pretty sure my unconcious reaction was "is that a giant moth in my PC?". Obviously I knew it wasn't, but in that instant that's where my brain went. It looked like a giant version of a regular moth, not an actual large moth. If that makes any sense.
>> No. 33059 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 12:27 am
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My paycheque is £30 lighter due to the new tax and I can't even vote for a party that will axe it because it's all going to rich coffin dodgers. That's how much I budget for clothing every month but I can guarantee you that if I walked around stark bollock naked society would object to that too.

The world is no place for a lower-middle class antisocial loner.
>> No. 33060 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 1:02 am
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>>33059

The hero we need.
>> No. 33061 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 1:13 am
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>>33060
Him and Covid would have got on like a care home on fire.
>> No. 33062 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 1:21 am
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>>33059
>That's how much I budget for clothing every month
You what? Do your clothes just tear apart every single month? I accept that I spend very little on clothing (I'm the sort of person who wears branded work clothes to the pub; in fact, I do that every time I go out during the week because it's mad to change your T-shirt then only wear it for four hours) but I only ever buy clothes to replace clothes that have disintegrated. Otherwise, my wardrobe would get full.
>> No. 33063 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 1:41 am
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>>33062
No, lad, he's just lower middle class.
>> No. 33064 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 3:42 pm
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Anyone who's a parent to an only child, just a quick note, the "you're my favourite child" joke isn't that funny. I don't want to be a dick about it, but I have to let you know.
>> No. 33065 Anonymous
30th April 2022
Saturday 9:32 pm
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I find there's a lot more pressure these days to have a sport or some sort of physical activity you're interested in. Not just going on a long walk but something suitably non-relaxing like bouldering, rugby or marathon running.

You can't just sit on your arse on a weekday night or, heaven forbid, a weekend morning. Looking at me I have a nerdy job, I don't look amazing and I'm that bloke at the pub who knows all sorts of useless trivia, why the fuck would you expect me to be into sport? Talk to me about fucking Star Trek or something, I only do my long walks because it gives me a bit of peace. It's techbros who have done this to me, with their kale smoothies and ultramarathons.
>> No. 33067 Anonymous
5th May 2022
Thursday 1:01 pm
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Could everyone just stop putting offers in on flats I'm trying to rent?

I just called an agent about a flat that was advertised on Friday and it's already gone. Where do people think this is, London or something?
>> No. 33068 Anonymous
5th May 2022
Thursday 1:13 pm
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>>33067
We're all London now, friend.
>> No. 33069 Anonymous
5th May 2022
Thursday 1:20 pm
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>>33067

You actually have to outbid people on rentals now. It's barmy. Even if you're the first to get in there for a viewing and put in an application, somebody else will come along and offer fifty quid more than the advertised price and naturally the landlord goes with them instead.

I don't know if I blame the landlords more for this, or just people in general being fucking consumerist simps who have so little self respect they'd be willing to prostrate themselves and lick the shit directly out of a landlord's arse to secure a one bed studio just because it's got a nice view.

It's all group psychology innit. If we all simply refused to part with our money so easily we wouldn't get taken the piss out of like this.
>> No. 33070 Anonymous
6th May 2022
Friday 12:59 pm
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A few years ago my dog we'd had for over a decade developed some old age related issues and we had to have her put down to spare her undue agony.

As I got older I moved out and moved away for work so didn't see her as often as I'd have liked but we always spent lots of time together at home and including through lockdown.

One time in the last two years of her life I had her sleeping on my bed and she randomly pissed on it and I woke up confused as to what it was then give her a gentle tap and said 'bad dog' sort of thing and she sheepishly went off but I didn't stay angry for long.

I don't know if it's because I didn't get to say a proper bye, or because I felt bad that she in hindsight couldn't have helped it but I really regret that moment and it weights heavily on my mind.
>> No. 33071 Anonymous
6th May 2022
Friday 5:38 pm
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Natwest have changed my Visa debit card into a Mastercard, which for some reason has issues with me buying shit through my Xbox, and also came with having to update card details for all my subscriptions. I've had Visa cards for a decade and they worked fine, just not happy with the sudden "hey you're Mastercard now" reissuing.
>> No. 33072 Anonymous
6th May 2022
Friday 5:43 pm
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>>33070

Sounds like a very human reaction, mate, I wouldn't feel too awful about that. Best thing to do is to try to keep the good memories with her in mind, and try your best to be patient with animals in the future (even when it's really bloody hard and you've been woken up by dog piss).

For what it's worth I also had a family dog that I didn't see after I moved away in 2018. I loved him, and I also find myself feeling regret over the times I shouted at him (he was a feisty little JRT, so there were a few). The main thing I try to do now is honour his memory by being very nice to dogs.
>> No. 33073 Anonymous
6th May 2022
Friday 10:08 pm
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>>33070
That's an awful shame. My dog was well on her way to recovering from an operation on her abdomen, so i let her jump up on the sofa .. which must have torn a stitch because she died a week later of internal bleeding. I still feel bad for essentially killing her. I had to pick her up out her understair cupboard bed, arms smeared with the shit she couldn't move to release with dignity. I did that to her, and directly after she died I went back to the computer and burried the experience to the back of my mind.

My other dog was put down due to a massive growth around their internal organs, so bad that his body started going into shock (sayeth the vet). I had noticed weeks before that his belly was getting pretty heavy and fluid, but didn't think to do anything. The family gathered around at the clinic, but because of covid we were allowed in only a few at a time .. when the dog saw me through the window, his expression changed to one of hope or security, unlike his reaction to the other family members. but I ignored it and stayed outside, then remained distant upon finally entering. He was killed, and laid in my bathroom overnight till the cremation people came to collect him.

It's a real shame because I loved those dogs. Being 'autistic' they're the only living things I felt comfortable emoting around. I could hug them like I can't/don't my parents. Laying with them would actually console me. Infact I've barely said I love you to my family since the dogs have died.
>> No. 33074 Anonymous
6th May 2022
Friday 10:14 pm
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>>33071
If they're already messing you about why not just take up one of those offers to switch bank? Seems silly not to when you're already dealing with the biggest hassle of it.
>> No. 33075 Anonymous
7th May 2022
Saturday 1:06 am
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>>33074
Seconded. I got £150 for switching to First Direct.
>> No. 33077 Anonymous
7th May 2022
Saturday 8:09 pm
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The problem with super king size beds is that the bedding is not only a pain in the arse to dry on any sort of horse but you usually end up putting the bedcover on the wrong way because the difference isn't so massive.

I guess this is punishment for man's hubris. I thought I could be a king of kings yet now I must do an exhausting chore of getting the bed cover on properly.

>>33074
>>33075
Is there any downside to doing this aside from the hassle? I'd assumed it would impact your credit rating somehow if you shifted around back accounts.
>> No. 33078 Anonymous
7th May 2022
Saturday 10:45 pm
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>>33077
There should be a Slacker King, properly square so you don't care which way the bedding goes on, you can rotate the mattress in all axes and generally stop giving a fuck. I'd buy one.
I wouldn't bother with a megaduvet, though, multiple duvets is the only way to go unless you're a freak who happens to like being appallingly hot. Mankind was never meant to huddle together, except in exceptional cold, when the dog's welcome too, despite the fact that dogs are terrible bedmates, all elbows and farting. Much like people, now I come to think of it.
And yes, change your bank account. First Direct have been my choice for decades. I've had various others, either as holdovers or business accounts. First Direct are just far more competent than anyone else I've dealt with. I just haven't wanted to do business banking with them, to keep things properly separate. Like people under separate duvets.
>> No. 33079 Anonymous
7th May 2022
Saturday 10:51 pm
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>>33078

>rotate the mattress in all axes
I don't think that would fit. At best you'd be pressed up against the ceiling.
>> No. 33080 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:49 am
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>>33077
Bed sizes warrant their own /101/ post. I don't care if it's metric or imperial as long as it's "half square" for single, "square" for double and then custom for poshos who can pay a carpenter and tailor to make their stuff. Ikea in particular has a lot to answer for because they introduced another measurement system for beds. Sod pints v.s. litres, mph v.s. kph, bed size is really stuck in the dark ages and could really do with some standardisation.
>> No. 33081 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 7:10 am
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>>33077

>Is there any downside to doing this aside from the hassle?

No.
>> No. 33082 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 11:02 am
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People who call animals like grey squirrels and mink invasive species and that it's okay or beneficial to kill them are always hypocrites, because they more often than not own cats, which are destructive little genocidal bastards.

I don't buy it when they say it's for the greater good of the ecosystem, I think it's just because they're poncy middle class people for whom this is their only outlet of the base, primal xenophobia we all feel deep down. If they were truly honest with themselves, it's basically because they wish they could say the same thing about gypsies.
>> No. 33083 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 11:09 am
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>>33082

Never mind their cats, any human being saying that is hypocritical.
>> No. 33084 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 11:27 am
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>>33082
What a mental rant.
>> No. 33085 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:05 pm
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>>33083

True, but when it's conservationalists/environmentalists saying it I'm sure they are aware of that as the elephant in the room; they see their actions on invasive species as reversing human damage. Bollocks I say. Let nature take its course.

Natural selection has followed this path for years. Fuck water voles, they were pussies anyway. If we actively intervene to try save our native species, in the face of ever increasing destruction of habitats, we're only creating a long term weaker ecology. It's like an overprotective mother who never lets their kid outside to play, and then that kid grows up to be allergic to everything, have zero natural immunity and too sheltered to remotely look after themselves. We're coddling the ecosystem.

It's like all the money we waste trying to get pandas to shag. Just let them die. They're clearly the animal kingdom's equivalent of the Buddhist monk mummifying himself alive. Reintroducing wolves into Scotland are we? They won't last a generation, wolves have no adaptability. That's why foxes prevail no matter how hard the toffs try to get rid of them, but wolves died out hundreds of years ago. They're weaklings.

Humans should try our best to mitigate our future impact, but I wish we'd learn the lesson and just leave well alone otherwise.

>>33084

Mink holocaust apologist spotted.
>> No. 33086 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:12 pm
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>>33085
In fairness, didn't the wolves die off because we killed them? If we're not going to kill them all again then they must have pretty good chances. Doesn't seem a fair comparison to Pandas, where we've actually got to make a positive effort to make them shag rather than simply deciding not to go into the remote highlands of Scotland and shoot every big dog we see.
>> No. 33087 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:18 pm
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>>33085
>Natural selection has followed this path for years. Fuck water voles, they were pussies anyway. If we actively intervene to try save our native species, in the face of ever increasing destruction of habitats, we're only creating a long term weaker ecology.
Not really. This is the same sort of logic as "the climate has always changed". Yes, it has, but not this fast. Like building muscle, it can only get stronger if there's time to recover from the stresses.
Case in point:
>Reintroducing wolves into Scotland are we? They won't last a generation, wolves have no adaptability. That's why foxes prevail no matter how hard the toffs try to get rid of them, but wolves died out hundreds of years ago. They're weaklings.
How are they supposed to "adapt" to being actively hunted? It's not weakness that you can't build up a tolerance to bullets.
>> No. 33088 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:21 pm
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>>33086

Yeah, they'd probably survive aright nowadays, but they would still need active protection to stop gamekeepers poaching them, and their population probably wouldn't be able to grow very much. You can forsee that potentially creating genetic problems later on down the line for them.

With wolves, teaming up with humans and becoming dogs was actually their winning move in evolutionary terms. They'll never die out unless we do. I'd still consider that within the realms of a "natural" occurrence, rather than human intervention, because from what we can tell the convergence happened something like 130,000 years ago when we were still hunter gatherers ourselves.
>> No. 33089 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 12:36 pm
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>>33087

It's not quite the same, the climate is not a naturally self-righting, self-correcting system. Our impact is creating irreversible changes over a span of time like never before. Meanwhile there have been multiple mass extinction events throughout the planet's history, and all it has ever amounted to is a shake-up of the established order. Life, uh, finds a way.

That's why, to be clear, I'm still very ardent that we should do what we can to stop ourself having any further impact, because we only make the system more precarious with every new road, house and shopping centre. But I don't consider it ethical that we should interfere if a new species becomes established. That's no different to how the current order came to be in the first place. Yes we might have fucked up by letting those animals out, but in most cases it's too late now, that ship has sailed.

>It's not weakness that you can't build up a tolerance to bullets.

I mean, it still is. I don't consider it ethical to hunt for any reason beyond food either, but nevertheless. If wolves fucked more and were less fussy about what they eat, our hunting wouldn't have wiped them out. That's why foxes are the counterexample I used.
>> No. 33090 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 1:21 pm
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>>33083
We've got a pretty good claim to being native fauna in the British isles really, depending on when you define the period when human actions were natural and you aren't some artic desert dwelling extremophile. The last glacial maximum pushed everything onto the continent and when it receded humans and their ecosystem on the European tundra migrated back. There wasn't an outside influence pushing this migration and it's been so long since then.

>>33085
I think you're missing that we often don't just do these things for their own sake. The native ecology is what we've built human settlement around and when it becomes disrupted by invasive species and the loss of plants and animals it can dramatically change habitability. Bees is the obvious one but as a rule invasive species have explosive population growth and a tendency to wipe out not only every species around them but also the fundamental structures of the environment.

Plus red squirrels look dapper whereas grey squirrels are rodents that are colonising the cities. I bet you're a grey squirrel whose consciousness was transferred into the internet when chewing through someone's internet cable, you come here because you think Vorderman looks like a lady-squirrel who is holding plentiful stores of acorns. Don't try and deny it.
>> No. 33091 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 6:29 pm
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My monitor wobbles ever so slightly whenever I touch the desk, and makes a very faint plastic clicking noise each time it oscillates. It's incredibly annoying.
>> No. 33092 Anonymous
8th May 2022
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>33090

Apple, plum, walnut, chestnut and sycamore trees are non-native. Practically all of our cultivated crops are non-native. There isn't an inch of Britain that hasn't been radically transformed by human activity, right down to the bacteria in soil and water. We haven't built human settlement around the native ecology, we've built our ecology around human settlement.
>> No. 33093 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 1:01 am
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Ahh, made you look, didn't I?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who:_Worlds_Apart
I don't care about Doctor Who, but I feel like with NFTs being scam central this really isn't something the BBC should be involved with, even peripherally.
>> No. 33094 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 11:56 am
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>>33093
>Ahh, made you look, didn't I?
Strangely enough, it was (I believe) only after I'd scrolled past the head that I suddenly took notice.
>> No. 33095 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 12:10 pm
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>>33059
You buy new clothes every month? I've been wearing the same trousers for at least that time. Seriously, you can pick up some good stuff from charity shops for only a few quid - much of the time there'll be a better range of quality than a typical highstreet shop, too.

>>33089
>the climate is not a naturally self-righting, self-correcting system.
I mean, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but surely that's wrong. Did you not see how quickly the grass overtook road and pavements during the first stages of lockdown? The return of birds and increased territory claims/exploration of semi-urban creatures? Thinking outside of human timespan, it seems logical to me that the earth can recover from anything but catastrophic damage.
>> No. 33096 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 12:19 pm
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>>33095
>I mean, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but surely that's wrong.
You're right, those catastrophes are what the climate scientists refer to as tipping points. The climate is also deeply interconnected with the ecosystem, it's a bit weird that he thinks of them as separate and also that wolves should have adapted to avoid being hunted by not eating livestock. That's not how selection pressure works. At all.
>> No. 33097 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>33095
>You buy new clothes every month? I've been wearing the same trousers for at least that time. Seriously, you can pick up some good stuff from charity shops for only a few quid - much of the time there'll be a better range of quality than a typical highstreet shop, too.

I like to look nice with a range of outfits. It's not £30 every month, it's £30 that rolls on month-by-month that allows me to be somewhat well-dressed and able to pick-up something whenever I need or want something.
>> No. 33098 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 1:49 pm
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I'm currently wearing a plain Burton t-shirt which I got in a multipack last year that worked out at less than £2 per top with jogger bottoms from fuck knows where. This is me dressed up for work.
>> No. 33099 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 2:19 pm
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>>33095

>Thinking outside of human timespan, it seems logical to me that the earth can recover from anything but catastrophic damage.

Well yeah, but that caveat of "outside human timespan" means it's effectively meaningless to us, doesn't it. There's that George Carlin bit about "earth plus plastic bags", I am always put in mind of.

>>33096

In fairness I don't see how the development of human intelligence and the products of it, such as firearms, are any different to a cheetah evolving sharper teeth and stronger leg muscles.

There are some animals out there that are capable of withstanding human pressure because they are highly adaptable. Typically they're so good at it we classify them as pests and vermin. But wolves are notoriously susceptible to even small pressures in their environment. Even without human pressure, they're not a very robust species, so with human pressure they have no chance.
>> No. 33100 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 2:31 pm
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>>33099

>In fairness I don't see how the development of human intelligence and the products of it, such as firearms, are any different to a cheetah evolving sharper teeth and stronger leg muscles.
Responding to selection pressure on an evolutionary scale is extremely different to using problem-solving technology. Gradual change can be adapted to, technology creates sudden change which can no more be adapted to than a meteor.

>There are some animals out there that are capable of withstanding human pressure because they are highly adaptable.
Not really. The example you gave, foxes, have barely adapted; we've just created environments they happen to thrive in. Like a meteor, we've killed off the larger predators and they've stepped into the crater, feeding off the corpses we leave behind.
>> No. 33101 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 2:58 pm
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>>33100

>The example you gave, foxes, have barely adapted; we've just created environments they happen to thrive in.

No, foxes are actually one of the most adaptable mammals there is. They live everywhere from the desert to the arctic. Cities posed no challenge for them because they had the natural aptitude to thrive there. I'm not arguing they evolved since the industrial revolution to know how to forage in bins, I'm arguing that natural selection already gave them the traits of an adaptable species, and that's why they haven't succumbed to the same fate as the wolf.

Anyway I wasn't even on about foxes in that post, I was more talking about the rats and pigeons that we can't control the spread of no matter how hard we try. Humans are part of the ecosystem, you can view us as outside and above it if you want but that's nonsense. Those animals that survive us are next in line to rule this planet after we remove ourselves from the equation via crippling dinosaur bone addiction.

Obviously it would be better if we did what was best for everybody and stopped fucking everything up, but in principle the idea that our influence is artificial and exceptional is simply untrue. As otherlad argues, the planet can recover from nearly anything, and that includes us; just not if we want to survive.

We're a lot like the wolf actually. Set in our ways.
>> No. 33102 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>33101

>No, foxes are actually one of the most adaptable mammals there is. They live everywhere from the desert to the arctic.

This is almost equally true for feral domestic cats. Feral cats and feral cat colonies can exist in a wide variety of climate zones on the planet (although because they are descended from North African desert cats, they generally don't do well in the coldest latitudes), and both in urban areas in proximity to humans as well as in rural or desert areas. As well as their physical adaptability, their intelligence and mental adaptability to different environments is almost akin to that of rats. And they are able to survive on a wide variety of prey, from birds to small rodents or fish and even insects if they have to, and they have one of the highest kill rates of any land predators. This is why uncontrolled feral cat populations are a considerable problem. There are some islands in Southeast Asia and Oceania where feral cats have completely wiped out a number of native bird species.

Another peculiarity of domestic cats is that they suffer from inbreeding depression far less than other species, which means that even if you start out populating a habitat with just two direct siblings, none of their offspring that will again breed with each other will show much genetic deterioration, even several generations down the line.
>> No. 33103 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 5:31 pm
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>>33102

So cats are an invasive species and it's okay to kill them?

I've got a few neighbours who will be quite unhappy about this.
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9th May 2022
Monday 5:51 pm
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>>33101
>Cities posed no challenge for them because they had the natural aptitude to thrive there. I'm not arguing they evolved since the industrial revolution to know how to forage in bins, I'm arguing that natural selection already gave them the traits of an adaptable species, and that's why they haven't succumbed to the same fate as the wolf.
That doesn't make them adaptable, that just means that we created an environment they thrive in. Like I said. If, instead of a meteor, evil robots appeared that killed all the fox-sized predators, that wouldn't mean the wolves adapted better than the foxes.
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9th May 2022
Monday 6:12 pm
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>>33103

>So cats are an invasive species and it's okay to kill them?

https://www.mammal.org.uk/2021/05/cats-as-invasive-species-by-hannah-lockwood-invasive-species-week/

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's ok to kill them. Not least because I grew up with cats and absolutely love them.

But there are trap-neuter-return programmes in many countries that attempt to limit the proliferation of domestic cats in the wild. I'm not normally a fan of neutering cats, but you have to provide some kind of answer to the impact that cats have on the local environment.

And even a domestic cat with staff an owner which has access to the outside is a formidable killer of local wildlife. It's not something a lot of cat people readily want to admit, but the fact that they're Britain's favourite pet can be a problem locally when too many cats share a habitat. I can see it here on my street where I live, I've counted as many as four different cats in the back garden, and I personally know three of the owners. So I imagine it's tough going in about a 500-metre radius for anything that cats consider dinner, and it's probably about the same in most of the rest of this neighbourhood.
>> No. 33106 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 6:12 pm
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>>33104

You're not getting it, lad- We hunted foxes for centuries and they were able to withstand it. Wolves on the other hand were pressured to extinction. It has nothing to do with the environment we created, we've been hunting them since long before that. Wolves died out by the 1760s, before most of our modern environmental impacts were anywhere near on the same scale.

I don't know why you're so desperate to argue this point, David Attenborough says foxes are "highly adaptable", he's where I learned it, and he bloody well knows better than you.

Furthermore:

A meter appeared once before and only animals that weren't massive unwieldy reptiles survived. You could say they were well adapted to the occurrence of an asteroid impact. That's how we found ourselves here, in the long view. One great test humanity faces is in becoming an inter-planetary species, that way if a meteor does hit, we'll be safe. If we don't manage it and we all get wiped out, then it's perfectly valid to say it was a failure of adaptation, natural selection on a universal scale.
>> No. 33107 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>33106

Your brain is porridge.
>> No. 33108 Anonymous
9th May 2022
Monday 6:50 pm
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>>33106

> One great test humanity faces is in becoming an inter-planetary species, that way if a meteor does hit, we'll be safe.

Then again, meteor impacts only affect life on the Earth's surface.

We could theoretically survive in underground cities even after a Chicxulub-size event, given our ingenuity as a species of being able to claim even the harshest environments. We'd probably have to start digging a few years before the impact, and then stay down there for a few tens of thousands of years, at least that's about as long as the Earth took before even the most basic land-surface ecosystems recovered. But it could be done. Not for the majority of the Earth's population of course, most people would probably perish. But you could save enough humans from certain death to start over.

There's evidence that during the last Ice Age, at one point adverse climatic conditions caused anatomically modern humans to dwindle to a few thousand individuals on the entire planet. And look how far we've come since, in about 70,000 years since that near-extinction event. And by preserving most of our technological knowledge which humans 70,000 years ago didn't have, we could probably get a pretty good head start and be back to pre-industrial population numbers much quicker.
>> No. 33116 Anonymous
10th May 2022
Tuesday 10:10 pm
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I don't watch the Eurovision semi-finals very intently, because I'm such an autistic lover of Eurovision that I don't like spoilers for what the songs on Saturday will be, but I put it on for a bit just now. Scott Mills and Rylan just talk over the whole thing. They don't give a shit if you want to watch the show itself. If the Italian presenters want to talk about what a great Eurovision it's going to be, this is apparently the perfect opportunity for Scott and Rylan to read out tweets from middle-aged drunk women and drag queens. Absolutely no respect. I understand that I'm the only person in the entire country who enjoys Eurovision as the brilliant entertainment show it is rather than a chance to be sneeringly ironic and jingoistic, and middle-aged drunk women and drag queens outnumber me thousands to one in the Eurovision audience, but for fuck's sake. What a pair of wankers. Fuck them. I shouldn't have watched the semi-final at all if the presenters are just going to shit all over it. Twats.
>> No. 33119 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 4:36 pm
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Those spiral staircases you get at historical sites where they don't even have bannisters and only a small space for your feet. I'm surprised that you don't hear more historical figures who died owing to stairs.
>> No. 33120 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 4:57 pm
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Or maybe they were just less soft than we are today, where we actually need a fucking sign to tell us to use handrails. People in the Middle Ages probably knew that if you couldn't even brave a bannisterless staircase, then there was little hope for you to die of old age at 40.
>> No. 33121 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>33119
Perhaps a slightly more Marxist reading of history than my esteemed colleague Prof. No-Brains, but I suspect important people didn't use stairs like that.
>> No. 33122 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 6:28 pm
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Spiral stairs were actually a status symbol that allowed the wealthy to traverse all axes. You don't have rich man stairs, you get a staircase with hidden doors and a view.

The modern conception of castles is wrong in that they were primarily centres of powers and prestige rather than purely as fortress, a big fuck off building the peasants saw from everywhere in their world and where things would be administered as an exercise of power. Hence why in Japan they even had lords who just decided to build their castles in the middle of cities despite it being much harder to defend.
>> No. 33123 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 6:41 pm
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>>33120

I don't get why people still think these signs are to inform stupid people, rather than to protect corporations from litigation.
>> No. 33124 Anonymous
11th May 2022
Wednesday 6:51 pm
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>>33123

I would guess it's a bit of both, but you're not wrong.

I think we could do with far fewer warning signs in everyday life. We have completely stopped weeding out our species' genetic dead weight by putting up too many of them. And Big Warning Sign are making untold millions.
>> No. 33125 Anonymous
12th May 2022
Thursday 1:20 am
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Title Case, and Being Forced to Use it.
>> No. 33126 Anonymous
12th May 2022
Thursday 3:11 am
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>>33124

People will still ignore a warning sign when they think they know better, anyway. Who amongst us actually turns their phone off/to airplane mode when they fly?
>> No. 33127 Anonymous
12th May 2022
Thursday 5:57 am
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If it wasn't for warning signs, we wouldn't have the joy of extremely specific warning signs that are inexplicably part of the ISO 7010 standard.
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12th May 2022
Thursday 5:57 am
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>> No. 33129 Anonymous
12th May 2022
Thursday 5:57 am
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>> No. 33130 Anonymous
12th May 2022
Thursday 6:50 am
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A ridiculously loud pigeon woke me up at 5am.
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12th May 2022
Thursday 10:20 am
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12th May 2022
Thursday 10:24 am
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>> No. 33133 Anonymous
13th May 2022
Friday 12:10 pm
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I don't have strong feelings one way or another about Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, but the word "wittertainment" makes my skin crawl for reasons I can't entirely explain.
>> No. 33134 Anonymous
13th May 2022
Friday 1:30 pm
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>>33133
I thought they'd packed all that in now.
>> No. 33135 Anonymous
13th May 2022
Friday 1:31 pm
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>>33134
Last I heard they were taking it to a podcast and having a pop at the BBC about leaving.
>> No. 33136 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 2:13 pm
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Kermode reminds me a lot of James Stephanie Sterling. I like most of their takes, they can be witty and insightful, but they're also slimy smug cunts who think they're hot to trot.
>> No. 33137 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 4:50 pm
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Why in Hell are Chelsea wearing yellow? Maybe it's more accommodating for people with colour blindness, but if I find out that's not the reason... I'm going to stay slightly irritated about it.
>> No. 33138 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 5:01 pm
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>>33137

The papers are saying superstition - they've had a lot of success in the cup wearing yellow. Colour blindness probably isn't a factor, because nearly all colour blind people can still distinguish red and blue.
>> No. 33139 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 5:18 pm
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>>33137
There's no Chelsea players in EA's team of the season because of the invasion and them being owned by Abramovic.
>> No. 33140 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 6:22 pm
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>>33139
Does Son get dog eating chants directed at him like Park did?
>> No. 33141 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 6:28 pm
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>>33138
That's reasonable enough then. They get a pass this one time.

>>33139
Is that true? I have my doubts, if only because assuming you have to remove one of those players, which Chelsea player would take their place?
>> No. 33142 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 6:56 pm
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>>33141
People were given the option to vote from a choice of 40 players for the 15 making up the team of the season. Not a single Chelsea player was amongst that 40.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/ea-sports-chelsea-fifa-22-26788454

On the official Premier League site there's the option to vote for your player of the season. Jarrod Bowen and James Ward-Prowse are there, but not Mason Mount.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/2612174
>> No. 33143 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 7:37 pm
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>>33138
Well that worked out well for them, didn't it?
>> No. 33144 Anonymous
14th May 2022
Saturday 7:45 pm
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>>33142
Oh, okay. The manner in which you're telling me is making me think you want me to care. I don't mean that in an arsey way, I just don't quite get what you want me to do with this info. Always more of a career mode boy.
>> No. 33185 Anonymous
18th May 2022
Wednesday 11:10 am
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Why, whenever you make a mistake speaking forrin to a forriner, do they seem so completely offended and quickly try to correct what you're saying, pronunciation included; yet when they speak English with whatever fucking weird syntax and garbled consonants, we don't do the same?
>> No. 33186 Anonymous
18th May 2022
Wednesday 11:20 am
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They're not used to people butchering their language, I suppose. Spoiled pricks.
>> No. 33187 Anonymous
18th May 2022
Wednesday 11:56 am
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>>33186

Rory Sutherland has an excellent anecdote about a friend of his who learned Estonian. He was expecting people to be impressed because no-one bothers to learn Estonian, but they just assumed that he was a very stupid Estonian.

English is the global lingua franca, so most English speakers are very used to hearing broken English. If a German and an Italian are in a business meeting, they'll probably speak English and probably speak it in a slightly wonky fashion. Speaking English is high status in most cultures, because it's the language of international trade and culture. Conversely, speaking broken Dutch or Swedish or Greek is low status, because most people who do it are low-wage migrant workers or refugees.
>> No. 33188 Anonymous
20th May 2022
Friday 8:43 pm
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HIGNFY can fuck off. Same goes for most, if not all, political comedy even. It has this veneer of being critical of power but the heart of it is just a sort of catharsis, a reassurance to the viewer that other people agree with them, then they go back to doing nothing to affect positive change. Ho ho ho the queen's hat and people starving isn't that a funny contrast, I can't wait to hear what they say next week.
>> No. 33189 Anonymous
20th May 2022
Friday 9:43 pm
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>>33188
You don't think James May and Jess Phillips are pushing against the boundaries of acceptable political speech with their rapier sharp political satire? No? Oh, well, how about this viral video you saw on the internet four days ago?
>> No. 33190 Anonymous
20th May 2022
Friday 11:15 pm
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>>33188
I, for one, do not even own a NFY.
>> No. 33191 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 12:48 am
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>>33188
If you really want to be furious, there's always Question Time. I like Have I Got News For You and I will forgive a lot from it, but Question Time has something dreadful about it that I really couldn't put my finger on. I think I've figured it out now: the topics themselves that are always discussed are so tightly controlled. What does our market research say people care about this week? Oh, it has to be the cost-of-living crisis. Tonight on Question Time, don't even fucking think about challenging politicians on house prices, the environment, biased media coverage, baby boomers or the Northern Ireland Protocol; you will ask about the cost of living and you will like it. It's downright sinister.

Besides, tonight's HIGNFY was presented by someone other than the regular six or seven guest presenters who do every episode; Miles Jupp hosted it and that means Alexander Armstrong stayed the fuck at home for once.
>> No. 33192 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 2:33 pm
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This makes me think how interesting a disorganised question time would be. Imagine politicians locked in a room with a baying mob for an hour. The only mediation on the part of the BBC being to ensure that nobody physically hurts one another and perhaps to beep the swears for comic effect, or throw in some hot button issues and voting records if the show's looking boring.
(Though maybe I just like the idea because the underlying dynamics of such a show would reflect my perception that across ideological boundaries MPs feel more solidarity with one another than with their electors.)
>> No. 33193 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 2:51 pm
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>perhaps to beep the swears for comic effect
mirth
>> No. 33194 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 3:19 pm
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>>33193
Where is Danny Wallace these days?
>> No. 33195 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 4:12 pm
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>>33194
The only things I've seen him in in recent years has been the Assassin's Creed games, where he's a smug unfunny cunt, and also commentating on the World's Strongest Man tournament, where he's a smug unfunny cunt.
>> No. 33196 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 8:03 am
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>>33194
On the radio
>> No. 33197 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 10:51 am
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I just spent an hour trying to find out why my PC had decided to constantly select upwards on certain Windows 10 menus. If you want know what that means, right click a programme on your taskbar and hold the up arrow on your keyboard. That was not the issue, do not tell me to unplug my USB devices, I will come to your house. I was booting in safe mode, trying different mice and keyboards, turning on and off certain programmes that launch on start-up, looking for malware; none of it worked a bit. Then I walked off for five minutes, made a coffee, come back and it's stopped. Just fucking stopped. Maybe it's going to come back, maybe I'll have to reinstall the whole damned system just to weed this stupid, tiny, problem out, but, for now, it's gone and I'm as pissed off as I was an hour ago.
>> No. 33198 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 12:29 pm
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>>33197
I, for one, don't own a Windows 10.
>> No. 33199 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 12:44 pm
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>>33198

Linux users are the craft ale bores of computing. Apple users are either hipsters or women.
>> No. 33200 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 1:50 pm
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>>33197

I had this same issue using DS4Win with a Switch Pro controller, all acting like I was holding Up-Right on the joystick. I'd have to repeatedly stop and start the program / controller until it behaved properly, or do something close to what you did, i.e. touch NOTHING and wait a minute. Something in the most recent Windows Update sorted it out, though.
>> No. 33201 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 8:06 pm
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>>33200
I think DS4Win might have been the problem, yeah. I closed it at one point and it didn't have an effect, but preventing it from starting on start-up has stopped any silly business. I swear that programme was perfect two years ago, but it kept getting updates anyway.
>> No. 33202 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 9:14 pm
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You guys are so fucking petty it's unbelieveabe. Do you want people to use these boards or not?
>> No. 33203 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 9:16 pm
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>>33202
People, not Americans.
>> No. 33204 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 9:34 pm
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>>33202

No, go away.
>> No. 33205 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 9:56 pm
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I did a load of sniffing at the weekend and now my nostril is clogged, a bit sore and I'm incredibly tired. Quite parched as well.

If supermarkets weren't shut early on Sunday I'd have a chocolate éclair right now.
>> No. 33206 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 7:23 pm
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Obviously I can’t ask my mum this to her face so I have to do so here: what kind of moron buys a clock in 2022? It’s ticking and tocking and it even sodding chimes. It’s an annoying noise box, you can’t even post on .gs from it.
>> No. 33207 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>33202
I actually thought it was an amusing and mildly thought-provoking image, but "REACT TO THIS, MY PUPPETS" does my head in.
>> No. 33208 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 8:29 pm
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Mums. Mine has a cuckoo clock that looks like a log cabin and plays Edelweiss on the hour. It cost more than my massive telly.
>> No. 33209 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>33206



My Gran had an RSPB bird themed clock in her kitchen that would chime with random bird noises every hour, you'd be making a cup of tea and suddenly you'd hear the digitised screeching of a blue tit out of nowhere, it would always scare me shitless.
>> No. 33210 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 9:00 pm
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>>33209
I know what I'm getting you in this year's gs Secret Santa.

https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/gifts-home/home-and-kitchen/decorative-home-accessories/rspb-bird-song-clock.html
>> No. 33211 Anonymous
23rd May 2022
Monday 10:59 pm
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hah, I have that clock, rescued it off a bonfire. I've not bothered setting the chime right, so 8 o'clock is death-owl o'clock. Strangely, that clip didn't play the barn owl, https://youtu.be/5Ywq8luxcnE?t=63
>> No. 33212 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 12:47 pm
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>The nation is being encouraged to sing Neil Diamond's soft rock classic Sweet Caroline to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next month.

>The song was chosen by listeners of Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Breakfast Show as an "uplifting, happy" melody everyone can sing at street parties on 5 June.

>Announcing the campaign, Ball described the 53-year-old hit as "a song of togetherness".

>It is hoped that 10 million people will join the singalong.

Fuck off with this shit. I don't want to sing to the queen, I don't want to clap for our NHS heroes, leave me alone.
>> No. 33213 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 12:48 pm
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>>33212

I think various groups are planning to protest the Jubilee, that might be more up your street.
>> No. 33214 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 12:50 pm
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All I ever wanted out of this jubilee was a decent number of bank holidays and we're not even getting that. The Spring Bank Holiday is moving to the other end of the week and we're getting one extra day on top of that.

Fucking cheapskates.
>> No. 33215 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 2:56 pm
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>>33212

>street parties

Who the fuck will be having a street party. If there's one thing I hate it's the invocation of a quaint, community oriented Britain that pulls together through thick and thin, blitz spirit and all that.

It just doesn't exist, it's a nice comforting fairytale middle class and above people tell themselves about what it's like to live in a row of shite 1930s terraced houses in Harehills, attempting to lionise the working class while they continue to shit on us from great heights.

It annoys me that some people actually WILL have street parties, because it gives them the satisfaction, doesn't it. Imagine the BBC reporters who'll be stalking poor neighbourhoods trying to interview some salt of the earth peasants about celebrating the Queen.

I don't even hate the Queen or the royal family, I'm completely agnostic on the matter of monarchy. I don't give a shit either way. But this shit is annoying. It's not the 1950s. It's not that episode of Doctor Who with the tellies that suck your face off. Bollocks.
>> No. 33216 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 3:06 pm
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My area had a street party for the Diamond Jubilee and it was nice - lots of cake and bunting and a chance to catch up with the neighbours. So the Britain you describe does exist, albeit not as ubiquitously as the powers that be should probably like. But I think there was in general more of a celebratory atmosphere back in 2012 due to the Olympics.
>> No. 33217 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 3:24 pm
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I remember there being a street party on my estate for the Golden Jubilee. As I was 9 I probably thought it was good fun having sweets and sausage rolls and all that guff. Now the thought of there being a party on my street fills me with dread.

I think the main advantage of living in an area with lots of student HMOs is that there isn't a sense of community, so we're spared clapping on the door step or entertaining trick or treaters.
>> No. 33218 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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>>33215

We have street parties around my way, but they usually get broken up by the police.
>> No. 33219 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 4:30 pm
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I might go out looking for a street party and join it. My street won't have one because the houses are all flats with mindbroken zoomers and immigrants now, but most of our landlords live nearby. Let's see if they ask me to leave if I don't live on their street, or if they even notice they've never seen me before.
>> No. 33220 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 4:55 pm
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Dinner prepped, oven on, quick shower, check on dinner; left it on the side still marinating.
>> No. 33221 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 6:23 pm
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I'm trying to be patient because I was a noisy child growing up but the kid next door is really starting to get on my tits. Every time I get off work and want to have a sit down to relax from my awful adult life I have him shouting nonsense out his window at irregular intervals or barking.

It's going to be a long summer.
>> No. 33222 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 6:50 pm
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>>33221
That sounds horrible. Have you tried hitting him?
>> No. 33223 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 7:13 pm
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I'm trying to make a change to let a child have fun without some 'orrible adult shouting at him at every turn. If he wants to make noises after a hard day at school then fair enough, at least he's not one of those prats revving a motorcycle.

But the rage will eventually boil over and I'll throttle the life out of the little cunt.
>> No. 33224 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 7:32 pm
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The kid across the street from me is properly feral. At the weekend he was lifting up the manhole cover on his neighbour's driveway and throwing things down there. He was also throwing footballs repeatedly at his house while his mum was out, he'd just been dumped on the street, and they kept hitting cars when they bounced back. I'm surprised he didn't get a bollocking, but you can always hear his mum screaming at him.
>> No. 33225 Anonymous
24th May 2022
Tuesday 11:02 pm
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>>33221
That sounds horrible. Have you tried moving from Povvo Street?
>> No. 33227 Anonymous
25th May 2022
Wednesday 7:05 pm
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I don't have Adblock on my work computer. I am listening to a song that's around ten minutes long (Finished Symphony by Hybrid) on YouTube, and it just cut out after six minutes for an advert.
>> No. 33228 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 10:27 am
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The hotel I'm staying at advertises breakfast until 12 but when I came down at 10 they were putting everything away. I would've gotten up earlier if they didn't explicitly advertise a breakfast with a lie-in.
>> No. 33229 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 12:09 pm
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Tried to access a Wikipedia source from a still active website's article published all the way, way back in 2017 and it 404'd. I'm sure this is totally fine and nothing to worry about.
>> No. 33230 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 1:05 pm
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The new cleaner is a Spanish woman with a massive arse and my productivity has dropped to near zero. I'm supposed to be working but all I can think about is facesitting.
>> No. 33231 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 2:16 pm
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I remember when I was an early teenager I joined some forums that revolved around a couple of open-world MMO games, which later turned out to be vapourware in one way or another. We spent huge amounts of time and imagination discussing what sort of bases we'd set up, what factions we planned to be in, what roles we planned to take in-game, character classes, anything at all, letting our imagination run completely wild. A fair number of people kept it up even after it was recognised that the games would never exist. It was great fun but pointless in the end.

There seem to be a lot of very knowledgeable, well-read people who do niche Internet political discourse - not culture war stuff but discussing how society can work under their various ideologies when put into practise, mostly "anarchists" arguing with "socialists" and "tankies" and whatever I don't keep track of their labels. They take themselves very seriously and it seems to dominate their time.

It's the same thing, isn't it? They're just worldbuilding. None of it has any bearing on reality. They might as well be discussing Tolkein as they are Marx. Is your take on the ethics of taking drugs in or around actions going to bring about your revolution? The planet's on fire, who gives a shit if restaurants would still exist under communism? It's just hobbyist worldbuilding by another name. Waiting for vapourware.
>> No. 33232 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 2:24 pm
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>>33231

You're not wrong.
>> No. 33233 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 5:44 pm
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Yeah, but you could really have said the same thing about Plato, Aristotle, or whoever else. The wonderful thing about the modern world, for all its flaws, is that plebs like you and I can discuss these matters, and however small the audience is, somebody out there may listen, and maybe even take what you said on-board.

I could easily argue you're doing the same thing, LARPing about saving the world from climate change by handing out a few leaflets now and again (yes, this is a complete non sequitur strawman, but indulge me.) The reality is likely that BP and Shell will drive us all to our doom regardless. But you have to feel like you're doing something with your time on this miserable rock, or you'd go mad, wouldn't you?
>> No. 33234 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 6:41 pm
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>>33233

I don't think endless debating of technicalities with your ingroup is what they call "praxis" in the same way that recruitment is. I think you know that and just wanted to take that opportunity to be a creep.
>> No. 33235 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 9:52 pm
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>>33234

Ahh, that shot was on target then?

No lad, you're really two cheeks of the same arse, get off your high horse. There are people within your own in-group who would call leafletting poser bullshit, and insist you're not a true environmentalist unless you glue your tongue to a petrol pump.

Whatever you're into, someone is deeper into it, more influential and more knowledgable than you, and whatever cause you think is the most important is somebody else's lowest priority. For instance: I don't give a fuck if the planet burns, because humanity is gay and so are you. What's your counter argument? Well? Eh, gayboy?
>> No. 33236 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 10:32 pm
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>>33235

The more you talk the more obvious it is you have no idea what you're saying.
>> No. 33237 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 10:39 pm
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>>33236

Ouch, I haven't heard a put-down that savage since sixth form.
>> No. 33238 Anonymous
30th May 2022
Monday 10:43 pm
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>>33237

Okay.
>> No. 33239 Anonymous
31st May 2022
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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Apps should be banned from sending you what are essentially just ads in the form of a push notification.

No Trainline, I don't care if there are discounts, I'll use you when I need you.
>> No. 33240 Anonymous
31st May 2022
Tuesday 3:56 pm
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>>33231
I think you're wrong.

Even if we're, politically speaking, lightyears from implementing anarchy in the UK understanding and discussing these theories has more value than the two-handed attack skill of a half-minotaur bard. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter, but it's obviously not as important in seeing the hows and whys of society as real political theory. And just because we aren't going to wake up tomorrow to "fully automated luxury communism", doesn't mean these ideas aren't effecting or going to effect the world. The writers and ideas that provided much of the intellectual inspiration for the French Revolution were from decades or even centuries before the event itself. In turn the French Revolution and it's aftermath were inspirational and important for individuals, events and further political theories for absoluately ages after the fact.

So, no, in short I don't think political theory has the same value as Dwarven slash fiction. Maybe you're not the next John Locke, but you're doing yourself a diservice by throwing your hands up and saying "this shit's too fucked up for me to even think about".
>> No. 33241 Anonymous
31st May 2022
Tuesday 5:17 pm
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>>33239
Trainline uses opt in marketing preferences.
>> No. 33242 Anonymous
31st May 2022
Tuesday 6:34 pm
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>>33240

I suppose you're right. It all seems like a waste of time because when we look back, we only see the discourse that had an impact, when there was so much more that didn't but it couldn't have existed without the space they shared; a survivor bias.
>> No. 33243 Anonymous
31st May 2022
Tuesday 9:05 pm
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>Yes
>Some other time, Mrs Doyle
>> No. 33244 Anonymous
2nd June 2022
Thursday 10:33 am
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Nicky Campbell is a twat. I'd switch over to 4, but Woman's Hour is even more annoying.
>> No. 33245 Anonymous
2nd June 2022
Thursday 12:49 pm
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>>33244

Woman's Hour seems to be every hour on Radio 4 these days. I don't mind women being on the radio, but I do wish they didnt spend half the time droning on about how "as a woman..." and "its so good to see women..." and all that shite.

If it were a bloke he'd just get the fuck on with telling us about his book or whatever, but when its women they spend half the time patting themselves on the back for having been middle class and succesful enough to end up on Radio 4 despite the crippling disadvantage of having a vagina.
>> No. 33246 Anonymous
2nd June 2022
Thursday 4:51 pm
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I need to stop reading the little blurb you get on for shows on Netflix because somehow, despite only being one or maybe two short sentences, they manage to spoil at least two-thirds of whatever I'm going to watch.
>> No. 33247 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 12:34 pm
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"People" who don't like anchovies and olives are babies.
>> No. 33248 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 12:58 pm
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>>33247
I like the concept of anchovies, but I don't think they go well on pizza, I don't like cheese + fish combo. Olives are great, and I've recently got into capers.
>> No. 33249 Anonymous
7th June 2022
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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>>33248
Just wait until you try hijinks.
>> No. 33250 Anonymous
8th June 2022
Wednesday 12:15 am
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Got given a Scottish tenner in change at the bar, something I only discovered after putting my drink down. The same bar would later not accept that very same tenner.
>> No. 33251 Anonymous
8th June 2022
Wednesday 8:14 am
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Gave a jumper I'd worn for a few hours on Monday a sniff to find out if it was acceptable dog walking attire and fuck me! I've never smelt anything like it. It stank for bad I can feel it in my brainstem. I need the UN to send a chemical weapons team to my home and subsequently charge me for breaking international laws.
>> No. 33252 Anonymous
9th June 2022
Thursday 9:11 am
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Just had a long and fairly important phone call with someone who spoke incredibly quietly. Despite turning my phone up to maximum and repeatedly saying "I'm terribly sorry, I think there must be a bad line, could you speak up please", they remained barely intelligible. If they're really unable to speak louder than a whisper, could they not just email me? Absolutely infuriating.
>> No. 33253 Anonymous
9th June 2022
Thursday 9:21 am
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>>33252
Albeism.
>> No. 33254 Anonymous
9th June 2022
Thursday 5:34 pm
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>>33253

I have nothing against albes. Some of my best friends are albes.
>> No. 33255 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 2:00 pm
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I don't want to spend north of seven hundred quid a month to share a house with four other people.

The good ones are snatched up before I can get a viewing in.
>> No. 33256 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 2:39 pm
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>>33255
My landlord has decided that me trying to hold them to the bare fucking minimum of their obligations was too much and so I'm having to find somewhere else to live while competing with both the pent up demand of the pandemic and wealthy international students from China. Rents on equivalent properties are about 40% higher than what I'm paying now.
>> No. 33257 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 3:59 pm
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Dogs are shite.
>> No. 33258 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 4:04 pm
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Mortgage copany I'm dealing with are a set of clowns. I've been passed around about four different people over the last couple of weeks, they don't reply to your messages on their shitty app thing (which is split accross two different portals just for added annoyance), and I've ended up back with the original person now who says they tried to call me (they didn't) after speaking to the previous person who said they did reply to my message (they didn't).

Is this par for the course or have I ended up with a particularly shit outfit?
>> No. 33259 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 4:20 pm
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>>33258
I got my mortgage approved recently from the third or fourth person. The person you speak to when you go in is just an advisor who tries to sell you whatever makes them a commission. Then they put you through to another person to actually get the mortgage, and that's just another advisor looking for a slice of the pie. Then I can't remember, but there might have been a third mortgage advisor who absolutely insisted they were the one who gives me the actual mortgage. They didn't, and they couldn't even quote what interest rate I'd be paying. They were just another joker. I had to book an appointment with them, and wait a couple of weeks to speak to them, before they passed me on to the last woman. At this point, I still had 0% of a mortgage, and the last woman asked me all the same questions and gave me the mortgage. It took about an hour and a half, after the three weeks I'd spent being passed around endless parasites.

If there are any problems, and there will be, a man will call you up from a withheld number and demand all your personal information before he will discuss what those problems are, exactly as a scammer would, so I refused to speak to him and made him email me through their special portal.

This was NatWest, by the way.
>> No. 33260 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 5:11 pm
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I get the feeling that even with my awful credit, for some reason a mortgage lender would decline to allow me a mortgage with payments of £400 per month when my rent is like £700. The fuck is that all about?
>> No. 33261 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 5:20 pm
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>>33259

The part they were fucking me about with was uploading documents, ID, evidence of deposit and all that.

You'd have thought that for a mortgage broker, they'd understand and be quite well used to the fact that a Help to Buy ISA pays a bonus, and thus for anyone saying they're using one for their deposit, the figure their statement shows won't match the figure they put on the application. But no, they rejected it 3 times in a row until I phoned up to tell them they were being stupid dickheads.

Anyway I don't know what's up now because the other one still hasn't rung back. I wasn't expecting him to like, but I didn't really want to have to speak to them again today so fuck it.

>>33260

Depends exactly why your credit is bad. They don't actually seem to care about your credit history as much as I thought they would, it's just purely about your earnings. Presumably they just play it safer than with other types of loan because of inflation etc, the situation we're currently in means your mortgage could easily grow to be just as expensive as that £700 rent a few years down the line (of course by then the equivalent rent would be >£900, but that's not their problem).
>> No. 33262 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 9:07 pm
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>>33260
I see this argument a lot, that people can obviously afford to repay a mortgage if they can pay more than that in rent. But if you took all your money in the world, plus your annual income x4.5, would that be enough to buy a house? For most people it isn't, and surely this is the real issue that social media hot-takers keep missing.
>> No. 33263 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 10:31 pm
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>>33262
>But if you took all your money in the world, plus your annual income x4.5, would that be enough to buy a house?
I'm not sure what relevance this has other than "houses are inflated and overpriced", which doesn't offer a solution to the immediate problem of someone trying to get a house.
>> No. 33264 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 10:54 pm
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>>33263
It points out what the real problem is, though. If you can pay your rent, then let's say a bank will approve your mortgage suddenly. But let's also say they will still only lend money within the rules that currently exist. It won't get you a house. You'll get your wish, and it won't achieve what it's supposed to. The problem is not, nor was it ever, that banks aren't approving you for a mortgage. The problem is that the mortgage won't buy you a house. If you just want to say "I could theoretically pay off the mortgage I don't have and which would be useless for me anyway", then okay, you're right. But I bet I'd be a very supportive lover to Janis Joplin. It doesn't matter if she's dead. My boyfriend skills are irrelevant when it comes to seducing Janis Joplin. And similarly, your ability to pay the mortgage doesn't matter if there are other obstacles preventing you from buying a house, such as the price of houses, the deposit you have, and the amount the bank will lend you.
>> No. 33265 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 11:09 pm
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>>33264
>But let's also say they will still only lend money within the rules that currently exist. It won't get you a house.
Fun fact: places outside the M25 exist.
>> No. 33266 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 11:18 pm
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>>33265
The current maximum that banks will lend is 4.5x your income. The average house price is 9x the average income. If you make £30,000 a year, you can borrow £135,000. If you save up £10,000, that's £145,000. Fun fact: houses outside the M25 also cost more than £145,000.
>> No. 33267 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 11:26 pm
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>>33266
>The current maximum that banks will lend is 4.5x your income. The average house price is 9x the average income.
Yes, that's one of the arbitrary rules that means that people can't get a 30-year mortgage for £638 a month on the sort of property they're already paying a grand a month in rent for.

Do you actually have a point here?
>> No. 33268 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 11:50 pm
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You've had this exact same discussion before. Fucking pack it in going around in circles.
>> No. 33269 Anonymous
10th June 2022
Friday 11:52 pm
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>>33267
The point I have is the point I have made. Have you made a point? So far, you have said that if lots of other rules changed, then there would only be one rule still preventing you from buying a house. Okay, but so what? Then you pivoted to suggest that the only houses costing more than £145,000 are in London, which is factually wrong. Go on; explain your point like I am severely retarded. Pretend I have the mental faculties of an infant.
>> No. 33270 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 1:11 am
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>>33269
>Then you pivoted to suggest that the only houses costing more than £145,000 are in London
I said no such thing, lad.
>> No. 33271 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 1:14 am
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Okay so I'll answer in good faith for the lads who don't understand, because it puzzled me too before I actually got a mortgage.

The trouble is mortgages aren't just set in stone at the price you agree when you take it out, the interest rate will change over the term of the mortgage. That in itself is something we could argue about being unfair, but it's the way it works. I settled on buying a flat to keep the cost down, and my mortgage came out at £265 a month on the cheapest fixed-term deal I could get. After that fixed term, however, the rate goes up to the "base rate", and I'll have to remortgage to get another fixed term deal. It goes up to something like £425. Nearly fucking doubles. Variable mortgages don't even have that protection, so your mortgage just constantly goes up or down depending on the current state of the economy (even though the bank is already making loadsadosh, but again, that's another issue).

If they lent you 9x your income instead of 4.5x your income, they would still do that, so your just about affordable £700 mortgage would jump up to a £1200 mortgage, and you'd be fucked. That's why they won't lend you 8x instead of 4.5x. They need you to be able to afford the way they're going to rip you off.

Amusingly, that's not even the most fucked up thing right now. What I've seen a lot of people talking about around here (on the city subrudgwick and faceache groups) is that the property market is so overheated that people are getting mortgages declined at the valuation stage. In essence, the competition at the viewing and bidding stage is so fierce, people are being forced to make offers that far exceed the property's realistic value; and then the mortgage companies won't give them the mortgage to buy it at that price. Mortgages in general are no longer adequate to secure a house in the current market, you need to be a cash buyer.

And this is up north, by the way, so you can shut the fuck up M25lad.
>> No. 33272 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 1:45 am
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>>33271
>I settled on buying a flat to keep the cost down, and my mortgage came out at £265 a month on the cheapest fixed-term deal I could get. After that fixed term, however, the rate goes up to the "base rate", and I'll have to remortgage to get another fixed term deal. It goes up to something like £425. Nearly fucking doubles.
And it'll still work out cheaper on a monthly basis than renting said flat.

The reason banks have been told to impose these rules is affordability, but I just can't make the numbers add up to suggest that (based on actual numbers for a block of flats near me) a £900/month rent is affordable while a £400/month promo rate leading to £600/month standard somehow isn't. Even if you couldn't remortgage, the lender's SVR needs to hit 10% for that mortgage payment to hit £900, and if that happens you can bet you won't be renting any of those flats for £900/month.
>> No. 33273 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 2:01 am
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>>33272

The banks are applying the affordability rules imposed on them by the Financial Conduct Authority. Their concern isn't about your individual ability to repay your mortgage, but the stability of the market as a whole. An entire generation of house buyers have only ever experienced rock-bottom interest rates and steadily rising house prices, but that's historically highly abnormal.

It sucks if you're trying to get on the housing ladder, but the rules aren't arbitrary. Relaxing them might help some people in the short-term, but that would bottle up a lot of risks that could come back to bite us. Fundamentally, the only solution is to build a lot more homes, particularly the mid-rise, mid-density developments that are the norm in dense European suburbs but unusual here.
>> No. 33274 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 2:42 am
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>The banks are applying the affordability rules imposed on them by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Right, and they're doing so in a way that makes very little sense. Again, I just can't imagine what the maths are behind declaring as unaffordable a mortgage that even with the more usual mid-high single digit mortgage rates would still work out than the rent that someone has been paying successfully for years. The late 2000s crisis didn't come about because of lenders giving out 100%+ mortgages to borrowers who had previously been renting somewhere more expensive.

I agree that the long-term solution is to build more of the right sort of housing. An awful lot of what gets built now falls into a few broad categories:
- Luxury apartments in prime locations that are either vehicles for Russian money-laundering or a pied-a-terre for an Arab oil baron who might use it for a day or two on the rare occasion they're in London for business
- "Student flats" that are quite clearly poorly located and too expensive for students that the developer will then apply to the council for permission to "convert" them to general residential accommodation by fitting out a corner of the living space as a bare minimum kitchen
- Shoebox houses with decorative features to appeal to aspirational middle-class buyers, with a 7ftx7ft area carved out of the master to create an extra bedroom and instantly add £50k to the value for the cost of a partition wall.

We really need to stop building those and start building more sensible things in significant volume, and NIMBYs need to fuck off complaining about how the value of the house they bought for £30k (on a single £10k salary) that is now worth ten times that might cool down slightly.
>> No. 33275 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 3:15 am
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>>33274

It doesn't make sense from the perspective of an individual buyer- What you're saying is correct, if you could afford the rent you can afford the mortgage, nobody's disputing that.

But they don't look at it from the perspective of an individual buyer, they have to look at it in the bigger picture. Not becaue they WANT to- They'd love to give everyone a massive whopping loan and reap in the interest so they can take baths in cocaine and catheterise champage up their bellends or whatever it is bankers do in their time off. But they're not allowed, because last time they did that, it went tits up and nearly took the global economy with it.

Those people were able to pay, until the economy canged to the point that they couldn't, which meant a load of defaults all at once. It wasn't BECAUSE of them giving people risky loans, but the fact people HAD those risky loans turned a bit of an economic speedbump into an earthquake.
>> No. 33276 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 3:27 am
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>>33275

Oh, and I should add that the principal difference we're ignoring here is that yes, while the mortgage works out cheaper than the rent in almost all cases, the difference is that if the rent gets jacked up to a price you can't afford, you just get turfed out and somebody else moves in. You might end up homeless, or just have to move into a house share with 8 Polish men, but in the end you're not defaulting on a debt and nobody's on the hook for the money.

It's different with a mortgage because you'll likely still owe tens of thousands of pounds, which has already been given to somebody else, who then spent it on their house, and so on. They can't just swallow it and put you on an IVA for a tenner a month like a hire purchase company can if you default on the payment for your Fiesta. They could probably write off a small number of defaults, but if there's an economic shock and thousands of people default at once, that becomes a big, big problem, even for gigantic banks.

That's basically what happened in 2008, from what I understand.
>> No. 33277 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 3:38 am
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>>33275

Exactly. We're hurtling towards dangerous territory already because of rising inflation. If we end up in a wage-price spiral, the Bank of England will need to start steeply raising interest rates, which will put more pressure on the incomes of mortgage payers, which will put even more pressure on wages.

If efforts to control inflation trigger a recession (probably a 50/50 chance at this stage) then a lot of people will find themselves on reduced hours or out of work and unable to pay their mortgage. The recent "give people on benefits the right to buy a house" announcement was just a smokescreen for the real policy - the government are preparing for the likelihood that a large number of middle-class homeowners will soon be staring down the barrel of repossession. Paying a lot of people's mortgages through the benefits system is bloody expensive, but the alternative (repossession, property crash, negative equity trap, financial crisis) is unthinkable to Tory voters on both sides of the party.

We've had strict affordability criteria since 2008, but there's a strong argument that they weren't strict enough. That argument is going to be tested over the next couple of years and things could get extremely ugly.

When we talk about systemic risk, 2022 is precisely what we're talking about.
>> No. 33278 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 1:20 pm
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>the government are preparing for the likelihood that a large number of middle-class homeowners will soon be staring down the barrel of repossession

I've got a friend who is an estate agent, and he told me the other day that that's going to mean that business will be booming for him. He actually expects property prices to stagnate or even go down because of this, but it'll be made up for by the volume of properties coming onto the market.

One way of looking at it is that if your income situation only allowed you to buy a mortgaged house during times of historically low interest rates, then maybe you didn't think it through, meaning, you didn't give enough thought to the question if you would still be able to afford mortgage payments in an enironment of rising interest rates and recessions recurring as they always have.
>> No. 33279 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 3:02 pm
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>>33278
> if your income situation only allowed you to buy a mortgaged house during times of historically low interest rates, then maybe you didn't think it through
The mortgage lender does a stress test, which I guess could indeed result in some people being turned down for a mortgage which would be less than their current rent in some circumstances. They look at how much your monthly repayments would be if they gave you the mortgage, but then they also have to ask, "But what if interest rates went up to the highest they could possibly go up to? Could you still afford it then?" The stress test then checks if you could still afford the mortgage under the highest interest rates at any point in the last 30 years, I think. For me a month or two ago, they tested me against interest rates in 1992, and I could still afford it, but it's possible that for some applicants, this would be more than their current rent, but the repayments at the usual 2.5% or whatever would be less than their current rent, so they'd be refused a mortgage that under non-stress-test conditions, they could easily afford.

Of course, my deposit is over 20% of the price of my house, so I'm almost immune to negative equity since even in the credit crunch, house prices only dropped by about 10%, so I feel perfectly safe. Of course, if interest rates go up higher than at any point in the last 30 years, that could break the stress test and people who were approved based on their ability to pay in the "absolute worst-case scenario" might find themselves in an even worse scenario than that one, and then they might not be able to pay.

Of course, the job market is booming so enormously right now that I don't think any impending disaster will be the same as 2008's, but if you bought your house with a 5% deposit yesterday, and house prices drop 10% tomorrow, you might well owe more than the house is worth and then the panic will be exactly the same.
>> No. 33280 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 3:33 pm
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>>33279

The reason why the property market went tits up in 2008/09 isn't just that mortgage lending had become a piss take and paupers were handed mortgages like they were going out of style. Especially in the U.S., the property market had been overheated and oversaturated for some time, so that allocating prime mortgages with willing and financially able borrowers was becoming increasingly difficult.

And that's where the structured debt bubble came in, where mortgage lenders were able, or so they thought, to externalise mortgage default risk to the wider financial market. So they could just keep writing checks and receiving commissions, without bearing any of the risks that came with somebody mortgaging a McMansion on an unskilled labourer income.


>Of course, the job market is booming so enormously right now that I don't think any impending disaster will be the same as 2008's

There was a booming job market in 2006-2008 as well. The junkyard tyre fire that was the 2007/2008 Financial Crisis started in the financial markets and spread to the real economy and then ultimately also affected employment, and it didn't save many people that they had been doing very well up to that point.

I almost took a job offer in Dublin back then, because Ireland was experiencing its own economic miracle, and if you had any kind of university degree at all, they were practically rolling out the red carpet for you because they were so desperate for skilled foreign workers. Then a year later, I checked back with them to see if that kind of job was still available, and it turned out that the company had gone bankrupt as a direct result of the Financial Crisis, and many other places there had stopped hiring.

It's probably a good idea to raise interest rates to combat inflation, but you do run the risk of choking the economy which has had a lot to deal with as it is following two years of covid and the global repercussions of the Ukraine War. In the long run though, zero or even negative interest rates were never an economically sustainable policy. Not least because it created an "everything bubble", where in the absence of guaranteed risk-free positive interest for your money, prices surged for everything from housing to classic cars, vintage paintings and wristwatches and even fine wine.
>> No. 33281 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 4:03 pm
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>>33279

>Of course, the job market is booming so enormously right now that I don't think any impending disaster will be the same as 2008

It's a different kind of disaster, which we're seeing the first signs of now - people who are employed full time, but still can't make ends meet because of inflation. There's no painless fix for this, because increasing wages will just force up the rate of inflation. People can tighten their belts and reduce their discretionary spending, but that'll push us towards recession. The government can borrow to subsidise people's living standards, but that'll drive inflation and potentially cause a secondary recession due to the cost of repaying all that debt. They can print money to subsidise people's living standards, but that's the absolute worst thing you can do in terms of stimulating inflation.

Classical stagflation is poorly explained by most mainstream economic theories, but our situation is even weirder - the combination of high inflation, high employment and low growth is totally unprecedented and very difficult to model.
>> No. 33282 Anonymous
11th June 2022
Saturday 4:16 pm
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>>33281
I can't really see the logic underlying the idea that we've got a proper wage-price spiral going when we're in a globalised economy where so much is outsourced to the third world. In the 1970s it sort of makes sense - stick up the wage of the factory workers and you wind up paying more for manufactured goods - but nowadays when you're shipping the goods in from overseas what does it matter? Hike the wages of the guy at Tescos and the goods coming in are still going to be banged together by some guy in China making a few dollars a week. You might get a little bit of knock-on from the pay rise at the retailer, but your overall standard of living should be going up.

It's not even the most interesting objection to the idea (I quite like the one that always asks why we accept for granted that wage increases will be passed on in price increases, rather than forcing shareholders to eat lower profit margins.), but it's the one that's on my mind a lot. We just seem to take for granted that a 10% wage increase means a 10%+ price increase, even when wages in the UK obviously don't make up 100% of the cost of a product.
(You could probably rig up a model where devaluation from extra imports explains the difference, but that would mean bringing back the weird 1970s world where the balance of trade was relevant to the exchange rate.)
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11th June 2022
Saturday 5:20 pm
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>>33282

>I can't really see the logic underlying the idea that we've got a proper wage-price spiral going when we're in a globalised economy where so much is outsourced to the third world.

Not every UK office job can be done by a Bangalore call centre agent though. And not all the manual labour to produce goods for us here can be moved to China. Otherwise, there'd really be no point of having anybody working in this country at all.
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13th June 2022
Monday 3:31 pm
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Mortgage lender declined me on a mortgage for the flat I'm trying to buy, because too many of the other properties in the block are rented and not owner-occupied, and supposedly they consider that means it would be harder to sell on in the event of a repossession.

I don't get that. Who the fuck do they think owns the flats the other people are renting? Fucking feudal barons who inhereted them by combat?
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13th June 2022
Monday 4:58 pm
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>>33284
When even lenders, notoriously a despicable and venal bunch of cash-grubbers, are saying 'steady on, this really isn't worth what you're being asked for it', you might want to pay attention.
Yes, this sucks, in every way possible. I have no solution. I'm simply grateful that I don't have to play this insane game.
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13th June 2022
Monday 5:39 pm
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>>33282

>I can't really see the logic underlying the idea that we've got a proper wage-price spiral going when we're in a globalised economy where so much is outsourced to the third world.

Floating exchange rates.

To import some tat from China, we need to swap our British Pounds for Chinese yuan. We can only do that if someone wants British pounds to buy some stuff that we make.

If wages go up here, our exports become more expensive in pounds sterling. This makes our exports less attractive, so fewer people want to buy our stuff. Fewer people wanting to buy our stuff means that fewer people want to buy British pounds, so the exchange rate weakens. This is broadly a beautiful self-correcting mechanism for international trade, but it has a cost - a weaker exchange rate means that it costs us more to import stuff.

For an economy that is going through a run-of-the-mill recession, a weak exchange rate has the very useful effect of stimulating demand. Foreign buyers are attracted to our exports because they become cheaper; domestic buyers want to switch from imported goods to locally produced goods, because imports become more expensive.

If you're in a wage-price spiral, you're shagged - either you pass on the costs of higher import prices, or buy local goods from companies with rising wage costs. Nobody has ever broken a wage-price spiral without triggering a major recession and/or a political crisis.
>> No. 33287 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 5:41 pm
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>>33285

No, I would understand if they said it's not worth what I'm paying for it, but that isn't what they said.
>> No. 33288 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 6:11 pm
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>>33287

"supposedly they consider that means it would be harder to sell on in the event of a repossession."

That's them saying it's not worth what you're being asked for, even after your deposit has vanished.
And it's worth less because of the status of the other flats in the block - if even you, a homeowner, are having to be repossessed, there's a decent chance that landlords will be selling up / getting repossessed before you run out of options / time, and your flat will be a hard sell into a falling market.
You may be sure that your income is recession proof and your plans are sound. They're not, because you're just a grey blur among many. Fuck it, let some other lender take this one.
>> No. 33289 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 6:57 pm
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>>33284

I had that happen with me for a similar situation but then another lender approved me with no hassle. Ex-council flat in my case but in a lot better nick and a nicer spot than most of the terraces that were anywhere close to the same cost. Helps that I'd previous rented nearby so knew the area and buildings too.
Hopefully it'll do me well for the next few years.
>> No. 33290 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 7:00 pm
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>>33288

So in essence they're saying that if you are forced to sell, it will be at a time the landcunts are trying to too, so you'll get shafted? Seems a bit daft, would they do the same if it was a house and too many of the houses on the street were rented?

Surely the same would apply to anyone, which means this particular flat is already a hard sell. Which is why it's affordable, because nobody can get a mortgage to buy it with. Which means you can't buy it. Because they won't give you a mortgage. Which is why it's affordable. Which is why you can't buy it. Am I following this right?

I had viewed several other flats before this one that had had sales fall through, and gone back on the market, and I expect this kind of bullshit will have been why. All of them ended up going for stupidly over-inflated prices again, because of the bidding war (I checked back on one and it went for nearly £25k over the asking price). The only affordable properties on the market are by their nature unobtainable to anyone other than speculative investors, who are in turn, fuelling the demand cycle that is making housing unaffordable.

I'm going to keep on brute forcing my way through the process regardless, I'm not starting back at square one without a fight.
>> No. 33291 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 7:24 pm
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>>33286
>Nobody has ever broken a wage-price spiral without triggering a major recession and/or a political crisis.
I suppose that's one way of getting Boris to finally fuck off for good.
>> No. 33292 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 8:07 am
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>>33290 Am I following this right?
Yes. There's basically endless demand - everyone wants a home, or a better home, and we're all competing. If you're near the bottom of the pile, resource-wise, why do you think you'll get anywhere? Add in the BTL scourge converting places into rentals, and, well, yeah. House prices are a function of how much people can borrow, not much else really matters.
Even when house prices fall, it will be because people can't borrow - including you. It might shake a bunch of those BTL places back into buyable, which would be nice (although not immediately nice for the poor bastards currently renting them), but you'll still not get a mortgage if you're in the least-flush 20% (or whatever the number is). But at least you'll ot get a mortgage for a smaller amount, and might be able to save a bigger deposit faster, to the point where you're in the bottom 21%, and off you go.
Fuck me, this is depressing.

>>33291 Boris to finally fuck off for good
that cunt's going to take ages to flush, even (especially) once he's no longer PM. Sorry.
>> No. 33293 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 12:08 pm
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>>33292

>There's basically endless demand

Not to be pedantic, but there's finite demand because most people don't want an infinite number of houses. The problem is that demand exceeds supply, which turns the housing market into a particularly expensive game of musical chairs. The basic necessity of having somewhere to live makes the pricing curve extremely non-linear - if there aren't quite enough houses to go around, people will compete viciously for somewhere to live, but the reverse is also true.

We don't actually need to build that many houses to revolutionise the housing market, just enough for supply to slightly exceed demand. That's precisely what terrifies the government into inaction, because housing is such an absurd speculative bubble.

Berlin is a perfect example of this. The legacy of the wall meant that despite being a vibrant capital city, there was more than enough housing to go around and rents were dirt cheap. The gentrification of the city in the 90s slowly increased the population, hitting a tipping point around 2010. Rents shot up, eventually leading to mass protests and a failed experiment in rent control. Decades of oversupply meant that the city had essentially lost the habit of building new homes and it's now struggling to adapt.
>> No. 33294 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 12:26 pm
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>>33293
right here, right now, there's endless demand.
But yeah, there's something that could be done which would make a huge improvement. Changing the ratio of people:houses can also happen in other ways - make the UK enough of a shithole that people emigrate / go home, is one. Waiting for boomers to die off is another (or killing them with covid2, I doubt monkeypox is going to do the job).
I just don't know how you'd incentivise the government to incentivise building. They clearly dgaf, and it's working pretty well for them.
>> No. 33295 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 12:47 pm
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>>33294

The duality of housing as a basic resource and a pyramid scheme has painted the government into a corner. Older people have so much of their pension savings invested in housing (either directly through BTL or indirectly through REITs) that fixing the housing crisis would mean exacerbating the pensions crisis.

Young people want houses, but they weren't going to vote Tory anyway, so guess who loses out.
>> No. 33296 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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>>33295
>Young people want houses, but they weren't going to vote Tory anyway, so guess who loses out.

You might be stretching the definition of young people a bit. Us millennials are old as rocks now and some of the cohort are core Tory voters at this point. There's also the assumption that the old don't see their kids struggling to get on the property ladder and the Conservative Party doesn't see the writing on the wall if the electorate no longer owns property.
>> No. 33297 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 2:10 pm
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>>33296

>There's also the assumption that the old don't see their kids struggling to get on the property ladder

They do, but they're in total denial about the reasons why.

>>/b/451995

>the Conservative Party doesn't see the writing on the wall if the electorate no longer owns property

We've got a Prime Minister who will do or say anything if it means he can punt a problem slightly further down the road. Increasing life expectancy (for the well-off, at least) and sub-replacement fertility means that buy-to-let boomer bastards could dominate the political landscape for decades. I'm not totally pessimistic, but there's nothing to suggest that the property market will change in any meaningful way any time soon.
>> No. 33298 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 3:27 pm
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I'm stocking up on ice lollies because I'm a fat bastard to keep cool with the heatwave on Friday but it seems like someone has fucked about with the freezers because half of them have melted and then refroze around the stick.

They're all individually wrapped so my plan is to leave them out and try to balance them so I get a fat end.
>> No. 33299 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 3:29 pm
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>>33297 do you think wfh/hybrid might shake things a bit? Combination of chopping loads of offices into hovels and allowing richer people to move to nicer places (displacing the locals, I said change, not improvement)
>> No. 33300 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 3:37 pm
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>>33299

Not massively, no. I think city centre flats will fall in value somewhat, but the increased demand for larger suburban homes will hit young families hard. Fully remote working would have a bigger impact, but we seem to have settled on a hybrid model that still requires you to be within reasonable commuting range of the office. Londoners might be inclined to expand further out into the home counties, but very few of them will commute two days a week from County Durham or North Wales.
>> No. 33301 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 3:42 pm
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>>33294
>incentivise the government
The Conservatives don't want house prices to drop, because their voters want to make as much as they can from the houses they own. Labour don't want house prices to drop, because homeowners vote Conservative. Letting millennials buy houses is one thing that both Labour and the Conservatives can agree must never be allowed to happen. Electoral reform would sort this, but good luck fighting both the parties in a two-party system.
>> No. 33302 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 3:45 pm
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>>33298
I now realise I've bought Milk Bottle ones that contain milk so they can't be melted and refrozen. This is bollocks, no wonder single mums needs so many bennies as half the stuff you buy from Iceland is broken in some fundamental way.

>>33299
Good luck ever having a family with all the home-offices.
>> No. 33303 Anonymous
18th June 2022
Saturday 3:01 pm
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I do not understand the point of a cake bar. You get a tiny amount of horribly sweet, cheap cake, the novelty of which usually comes from it tasting kind of like a more enjoyable product. They aren't as nice as biscuits or chocolate and they're usually just as if not more expensive. This post might be more at home in the food review thread, but I don't think so, as I am condemning all cake bars, not a single variety or even a whole brand, but the very concept itself.
>> No. 33304 Anonymous
18th June 2022
Saturday 5:30 pm
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>>33303

IT'S ONLY 94 CALORIES, SO YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY AS YOU LIKE.
>> No. 33305 Anonymous
18th June 2022
Saturday 6:12 pm
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>>33303
It's a cake, so it's more proper than a regular snack food. It's afternoon tea. You could put a candle in one for your birthday. Cake is undeniably classier than biscuits, and they are eaten in entirely different circumstances.

Quite why shops ignore this and attempt to sell them as a regular snack food, I have no idea. If you want a Mars bar, a Mars cake bar is entirely wrong.
>> No. 33306 Anonymous
18th June 2022
Saturday 6:42 pm
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>>33303

My grandma prefers cake bars because she typically struggles to eat a real, actual mars bar or whatever these days. Perhaps the target market is solely geriatrics with few teeth.

Mind, I won't have anything said about the Mr. Kiplings cake finger type ones. They're class.
>> No. 33307 Anonymous
25th June 2022
Saturday 9:49 pm
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It could well be twenty years to the day that I went absolutely ape at my parents for trying to send me to bed while it was still light outside. But you know what? I'm about to slide into the thermal undwerwear I've been using as sleeping trousers and say kiss my arse, 25th June 2022, see you never!
>> No. 33308 Anonymous
27th June 2022
Monday 11:01 am
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When you book a day off because a parcel was supposed to be coming, but when you check the tracker it's still in the warehouse, but you can't properly enjoy the day off because it might somehow still show up. It probably won't, but you just know that if you say fuck it and go out, or do anything that would cause you to miss the door, then it definitely will, and you'll only be twice as angry at that "sorry we missed you" card.

They need to hang the bosses of all parcel couriers and get them to sort their shit out. It's 2022, couriers are probably one of the most vital sectors of the economy, how do they get away with being this naff.
>> No. 33309 Anonymous
27th June 2022
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>33308
Booking a day off for the benefit of a parcel is fairly backwards behaviour.
>> No. 33310 Anonymous
27th June 2022
Monday 4:09 pm
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>>33309

Occasionally you'll need to accept delivery of something too big to go to a pick up location or a locker, but otherwise I agree.
>> No. 33311 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 12:53 pm
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BASTARD FUCKING BASTARD FUCKING BASTAD FUCKING FUCKING FUCK. FUCK.

Do you ever feel like the entire fucking world is just out to fuck you, and you specifically, over? Like everything you do has some roadblock or pitfall just waiting to open up? Like that thing in The Truman Show where he tries to escape and they use a series of increasingly contrived coincidences to stop him leaving.

I swear to God I think I know why Yanks go loopy and go on gun rampages. I am fed the fuck up.
>> No. 33312 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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>>33311
>Do you ever feel like the entire fucking world is just out to fuck you, and you specifically, over? Like everything you do has some roadblock or pitfall just waiting to open up?

It's amazing to be honest, it just seems too well engineered. It's like the universe WANTS me to off myself.
>> No. 33313 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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I've got people on Facebook still banging on about Roe v Wade. It was the same when George Floyd died. The thing is that these people don't post anything about British politics. I do not fucking get it.
>> No. 33314 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 8:39 pm
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My computer speakers will not switch on. An old pair of headphones I got free with a phone about eight years ago still work, but there's no electricity for the speakers. I rely on those speakers a lot as it turns out; sitting here constantly refreshing the page until someone posts another picture of a fat woman I'll never meet or speak to actually feels quite tragic when I'm doing it in complete silence.

The speakers have not unplugged themselves from the wall somehow, and now I am running out of ideas for how to fix them. They weren't massively expensive, but I nevertheless do want them to last forever.
>> No. 33315 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 9:13 pm
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>>33314

If the fuse hasn't blown, power cable has continuity and there are no cracked joints on the PCB, my money is on a bad electrolytic capacitor. An easy fix if you can use a soldering iron and a decent excuse to learn if you can't.
>> No. 33316 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 9:14 pm
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>>33313

If you comment on British politics, you run the risk of someone disagreeing with you.
>> No. 33317 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 9:25 pm
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>>33313
Yeah, it's definitely worth paying attention to the Yanks on account of their global importance. However, people don't know what constituency they live in, but have very strong and kind of informed opinions about that bloody Senator Dicky Morten out of Alabama are less than worms to me. Part of it is also the adage about how "shit rolls down hill". The Irish know plenty about Britain's political scene, but hardly anyone here on Big Island gives a monkey's about what they're getting up to. It could look like the Event Horizon over there and I'd be none the wiser.

>>33314
I still can't get audio imputs to work on my computer. It will play the test audio out of my own speakers, but I can't get any audio through other applications or websites. I hate computers. I want a new video card.
>> No. 33318 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 10:52 pm
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>>33315
I plugged it into a different socket, in the living room, and it came on. So either the socket is buggered somehow or it actually had mysteriously unplugged itself internally somewhere.
>> No. 33319 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 12:53 am
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My paycheque varies slightly every month or so. Sometimes I get less and sometimes I get more. This month it's 20p less and it made me remember that I'm paying more tax so those useless cunts in care homes can pass their house onto Tarquin.

They must do this deliberately to turn generations against each other.
>> No. 33320 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 1:10 am
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>>33319
The NI increase of 1.25% is offset by the threshold increasing from £9,880 to £12,570. You'd have to be on over £51,000 before you should be paying more NI in the 12 months from 6 July 2022 compared with the 12 months to 6 July 2022.

https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-how-national-insurance-contributions-changes-affect-you/

Besides, the whole care fees cap that comes into effect from next year is largely smoke and mirrors. Don't fall for the divide and rule, lad. You're better than that.
>> No. 33321 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>33320
Check your outside-London privilege.
>> No. 33322 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 1:33 am
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>>33319
I get paid slightly less in any month when I go on holiday, and I don't know why. I think splitting my salary into three weeks of actual work and one week of holiday paid at the same amount introduces some freaky rounding error.
>> No. 33323 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 1:39 am
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>>33321
You'll have to expand. I have no idea what the fuck you're on about.
>> No. 33324 Anonymous
29th June 2022
Wednesday 10:40 am
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>>33322
If it's like 20p~ then yeah it's to do with rounding figures in tax. They must do them on a different sum.

>>33323
Myself and a lot of people in London are on the higher tax band because it doesn't account cost of living.

>Don't fall for the divide and rule, lad. You're better than that.

No I'm not. The last thing this country needs is regressive taxation.
>> No. 33325 Anonymous
1st July 2022
Friday 7:51 am
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Online articles that have no date on them. The information becomes almost useless if I can't see if it's something that's breaking news or should have taken place five years ago.
>> No. 33326 Anonymous
1st July 2022
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>33325

Similarly, when newspaper web sites by publications that have been around since before the Internet start putting all their old articles and essays from the 1970s and 80s online. And even earlier than that.

I'm sure it has some sort of merit when you're researching 1970s political events, but it can be confusing.
>> No. 33327 Anonymous
1st July 2022
Friday 11:48 pm
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>>33325

The Guardian are shit in all sorts of ways, but at least they have the sense to put a big warning at the top of the page on any news article that is more than a few weeks old.
>> No. 33328 Anonymous
3rd July 2022
Sunday 1:33 am
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Spot right where my lips adjoin. It's ugly, but moreover I miss being able to move my face without wincing slightly.

>>33326
That sounds ace. Did you get nervous we had another Falklands War on or something?
>> No. 33329 Anonymous
3rd July 2022
Sunday 3:18 pm
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>>33328

> Did you get nervous we had another Falklands War on or something?


No, but it was unsettling to read about Jimmy Saville hosting another charity event.
>> No. 33330 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 9:51 am
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Ball deodorant is truly /101/worthy.
Can't find stick stuff for love or money, so now it feels as if I've got a beefy poz load congealing in each armpit.
>> No. 33331 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 11:15 am
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>>33330
Sounds like you grouted it on, that's really not necessary. Full disclosure I am a roll-on ultra.
>> No. 33332 Anonymous
4th July 2022
Monday 11:44 am
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>>33330

Some roll-ons can be claggy, but I've had zero issues with Dove Men+Care Clean Comfort.
>> No. 33333 Anonymous
7th July 2022
Thursday 7:01 am
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There's a certain kind of middle-aged internet user who feels the need to end everything they post ".... LOL", regardless of what came before.
>> No. 33334 Anonymous
7th July 2022
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>33333
Man that's so true innit.... LOL
>> No. 33335 Anonymous
7th July 2022
Thursday 6:59 pm
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You know what, Curry's staff, if you don't want me testing the mechanical keyboards don't leave them out for people to muck around with. No one said anything, but why else was he hovering at the end of the aisle? And if you want me to buy something, don't mark the stock up by 50% of what it costs everywhere else on Earth.
>> No. 33336 Anonymous
7th July 2022
Thursday 7:06 pm
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>>33335

Having worked for DSG International, you're giving them entirely too much credit to expect there's anything like any kind of rational logic behind any aspect whatsoever of any of their business ventures.

It's fascinating really, they're the business equivalent of that chicken that got it's head cut off but still lived for years afterwards because enough of the basic nervous system was left to keep it breathing. It's a cargo cult of a company.
>> No. 33337 Anonymous
7th July 2022
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>33335
>You know what, Curry's staff, if you don't want me testing the mechanical keyboards don't leave them out for people to muck around with.
Wait, you found a Curry's that had mechanical keyboards out on display? Every time I've ever been into one it's only ever been the shitty ones that are out. The mechanicals have always been boxed up, with maybe the one hole in the box for you to press one key. "Why, yes, I'd like to try out your range of £10-20 basic keyboards to see how they feel."
>> No. 33343 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 4:54 pm
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I was planning to sort out the garden next week while the weather's nice so I went to order some more special garden waste recycling bags from the council. Apparently you can't do that from their website, but you can pay £20 more for a special garden waste bin which involves some Kafkaesque application process and a 1 month lead time. So I phone the number the website gave me to order some bags, and after almost half an hour on hold (No, you are not "experiencing an unusually high volume of calls" I have to sit through this shite every time, and no, I can't do whatever I'm trying to do via your website otherwise I wouldn't be fucking calling now would I).
Eventually I get through to someone who's happy to take my credit card details over the phone like it's 1995 and tells me it'll take up to a month to deliver some fucking bin bags. And they wonder why there's a fly tipping problem.
>> No. 33344 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 9:11 pm
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>>33343

My local council will give you an extra non-recyclable wheelie bin for £26 a year, but they don't publicise that fact anywhere. Not on the website, not on the little pamphlet they send you about what goes in which bin, they won't even mention it on the phone unless you specifically ask. It's like some kind of secret menu item or something. I'm really glad to have it, but I'm also slightly annoyed that I spent so much time hauling stuff to the tip when I could have just paid 50p a week to have twice as much bin space if only someone had said that it was an option.
>> No. 33345 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 9:33 pm
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>>33344

Just tell them your usual one's been nicked and they'll (eventually) give you another for free. They're not checking how many bins you have.
>> No. 33346 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 10:58 pm
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I'd like to complain about all the ads on the underground telling me to tackles sexism and how I should pop off at my mates if they make a sexist joke. I can't though without the assumption being that I'm some radicalised chronic masturbator instead of just an ordinary bloke who doesn't appreciate the constant implication that I'm a rapist and a murderer by a telephone network.
>> No. 33347 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 11:04 pm
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>>33346
And Southgate has a lot of cheek giving me that look. He deserves hatemail for costing us the World Cup by asking a young player off the bench to take one of the most important penalties of his career and then doing nothing to direct the criticism to himself when it all went tits up like a good manager should.
>> No. 33348 Anonymous
11th July 2022
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>33345

>They're not checking how many bins you have.

They definitely are. My extra bin has a lid in a different colour and a permit sticker that has to be renewed annually. A neighbour tried putting out an extra bin that they "found", but the bin men confiscated it. They won't collect bags left by the bin and won't empty your bin if the lid doesn't fully close.
>> No. 33349 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 12:01 am
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>>33346
All I can think when I see these ads is how disingenuous they feel. I can't really believe their main aim is really to do anything about sexism or to say anything about men's behaviour. I think that's just the excuse. It's still an advert, a clever way for the phone network to create a particular impression of their brand by pretending to have political opinions and expectations of you like a human being would. Just the next step down the line from putting photographs of attractive or famous people around the product (hey, they're still there, even if they're glowering at you) to imply the product must be good - surround the product with a message that implies progressive political views, so it seems like something more than British Telecom's rusty old copper wire and radio towers bundled up with a smartphone on contract.

Brands are like an old perv namedropping fisherperson theorists in the hopes of getting into a sociology student's trousers, only they're after that student finance loan cash instead of a quick shag.
>> No. 33352 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 9:45 am
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>>33346
I just read the title and didn't understand what it was about, assumed it was marketing some sort of TV drama and the blokes were the ones sending death threats. If I'm going to get wound up by adverts on the train, it's the ones for The Sun, the Met and Piers Morgan.
>> No. 33353 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 10:13 am
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>>33349

Maybe I'm just too much of a hardboiled cynic, but this has always been my immediate assumption about any brand that promotes any social cause whatsoever. It doesn't cross my mind for even a second that EE cares about women getting death threats, because it doesn't, and everyone knows it doesn't, but pretending it does has just become part of the doublethink of modernity. Progressive messaging simply enables people to participate in consumerism with less guilt.

The age old double standard does piss me off though. It's just the same thing how it's acceptable for women to piss and moan about how all men are bastards writ large. It doesn't make me as angry as it used to, because by now I realise they're the female chronics, worthy of pity rather than contempt, but still.
>> No. 33355 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 12:49 pm
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How am I supposed to take your amateur tech review seriously if halfway through you tell the audience "oops, I was actually already on setting 2, I'll show you setting 1 now". Do another take, you lazy shite! It's not like it's taken weeks of planning and millions of quid to setup this washed out shot of you at a desk.
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12th July 2022
Tuesday 1:59 pm
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My dentist has gone to hell, not only did the hygienist fail to clean some plaque I specifically asked her to clean but today I got an email trying to sell me on Invisalign. It's not like the fuckers haven't made enough money off me already. And instead of playing Dido and Annie Lennox my dentist has gotten into commercial house music playlists on top of giving himself an anglicised nickname.

The annoying part of finding a new dentist is that there's no way to really get a good read on them. You look online and it's obvious that most of the reviews are from malcontents.
>> No. 33357 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 2:45 pm
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>>33356

I'm not sure I've ever heard about a genuinely bad dentist. Standards of training are usually very high in the UK. Maybe it's because other than a gold cap or two I haven't had anything more complicated done on my teeth. But unless you're planning on a root canal treatment, I wouldn't let a few moaning idiots online throw me off. Or just ask a friend if they can recommend their dentist.
>> No. 33358 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 3:33 pm
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>>33357
>Standards of training are usually very high in the UK

I didn't go to a dentist for about 10 years because my lovely old dentist retired and I had to sign up for an NHS clinic where I had a succession of immigrant dentists who were invariably bad. The final straw was an African woman who butchered one of my teeth with a drill because she didn't have steady hands.

My current dentist is almost certainly a sadist, but at least he's very good at his job.
>> No. 33359 Anonymous
12th July 2022
Tuesday 9:08 pm
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>>33358

Until last year, I managed six years without. The dentist told me that my teeth were in very good condition, considering, and he only needed to get one cavity sorted that had started giving me bad breath. He asked me about my diet, and said that avoiding sugary foods like I tend to do is still always a good way to prevent tooth decay.
>> No. 33360 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 10:41 am
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Dear Internet: please stop telling me to shave my balls.
>> No. 33361 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 11:16 am
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>>33360
Just once is a thrilling experience. It's like wanking with a new dick. You really won't understand until you try it. But only once; anyone who recommends you do it regularly is trying to sell you some new form of feminine insecurity, and they must be ignored.
>> No. 33362 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 11:30 am
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>>33361

Nonsense. The correct approach is to shave clean through the summer months (where you will, naturally, be going commando most of the time too), then grow out a thick and lustrous winter coat through the colder half of the year for warmth and comfort.

Sex is much better when you're both smooth downstairs anyway. Feels like you gain an extra usable inch.
>> No. 33363 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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>>33361

I've done it once, but it's not an experience I'm keen to repeat. I don't understand why every other podcast and YouTube video seems to be sponsored by a bollock razor company.

>>33362

I don't mean to be rude, but you sound like a deviant. Grown men have hair down there and wear underpants. I neither need nor want an illusory extra inch and would prefer to avoid the indignity of my tackle looking like the last turkey in the shop. If we were supposed to be hairless, God would have made us that way.
>> No. 33364 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 12:39 pm
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Just trim. It's the self-respectful thing to do.
>> No. 33365 Anonymous
13th July 2022
Wednesday 9:41 pm
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Being shaved is definitely not for everyone. But keeping it trimmed down to half an inch or so is much more pleasant practical to own and I guess most people would agree it looks better.
>> No. 33366 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 9:59 am
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Do Royal Mail even bring the package to your door, or are they primed with the note telling you it's at the sorting office the moment they get out of their van? And if they do bring the package, why is their method for checking if anyone's in appear to be futile attempts at telepathy?
>> No. 33367 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 10:20 am
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People still endlessly post shit about Thatcher, how long do you think we're going to have to put up with hearing about the current crop of bastards for? The same goes for Corbyn, frankly. You'll be 90, dying from hunger among the frozen sand dunes of West Beeston, the only people you have for company spamming the group chat with pictures of Johnson, Corbyn and Patel.
>> No. 33368 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 11:20 am
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>>33363

>the indignity of my tackle looking like the last turkey in the shop

It's not my fault you've got ugly bollocks m8. Mine look very smart and dignified, much moreso than with that wiry mess of bushy black hair getting in the way.

That said, you sound like you have been the victim of an unhealthily repressed Christian upbringing. Shaving your bollocks is great, there's no need to give up on something good just because you internalised the lesson that prominent pubes were one of the few things that stopped the vicars noncing you.

Shave your bollocks, it's better and ladies love it.
>> No. 33369 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 11:27 am
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>>33368
Then why is it that whenever I show a woman my fabulously shorn testicles, I get arrested and banned from John Lewis? Riddle me that, Gillette shill.
>> No. 33370 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 11:44 am
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I buy spices in the biggish packets you get from halal food stores, as it's cheap. I bought a pack of safflower because it was very cheap, but it's not a very versatile ingredient so I only use it once every couple of weeks. My girlfriend decided to buy a bunch of big jars, and filled one with the safflower. Now I've got a fuck off jar of safflower hogging shelf space, even though I use it so infrequently it can live in the back of the cupboard. She also put paprika and garlic powder and mustard seeds in jars, which is fine I guess as I use those a lot, but the size of the jars is impractical to pour into the pan, so you need to use a spoon. If we kept the spices in the packets they came in, it would actually be a lot easier and quicker to add the spice to the pan, and it would take up less shelf room. If she goes on like this and adds all spices into their own little jars, we will only be able to store 40% of the spices we currently store due to bulky jars over nice slim packets.
>> No. 33371 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 11:54 am
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>>33368

Being an adult man with normal levels of testosterone, most of my body is reasonably hairy. Hairless bollocks attached to an otherwise hairy body just looks sinister. Do you shave your taint too? Your happy trail? Your legs?

Also, for a man of my age, testicular shaving is an unwelcome reminder of having my tubes tied.
>> No. 33372 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 12:30 pm
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>>33371

Oh I see what's going on. You are clinging to the vestiges of masculinity that remain after having to confront the reality of getting neutered.

The distribution of hair over my body has always been uneven so there's no harm done. I have extremely hairy legs, and a healthy beard, but my torso is entirely bald. If I didn't shave my bollocks I'd look like Mr Tumnus.
>> No. 33373 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 12:35 pm
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>>33370
I refer you to >>/b/445686. You'll have to let it go; women just don't make sense.
>> No. 33374 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 6:52 pm
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>>33373
That was actually also me. My girlfriend spice organisation struggle has been raging for years.
>> No. 33375 Anonymous
14th July 2022
Thursday 8:29 pm
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My girlfriend, for one, doesn't even own a spice rack
>> No. 33376 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 12:25 pm
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What the fuck is the point of Tim Dowling?
>> No. 33377 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 12:36 pm
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>>33376
You've got to be a regular reader to "get" his Saturday morning column, but they are just mildly amusing stories where not a great deal happens. It was better when the Graun still employed an illustrator, Benoit Jacques, to accompany them but they sacked him off to save a tiny bit of money.

I wake up early and they're published online at 6am, so my Saturday morning routine is to read the Tim Downing piece and this week's blind date. It also used to include reading their personal finance columns but that's stopped because the Guardian have massively cut back in that area, although the Dear Jeremy page was the only consistently decent part of their Money team. Sunday mornings are for Jay Rayner and Ask Philippa.
>> No. 33378 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 12:55 pm
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>>33377

Sounds absolutely vestigial, considering what was lost. I very rarely read Philippa, but Jay Rayner is a National Treasure.
>> No. 33379 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 1:36 pm
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>>33378
Philippa is very good and her advice is usually spot on. She's a vast improvement on Mariella Frostrup.
>> No. 33380 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 1:55 pm
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>>33377

>this week's blind date

7/10, had a great night, would meet again but just as friends.
8/10, had a great night, we exchanged numbers so who knows?

Every. Single. Time.

Do Guardian readers have unreasonably high standards, or are The Guardian just terrible matchmakers? Just once, I'd like to read a Blind Date that ends up with people getting laid.
>> No. 33381 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 2:01 pm
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>>33380
As of 2019 there'd been 4 weddings from their blind dates.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/31/10-years-of-blind-date-weddings-babies-lost-knickers

It's usually the gays that end up shagging. Straight women are far less likely to be up for it on a first date.
>> No. 33382 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 3:08 pm
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I'll remember all this the next time I'm disparaged as a "Guardian reader".

Anyway, why do all standing desks have a motor in them? I just want a tall table, I don't plan on growing much these days and if I want to sit down, I don't know, I'll get a barstool.
>> No. 33383 Anonymous
16th July 2022
Saturday 3:15 pm
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>>33382

Christ, what blue chip company are you working for? All the Yo-Yo desks I've had to install for people have relied on a clutch and piston combo like wot office chairs have. Which makes them fucking useless for people with sore backs.
>> No. 33384 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:11 am
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>>33383
I don't work for a blue chip company, that's the issue. But I thought all the ones I saw for sale online were motorised and that's why they cost so much, but upon further inspection this morning, many of them aren't, they're just hideously expensive even when they look like overpromoted drinks trolleys.

I'll be honest, my limited research is making me think the entire standing desk industry is a con. If you want a usable amount of desk space that appears to be a £100 price increase as standard. I'm wondering if it's the same thing that's happened to the glasses industry, how two companies make almost all the frames and lenses respectively. Maybe there's one desk company making all the desktops, another doing the legs and bam, that'll be £200 for an unusably tiny 70x40cm rectangle.
>> No. 33385 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:48 am
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>>33382

The original "standing desks" were just wheelchair-accessible desks. Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of heights, from manual chairs that are much lower than a typical office chair to power chairs that are much higher. A lot of wheelchair users don't have the dexterity or range of upper body motion to work a hand crank. Some clever bastard realised that they could flog them to twats and the standing desk trend was born.

You want a tall table at a very specific height, otherwise any putative ergonomic benefits are erased by your desk being too low or too high. If you're a real man with hairy testicles as god intended, you can just make one to suit. If you're an untermensch with soft hands, smooth testicles and no opinion whatsoever on the English vs Japanese hand plane debate, your best bet is probably to buy some height-adjustable worktop legs.
>> No. 33386 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 12:32 pm
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>>33385
I'm such a hairy-arsed carpenter that I mostly use a chainsaw, nail gun and power plane. I'm assuming a pile of pallets will do me?
Not that I hold with standing desks. Me, my chair and my desk have come to an arrangement over the last 20 years, and anyone trying to force any part of this happy situation into something that their prescriptive book says is 'ergonomic' can go fuck themselves.
Feel free to make suggestions, but I'll push back hard if it's not an improvement _to me_.
Yeah, /101/-worthy, those uncomfortable-chair-pushing cunts who think that there's exactly one shape of people. How do they not fucking notice? Just fuck off.
I'm done.
>> No. 33387 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 1:44 pm
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Very informative.
>> No. 33388 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 1:51 pm
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>>33387

Here you go lad.
>> No. 33389 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 2:01 pm
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>>33387

Amber = someone might die
Red = someone will definitely die
>> No. 33390 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 2:33 pm
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>>33389
Stop patronising us with your scaremongering!!
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/good-morning-britain-fans-slam-24496109
>> No. 33391 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:12 pm
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>>33390
It does seem over the top. Although I was too young, it was really hot in either 1976 or 77 (I don't remember) for weeks on end, and we still went to school and had to play outside in the sun. I would get massive headaches, but it all turned out fine.

Maybe you lot really are snowflakes.
>> No. 33392 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:14 pm
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>>33390

I really hate how it counts as "reporting" nowadays to just assemble a series of bollocks some twats on Twitter said.
>> No. 33393 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:17 pm
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>>33391
I think that as a country, we never have weather that requires caution, so there is a natural sense that whatever the weather sends our way, we can just tough it out with a stiff upper lip. I never wear a coat in winter; I am never outside for long enough, in cold enough weather, that I ever need one. Anyone can walk around in -5 for a few minutes, and that's as cold as it ever gets round here.

The hot weather equivalent, of course, means that lots of people (including me) are going to stare down the sun armed with nothing but positive thoughts and short sleeves, and you only need to be a little bit dumber than me before that becomes dangerous to do.
>> No. 33394 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:23 pm
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>>33391

The '76 heatwave was estimated to be responsible for 20% of that years excess deaths statistic. For comparison the coronaplague was roughly a third, in most advanced countries (depending where you get the data). So it was quite literally deadly, despite turning out "fine".

Maybe you old cunts are just too thick to be allowed to look after yourselves, after growing up breathing leaded petrol fumes and eating asbestos for breakfast or whatever it was you did before political correctness went mad.
>> No. 33395 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 3:50 pm
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>>33393
I understand that. It is just the level of reporting and advise which leads me to believe that everyone might just be thick. There was an article which stated that fans are dangerous because they can dehydrate you.

>>33394
Calm down lad.
>> No. 33396 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 4:56 pm
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>>33395

>There was an article which stated that fans are dangerous because they can dehydrate you.

The price you pay for being such a risk averse society as we are today. Things can get daft. Which isn't really helping when you consider what we're really looking at the next few decades. If the extreme trend of the last few years continues, then there's no stopping us from getting 30-degree weather for weeks on end in twenty years time. Which is probably good news if you want to take up pineapple farming.
>> No. 33397 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 5:34 pm
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>> No. 33398 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 7:37 pm
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>>33396
>If the extreme trend of the last few years continues, then there's no stopping us from getting 30-degree weather for weeks on end in twenty years time

Those bloody entitled futuresnowflakes. Everyone knows that medically if you turn up the sun really quickly it's much worse than it just being hot forever.
>> No. 33399 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 7:48 pm
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>>33398
>futuresnowflakes
Daddy, what's a snowflake?
>> No. 33400 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 8:07 pm
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>>33399
It's what we're buried under 3 metres of every Winter since the Gulf Stream went away.
>> No. 33401 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 8:31 pm
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Forgot to put a timer on for my chicago town mini pizzas (because fuck you I'm not cooking real food in this heat) so I'm just going to have to get up and check on them every five minutes instead.
>> No. 33402 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 9:36 pm
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>>33401
If it's a Chicago Town pizza you should just microwave it.
>> No. 33403 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 9:56 pm
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>>33401
It is generally 20 minutes at around 200C for most frozen food stuffs (pizza, chips, etc).
>> No. 33404 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:31 pm
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>>33403

Point is I didn't know how long they'd already been in for, because I didn't look at the time when I put them in. In the end it turned out I guessed perfectly though so all was well.

>>33402

Microwaving it is beyond a last resort. I think I'd rather just eat it frozen.
>> No. 33405 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 10:40 pm
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>>33404
Do they still come with the microwaveable discs? There's not much difference between cooking a Chicago Town pizza in an oven and a microwave, provided you don't overdo it.
>> No. 33406 Anonymous
17th July 2022
Sunday 11:02 pm
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>>33405

There's a world of difference. They're actually quite nice if you do them in the oven, but they're a soggy pile of shit (prone to coming out like your image) from the microwave.

In fact it's not just frozen pizzas, microwaves are fucking useless in general. They're an appliance we should have collectively realised are rubbish decades ago yet everyone still has one in their kitchen. I got by without one for about four years in my old flat.
>> No. 33407 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 1:47 am
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>>33406
I had a microwave growing up, but as an adult I've never owned one. When I had to start cooking my own lunches and reheating them in the microwave at work, I honestly didn't know how long to put them in for. About five minutes, apparently.
>> No. 33408 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 2:41 am
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>>33404
>Point is I didn't know how long they'd already been in for
You can't be that stupid. Don't you have an internal body clock? Just a feel for things? You fucking android?
>> No. 33409 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:25 am
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>>33405
Tbh... That looks haraam.
I would suggest their triple cheese pizza instead. You know... less nitrates. Less cancer. Gammonboy.
>> No. 33410 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 3:39 am
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>>33409
>I would suggest their triple cheese pizza instead.
Not him, but those just end up even worse. I keep a couple of them as a last resort in case I run out of ones with real toppings.
>> No. 33411 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 6:52 am
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>>33407
If you stir the food a couple of times it'll cook quicker and more evenly.
>> No. 33412 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 9:39 am
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>>33408

Have you never put something in the oven and then got distracted? If you can't relate to that experience I can only conclude you're one of those twats who always had mummy and some sort of nanny to do everything for you.
>> No. 33413 Anonymous
18th July 2022
Monday 10:06 am
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>>33412
Not since the invention and integration with ovens of the digital clock, no.
>> No. 33414 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 7:27 pm
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I've thought about it long and hard, and I've decided that names of the RN's current two aircraft carriers are just something I'm going to remain perturbed about.
>> No. 33415 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:25 pm
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>>33414
>There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service.
What would you rather call them? Distressingly, those are probably the two most popular royals. You're not getting any young cadets onto the HMS Prince Andrew. If our last line of defence against foreign invaders is the HMS Meghan's Pussywhipped Husband, morale will plummet. And don't even think of naming anything after an elected politician.
>> No. 33416 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:33 pm
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>>33415
HMS Thundercunt.
>> No. 33417 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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HMS Wabznasm.
>> No. 33418 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 8:53 pm
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>>33415

Do they have to be named after royals?
>> No. 33419 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:03 pm
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>>33415
Well that's just it, m8, we never used to name carriers after royals. Technically they're not named after the contemporaries, but Elizibeth I and the title "Prince of Wales" respectively, which is arguably worse. However, I think naming ships after living people is bad luck or something (ask a sailor) so it had to be that way. Anyway, back in the good old days, during the war and all that, we used inspiring and/or frightening adjectives like HMS Illustrious, HMS Magnificent or HMS Warrior. The current carrier names just feel so bloody middle England, like they're named exactly for the kind of arsehole who's kid wouldn't join the navy in a million years.

I would like to reiterate that I'm perturbed by this, not frothing at the mouth and enthralled to my bloodlust.

>>33416
It's definitely a move in the right direction.
>> No. 33420 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:14 pm
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>>33419

I'm no fan of Thatcher but having a warship nicknamed The Iron Lady is a hell of a lot better than whatever contemporary wankery there is.
>> No. 33421 Anonymous
19th July 2022
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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>>33419

The names were chosen in the 1960s, but we never actually got around to building the carriers. I don't know if that makes it better or worse, but at least it's a reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVA-01
>> No. 33422 Anonymous
20th July 2022
Wednesday 11:07 am
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>>33419

The last time we had inspiring-sounding war kit was the V class bombers. Valiant, Vulcan and Victor. Those were names that struck fear into the hearts of our enemies.
>> No. 33423 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 1:38 pm
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I saw some cunt in a Tesla earlier today. Older guy, not "he shouldn't be driving old", but he was completely unaware of the road because he was mucking around with the big console screen those cars have. He was literally hunched forward poking it with his fingers as he cruised through the mini roundabout. It's not like he almost binned it into a mum with a pram, but it pissed me off anyway because the amount of "older" people I've seen get sucked into a timeless, soundless, endless void just by checking their phones makes me think sticking a tablet computer in their massive luxury car is a bad idea.
>> No. 33424 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 2:33 pm
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>>33423

The same happens when an elderly person in the supermarket queue is piecing together their small change to pay for their £18.63 worth of groceries. You mumble under your breath something like, just give them the fucking 20 that's peeking out from the back of your wallet. But no, they insist on giving exact change, and have no qualms holding up seven people behind them.

To be fair, a similar situation happened the other day in Tesco's, where a visibly drunk and possibly homeless person was struggling to scrape together his last pennies to pay for two bottles of Kronenbourg. I was kind of feeling sorry for him because the last thing he should have been doing in his state was buy more booze.
>> No. 33425 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 3:57 pm
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>>33424
I had my card in my hand in Aldi earlier, but my shopping came to £9.98 so I insisted on paying with a tenner. The woman looked at me like I'd offered to fight her for the shopping instead of paying.
>> No. 33426 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 6:37 pm
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>>33425

I don't think I've carried cash since 2019.
>> No. 33427 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 7:10 pm
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>>33426
In related news, coin locks on trolleys can do one. We've literally had people telling us for two years to go contactless to not catch or spread the Chinese Cold but the cunts still expect us to carry change.
>> No. 33428 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 7:41 pm
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>>33427

At the height of the pandemic, some supermarkets here kept the coin locks unlocked, and more than one time, I saw one of their staff unlock all the locks in a queue of trollies with what looked like a special key. Possibly to eliminate the need for filthy disease-carrying coins.
>> No. 33429 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 8:20 pm
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>>33427
People use actual coins ? Keyring tag thingies are a couple of quid and far more convenient
>> No. 33430 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 8:38 pm
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People who have keyring thingies will not survive that which is to come.
>> No. 33431 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 9:25 pm
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>>33430

What are you going to do when the apocalypse comes and you can't even release a shopping trolley to stock up for it.
>> No. 33432 Anonymous
23rd July 2022
Saturday 10:21 pm
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I have a trolley token, but when I went to Aldi last weekend someone had left a pound coin in the trolley, which is mine now.
>> No. 33433 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 3:09 pm
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People who don't understand apostrophes.

gonna' -- if you insist on putting an apostrophe in there, it would surely go in the bit that's been abbreviated, so gonn'a. Same for years -- when people talk about cars I've seen then write 98' but, well, it's '98. I don't know why this annoys me so much -- probably because it would be more correct to leave it out entirely.
>> No. 33434 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 10:41 pm
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Seems like you've got a Logitech switch under your hyphen key.
>> No. 33435 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 11:37 pm
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>>33434

<typographic_pedantry>There isn't a hyphen key; the code point U+002D is a hyphen-minus. His usage would imply an em dash (U+2014) rather than a hyphen (U+2010). Using a double hyphen to stand in for an em dash might be ugly, but it's no less correct than using a single hyphen.</typographic_pedantry>
>> No. 33436 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 12:25 pm
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There's a machine somewhere outside that's making an annoying sound, kind of like a very loud desk fan, and it's been doing it all of yesterday and today. It wasn't on during the night thankfully, but it's doing my head in.
>> No. 33437 Anonymous
30th July 2022
Saturday 5:49 pm
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>>33435
A hyphen-minus is both a hyphen and a minus. There is a minus key and a hyphen key. It is one and the same. That Unicode was invented and added unambiguous and separate codepoints is completely independent of what keys exist on a standard keyboard.
>> No. 33438 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 4:31 pm
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"Liverpool fans boo the National Anthem" do they? 90% of these "fans sing/shout/boo whatever" videos they could be doing anything at all and the title could be completely unrelated; it's just noise.
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31st July 2022
Sunday 5:55 pm
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>>33438

>"Liverpool fans boo the National Anthem" do they?

Yes. Have done for yonks.
>> No. 33440 Anonymous
31st July 2022
Sunday 8:01 pm
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>>33439
That's not what I was complaining about.
>> No. 33441 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:01 am
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How are we this far into a world of online meetings and people still haven't bothered to learn how to mute when they're not speaking? This country's never going to make it, just sell the whole place to China and get it over with.
>> No. 33442 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:04 am
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>>33441
Had you ever been on a conference call in the before times? There'd always be at least one heavy breather throughout.
>> No. 33443 Anonymous
1st August 2022
Monday 10:11 am
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>>33442
Bloke just ripped a fat vape on this one, almost nay cunt's got headphones on and someone had some rap playing earlier that dropped a pretty hard n-word that everyone collectively chose to ignore and move on.
>> No. 33445 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:09 am
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I'm not a dickhead for thinking most people would not be able to open a .pptx file, AKA a PowerPoint, on their personal computer or home laptop, am I? I'm fairly certain regular people don't commonly shell out for Microsoft Office just for personal use. I brought this up to someone today and I was dismissed out of hand, which left me quite perplexed. And when I say most people I do mean low computer literacy, wouldn't know a USB from a GPU, if-you're-reading-this-they've-asked-you-for-free-tech-support-types.
>> No. 33446 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:14 am
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>>33445

Don't they have it because their work paid for the copy?
>> No. 33447 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:14 am
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Somebody's car alarm in the distance keeps going off. I'm becoming annoyed how it keeps getting turned off, then going off again a short time later, but the thick cunt hasn't yet figured out that it's a windy night and they should just leave it turned off.
>> No. 33448 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:14 am
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>>33445
https://www.office.com/launch/powerpoint?ui=en-US&rs=GB&auth=1
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.powerpoint
>> No. 33449 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:24 am
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>>33445

I'd imagine most people have something capable of opening office documents amidst the metric fuckton of bloatware you get on the average off-the-shelf laptop. I haven't bought a computer from the shops in years, but don't they usually come with some bog-standard basic version of Office as part of the package?

I remember a salesman talking my mum and dad into getting a Packard Bell in about 1999 or so, because it had Office on it. It wasn't until much later in life I realised what a top lad that salesman was because it had a TNT2 in it as well.
>> No. 33450 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:40 am
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>>33445
If they're dim, they'll have bought Powerpoint when they bought the computer. It's the smartypants geniuses running Debian or Arch or Gentoo who will struggle with Powerpoint files. But I wouldn't call you a dickhead for being considerate. I don't mind people assuming I'm an idiot if it means they go out of their way to accommodate me.
>> No. 33451 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:45 am
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>>33445

I'm a computer literate person, but I'd be annoyed if a computer literate person sent me a .pptx when a pdf would have sufficed. Powerpoint can export as PDF, basically all computers have a PDF reader of some sort installed, but a lot of computers (including mine) don't have Powerpoint installed. Give me a PDF and you've given me a document, give me a .pptx and you've given me a chore.
>> No. 33452 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 10:06 am
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>>33450
Are you trying to say LibreOffice/OpenOffice can't handle your garden variety Powerpoint file?
>> No. 33453 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 11:35 am
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I'll have to go do some shopping and I really can't be arsed.

This is halfway to an /emo/ post I suppose because I am severely lacking in motivation to do nearly anything at present.
>> No. 33454 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 11:46 am
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I'm always suprised by which posts of mine generate a shedload of replies.

Whilst I still doubt the ability of some people to get a hold of the free software or access Outlook's online tools, I think the crisis has been averted because no one's bothering to access the materials anyway. See, everything sorts itself out in the end, I WAS a dickhead after all!
>> No. 33455 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 12:09 pm
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>>33454
>I'm always suprised by which posts of mine generate a shedload of replies.

Tech bores love talking about tech any opportunity they get.
>> No. 33456 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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Why are people so aggressive driving and on roads in this country? I live in a big city so I'm very lucky I don't need to drive anymore and get public transport or walk or cycle instead. Some things I've seen recently but see often, particularly when in suburbia:

>Cars accelerating like they're at Silverstone when a light turns amber and somebody is walking across the road when they could set off slower and the person could finish crossing safely
>A car mounting the pavement because a car making a right turn out of a junction had waited about 20 seconds for a safe gap and then gave abuse to the driver as they waited for a gap.
>A cyclist ringing his bell at an old lady on a frame struggling to get to the other side of the road
>People endlessly beeping or being aggressive when they are held up in their car for a mere matter of seconds, especially when somebody has made a very obvious mistake (accidentally blocked a junction or got stuck and the beeping won't solve anything).

Why are people so weirdly aggressive in cars? If I got in your way in the supermarket and delayed you for 5 seconds you wouldn't think twice but in a car people seem to go off the rails.
>> No. 33457 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 8:31 pm
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>>33456
I've read about this. It's because you can't see the driver, so you subconsciously don't think you're getting angry at another human being, and therefore you let rip much more furiously. Although, being a cyclist myself, I can assure you that some drivers are just psychopaths even though they can see my cute adorable face.
>> No. 33458 Anonymous
3rd August 2022
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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>>33457
Some scumbag sped up at me as I crossed the street the other day. Driving some massive new dark grey Audi. I got the first four digits of his license and I spent two hours walking around town on the off chance I'd see him again.
>> No. 33459 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 8:34 pm
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>>33458
>I got the first four digits of his license and I spent two hours walking around town on the off chance I'd see him again.
Now that's just weirdly aggressive.
>> No. 33460 Anonymous
4th August 2022
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>33459
Accelerating at a pedestrian is a fairly unambiguous threat to their life, I wouldn't blame >>33458
>> No. 33461 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 11:23 am
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>>33460
Oh, it's definitely weirdly aggressive. I was having a full on brain moment that day. But no one else is doing anything about the people in society who go out of their way to make people's lives worse for no reason at all. It's so easy to not do that, and yet time after time it happens anyway. I just need to accept that I'm not wrong about this, it's just no one gives a single shit I'm right.
>> No. 33462 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 11:34 am
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>>33461

Nah, the driver deliberately did something that could have killed you with the intent of putting fear of death into you. Thankfully it didn't kill you, but he intentionally put you into fight or flight mode. Apparently you went with fight. That's on him. If you'd told us you found the car parked up then torched it I'd just shrug, fair enough.
>> No. 33463 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 1:14 pm
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>>33456

There's something about being behind a wheel that makes people suddenly egotistical and self-centered. It happens to women, men, young, old, white, brown, but while all these demographics have their own special kinds of shite driver, that's what they always have in common. Thus some very basic principles seem to solidify in their heads:

- Getting overtaken for any reason is a personal insult

- Giving way for any reason is tantamount to being a cuckold

- Anyone who holds you up might as well be spitting in your face

I don't know why exactly it happens, but I can only really rationalise that something happens when you put a simpleton in a car, and they suddenly think the whole road is a competition for supremacy and little else. For example, there's a junction near me that's right turn only; and as soon as you get into the next road, you immediately have to filter into the correct lane, with only about 500 yards before the lights. But will people fuck let you in if you need to be in the left lane, you'd think you were trying to rape their daughter. Speed up to get past someone into a gap, and they'll deliberately put their foot down to stay on your shoulder and block you, with the only result being that you reach the lights and have to bully your way in by pulling across while everyone's stopped- So then they obviously get even angrier, but it's entirely their own fault. It's just pure monkey brain antagonism.

Now I'm no stranger to getting angry at the wheel, but I like to think my anger is at least justified, because it comes out when people are driving like dickheads and just generally violating the rules of the road, which are the only thing really giving driving a modicum of safety.
>> No. 33464 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 3:21 pm
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Even with 64GB of RAM, a 16 core CPU and a stupidly fast storage array, qBittorrent's user interface becomes glacially slow with more than about 3,000 active torrents. I can't work out what the bottleneck is.
>> No. 33465 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 3:42 pm
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>>33464

Your 56k dialup?
>> No. 33466 Anonymous
6th August 2022
Saturday 6:12 pm
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>>33464
Websites programmed in Javascript often make the user's computer do all the loading, while websites programmed in PHP do the loading on their end. That's probably a massive oversimplification, but my computer is very old and all the big-data sites like Facebook and YouTube are Javascript sites, and they load like shit for me while other sites load fine. If a website is programmed badly, it probably doesn't take advantage of all your fancy resources.
>> No. 33467 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 12:14 pm
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Some people don't like the word "moist". I have a mental list of words that I despise so much that I go out of my way to avoid them whenever possible. I can't enter this month's Viz crossword, because I would have to write one of those disgusting, nasty words, and I refuse to do that. I've successfully finished the crossword too.
>> No. 33468 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 1:45 pm
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I am going to complain about my girlfriend, apologies for being boring.

I confronted her yesterday that I am the only one who will go food shopping. She said her hayfever and her asthma mean she can't walk that far in summer. So I asked why she doesn't go in winter, she said because the cold exacerbates her asthma. So I said I'll go food shopping today, and she said she'd put some money towards it. Gets to this morning, actually she can't put money towards it as a subscription she forgot to cancel came out. So I do all the shopping, pay for it all, come home. 10 minutes later she tells me she's going to the shop because she wants pop. So she can go to the fucking shop in this heat/pollen, as long as it's to get stuff only for herself, the lazy fat cunt. I'm so sick of her.
>> No. 33469 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 1:52 pm
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It's not really that kind of thread. It's more like... do you ever wonder how many Squaddies got their knobs blown off in Iraq and Afghanistan? You were doing more of an /emo/ thing.
>> No. 33470 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 2:08 pm
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I've noticed that none of you lads with fat girlfriends actually seem happy being in a relationship with them. Maybe just keep it as a wank fantasy?
>> No. 33472 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>33468

If it makes you feel any better, years ago my girlfriend forgot to renew our car insurance. I got done for driving without insurance, 6 points and a fine, AND it cost about a grand to get the car out of impound.

This was five years ago - only this year will my car insurance premiums be cheap again. She wasn't even that fat, just thick.
>> No. 33473 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 6:19 pm
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>>33470

Said it befire, but being fat is a signifier of a whole raft of personality defects, from laziness to total lack of personal responsibility. It's no wonder fat girlfriends end up being a headache.

I do speak from experience, regrettably. It took me a long time to learn the lesson. Fat birds are easy to bag, sure, but lift your standards and hold out for a lass who can at least control her own eating habits and you'll be much happier in the long run. The loneliness of being single in the meantime is worth it.

Listen to me lads, honestly. I have your best interests in mind, I really do.
>> No. 33475 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>33473
You seem to think I don't have numerous personality defects myself, and a consequent desire to meet someone who shares those defects.
>> No. 33476 Anonymous
8th August 2022
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>33475
>a consequent desire to meet someone who shares those defects

A not insignificant number of /emo/ posts are from lads dating mental slags because they've decided "I'm fucked up, you're fucked up, let's be fucked up together", with it inevitably being a disaster.
>> No. 33479 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 11:54 am
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>>33469

Not that many, because they get issued with bulletproof underpants. The army issue them to stop you from bleeding to death from your femoral artery, but the lads wear them to protect their little soldier.

>>33473

>Listen to me lads, honestly. I have your best interests in mind, I really do.

YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!
>> No. 33480 Anonymous
9th August 2022
Tuesday 7:32 pm
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>>33479
I thought we discussed this months back and soldiers never wear this bit because it's a ballache, so to speak.

Either way, it's happened to someone.
>> No. 33481 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 1:58 pm
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Feeling very bloated today and I have a bit of a tummy ache. Think I'm constipated, come to think of it I haven't had a really good dump since about last Friday.

Proper spoils your day that.
>> No. 33482 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 2:22 pm
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>>33481
Lay off the scag, m8.
>> No. 33483 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 2:58 pm
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We have to ban clothes shops asking for email addresses. It's twisted, it's immoral, it must be brought to a swift and violent end.
>> No. 33484 Anonymous
10th August 2022
Wednesday 4:06 pm
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>>33483
But how will you be notified when your clothes have been dispatched? Or are you shopping in person? I hugely prefer physical shopping, but nearly all my clothes shopping is done online because the clothes I buy can genuinely be less than half-price online sometimes.
>> No. 33485 Anonymous
11th August 2022
Thursday 9:19 am
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>>33484
I'm talking about in person shopping. Have you never had this? You get to the till and after they've scanned everything they come out with "would it be okay if we take your email address today?" I feel like it happens to me in every other clothes shop these days. Maybe I'm just so fit that whoever's working the tills is desperate to keep in touch by any means, but that would mean I'm only irresistible to people who work in retail.
>> No. 33488 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 1:34 pm
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Rental applications.

Last time I moved, the process was "find property, put down holding deposit, sort paperwork, job done". Now there's some long-winded fuck-off application processes.

My landlord's chucking me out, you cunts, just let me the flat or fuck off wasting my time.
>> No. 33489 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 2:05 pm
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Not sure I want the job I'm being interviewed for right now. Doesn't seem like the best time to join E.ON's customer service department.
>> No. 33491 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 4:51 pm
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>>33488

Wait til you try buying your first place.

3 months into the process and these cunts have just come back to me to say they need a new bank statement or utility bill because the ones I sent them before were from the same bank and they need separate companies as address verification.

I bet this minor obstacle has set the whole process back by at least a fortnight. The bullshit never ends.
>> No. 33492 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 9:41 pm
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>>33491
>Wait til you try buying your first place.
Well look at Mr Moneybags here being rich enough to be able to get a mortgage.
>> No. 33493 Anonymous
18th August 2022
Thursday 11:29 pm
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>>33492
It's okay; he has the teeth of a homeless man.
>> No. 33494 Anonymous
19th August 2022
Friday 9:27 am
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>>33488
Continuing my whinge, putting in an offer on a rental above asking should be a capital crime.
>> No. 33496 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 10:52 am
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My one-hour slot for my shopping is almost here and I still haven't even had the email to say half of it is missing yet. How am I supposed to plan my wanking working day around this?
>> No. 33497 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 12:10 pm
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>>33491
Not pulling out in fear the housing market will collapse, then?
>> No. 33498 Anonymous
23rd August 2022
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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>>33497
That sounds like an incredibly daft thing to do.
>> No. 33499 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 5:57 pm
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It just occured to me that I have, over the course of my life, subconsciously absorbed the idea that stair cases are a great place for a private phone call. This is because I've been it in from TV shows and films time and time again. However, my lived experience has proven the polar opposite of this to be true. That they are in fact constantly in use and their cavernous dimensions mean that any background noise will be amplified tremendously.
>> No. 33500 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 7:21 pm
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I've just had a notification that ITV Hub is being replaced with ITVX and their new service won't be supported by my telly, meaning I won't be able to stream them anymore. So much for 'smart' TVs.
>> No. 33501 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 8:08 pm
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>>33500

ITV is shite anyway. The only programmes worth watching are Family Guy and American Dad.
>> No. 33502 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 8:25 pm
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>>33501

>ITV is shite anyway.

Agreed.

>The only programmes worth watching are Family Guy and American Dad.


>> No. 33503 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:09 pm
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>>33500
My Roku is apparently going to stop receiving updates soon. I might need to stop watching BBC iPlayer (I currently don't need to create an account, but I don't want to create one and would rather just abandon it forever than create one) and I might even lose my connection to public-domain kung fu films and live streaming of whatever's on hotel-style TV channels in the middle of the night in Kazakhstan.
>> No. 33504 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:15 pm
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>>33501
I can't recall the last time I watched something on it, but my daughter uses ITV Hub for kids shows like Teen Titans Go and Dave Spud.

It's more the annoyance of my TV becoming obsolete than it specifically being about losing ITV's streaming service. I had to get my parents a Now TV stick a few years back because iPlayer was taken off their ~2012 Samsung.
>> No. 33505 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>33504

The whole smart TV thing just strikes me as a bad idea. A modern telly has a lifespan of ten, fifteen, maybe twenty years. Any smart gubbins built into your telly are inevitably going to become obsolete, but you'll always be able to get some kind of HDMI stick for whatever streaming service we'll all be watching in the future.

A couple of manufacturers do offer a "non-smart TV" that's basically just a really big computer monitor. Confusingly, they seem to be more expensive than TVs that are rammed to the gills with smart features. I can only assume that the TV manufacturers are getting kickbacks from Netflix or Amazon or have some kind of advertising thing going on.

I for one don't even own a TV, just a really massive monitor.
>> No. 33506 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:45 pm
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>>33504

I've got a Panasonic smart TV from circa 2019, and it's been playing silly buggers with some of the apps as well. So far only with a number of obscure apps that it shipped with and which I haven't even used since I bought it, but still, a few of them just randomly disappeared from the menu from one day to the next without any explanation.
>> No. 33507 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 9:57 pm
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>>33504
As of right now, my TV has three inputs connected. A Fire Stick, a PS4 and a PS2. It hasn't had an aerial plugged in since a few weeks after I moved in when I found that between the transmitter a couple of miles away and the transmitter in a completely different place, I could only get a signal from the wrong transmitter. When Virgin wanted £90 a month for top-line internet and a package that included any non-FTA HD channels and Hyperoptic offered me unmanaged gigabit for £40 I jumped. I haven't bothered signing up for any of the broadcast TV apps, apart from All 4 for watching the British GP once. My viewing these days is almost entirely on-demand or pirated.

I have no idea if I need a TV licence or not but the shape and location of my flat means that even if the local inspector is standing at my door while I'm using the TV he wouldn't hear a thing. Who says millennials can't do cost-cutting?

>>33503
>(I currently don't need to create an account, but I don't want to create one and would rather just abandon it forever than create one)
There are only three of us here, and we both know where you live. SW1A 2AB, house number 10, right? Also, did you know that they don't require email verification? Anyone could put your example.com email address in and claim it as their own.
>> No. 33508 Anonymous
25th August 2022
Thursday 10:03 pm
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>>33505
>I can only assume that the TV manufacturers are getting kickbacks from Netflix or Amazon or have some kind of advertising thing going on.
That is, more or less, what's happening. Only even more dystopian.

>> No. 33509 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 6:36 pm
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>>33508

It's basically the same old thing as with social media -

if the product is free, then you are the product.


It's been rumoured for a long time that smartphones can also listen in on you and then suggest the right ads or even youtube videos to you. Smartphone makers and Google keep denying it, but I've had it happen to me that strangely specific Google ads or youtube video suggestions popped up on my phone right after I talked to somebody about something.
>> No. 33510 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 6:41 pm
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>>33509
The argument they make against it is always along the lines of "we're not sending telemetry back to servers, and it drains the battery too much to process every conversation on the phone", but of course phones are very very good at listening for keywords.
>> No. 33511 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 7:06 pm
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>>33510

There's a separate chip (or a chip built into the MEMS microphone) that just listens for your wake word. It's very power-efficient because it only does one thing; that separate single-purpose chip is the reason why you have to use a specific wake word and can't choose your own. Waking the main processor to do general speech recognition has a significant impact on power consumption and heat dissipation that would be impossible for manufacturers to hide.

The truth is that they don't need to listen to your conversations. Most people are quite predictable in their behaviour, even with a relatively small number of data points. The information you already willingly give them is more than enough to target ads, so there's really no need to secretly do stuff that could lead to serious legal bother. Also you don't notice all the times when you keep getting random adverts for things you have no interest in, but you do notice when they're trying to sell you the thing you've just been talking about.
>> No. 33512 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 7:28 pm
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>>33511
I was about to say that my phone and computer aren't listening to me; they're just manipulating me into having specific ideas at specific times that can then be linked to pre-planned adverts. So it looks like the adverts are reacting to my thoughts, but really they aren't. Free will is just an illusion; that's all. Nothing sinister.

And if they really could read my mind, I would probably get a lot more adverts for tin foil.
>> No. 33513 Anonymous
26th August 2022
Friday 10:01 pm
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Getting back home from work has been a task of Hercules at the best of times, what with the shite rail network that serves half of my commute, but recently I haven't even been able to get a seat because some twat families returning from holiday have decided to pile up all their suitcases in various seating bays, and allowed their detestable kin get over their jetlag by sprawling across whatever other seats remain.

I hope they all get arse cancer.
>> No. 33515 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 2:36 am
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>>33513

>but recently I haven't even been able to get a seat because some twat families returning from holiday

That also boils my piss. And it's usually lower class people on their way back from a three-star package holiday in Majorca, which they like to talk about to every single person on the train.
>> No. 33516 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 6:14 am
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>>33515
Where else should they be taking their kids?
>> No. 33517 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:37 am
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>>33516

A British seaside resort in the pissing rain, to get their expectations for their future back down to a realistic level.
>> No. 33518 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 11:55 am
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>>33517

Right. Let them enjoy soggy chips in 20 degrees on a dog poo stained beach in Blackpool. They should feel right at home.
>> No. 33519 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 12:19 pm
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>>33518

Skegness and Lowestoft are also options, you don't want people jumping in front of the one train they've waited three days for, else there'd be less tax money to bleed out of them and smuggle away.
>> No. 33520 Anonymous
27th August 2022
Saturday 7:50 pm
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My girlfriend when I say 'I'm tired I just want to relax' who goes to ever increasingly obscure lengths to make conversation with me despite the fact it's clear it's the last thing I want to do for an hour whilst I decompress.
>> No. 33521 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 9:05 am
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>>33520
Everyone knows that a man's feelings come secondary to a woman's.
>> No. 33522 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 10:19 am
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>>33520
Have you specified that "relax" means no conversations? Conversations aren't generally considered an effort, but you pair do seem to persist in dating women you don't actually like.
>> No. 33523 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 2:40 pm
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My neighbour doing extensive building work on a Sunday. Fairly certain you're not meant to.

I politely asked if they had much more to do so I could enjoy one day without the noise of the angle grinder and they seemed like I was the one inconveniencing them.

Guess I'll just have no days free from the endless building work you're doing then shall I?
>> No. 33524 Anonymous
28th August 2022
Sunday 3:41 pm
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>>33523

You can complain to your local council. They're the ones enforcing noise regulations. They can send a stern looking person with a clipboard around to you the next time.

Won't help you on a Sunday though.
>> No. 33525 Anonymous
29th August 2022
Monday 12:40 pm
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>>33524
To be fair he actually stopped so I'll give him that, not sure why he was an arse when I asked and acted like I was the pain for wanting to have peace on a Sunday.

I wish there was a place I could move where everybody agrees to be noise neutral. You don't add anymore noise than is expected at that area and you respect that everybody else doesn't want to hear your noises.

I don't want to hear loud car engines, loud car music at 7am outside the window, your kid screaming because you think it's cute in a restaurant, loud phone conversations, obnoxious shouting or talking, all that sort of stuff. I just want people to be respectful of my peace as I am of theirs, within reason.
>> No. 33526 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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The neighbours have started keeping chickens in their back garden. At first glance, I'd say there's about five of them.

I can see the appeal of back to nature and everything, but the constant "bawk bawk" is slightly annoying. Who the fuck keeps chickens in a suburban residential neighbourhood. My grandparents had some, but they lived on the outer edge of a small rural village.
>> No. 33527 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 4:31 pm
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>>33526

Chances are they'll struggle to keep them alive, don't worry.
>> No. 33528 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 5:57 pm
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>>33527

My grandparents never seemed to have a hard time with them, and all they did was feed them. And let them run all over the back garden and poo on everything in their path.
>> No. 33529 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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Old people counting fucking coins while a huge queue forms behind them.
>> No. 33530 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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>>33529
I had that the other day and he was clearly also homeless and you could tell the cashier didn't really want to touch the money.
>> No. 33531 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 10:32 am
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This might be a double moan, as in, I've complained about this before.

Anyway, you know when Americans do that whole "oi, mate, Bri'ish talk like this" thing. It's a bit annoying, but whatever, it's not keeping me up at night. Yesterday though I encountered, online obviously, a bloke from England, who sounded like that silly impression. He was being really abusive and obnoxious in this game we were playing, and despite having a Mancunian or Lancastrian accent he was saying things like "ass" and not hitting any of the more UK-centric swears like twat, prick or cunt. It's very alarming what's happening to our left behind NEETs and only time will tell what wider effect this will have on our national identity.
>> No. 33532 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 11:56 am
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>>33531

There always has been some degree of internationalisation. It's probably been getting worse with video platforms like youtube or tiktok.

But it seems to more affect people whose fist language isn't English. Non-native youtubers who are fluent, eloquent and intelligible tend to drift towards what you can probably best describe as bubblegum English. It has a tendency towards American English, but really only mixes its most obvious characteristics like the rhotic "r" and the a -> æ vowel shift as well as the soft t (better - > bedder) with a noticeable Dutch, French, German or Eastern European twang.

Which is a bit peculiar, because at least in European secondary schools, British English and Received Pronunciation are taught as the standard. One of my French acquaintances told me that her English teachers were very particular about that sort of thing, to the point that American pronunciation and spelling were actively discouraged in class.
>> No. 33533 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 1:21 pm
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People who tell you they're doing "very well" financially, but then a few sentences later, it's obvious that it's probably not true.

A friend just said that he's very happy about his "ample" salary he's been getting the past few years, but then when our conversation turned to cars and computers, he told me he's waiting for a better time to replace his 2012 Golf Plus because used car prices are so high at the moment. And he's hesitant to buy a Windows 11-capable PC, because hardware prices are also ridiculous right now.

Fine, so he's got a mortgage and a wife and a son, which probably eats into his income a fair bit, but if my income was ample enough to tell people about it, then I'd probably not scrimp on a replacement for a ten year old Golf or a basic newer desktop computer.

I guess most of all what annoys me about him is that for the 20 years that we've known each other, he's always done that kind of thing. Telling me how great his life is, but then when you stick around and spend some time really listening to him, he's always an inept liar. Or maybe not a liar, but definitely someone whose stories often don't quite add up.
>> No. 33534 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>33533
Is he trying to convince himself?
>> No. 33535 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 1:36 pm
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>>33533
To be fair, car prices have been a bit ridiculous over the past year or so.

I don't talk money with my closest friends because they started to resent it when I first earned over £30k as it's a lot more than they're on.
>> No. 33536 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 1:45 pm
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>>33535

>To be fair, car prices have been a bit ridiculous over the past year or so.

Yes, but if you've got the money and you fancy a replacement, then an extra £3K-£5K for a car in that kind of range probably isn't going to faze you. He did say he was looking for something like a VW or Skoda family minivan or estate, three to four years old.

Doesn't sound to me like somebody who's minted.
>> No. 33537 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 2:01 pm
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>>33533

Sounds like you're a bit jealous and looking for reasons to reassure yourself he's not doing as well as he thinks, honestly.

I mean, yeah, by the sounds of it he's not loaded, but I wouldn't take that to be what someone means when they say they're "doing well financially". To me that just means "I'm not going to struggle to pay the bills", it doesn't necessarily mean you've got the cash to spunk about willy nilly on a new car or laptop or whatever. Bit of a class thing though I guess, I imagine middle class people see it as a good thing to brag about their wealth and do it all the time at their dinner parties, but with people from a lower class background, boasting about money is probably the single best way to ensure absolutely nobody likes you.

Plus there's always the old truism, you don't get rich by spending money- The people I know who are the most well off, are the tightest cunts; and I think those two things definitely correlate. People who spend recklessly tend to find themselves hard up no matter how much they make. I didn't go to uni myself, but I spent a lot of time visiting and hanging out with mates who did, and I noticed it was the posh, sheltered ones with loaded parents who were always scrounging a tenner for a night out. They both had no restraint because they'd never needed to, and they basically saw themselves as entitled to money, they had absolutely no shame racking up debts with their flatmates.
>> No. 33538 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 2:48 pm
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>>33536

The richest person I know owns a substantial proportion of Cheshire. One of their houses has a cafe and a gift shop. Woke students have debated what to do with statues of their great-great-grandfather. They drive a mid-90s Range Rover that stinks of spaniels. Nearly everything they wear is at least slightly threadbare and much of it was inherited. They are slightly confused by the concept of furniture shops.

They're wealthy enough that money is essentially meaningless to them, but they have an instinctive sense of thrift. Centuries of Darwinian selection have removed anyone with an inclination towards profligacy from the aristocracy; it's not that any of them are consciously thrifty, but the families that weren't thrifty pissed away their inheritances generations ago in the casinos of Monte Carlo and the whorehouses of Paris.

Your mate may well be a liar, but it's equally plausible that he's just sensible with money. In the grand scheme of things, you're both dismal paupers who are one step up from the gutter. If you want to retire at 65 with a good and secure standard of living, you need a pension pot of about a million quid. Can you really afford to spend an extra £5k on a car, or does it just seem that way because you haven't planned for the future?
>> No. 33539 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>33537

No, it's kind of the sum of 20 years of friendship where he's been a lot like that. Always boasting and bragging, while there often wasn't much substance to it.

Like when he went to uni in an attempt to get an engineering degree. For a year or two, he was always on about how well he was doing academically, and that employers were practically waiting for him right outside the door after graduation with bin bags full of money. Well, he dropped out after failing several retakes. He did manage to work his way up to where he's now in some kind of middle management position at a smallish industrial company, but even now, he likes to talk like he practically owns the place, like it'll grind to a halt if he takes a day off.

I'm not jealous. I'm doing well for myself. But if you ask me how I'm doing financially, I'll just tell you that I make enough to pay the bills, and that'll be the end of it. I just get annoyed when somebody overstates their situation like that and you know they're not being honest.
>> No. 33540 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 5:04 pm
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>>33536
Just because you got money doesn't mean you splash it everywhere. That's how poor people who come into money go back to being poor. It sounds like he is doing alright and living within his means. On the other hand, you sound jealous, and angry that he isn't living the kind of silly lifestyle you would lead if you had his money. Have a word, lad.
>> No. 33541 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 5:07 pm
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>>33539
My friend who is such a cock that it makes me hate all my friends by association likes to tell people how much money I make. The thing is, my annual salary is 31 grand a year, and more importantly, he has no idea how much I actually make. He will tell people, Trump-style, that I make big money, huge money, more money than you can imagine, but he's making it all up. The people he did this with recently probably make high-20s of grands, so maybe I earn a bit more than they do, but it really got on my nerves anyway. Because it's all bullshit, and also, because it's just weird for someone else to take my life and use it for their own conversations. He would talk over me if I tried to correct him too. But now I'm just ranting about him. He's a bellend.
>> No. 33542 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 5:42 pm
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>>33539

I had a mate who sounds kind of similar, except unlike your mate, he was a total failure all his life. Never held down a job for longer than a few months. He would just come up with wild exaggerations to make himself sound more impressive, and I'd never have the heart to put him down by correcting any of it, at least never in front of anyone, when I knew it was likely coming from a place of deep insecurity.

Came to a head when he tried taking credit for some of my work (we had a band, and he claimed he'd written some of the songs, which was an outright lie. I'd written just about everything with the occasional input of another member). I put him in his place for that, and I do feel a bit guilty looking back. Friendship was never the same afterwards. But fuck it, you have to tell a gobshite to shut the fuck up eventually.
>> No. 33543 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 5:52 pm
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>>33542

I'm the kind who then doesn't call people on their BS though. It can be much more entertaining to let people go wherever they want with it, in the belief that you buy their story. The tales can get quite tall if you just sit back and do nothing. But that doesn't mean it never annoys me, like in the case of my bragging friend.
>> No. 33544 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>>33542
Another of my friends (I am also >>33541) must have whatever medical problem makes you a pathological liar, because he's very similar. I have no idea what job he has, but he's always, always, just been promoted into senior management. Most depressingly, he also loves to tell me that his dad is the CEO of various companies. I don't mind his total bollocks, because there's no malice behind it, and you really have to feel for a guy who could lie about anything in the world and chooses to claim that his dad is successful rather than himself, because the idea that he's successful is seemingly too outlandish to him.
>> No. 33545 Anonymous
1st September 2022
Thursday 9:17 pm
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>>33544

That sometimes happens with alcoholics when the dependency has started to affect the brain and their personality.

Friends of my parents have been functioning alcoholics for as long as anybody can remember, and whenever you tell them about one thing, they'll tell you that they've done the same thing, except 1000 times bigger and better.

Like, one time, we spent a nice family holiday in a bungalow in Malaga, and they told us they know Malaga like the back of their hand and rent an entire finca whenever they're in the area.

Which was verifiably bollocks, but they've been at that kind of point for a long time where they just predictably make stuff like that up.

And the guy is the absolute expert at everything under the sun, you can start any random conversation topic and soon enough he'll try to convince you that nobody knows as much about it as him.
>> No. 33546 Anonymous
3rd September 2022
Saturday 1:03 am
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>>33545

"Ahh, the ol' lyin' game, eh? I done that me, thirty years, man and boy! Oldest job in the world."
>> No. 33549 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 5:59 am
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My bank now has in-app authorisation for online transactions.

Transactions that have required authorisation:
- £4 for a bus ticket
- £30 grocery delivery

Transactions that have not required authorisation:
- £50 on a sketchy website

Classic security theatre.
>> No. 33550 Anonymous
11th September 2022
Sunday 1:29 pm
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It goes without saying I love my mum. But her ability to turn being in a fairly big queue, or something equally mundane, into a five minute story is mind bongling.
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11th September 2022
Sunday 2:45 pm
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>> No. 33557 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 9:11 pm
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I thought I ordered something from a website a couple of days ago. I didn't get an email about it, but I naively assumed, never having used the site before, "they're just slow, whatever" (as if human beings send confirmation emails in 2022). Just now I finally checked the site and the items are just sat in my basket, but I definitely ordered these things. I got to the "don't refresh this page or your order will get all cocked up", I remember reading it thinking "ha, what kind of an idiot would do that", well maybe I did, psychically, by mistake. Wait, can you communicate psychically with computer hardware? Obviously you can't, but possibly I can. No money left my account at least.

Fuck sake, now I have to build up the courage to spend loads on a coat all over again.
>> No. 33558 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 5:41 pm
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"I'm an empath" yeah? Why can't you empathise with how much of a prick you sound when you say that?
>> No. 33559 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 6:34 pm
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>>33558
I do sometimes wonder if excessive emotionality is a mental illness that hasn't been discovered yet. I know a few of these people, and they're all wonderful, absolutely delightful to spend time with, but they're also clearly not right. I thought it might be a new kind of autism, but it could be a whole new madness. Not that there's anything wrong with being sensitive, of course. And that's the problem: nobody bothers to diagnose that there's something clearly wrong with these people who are nicer and so much more pleasant than the normals.

They do like to give themselves a label, though, and I do hate that even when it's the wacky lovelies doing it.
>> No. 33560 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 8:07 pm
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>>33559
I'm not sure we're talking about the same sort. In my experience "btw I'm an empath"'s are just so incredibly self-involved they don't even notice when others respond poorly to their false inferences. They decide how someone else should be feeling then stubbornly insist on it, rather than trying to find out. There are plenty of people who are genuinely empathic, and they're lovely, but they don't typically boast about it. It doesn't take a great deal of emotional intelligence to realise people respond poorly to grandiose boasts of how caring you are. It's not just big headed, it's incredibly patronising.

Didn't mean for this to be so long but I'm just realising that they may not think of empathy as reading body language or actual consideration for how others feel, they think it's a magic power. They're unconsciously just making shit up about how other people feel and believing in that, rather than paying attention. I could be wrong here but that would explain the behaviour.
>> No. 33561 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 8:32 pm
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>>33560
I don't think I know anyone like that, but you've described them wonderfully. I suspect it's the false dichotomy that would annoy me, like whenever I see something that says, "This is what it's like to be a creative person!" followed by some bollocks about writing 50 operas in your head in one day while also being a brain surgeon. Everyone's a bit creative. It's not a special trait. On a forum I used to visit that no longer exists, I used to spend ages writing limericks in their limerick thread. But I've never written a song. Am I creative or not? They're not interested in the personality trait itself; they just want the label. They want to be special somehow. And perhaps your empaths are the same.
>> No. 33562 Anonymous
20th September 2022
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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>>33561

>creative

That word fucks me off. Once upon a time, "creative" was what your teacher called you if you were a talentless idiot but liked doing shit drawings or tuneless songs. Those kids have become adults, but they still haven't realised that they were being patronised.
>> No. 33563 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 7:42 pm
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I have a very small group of friends I go on holiday with every now and then. In the past it's worked ok, we all just pay our bits as close as possible then tot it up at the end and pay each other back.

Recently we brought partners/extra friends to a slightly bigger holiday making it about 6 of us.

Me and my girlfriend proposed that when the bill comes at meals, we all just split it between our groups and everybody pay their bit, unless somebody had something significantly more expensive, but as a general rule everybody just paid for their share each meal. This didn't happen and everybody instead doubled down on a very stressful and bizarre approach where somebody just picks up the whole tab, and then it cycles round. This kind of ruined the holiday because it meant there was a stressful situation where somebody might pay for a slightly more expensive meal, then actively avoid trying to do things like booking an Uber, because they felt they'd already paid a fair whack, and others who paid little, awkwardly trying to avoid paying again because they paid for the last meal, even if it was relatively cheap. Even tickets to things, where it was equally as easy to just buy our own, people insisted on throwing ours in with theirs, further complicating matters because it meant that they didn't come close to covering a share of a meal but we'd still be expected to pay for the next thing because they covered us.

We did keep trying to suggest splitting the bill but everybody acted like that was some sort of massive chaotic affront to the holiday and it was much better to enter this unwritten mess where random people pick up random tabs (so you could get fucked if your turn came up at a nice restaurant or everybody was feeling particularly boozy).

Then adds a further complication in that the fee we paid for accommodation, booked through one person, wasn't quite right and we needed to pay more. That person, feeling sorry for them getting shafted with an extra upfront fee, had more of their stuff paid for by us thinking that they got a bad deal. But now they've asked for the cash back, as if they didn't have lots of their stuff paid for them.

It kind of ruined the trip, pissed me off mildly, made everybody awkward when it came to paying (instead of everybody just paying their bit) and has me wondering if me and my girlfriend are being odd tight arses or if this was just a really weird thing?

For the record, I'm not suggesting we get 4 itemised bills for 10 euros of coffees or anything, but at the big meals, we simply split the cost between us so everybody pays their share as they goes along.

Are we being weird or am I right to have found this incredibly annoying?
>> No. 33564 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 8:00 pm
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Takeaway should have arrived 40 mins ago, so we've called them up and it turns out they've delivered it to the house round the corner; similar street names but they have Close at the end of theirs and evidently they didn't correct the takeaway driver.

The thing is that we get takeaways meant for theirs taken to ours first at least once a month. If I just start accepting them will I get into any bother?
>> No. 33565 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 8:23 pm
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>>33563

Yeah fuck the lot of them. It's not just a dick move in terms of the fact they can take advantage when it's somebody else's turn, (assuming you trust them well enough to not actively take the piss, of course); but it's quite inconsiderate of them to all stubbornly stick to their guns when you have brought it up multiple times, instead of considering that maybe the arrangement might cause financial tensions for one or more of the group. If it was me I'd have taken the hint after you brought it up for the second time and had a word.

Unfortunately though I feel like that sort of behaviour tends to be one of those daft insidious little unwritten things about asserting your social status, and there's really not a lot you can do about it because openly defying the taboo makes everyone think you're Josef Mengele or something. It also probably wouldn't have happened if you hadn't invited the birds along. Just don't tell woman-respecter-lad I said that.
>> No. 33566 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>33564

The rozzers aren't about to bang your door down but unless the people in the Close are already unreasonable bastards, it's worth keeping things copacetic, else you might find some expensive deliveries never arrive.
>> No. 33567 Anonymous
21st September 2022
Wednesday 8:39 pm
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Thanks, I did find it fucking bizarre but it's one of those things where if we're the only two in the group suggesting it maybe we're coming across as penny pinching weirdos, which we're not, and we can afford it, it's just the principle.

I also found it frustrating that people acted like this was definitely the best system and they were totally cool with a totally cool relaxed approach as if it didn't matter but then still all awkwardly tried to avoid paying each time. Real bizarre shit and put me off going with them again.
>> No. 33568 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 12:57 pm
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Ordered a new graphics card and a couple of other bits to bling up my computer at about 3 o'clock yesterday. They told me it'd be delivered on Friday, so the fact I wasn't ready for them when it showed up at 7:30 this morning isn't entirely my fault. Props to them for the speed, but I was soundly tucked up in bed.

Anyway, instead of attempting a second delivery or anything, DPD have defaulted to taking it to Beeston post office instead. Which is annoying, because that means I'm going to have to put some pants on and go get it. Thus, knowing my luck, I'll be out and miss the other stuff I'm waiting for, which will actually come the day they told me it would.

We really need to sort out these couriers lads. Even as a committed anti-capitalist I have to give Bezos credit, he's the only one where they have the delivery aspect down. Everyone else needs giving a vicious nipple cripple.
>> No. 33569 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 1:18 pm
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>>33567
The way you tell the story, it sounds obvious that you're in the right. But that's because it's you telling the story. I bet if one of them told the story, I might side with them instead. But if you repeatedly pointed out that it wasn't working and they insisted on pushing ahead, that's entirely on them.
>> No. 33570 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 2:01 pm
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>>33568 I have to give Bezos credit, he's the only one where they have the delivery aspect down. Everyone else needs giving a vicious nipple cripple.

Have they fuck.
My fulfilled by Amazon microwave, ordered at the weekend, will be delivered on Oct 6th. It showed as in stock (14 in stock, more arriving soon), sat as 'preparing for despatch' for days, and is now untrackable with DPD, apparently needing a two week transit time from Milton Keynes to Cambridge.
Any parcel in DPD's careful hands for two weeks is going to be utterly fucked, isn't it.
Jeff's lot are normally good - this is exceptionally poor, but it's the machine I want, and was on infinite leadtime everywhere else I looked.
Whinge ticked with great vigour.
>> No. 33571 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 2:03 pm
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I really don't like Danny Wallace. I don't know why he's still in the Assassin's Creed games, he's a total drip, his character is a cunt, and I just hate him as a human being.
>> No. 33572 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 2:05 pm
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I find it really jarring, there's this big conspiracy spanning the globe and thousands of years of history, and Danny Wallace is super smart history buff, and he's got an acid tongue and is sassy and "witty". Actually I hope he fucks off. I used to like his column in the ShortList free newspaper, but now I want him to retreat from the public eye. I think he presents The World's Strongest Man too. World's Most Insufferable man more appropriate for this CUNT.
>> No. 33573 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 4:04 pm
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>>33570

Well this is what I mean- Wherever it's Amazon's own delivery blokes, it seems to come the day they told you, and usually even within a reasonable timeframe of the estimate they gave. But if you order elsewhere and it's DPD, or worse, Hermes, all bets are off. I wouldn't be surprised to have a parcel show up tomorrow I haven't ordered yet, because DPD's fuckery defies causality.

I really don't like supporting Amazon, the real life Omni Consumer Products, but it's for that reason alone I find myself tempted to order with them more often than not when I know I'll actually need something on a certain day.

Are you sure your microwave is actually coming from Amazon though? Because the times where I've got screwed in the past it's usually one of those like, Amazon partner things, where it's just another company using Amazon as a storefront. That does miff me too, because they make it quite difficult to tell at a glance whether what you're getting will becoming straight from the megawarehouse down the road, or some little shop on the outskirts of Bradford.

I have no strong feelings either way regarding Danny Wallace.
>> No. 33574 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 4:21 pm
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I'm reasonably sure it said it was coming from Amazon - but there's a clickable 'Visit to the Panasonic store'' - which ends up on an Amazon hosted page with Amazon clicky buy links, but doesn't match the Amazon style.
As you say, there's a reasonable chance that it'll turn up on a date completely unrelated to the 6th. Hope so, since I'm not going to be around.

I'm not sure I've even heard of this Danny Wallace chap. Sounds like I'll not put much effort in to remedy that.
>> No. 33575 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 4:39 pm
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>>33572
Feel like I should be reading this in the margins of the letters section of the Official Xbox Magazine or something.
>> No. 33576 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 5:09 pm
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>>33573
>it's DPD, or worse, Hermes
If you weren't aware, Hermes have rebranded as Evri. Just so you know what to avoid.
>> No. 33577 Anonymous
22nd September 2022
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>33573

If (like me) you live in a house that's hard to find from the street, the real-time tracking is invaluable. With other couriers, it's pot luck as to whether they'll find the house, but with Amazon I can just go out and flag them down as they approach.
>> No. 33578 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 3:07 pm
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The Arctic Monkeys have released the most boring song ever and BBC 6 Music are threatening to break Craig Charles' legs if he doesn't play it daily.
>> No. 33579 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 7:38 pm
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The Crown Jewels are really ugly.
>> No. 33580 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 9:21 pm
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>>33579

Nobody asked you to describe your bollocks to us.
>> No. 33581 Anonymous
23rd September 2022
Friday 10:11 pm
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My bollocks are lovely and plump with a velvety texture. The Imperial State Crown is weirdly mis-shapen and asymmetrical, like a badly repaired Cat C Ford Sierra.
>> No. 33582 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 9:20 am
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>>33574 mild /101/ - it turned up at 8 this morning, completely unannounced until the phone rang saying the gates were shut.
Ah well. 6th October did feel unlikely.
>> No. 33583 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 10:51 am
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I turned on Radio 4 this morning, to discover that the guests on Saturday Live were Mel C and Rylan Clark. If the Tories want to privatise the BBC, I say let them - I don't see what's worth protecting any more.
>> No. 33584 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 11:08 am
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I like Rylan's Radio 2 show, but he's a bit much when he's on the telly.

I can't remember the last time I actually watched anything on the BBC.
>> No. 33585 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 12:10 pm
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I have absolutely no problem with Rylan being on Radio 2. I have no problem with Rylan, I think he's a charming and often incisive chap. I do have a problem with Radio 4 becoming Radio 2 without the music.

Going through the schedule on Radio 4, how much of it is meaningfully more highbrow than a typical middle-market podcast? In Our Time, The Briefing Room, The World Tonight, maybe Inside Science and More Or Less. Beyond that, it's just the same low-effort bumwaffle that you can find in a hundred other places. The argument for the license fee has always been that the BBC can do things that no-one else can, but that doesn't feel particularly true any more.
>> No. 33586 Anonymous
24th September 2022
Saturday 1:01 pm
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The worst thing about Radio 4 is that they have conspired to ensure that no matter what time of day I take my smoke break, no matter what day of the week, it's either The Archers or bloody Woman's Hour.

Fuck 'em, sell it to MurdochCorp.
>> No. 33589 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:10 pm
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I wish one of you pair hadn't explained tax bands to me years ago. Now I am forced to witness that the great mass of the population have absolutely zero idea what they are or how they work.
>> No. 33590 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:24 pm
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Had a parcel stolen. It was only about a tenner's worth of cable ties and tacks but because I need them tomorrow I'm going to have to either pay out of my arse for them at Screwfix or pray that "tomorrow by 1pm" bezos delivery means that.
>> No. 33591 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 4:35 pm
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>>33589
That goes for a lot of things with the general public, particularly where personal finance is involved.

Many people don't understand the energy price cap and think they can use as much as they want without paying more once they've reached that £2,500 figure. Many people aren't aware that higher rate taxpayers pay less in NI so the difference between that and the basic rate band is only actually 10% net. Most people don't have a clue what a pension is. You get the idea.
>> No. 33592 Anonymous
26th September 2022
Monday 11:51 pm
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>Many people aren't aware that higher rate taxpayers pay less in NI so the difference

Consider me one of them. What do you mean they pay less NI?
>> No. 33593 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 12:44 am
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>>33592

If your gross income is higher than the Upper Earnings Limit (currently £4,198 per month), you pay a reduced rate of 3.25% on earnings above that limit, as opposed to the normal rate of 13.25%.

In theory, this is because of the principle that National Insurance is a kind of insurance scheme. High earners don't get more benefit from the State Pension or Statutory Sick Pay than middle earners. In practice, National Insurance has just been another tax for decades and the revenues aren't ring-fenced for any particular purpose.

The British tax system is relatively straightforward by international standards, but there are still a fair few weird quirks.
>> No. 33594 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 1:39 pm
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After a couple of months of trying to find a home, family have been chiming in with suggestions, but it's been difficult to keep track of them. So yesterday I finally bit the bullet and created a Trello board so I don't have to look at fucking Rightmove on my phone, and today an agency tells me that I'm the preferred candidate on a flat I looked at earlier this week.
>> No. 33595 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 4:58 pm
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There's a gameshow on the BBC right now but Alex Scott is the presenter and she can't speak clearly for shit. One of the questions starter "premiering in 2022..." and it took me a while to click she wasn't on about Premier Inn because she was reading the question off the card like a small child.
>> No. 33596 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>33595
For as long as Fara Williams exists, Alex Scott will never be the worst female football pundit to listen to. Although I can't understand why she would present a gameshow.
>> No. 33597 Anonymous
29th September 2022
Thursday 6:03 pm
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>>33596
The BBC have schemes for increasing ethnic minority representation on screen, which is how Dion Dublin ended up presenting Homes Under The Hammer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjs59onomo

Alex Scott ticks a lot of boxes. She's the socially acceptable shade of brown. Female. She's at the very least bisexual. The BBC have promoted her quite heavily in recent years but she's not got the charisma to carry off presenting a game show by herself.
>> No. 33598 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 1:56 pm
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Every time I see a skinny lad with a larger girlfriend I can't stop myself from thinking "I wonder if he posts on .gs?"

Also if you don't stop being mean about Alex Scott I'll kill you all.
>> No. 33599 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 2:02 pm
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Alex Scott is not fat and I would not have sex with her.
>> No. 33600 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 2:16 pm
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>>33598
She's bland. She is quite fit, but she has the personality of a damp towel.
>> No. 33601 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 2:21 pm
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>>33598

That reminds me. Which one of you started working at Vice?
>> No. 33602 Anonymous
2nd October 2022
Sunday 3:01 pm
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>>33601


I had to go all the way to urbandictionary to find out what FUPA means.

I have actually been in the sack with somebody who was decidedly on the portly side. Not something I'd like to repeat. Best left to dedicated chubby chasers.
>> No. 33603 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 10:01 am
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>>33601
Even the preview image turns my stomach. Obesity at this point is a lifestyle choice based on lack of discipline if it isn't caused by an underlying health issue.
>> No. 33604 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 12:15 pm
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>>33603
No it's not, you're wrong. And before you say owt, I'm 5 foot 11 inches tall and 10 stone.
>> No. 33605 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 12:39 pm
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>>33603

Fat girls can be pretty, it's not out of the realms of possibility. But they appear to have intentionally made that picture a caricature of an ugly pig nosed porker.

I blame hipsters for everything. They destroyed culture. Nowadays, anything that's wrong is the new right. Ugly is the new attractive, to be force fed to you in woke Amazon shows and forecast shipping videogames. Empty contrarianism as the basis of a value system.
>> No. 33606 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 1:17 pm
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>>33604
Why are you obese?
>> No. 33607 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 1:49 pm
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>>33606
Everyone you walk by on the street thinks you're a creep.
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3rd October 2022
Monday 2:49 pm
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>>33603

>if it isn't caused by an underlying health issue.

We've already been here several times, but it's unfathomable to me that people get this far with this idea but refuse consider whether a lack of discipline that's serious enough to endanger your life and change your body might possibly be an underlying health issue.

Fat people need therapy not diets.
>> No. 33609 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 3:01 pm
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>>33605

I guess it depends on your definition of pretty.

There's a fine line between not being skin and bones and having just too much weight on your hips.


>I blame hipsters for everything. They destroyed culture.

Quite, but I don't see that they had much bearing on fat acceptance.

>Ugly is the new attractive, to be force fed to you in woke Amazon shows and forecast shipping videogames.

Not to me, it isn't. I refuse to have that wool pulled over my eyes. I reserve the right to find a lass unattractive because she weighs too much, and not be shamed or cancelled for it.

There's also a double standard between genders here. It's ok for women to be obese, and any lad who turns a lass down because she's a porker is a shallow patriachical arsehole. But when was the last time you heard somebody say that fat lads deserve to be with hot women too. Right, so there's more pressure on women in our society to conform to beauty ideals. That's a given, and that's not a good thing. But it can't mean that only women get to have their cake and eat it. see what I did there
>> No. 33610 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 3:19 pm
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>>33607
It was a genuine question. I stated that obesity was either caused by a lack of discipline OR an underlying health issue. The lad seems to think that there's some third way I've not considered in which case I'd like to hear him out.
>> No. 33611 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 3:41 pm
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>>33610
You seem remarkably troubled by other peoples' obesity. What's it to you?
If it's the load it puts on are NHS, your ire might (or might not) be better spent railing against the funding fuckwitteries we're seeing, which even if everyone was optimal weight would still see it fucked into the ground in a generation.
If you just want someone to hate, fair enough, I guess. There have always been, and will always be, fatties, You'll be fine.
It just seems like a lot of effort to keep railing, and isn't going to change anything.
>> No. 33612 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 3:49 pm
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>>33611
Also, I meet fatties with massive discipline in other fields, they just don't care (as much as you do) about their weight. It's not stopping them doing anything.
Obviously doesn't apply to 500kg+, but the 'obese' are fully functional human beings with a bit more lard than is advisable for long term health. Don't like them? Don't fuck them.
>> No. 33613 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 4:00 pm
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>>33612
I did mean actually proper ham planets and not what the flawed BMI considers to be obese. If you're not putting extra strain on the NHS (which if you're a couple of kilos into the red, you're probably not) then you're alright by me.

Obviously fat birds have more of a risk of adverse health the larger they get though with very little margin for error but that's a whole different topic in and of itself.
>> No. 33614 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 4:23 pm
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>>33605

Nobody looks good from that angle.

>>33606

Every time I fuck your mum she makes me a sandwich.

>>33609

>I reserve the right to find a lass unattractive because she weighs too much, and not be shamed or cancelled for it.

You have that right, just as you have the right to believe that Coldplay are the best band ever. Your broader argument is conflating two completely separate phenomena. The nth-wave fisherpersons advocating for fat acceptance would be the first to condemn the Third Tit Admirer community as being a bunch of misogynist brutes who just want to create a new unattainable beauty standard to subjugate women with.

The internet has disintermediated lechery. Twenty years ago, the mainstream media decided who it was OK to fancy and presented us with a narrow range of images to perv over. The internet cut out that middleman and presented us with an infinite range of choices in a judgement-free environment. In that environment, a lot of blokes realised that actually prefer women with squishy bits.

That external judgement has always been present in how we view fat female bodies, best encapsulated by the old trope of "I'd shag her, but I wouldn't want my mates finding out". Not to get all Marxist about it, but consumer capitalism depends fundamentally on manipulating our desires. The ideal consumer is just as much a manufactured product as the things being sold to them; the foundation of consumer capitalism is dissatisfaction. We must be trained to desire things that do not satisfy us.
>> No. 33615 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 4:43 pm
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>>33614
>Every time I fuck your mum she makes me a sandwich.
Why are you so angry about being obese?
>> No. 33616 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 5:05 pm
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>>33615

I'm not angry with you son, I'm just disappointed. You've let yourself down, you've let your school down, but most importantly, I fucked your mum.
>> No. 33618 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>33616

Joke's on you mate. I've been farting in the margarine this whole time. Hope you've enjoyed all the fart sandwiches.
>> No. 33619 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 7:47 pm
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>>33614

Don't start appropriating solid Marxist principles to justify your degeneracy, VICElad.

You wouldn't like it if I kept trying to shove furry porn down your throat and insisting that it was everyone else who was judgemental and prudish for not liking it. Sometimes it is, in fact, you that's a sick fuck and you should keep it to yourself, for the sake of common decency.

I reject the notion that things have to be acceptable. They don't, and in fact, they shouldn't be. Lots of things are better when they're taboo. Maybe that's too much of a Lacanian, Freudian Zizek kind of perspective for you, but it's the truth.

Nothing is as offensive as the idea we should find fat fetishism acceptable. Their very appeal is in the fact you're not supposed to like them, and deep down, you know it.
>> No. 33620 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 8:44 pm
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>>33619

Most of the population is overweight or obese. Being sexually attracted to normal people is not a fetish.
>> No. 33621 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>33620

>Most of the population is overweight or obese

Still a matter of degree. Ten pounds too many isn't the same as being cast for Channel 4's next weight loss reality programme.
>> No. 33622 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 9:04 pm
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>>33619


>Don't start appropriating solid Marxist principles to justify your degeneracy

I'm struggling to understand what marxism has to do will all this in the first place.

Is he saying that there are more fat people in capitalism than in marxism?
>> No. 33623 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 9:27 pm
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>>33622

I'm saying that it is in the interests of consumer capitalism to create a perpetual sense of dissatisfaction. We are constantly sold and re-sold the idea that we are not good enough, that our lives are not good enough, that what we truly desire is perpetually just out of reach.

There can be no end to this process, because the economic system in which we live is completely dependent on miserable people spending money they don't have on stuff they don't need. In a consumer capitalist society in which most people are fat, it is necessary for us to be taught that fat is ugly; equally, in a consumer capitalist society in which most people are thin, it would be necessary for us to be taught that thin is ugly. We must be told that we are inadequate so that we may be sold something which promises to cure that inadequacy.

It is not a matter of "lowering your standards", but realising that your standards were imposed on you by people who spend billions of pounds a year on psychological manipulation in order to undermine your sense of self.
>> No. 33624 Anonymous
3rd October 2022
Monday 9:36 pm
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>>33623

You would normally have a point, but this website does not own a TV, almost certainly has an adblocker installed on every device they own, and is generally at best a very minimal participant in mainstream culture. I don't think you can really describe us as helpless consumerist zombies out of They Live.

The forces you are describing exist, but the fact remains that you're just a wrong 'un, lad.
>> No. 33625 Anonymous
4th October 2022
Tuesday 2:26 am
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>>33624

There is no escape from capitalist realism.




>> No. 33626 Anonymous
4th October 2022
Tuesday 10:00 am
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>>33625
>Being a fat cunt is alright because society made me do it.

n1m8
>> No. 33627 Anonymous
4th October 2022
Tuesday 11:29 am
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>>33625

Yes there is. You just don't want to admit there is because you obtain surplus enjoyment from the impression of helpless entrapment. Just like when a fat lass plants her suffocatingly massive arse cheeks directly on your face.
>> No. 33628 Anonymous
5th October 2022
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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We need to get more Israelis on Steam, that way we can get a Yom Kippur sale.
>> No. 33629 Anonymous
10th October 2022
Monday 11:02 pm
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My WFH office/bedroom/tragic wank hovel smells like Nurgle's armpit.
>> No. 33632 Anonymous
22nd October 2022
Saturday 3:39 pm
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BBC Sport have changed the order on their live scores page. It used to be that I had to scroll past the Premier League and Scottish Premiership results to get to the Championship fixtures, but I now also have to go past the women's football matches as well. What a pisstake.
>> No. 33633 Anonymous
23rd October 2022
Sunday 10:37 am
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One day I'll live somewhere with no rag and bone men and I'll know then that I've truly made something of my life.
>> No. 33634 Anonymous
23rd October 2022
Sunday 11:58 am
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Stop trying to make me think Sunak's a victim of racism. If he had a problem with it, he wouldn't be supporting the people doing it. Sure he's weeping as he does laps in his Scrooge McDuck pool of untaxed income.
>> No. 33635 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 10:39 am
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Currently 12 hours into a diet and I want to fight a horse.
>> No. 33636 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 12:45 pm
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>>33633
Do you live in the 1970s? I know Beeston has plenty of scrap vans, but where still has rag and bone men?
>> No. 33637 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 2:33 pm
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>>33636
Always get confused about whether you lot are talking about Beeston in Leeds or Notts (or perhaps some secret third Beeston...)
>> No. 33638 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 2:42 pm
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>>33637
Beeston wordfilters to Beeston.
>> No. 33639 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 4:34 pm
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>>33637

It's the secret one in Cheshire.
>> No. 33640 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 6:18 pm
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So if the refuse centre won't take most things, and only opens from 11AM to 2PM (since Covid) on weekdays, what do they expect me to do? Ring up the dodgy guy with a van whose flyer was stuck on the bus stop?

Then they have the gall to complain about fly tipping.
>> No. 33641 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 1:40 am
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>>33640

What won't they take? Mine is great, they officially take most things, including engine oil, car batteries and such, and unofficially anything in a black bin bag is going to go into 'general non recyclable' with no real questions.
>> No. 33642 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 11:30 am
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>>33641
Mine is like his and has a massive list of items that they won't take, including most of the things I usually tip. It's a joke down here.
>> No. 33643 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 11:57 am
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I had a bit of a faff a few years ago trying to discard some spoiled petrol. Petrol does go off and after a decade it turns into a sludgy mess that's good for nothing, coating the entire fuel system in a horrible varnish that's a bastard to clean off.

I phoned the council and they didn't have a clue what to do with it. I phoned the neighbouring council and they didn't know. The neighbours were not pleased when I resorted to burning off about 25 litres of petrol in my back garden.
>> No. 33644 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 12:10 pm
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>>33643
Local river not good enough?
>> No. 33645 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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>>33643
I have jerry cans full of ancient (20 year+) fuel - keep thinking I should just stick it through a high pressure fuel pump and a straight6 injector rail and make some kind of animated fiery fountain. Maybe this bonfire night would suit.
>> No. 33646 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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>>33643
I'm currently stick with four old tyres someone left me with - almost impossible to recycle without paying money.
>> No. 33647 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 1:20 pm
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>>33646
Leave them out for pikeys.
>> No. 33648 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 3:37 pm
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>>33647
Is there a number I can call to make them appear? I don't live in a particularly pikey area.
>> No. 33649 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>>33648
The problem with leaving pikey bait out is sometimes they'll add to the pile, rather than taking it.
Perhaps you could fill they tyres with some spare crappy petrol and roll them down a hill, alight, making them somebody else's problem?
>> No. 33650 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 10:20 pm
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>>33649

Even pikeys don't take tyres, as they're basically useless (if the tread is gone). I think it's £4 a pop to get rid of tyres at my local tip, which isn't terrible but is also far too much, really.

I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to bet a local tyre fitting garage will take them off your hands for cheaper/free, as they surely must have a deal in place to recycle, reuse or dispose of them that is cost effective. The fact that tips charge seems mental to me, as I know for a fact that shredded tyres are used for certain layers of motorway tarmac and stuff like that.

Also maybe a bit of a long shot but race tracks and go karting places still use tyre walls as safety barriers - maybe they'd take them?
>> No. 33651 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 10:24 pm
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>>33643

This reminds me of a book of household tips and tricks my grandad had, I think it was written in the 40s - the directions to dispose of old oil or spoiled fuel was to dig a hole, fill it with rocks, pour the waste in and cover the hole back up with soil. Not sure what the rocks were for. Also, I never drank from the stream in my grandparents garden.
>> No. 33652 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 10:38 am
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>>33650

>Also maybe a bit of a long shot but race tracks and go karting places still use tyre walls as safety barriers - maybe they'd take them?

Race tracks deal with enormous quantities of used tyres, because the lifespan of a racing tyre can be as little as 250 miles. The industry is moving away from tyre barriers after a number of nasty incidents - single-seater race cars tend to plough under the tyres, while larger and heavier cars tend to break up the barrier and send tyres flying everywhere.

Marinas do use tyres as fenders to protect boats when they're moored to jetties, but I think that's discouraged these days because tyres tend to leach oil and heavy metals into the water.

Recycled crumb rubber is used for shock-absorbing paving and for the infill on artificial turf, but there's a big debate about the latter use because of concerns about toxicity. Either way, the commercial value of crumb rubber is lower than the cost of production.

https://www.paf-media.co.uk/rubber-crumb-health-concerns
>> No. 33653 Anonymous
28th October 2022
Friday 10:19 am
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It's hard to tell who has more time off, 6 Music DJs or newspaper columnists.
>> No. 33654 Anonymous
28th October 2022
Friday 10:50 am
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>>33653

I think it's probably race track drivers, if >>33652 is to be believed. They're always getting re-tyred.
>> No. 33655 Anonymous
28th October 2022
Friday 11:31 am
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>>33654
Get out.
>> No. 33656 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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In the final stages of buying my home, and we've been going around in circles for a couple of weeks because either the other side's solicitors aren't doing their job, or my side aren't doing theirs. Can't really tell which, but I strongly suggest it's the other side who can't get it through their head that they need to send the original copy of a document, not just a scan. Either that or my side have lost it somehow, but I would imagine that's less likely.

I have been messaging the seller to try get her to check with her solicitors, because there's nowt mine can do but ask, and this morning she's started to get all passive aggressive with me, pointing out how much it's cost her to do all the checks and blah blah blah; and I really don't give a fuck love. I'm not accusing you of doing something wrong, I just want you to phone your fucking solicitors to check, because we'll be here all fucking year if we wait for them to pull their own fingers out. They already let it just sit there unresolved for a fucking month didn't they. She's literally called Karen, incidentally.

Fuck sake can this just be over with, I'm fucking fed up of it.
>> No. 33657 Anonymous
1st November 2022
Tuesday 1:28 pm
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>>33656
>solicitors

Never met a good one. One of my purchases they missed absolutely loads, and it was only down to me reading the entire file during the exchange/signing that I found things - including a service charge for £9k. I am deeply unimpressed with all of them; I think it's probably like a plumber or a mechanic, once you find a good one you stick with them for life.
>> No. 33658 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 1:01 pm
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Ah great, it's that time of year again.
>> No. 33659 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 1:29 pm
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>>33658

One of these days, I'm going to fill my front garden with mud and shit and dead horses. Maybe pay a teenage lad to lie half-buried in the mud, crying for his mother.

Poppy Day has become a festival of forgetting.
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2nd November 2022
Wednesday 2:24 pm
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>>33659

It works for both Halloween and poppy season. Get him to scream horribly enough and you'll break even on outgoings saved on trick or treaters.
>> No. 33661 Anonymous
2nd November 2022
Wednesday 2:51 pm
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>>33659
I swear I'm not trying to give you a aneurysm/lose all hope by showing you this.
>> No. 33662 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 12:47 pm
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People who get angry about people vaping piss me off. They are by far worse than vapers themselves.

I feel as though what they really hate is just to see anybody enjoying themselves in any small way whatsoever. It's like when miserable pensioners grumble about kids doing basically anything, it's not the act itself, just a kind of dour pleasure in disapproval. I find that contemptible.
>> No. 33663 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 1:15 pm
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>>33662
No, no, it's moreover that they don't like it when someone exhales and it looks like a cooling tower, combined with the smell of cola-cherry-bubblegum vape juice. Also a lot of people aren't really sure if that cloud will turn your lungs into solid lumps of polyethylene, which is probably a factor in not liking it. Oh, and bloody bubbling noise is horrible. Also you look like you're giving a lightsaber a blowie.

For the record I'm actually pretty neutral on the matter, but it's not just people being upset at seeing others enjoy themselves.
>> No. 33664 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 1:29 pm
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>>33663
Aren't the vape clouds coming from the vapist's lungs too? Bit like those slow motion vids of people sneezing against a black background.
>> No. 33665 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 1:30 pm
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>>33663

Yeah but that's the point. What sort of miserable git have you got to be if someone else looks daft with their fusion-powered portable fog machine? I can understand it if someone's being anti-social and blowing it directly in everyone's face or whatever, but I have never seen that happen and I don't think it ever does happen.

They're just the modern equivalent of those pricks who start making passive aggressive little coughing noises if you sparked up a cig within twenty yards of them. People who need to get a life instead of worrying about everyone else's.
>> No. 33666 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 2:47 pm
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>>33665
Look as daft as you like, but is fucking reeks. Same as people wallowing in perfume / aftershave. Sure, you can do it and I'm sure you think it smells nice, but I'm never going to agree and I don't want to be near you. You stink. The air stinks for quite a few minutes after you've gone. Your room stinks. Your chair stinks, your desk stinks. How delighted do you expect me to be when you hove into view with your sickly cloud'o'stink?
It's nothing personal and it's not a value judgement. I just want it to stop.
>> No. 33667 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 2:50 pm
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>>33663
>Also you look like you're giving a lightsaber a blowie.

This is the first convincing argument I've heard against vaping and causing me to have a think about my behaviour. In public at least.
>> No. 33668 Anonymous
9th November 2022
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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>>33667

Don't be a fanny. Only fannies care what other people think.
>> No. 33669 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 1:07 am
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Another buggering mouse has started to do the double click thing.

Can they not use reliable switches in anything nowadays?
>> No. 33670 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 5:44 am
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>>33669

This is a mildly interesting problem that's a bit more complicated than you might expect.

All electrical switches are slightly unreliable, because it's impossible to make or break an electrical contact instantaneously. There's always a small period of instability where the switch contacts haven't quite come into full contact, or haven't quite fully separated. Rather than getting a simple on/off, there's always a tiny fraction of a second before the contacts settle where the electrical connection is on-off-on-off-on-off.

This isn't a new problem, so most things that use a momentary switch for digital signalling use a debouncing circuit to disregard this momentary fluctuation. This worked fine for many years, but it does have one shortcoming - the debouncing process introduces a very small delay. Nobody used to care about this, but as normal people have moved away from desktop computers, most mice are marketed towards competitive gamers. A couple of milliseconds of delay between pressing your mouse button and something happening wouldn't be noticed by most people, but to a competitive gamer it could be the difference between winning a firefight and getting shot in the head.

Because of this, gaming mice tend to use very aggressive debouncing with a bare minimum amount of delay that works fine when the switch is new, but starts to fail over time when the switch contacts wear and oxidise. Avoiding gaming mice might sound like the obvious solution, but such a large proportion of mice are bought by gamers that non-gaming mice are often just the guts of a gaming mouse in a more grown-up looking package.

Some premium mice are now starting to use optical switches, which are inherently bounce-free; because they detect the interruption of a light beam, there is never any bounce and there are no contacts to wear out. The cheapest option with this technology is the Roccat Burst Core, which is currently just £15 on a Black Friday deal from Amazon. Razer have a wide range of mice with optical switches and Logitech have started to dip their toe with the G502 X.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roccat-Burst-Core-Lightweight-ROC-11-751/dp/B08HR4K6QJ

If you're happy with your current mouse apart from the bouncing issues, you can replace your mouse switches, either with a new Omron switch or a higher-quality Kailh switch. This does involve soldering, but it isn't rocket science and you can get a basic soldering iron kit for about £20. Obviously that isn't a worthwhile investment for just this job, but learning to solder is incredibly useful.


>> No. 33671 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 7:48 am
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>>33666
I was a big advocate of electronic cigarettes to help people stop smoking, and now that it seems the biggest market is little kids some of whom might have never started smoking in the first place I'm somewhat frightened.
>> No. 33672 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:03 am
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>>33671

It's still basically a net win for public health - vaping is displacing smoking, so the number of young smokers is at a record low. Nicotine isn't good for you, but it's not particularly harmful either; the harms of smoking are overwhelmingly caused by smoke.

There was a lot of worry that vaping might act as a gateway to smoking for young people, but that just hasn't happened. The proportion of vapers who have never smoked remains quite stable at about 1%. The young people who end up vaping are almost entirely made up of young people who would have otherwise ended up smoking. There's a persistent argument that "we don't know the long-term effects of vaping", but I think that's spurious. We know what's in e-cigarette vapour and we know that none of the constituent chemicals are particularly harmful.
>> No. 33673 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 9:32 am
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>>33670

Great post lad. If only I'd read it before I'd ordered a plain G502, I would have actually gone for the X version to see if it makes a difference, they're both on offer for Black Friday by the looks. Ah well, I'll know for next time.

I can solder, I just don't think I'd be very handy at it on something that small. I did do the thing where you take the microswitch apart and bend back the pin a bit to fix it on one of my more expensive mouses a few years back, but it was such a fiddly job that ever since then I've just resolved to buy relatively cheap mice (no more than £30-40 quid) and accepted it as a fact of life that you have to replace them every 18-24 months.

>>33671

>some of whom might have never started smoking

I don't think there's any way to really prove that, any more than we can prove the inverse, that if it wasn't for vapes they WOULD have started smoking. The thing is nearly every long term smoker I know started out very young. I think it's more likely that we just have to accept kids are going to do daft stuff like that to be cool, and it's probably for the best that they only get onto fruitti tutti vapes rather than Lambert and Butler.

People who make arguments against vaping are nearly always explicitly ignoring the fact that it is demonstrably much less harmful than smoking, and talking about it as if it's basically the same thing, just packaged into some much more insidious electronified and rainbow flavoured form. They always act like it's a gateway drug, which I don't think there's much evidence to suggest. I would argue anyone who's interested in vaping (or indeed smoking) was already predisposed to try other recreational drugs; it's not that the milder ones led them down a slippery slope.
>> No. 33674 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:04 pm
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>>33672

>We know what's in e-cigarette vapour and we know that none of the constituent chemicals are particularly harmful.

I think it's a bit iffy. There have been people who suffered respiratory damage from vaping. Then again, at least over at cancerresearchuk, they're saying that it was from "contaminated illegal products".

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/is-vaping-harmful

They are a highly trusted institution, but reading that page, you can't help wondering if they're just trying to make vaping seem appealing to tobacco smokers, while underemphasizing the harmful effects it can have all of its own.

Myself, I went almost cold turkey from about 20 Lucky Strikes a day. Which is a lot, if you've ever smoked one. They're among the stronger big-brand cigarettes. When I started quitting, I went down to five to ten a day for about a week or two, and then one day I simply smoked my last fag, determined to make it my last ever. That was over ten years ago, and I haven't looked back. Haven't had a single puff since.

Not everybody has the will power, and it took me a couple of attempts before I eventually quit for good. I can see the benefit of getting people off fags via vaping, but I know plenty of people who seem to have been vaping for over a year or two and still aren't completely off it. Which kind of defeats the purpose a little bit.
>> No. 33675 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:41 pm
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>>33674

>There have been people who suffered respiratory damage from vaping. Then again, at least over at cancerresearchuk, they're saying that it was from "contaminated illegal products".

It's a well-documented issue. The people who suffered acute respiratory injury had used black market cannabis oil which had been adulterated with vitamin E acetate, which looks almost identical to cannabis oil in colour and consistency.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html

That's not something that we'd ever expect to happen with legitimate nicotine vape products, because they're regulated by law. Anyone bringing a vape product onto the British market has to register a declaration with Public Health England with a full manufacturing risk assessment and laboratory analysis of the product. The manufacturer or importer must demonstrate that both the liquid and the vapour do not contain toxicants that exceed established safe levels.

>I can see the benefit of getting people off fags via vaping, but I know plenty of people who seem to have been vaping for over a year or two and still aren't completely off it. Which kind of defeats the purpose a little bit.

Vaping is so much less harmful than smoking that it doesn't really matter. Nicotine itself is a relatively safe drug, but inhaling smoke every day is incredibly bad for you. From a public health perspective, we don't really care if people are addicted to nicotine so long as the delivery mechanism for that drug is reasonably safe. It's a straightforward harm reduction approach.
>> No. 33676 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 5:11 am
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ASLEF going on strike the one Saturday I need to be on a train? Haha, that's so cool, I love living in the UK. It's so warm and lovely here, I don't feel like it's a prison you can occasionally go on a country walk in. Not at all.
>> No. 33677 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 12:13 am
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>>33676
They have form for this, ASLEF is an anagram for "total and complete bastard" after all.
>> No. 33678 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 4:45 am
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>>33676

I support the right to strike, but the approach of ASLEF and the RMT seems like a catastrophic strategic error. Passenger numbers are still well below pre-pandemic levels, with lots of people still working from home at least part of the time and a big reduction in business travel due to the greater acceptability of video conferencing. The train operating companies are (not unreasonably) arguing that this reduction in passenger numbers is likely to persist, which will leave the industry significantly over-staffed and in need of rationalisation. I'm not sure that the unions' strategy of "make the railways so chronically unreliable that everyone finds a different way of getting around" is really going to help matters.
>> No. 33679 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 1:51 pm
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>>33678
>I'm not sure that the unions' strategy of "make the railways so chronically unreliable that everyone finds a different way of getting around" is really going to help matters.

Completely agreed - it is plain to see how low train numbers are from the state of station car parks, and the business of the roads at rush hour; many people have given up on public transport.

The whole South East/London conurbation used to largely depend on rail, otherwise people can't live in their bijou houses one hour from London and still get to work every day - the pandemic has changed all that calculation, probably for a long time, if not good.
>> No. 33680 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 4:21 pm
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>>33679
Rail passenger numbers are (strike days aside) over 90% the pre-pandemic levels.

>The train operating companies are (not unreasonably) arguing that this reduction in passenger numbers is likely to persist, which will leave the industry significantly over-staffed and in need of rationalisation.
This is nonsense. Many of them are chronically understaffed. The West Coast route has been suffering record levels of delays and cancellations due to staff shortages. Virgin introduced their "VHF" timetable which ran 3 trains per hour each to Birmingham and Manchester. The current operators, Avantany as in Avantany Drivers reduced that to 1tph on weekdays and "definitely maybe" at weekends because of a years-long failure to retain, or recruit and train, enough drivers to keep the service running 7 days a week.
>> No. 33681 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 5:38 pm
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>>33680

>Rail passenger numbers are (strike days aside) over 90% the pre-pandemic levels.

The ORR says otherwise.

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/passenger-rail-usage/

>This is nonsense. Many of them are chronically understaffed.

The rail network is arguably understaffed in terms of drivers, but badly overstaffed everywhere else. We have two unions with completely different policies - ASLEF who have historically constrained the supply of drivers to maintain their negotiating power, and the RMT who have historically used (often spurious) safety arguments to justify excessive levels of staffing.

Regarding the former, ASLEF like to argue that the railway network "runs on goodwill", because of the large proportion of driver hours that are worked as voluntary overtime. What they don't mention is that drivers have much lower contractual hours than their actual working patterns as a direct result of ASLEF's negotiation stance. Driver contracts are intentionally restricted to prevent a full service from being operated (e.g. no rostering on Sundays) to force BR/the TOCs to depend on voluntary overtime. It's an issue that has been hanging over the railways for half a century.

https://swarb.co.uk/secretary-of-state-for-employment-v-aslef-no-2-ca-1972/

To give an example of the latter, part of the current RMT dispute is about the planned closure of some ticket offices. The number of passengers using ticket offices has dropped precipitously due to the massive shift towards app-based tickets, ticket machines and contactless payment that was accelerated during the pandemic.

The RMT argue that the closure of ticket offices will make the railway network a "mugger's paradise". Many of the ticket offices slated for closure have operated for years on a part-time basis, opening only during the morning peak; it's unclear to me how a middle-aged woman sat behind a ticket window between 7:30am and 10:30am is expected to prevent many muggings.

To bring up the inevitable comparisons with our European counterparts, Norway and Sweden have no ticket offices at all and the Netherlands has only ten ticket offices. I can only assume that boarding a train in Norway is like getting the last helicopter out of Saigon.

Some of the least busy stations with a staffed ticket office are used by an average of less than 100 passengers per day. Those passengers are effectively paying £1 per journey in ticket office staff wages for the option of being able to pay cash for a paper ticket. Every aspect of our rail network is blighted by this - hundreds of little inefficiencies that add up to a millstone. Every aspect of running the railways costs much more than it should.
>> No. 33682 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>The ORR says otherwise.
Those are average figures from April to June. My calendar says November. What about yours?

https://www.railtech.com/all/2022/06/07/uk-railway-passenger-numbers-recover-to-90-percent-of-pre-covid-levels/
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/07/rail-passenger-numbers-over-90-of-pre-pandemic-levels.html
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2022/08/25-national-rail-passenger-numbers-recover.html

>Driver contracts are intentionally restricted to prevent a full service from being operated (e.g. no rostering on Sundays)
I don't know where you're getting your information from here. ASLEF's current position, held since 2010, is for a four-day pattern in a 7-day week, with consecutive days off.
https://aslef.org.uk/about/aslef-charter

>The RMT argue that the closure of ticket offices will make the railway network a "mugger's paradise".
That perhaps is a little disingenuous the only mugging going on is the fares but in areas where ticket barriers are in operation, for safety reasons the barriers cannot operate unattended. In a number of places, the barriers are operated remotely from the ticket office. There are also a whole range of tickets which, for various reasons, are available only from humans, and not via TVMs, apps or websites. (Some of them are available online, but need to be ordered in advance, and will be sent to you as paper tickets in the post.) These probably shouldn't be limited in this way, but while they are, and while we insist on installing fare gates, staffed stations will still need to be a thing. Like the guards, if you do away with station staff, they'll only end up being redeployed as obnoxious RPIs, and that doesn't help anyone.
>> No. 33683 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 8:51 pm
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No one but the delivery driver should be allowed within 100m of my house once I've ordered something. Food, tech-tat, doesn't matter, stay away.
>> No. 33684 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 9:51 pm
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>>33682
>My calendar says November. What about yours?

The links you have posted are all June, July and August though. I think I trust the regulator (ORR) more than a Dutch train blog.
>> No. 33685 Anonymous
27th November 2022
Sunday 10:27 pm
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>>33682

The statistics given in those articles are very different to the statistics given in the source they're citing. I don't know whether they're just repeating something off Twitter without actually reading it, or if the original published data was badly wrong and had to be revised. Either way, passenger numbers only hit 90% of pre-pandemic levels for about a week at the end of August and are currently fluctuating between the low 70s and high 80s.

It's worth noting that (according to that data source) all forms of public transport and car travel on weekdays is still significantly below pre-pandemic levels.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094056/COVID-19-transport-use-statistics.ods
>> No. 33686 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 9:47 am
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>>33685
>all forms of public transport and car travel on weekdays is still significantly below pre-pandemic levels

Same with air traffic - I am observing about 65% of the traffic over the South East as I used to, pre-pandemic.
>> No. 33687 Anonymous
28th November 2022
Monday 5:56 pm
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I can't tell if I accidentally took my antidepressants twice, or if I've got mild food poisoning.
>> No. 33688 Anonymous
29th November 2022
Tuesday 10:46 pm
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Just ate a bowl of cereal as a late night snack, bit down on a lump of something hard and now my mouth tastes of blood.
>> No. 33689 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 2:28 am
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I couldn't think of a satisfying conclusion to an erotic short story, so I decided to have the "taker" get poked a bit too far and puke up violently, before disgusting their partner to the point where they must shower away the cream of vegetable soup (consecutively, NOT together) and self-exile to separate beds. I hope this is actually someone's fetish so I don't have to think of something more likely. It was fun writing the onomatopoeia, though:

Player 1: That wasn't exactly in th- [BOOMPH] OOOWEERRGH SHHHIIIT! [UuuUuuuUhhhhhwwwaaaAAAAghhhh]
Player 2 makes good use of the bedsprings to slam right up to Player 1's stomach... that's a glitch!
Player 1: [grimacing] Ahhngghh... ahh shit NOoo stopstopSTOP
Player 2 keeps slamming out of instinct, like a puppy humping a stuffed toy
Player 1 soon projectile vomits all over her tits and Player 2's face

Player 2: [splutters and swats the chunks away from his gob] Awwww WHAT THE FUCK!
[Yeeeeaaaahhh that stopped him]
Player 1: [uuurrrp] Ssssorry [BLEEEEUURP] mmebbe that... wasn't in the data...
Player 2: WOW, I really wish this was my "thing", but I reckon we both need a shower and bed. Separate beds. Separate showers too. Gotto think about stuff.
Player 1: [WHHHHEEEEUURRRGHHH] eeeehhhyess [spits] fffuck, that really didn't turn out the way I wanted, [pffffthhh] I'm so sorry... [oooOOOAAAAuuuuGHHHHH]
Player 2: [rubs and pats Player 1's back as if to get the last drops out] Looks like Cream of Vegetable Soup. For once the cream's not mine, though. You need to learn to handle your drink.
Player 1: [hhhwoooaaarrrrkkkkk] Hahaaaa fffuckk offff [pffffthooo-pthhh-pff]
Player 2: Maybe also it's time we started being a bit nicer to the Programmers. They put up with a lot of shite from the both of us.
Player 1: [pants desperately] Yeeeahhh, I put it down to jeal- [sssplleeeeeuurrghh] ...jealousy, but from the beginning we've only ever teased them [uuuurrppp-]
>> No. 33690 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 2:37 am
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>>33689
Is this GPT-2?
>> No. 33691 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 2:41 am
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>>33690

Fuckin' better not be, or else I'm not real.
>> No. 33692 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 2:47 am
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The thing about generative language models is that they always try to walk it in.
>> No. 33693 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 3:01 am
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>>33692

And my story clearly hit the crossbar and snapped it, ya muppet.
>> No. 33694 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 3:12 am
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>>33692
Goalhangers more like.
>> No. 33695 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 12:56 pm
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I really need to unlearn my most teenaged habit, which is that you have one shower in a 24-36 hour period and if you miss that window the process resets. I know that makes zero sense but I find myself subconsciously doing that quite often.
>> No. 33696 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 7:51 pm
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The government should make it illegal for people to whinge about their jobs to me in lieu of an actual conversation. I simply do not care how snippy John sounded in his email to you.
>> No. 33697 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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>>33695
I havn't showered for about 10 days.
>> No. 33698 Anonymous
30th November 2022
Wednesday 9:50 pm
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>>33697

I, for one, don't even own a shower.
>> No. 33699 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 1:51 am
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I subscribed to the Patreon of a podcast because they promised mucky bits in the Patreon-only extras. There are no mucky bits, just stuff that wasn't good enough to go in the main episode. DECEPTION.
>> No. 33700 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 3:54 am
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Is subbing to a Patreon one of those parasocial thingies? I don't get the appeal of it.
>> No. 33701 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 4:51 am
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>>33700
It's like OnlyFans but without as much porn.
>> No. 33702 Anonymous
1st December 2022
Thursday 10:49 am
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>>33700

Sometimes you get extra stuff, sometimes it's just a gesture of goodwill. Some content creators clearly play on the parasocial thing in an exploitative way, but others make a straightforward business case - this thing is free for everyone, but some proportion of you need to chip in to make it economically viable.

I know it seems profligate in a cost-of-living crisis, but back in the olden days I had no problem with spending a fiver on a magazine. I know that the internet has trained us to expect everything for free, but I think it's perfectly fair to chip in a couple of quid for something I enjoy. Patreon allows people to make weird niche things that otherwise wouldn't be viable.
>> No. 33703 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 12:02 am
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Had my fucking catalytic converter nicked. Fucking hell.
>> No. 33704 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 12:04 am
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>>33703

These people are really going to have to get creative once we're all driving 'lectrics.
>> No. 33705 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 8:58 am
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>>33703
Isn't that a free performance upgrade?
>> No. 33706 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 3:55 pm
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>>33705

Also an MOT failure and a massive garage bill.
>> No. 33707 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 6:52 pm
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Chip shops that don't sell pickled eggs. I have come to accept the demise of the pickled egg as a pub snack, but a chippy without pickled eggs has lost its soul.
>> No. 33708 Anonymous
4th December 2022
Sunday 7:46 pm
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>>33707

Conversely, I've always hated pickled eggs. Or eggs in general. I don't even like eggs for breakfast in any shape or form. As part of a recipe like in a cake, no problem. But nothing that recognisably contains eggs as such. I just don't like the taste.

I'm weird, I know.
>> No. 33709 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 9:25 pm
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I can't log in to my account on my favourite porn torrent tracker. I think someone has hacked my account. It's a bit depressing that my seeding ratio might be more valuable to hackers than my bank details.
>> No. 33710 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 10:03 pm
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>>33706
Not to mention hearing damage and not being able to have the windows open because of the fumes.
>> No. 33711 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 6:03 am
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>>33707
I don't like the eggs, but the vinegar from them is delicious on chips, the best vinegar, and I won't hear a word against it.
>> No. 33712 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 8:16 am
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>>33711
You can't beat vinegar flavour non-brewed condiment.
>> No. 33713 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 9:35 am
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>>33712
Mmm, microplastics.
>> No. 33714 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 1:08 pm
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>>33712
It's never "original flavour", that relied on actually making one. The bottled crap is engineered flavour profiles that mimic shit.
>> No. 33715 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 1:27 pm
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>>33714

Non-brewed condiment is just a cheaper version of malt vinegar, but they can't legally use the words "malt" or "vinegar" anywhere on the packaging. I do not envy the people who sat in the meetings to decide what to put on that label.


>> No. 33716 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 2:45 pm
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>>33715
I generally find Tom Scott's videos a little unsettling because he usually sounds like he has a stitch.
>> No. 33717 Anonymous
9th December 2022
Friday 11:07 pm
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Endless fucking emails offering SEO to increase revenue and clicks. It's a website for a non-profit and already first result for the very specific thing it relates to you spamming cunts. Figure out your marketing target properly.
>> No. 33718 Anonymous
10th December 2022
Saturday 12:30 am
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I could live to be 100 and still not be certain if I actually enjoy eating bananas.
>> No. 33719 Anonymous
10th December 2022
Saturday 5:52 pm
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>>33718
Starch sticks or sugar sticks, depending on when you eat them. If you don't like them, don't eat them. Not least because anything "banana" flavoured tends to be disgusting.
>> No. 33720 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 12:49 am
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I put my work lunches in the slow cooker earlier, then went out to the pub. I got home to find I had not plugged in the slow cooker. Fucking, fucking, fuck bastard. Guess I'm cooking my lunches overnight. This really is an infinitesimally minor rant, but I'm angry nevertheless.
>> No. 33721 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 1:00 am
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>>33719

I do like fried bananas or dried banana crisps. But I don't normally enjoy eating fresh bananas.

Fried banana is a real treat and has a surprisingly strong sweet flavour. Simply cut a regular peeled banana in half lengthwise and fry it in butter at low heat on both sides for a few minutes until it becomes soft and golden brown. Absolutely delicious.
>> No. 33722 Anonymous
13th December 2022
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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Bruised my fucking coccyx again. Can't sit, can't sleep, it even canes with walking if I'm not careful. I don't even know how, the only thing I did differently lately was sex on a thinner mattress than normal.
>> No. 33723 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 3:36 pm
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Like a complete boob I turned my PC off before leaving the house, forgetting that I live in the armpit of nowhere and I need three days to download a game the size of Red Dead Redemption 2. Precious hours pretending to be a cowboy lost, never to be regained.
>> No. 33724 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:08 pm
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>>33723

Seems a bit "Cargo-Cult"-ish to think that farming with lassos and losing a gunfight because your eyes were gritty with the dust from a freak sandstorm would be more appropriate than developing a rewarding symbiotic relationship with a Border Collie. Sort yer priorities out, Lad.
>> No. 33725 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>33724

So what you're saying is he should get Farming Simulator instead?
>> No. 33726 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:19 pm
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Some debt collection company have rung my mum and dad's house asking for me. Never heard of them, but they seem legit when I googled them. Only question is what I supposedly owe someone for this time, and perhaps more pertinently, how they got my old home phone number that I haven't given to anyone in about a decade. Smells fishy.

I'm fucking sick of these parasite cunts though. I've had more run-ins with them in my life than your average person, but only one of those times was sincerely my own actual fault. Every single other time has been some crooked dodgy company fucking up, failing to admit their mistake, then trying to fuck me over. They're basically just legal con-men. Modern day privateers.
>> No. 33727 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 8:57 pm
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>>33724
I have only recently finished installing it and am currently slogging through Rockstar's "Social Club" horseshit so I have zero idea what you're on about. Really hate publisher mandated third party account nonsense.
>> No. 33728 Anonymous
14th December 2022
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>33725

Yes, or Goat Simulator 3 if he's a City Boy.
>> No. 33729 Anonymous
18th December 2022
Sunday 8:45 pm
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Motherfucker.
Three years without catching covid, then two weeks of frantic european travelling for work, settle down to a long awaited 2-week break using hoarded holiday, and I've got the motherfucking plague.
Fuck it, I'm going to cancel my holiday booking, phone it in and half-arse it, and carry too much over. Work travel gave me this, work can fucking deal with it.
I feel like shit, and I'm not happy. Nor is the Mrs.
>> No. 33730 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 10:25 am
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Registered with new GP surgery on November 13th due to moving house. Ring them this morning to book an appointment. On hold for literally 95 minutes, then they say they haven't approved my switch over yet, and will do so "when they have time", and there are no appointments available. What's the point on having a telephone queue if they're just not going to honour it?
>> No. 33731 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 2:20 pm
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Ordered from a really nice Mexican place last week, and I was dead excited because having a good Mexican to order from is rare. They always seem to go out of business because Mexican isn't all that popular to begin with, and the ones that do exist seem to be really bad at managing their restaurants.

Anyway I went on it to order some lunch today and apparently they have decided they don't want to deliver this far. Fuck 'em, they deserve their inevitable bankruptcy.
>> No. 33732 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 3:45 pm
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>>33731

We had a Mexican restaurant about half a mile down the main road here for a while, but it didn't do well. Which was not a big surprise, we ate there one time and the food was shit. I remember I ordered a starter of baked courgettes with cheese and salsa, but the courgettes were falling apart in really not a nice way and the cheese had melted into a rubbery mess. It was also completely bland. I then had a grilled meat platter with extremely overcooked steaks and chicken breast. The chips they served with it were also tough as nails.

The place held on for about another year before it closed down. Probably also because of covid, but just the food alone should have been enough to put them out of business.

Just the other day, I spotted a new sign above the entrance driving by, and apparently it has just reopened as a Tandoori restaurant. If it's run by the same people, then I think I'll pass.
>> No. 33733 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 10:57 pm
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I'm having an argument wit ha bunch of Yanks who can't get it through their head that their accent is the only one that rhymes words like hawk, talk, walk, squawk etc with words like cock, sock, lock, etc. One of them literally said "I can't imagine any way to say them so that they don't rhyme."

How are Yanks so unbelievably sheltered.
>> No. 33734 Anonymous
19th December 2022
Monday 11:55 pm
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>>33733

>How are Yanks so unbelievably sheltered.

Have they asked you if you've met the Queen King?

American English has its strengths and its weaknesses. It can be refreshingly simplistic, just like its speakers, but it also often lacks loads of nuance where it should matter.
>> No. 33735 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 2:15 am
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May have accidentally done an emergency call while fiddling with my phone. I hope the rozzers don't come.
>> No. 33736 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 9:32 am
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If tomatoes and other fruit can be considered 'culinary vegetables' then rice is a culinary pasta.
>> No. 33737 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 12:23 pm
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The bin men keep mixing up our bin and that of the neighbours. I'm not being funny, but ours is newer. Also, the neighbours have small children and their used nappies get stuck to the bottom of the bin, especially when it's freezing. Not to mention the smell.
>> No. 33738 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 1:06 pm
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>>33737

https://binstickers.co.uk/
>> No. 33739 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 1:53 pm
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If I pretend it's not raining 45 minutes after I put loads of washing out it will stop.
>> No. 33740 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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This sudden warm weather is a nightmare for those of us with poorly heated metalworking workshops. My big machines weigh a couple of tonnes each and they're made of cast iron. They're still ice cold and will take days to warm up, during which time they'll attract condensation like a cold pint on a summer day. It's a constant round of oily rags and hope to try and stop the rust from setting in.
>> No. 33741 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 4:19 pm
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>>33740
I'd like to see one of those tragic Christmas appeal charity ads for this.
>> No. 33742 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 5:39 pm
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>>33740

You've probably considered it already, but those Chinese diesel heaters are fantastic. Mine costs about 12p an hour to run on red diesel, and of course it'd be basically free to run it on waste oil, but obviously we can't do that as the government says it's illegal.
>> No. 33743 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>33741

Scene: A man is forlornly scrubbing rust from a milling vise with a wire brush.

Trevor won't be singing any carols this Christmas. He won't be eating turkey or pulling crackers. Due to the unseasonably warm weather, Trevor is trapped in his workshop, wiping condensation from the bearing surfaces of his machine tools. Trevor wants to stop, but if he stops, the rust will take over. Spreading like a cancer, the rust will turn every inch of his equipment into a filthy, crumbling mess.

It doesn't have to be like this. For just £10, you can give Trevor a bottle of Boeshield T-9, protecting his machinery against rust. For £20, you can give him 10kg of rags, sparing him the indignity of wiping down his machinery with old t-shirts and cut-up bits of bedsheet. For £130, he can hire a dehumidifier from HSS for the week.

Around the UK, thousands of machinists like Trevor are struggling alone against the misery of condensation. Please, think of the machinists this Christmas.
>> No. 33744 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 6:26 pm
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>>33742

The problem occurs when hot air hits a cold machine, so a better heater could make matters worse unless I kept it running to maintain a constant temperature. Some people use a little heating element attached to the machine frame to keep it slightly above ambient temperature; that'll protect the machine itself, but it won't protect stocks of metal or big accessories like vises and dividing heads that aren't attached to a machine all the time.

I have reasonable insulation, so the workshop tends to warm up and cool down fairly slowly as the weather changes and I don't normally have problems with condensation. I hadn't banked on a change in temperature as extreme as the one we saw on Sunday/Monday. I can't recall experiencing anything like it. Everyone seems to have been ambushed by it - my social feeds are full of similar tales of woe.
>> No. 33745 Anonymous
20th December 2022
Tuesday 9:55 pm
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>>33740
I work in a warehouse full of thousands of tonnes of steel bars. Monday morning the place was like the Titanic freshly raised from the bottom of the sea.
>> No. 33746 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 12:24 am
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>>33745

Fuck, I hadn't even thought about stockholders. I can only imagine the state of your racks.
>> No. 33747 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 3:59 am
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>>33744

I don't know how I managed to misread your post so spectacularly, sorry about that. I suppose I could still recommend the heater for next time, they do really put a lot of BTUs out for not much fuel. Certainly enough to keep my workshop above zero with only a few of hours of burn a day. I don't have anything particularly big in my place, just engines, but they're warm enough.

I suppose you could rent a big fuck off dehumidifier.
>> No. 33748 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 11:07 am
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Get stuffed, Ocado. A minimum order of £90 from the 20th? I guess I'll buy a pair of M&S pajama bottoms and a hat then, but I'll laugh last when they're back in your warehouse before the New Year.
>> No. 33749 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 11:49 am
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>>33748
>Ocado

Ha, my marketing has worked. I got the free box of Hotel Chocolat in the end, but most of them were awful.
>> No. 33750 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 12:03 pm
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>>33749
It has. However, only because I've been horrendously ill since Friday.

Actually I owe you a thanks otherwise I'd be doing lobster and frozen pizza for Christmas dinner.
>> No. 33751 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 4:28 pm
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I'm going to start a religion with a god who uses all the vowels for a name so I can ask others not to use them in vain because that's very offensive to my faith.
>> No. 33752 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 6:21 pm
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>>33751
Taking it a step further, most religions give their deities multiple names. So give yours about a hundred or so of the most commonly-used nouns in the English language.
>> No. 33753 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 7:08 pm
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>>33751

I'll join your religion as long as your god commands his followers to be shitfaced all the time, especially when driving.
>> No. 33754 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 7:29 pm
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>>33753

There'll definitely be a commandment about being allowed to carry folding knives with locks because that's just common sense.
>> No. 33755 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 8:27 pm
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>>33743
Ever since you posted this and I looked for cleaning rags on Amazon, they've been spamming me with these absurd sex* dolls

* for somewhat specialist interpretations of sex.
>> No. 33756 Anonymous
21st December 2022
Wednesday 11:59 pm
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>>33755

It looks like a shit Spiderman knock off doll.
>> No. 33757 Anonymous
22nd December 2022
Thursday 12:28 am
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>>33755

Eh, I'd fuck it.
>> No. 33758 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 2:52 am
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Introverts are scum.
>> No. 33759 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 3:19 am
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>>33758

You chose the wrong place to bandy about that sort of slander, ladm8.
>> No. 33760 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 12:21 pm
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>>33758

No wonder they're introverts if you keeping being like that towards them.
>> No. 33761 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 1:21 pm
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Old men who dress like "old men" wearing clothes that old men would have worn sixty years ago. They're not looking old fashioned by dressing like they did when they were young, they're looking old fashioned by dressing like their grandparents did. It's pretentious, or cosplay at least.
>> No. 33762 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 1:41 pm
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>>33761

I posit that the opposite is almost equally ludicrous. When you see grizzly 60 year olds wearing jeans and trainers and a hoodie.
>> No. 33763 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 5:28 pm
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>>33762

Certain people can get away with it. I absolutely cannot explain why certain old blokes wear a hoodie and just look like they're a retired boxer, and others do it and look like they're starring in a disney channel body swap comedy, but that's how it works.

Similar with women, my mum has tattoos and wears contemporary clothes but it just works for her, while I know women half her age who would look daft wearing Doc Martens already.
>> No. 33764 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 6:22 pm
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I was looking at where to stream a specific film, when from the blue the tenth or so search result was "ENDING EXPLAINED: Who killed Character Name?". And despite having subscriptions to three streaming services, none of them have the film available unless I pay extra.

>>33759
>>33760
I left a comment on a Guardian article about introverts almost two weeks ago. I was saying how it's important that if you see someone who's been cut out of a gathering to try to include them, don't leave them isolated, give them a way into a conversation. I got three replies all haranguing me for doing "forced fun" or how it's actually much better to be excluded from social occasions because no cunt's talking to you. In fairness, these people aren't even introverts, they're arseholes. Even the most retiring wallflower around doesn't actually enjoy being ignored and feeling like a social freak.
>> No. 33765 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 6:30 pm
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>>33763

I've also noticed that some women no longer observe an age limit for miniskirts. or low-cut tops. I'm an old fart myself, so who am I to moan, I've become unsightly enough myself, but I'm not sure what 45 year old women are really going for dressing like they've just passed their A levels. Even if menopause hasn't rid you of all resemblance to the kind of figure you had back then.
>> No. 33766 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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>>33764

>I left a comment on a Guardian article
>> No. 33767 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:03 pm
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I had a Guardian account about six or seven years ago but I quickly got fed up of being othered in the comments section. Having an opinion on anything meant that I was simultaneously a Russian bot, a Tory who should fuck off to The Telegraph and a Trot who should fuck off to The Morning Star; having a new account means you're extra suspicious. The amount of cherry picking to completely misrepresent your point was also ridiculous. The only fun part about the whole thing was when one of the writers would go below the line because the majority of them were hopeless.
>> No. 33768 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:23 pm
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>>33767

Wrongthink in an echo chamber? Who'd have imagined...
>> No. 33769 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:30 pm
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>>33768
I can't remember the last time I saw the words "ad hominem attack!" in an online discussion, but it used to get thrown around like confetti over there. I'm glad I'm well shot of it.
>> No. 33770 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:54 pm
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>>33768
You can't really call it an "echo chamber" based on his post, seeing as people were slating him for a whole bunch of different reasons.

For the record if you're managing to get yourself labled a Tory cunt and a unreconsituted Stalinist it's probably your fault.
>> No. 33771 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:56 pm
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>>33769

Did you say men can't be lesbians - careful now, H from Steps might be after your back(door)
>> No. 33772 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 7:57 pm
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>>33770

I can call it what I want, Stalin
>> No. 33773 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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>>33770
>For the record if you're managing to get yourself labled a Tory cunt and a unreconsituted Stalinist it's probably your fault.

I've no idea what it's like these days, but it used to be rife BTL that commenters would be desperate to label anyone with a differing viewpoint as the other so they could outright dismiss their opinion as they had no real idea how to constructively challenge or dismantle it.
>> No. 33774 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 8:45 pm
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>>33773

I'm detecting a lot of criticism here sir
>> No. 33775 Anonymous
27th December 2022
Tuesday 11:10 pm
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Man's got a point tho.

You lads know me as the resident "it's always about class" die hard socialist, but I've been banned from practically every single lefty subreddit, for a whole host of petty reasons. The Blairite Labour sub banned me for both being a rampant anti-Semite Corbynite, and the Momentum one banned me for being a crypto-right wing Blairite. You can always tell it was really just that some indignant cunt of a moderator didn't like what you had to say, and found a flimsy excuse to ban you to shut you up.

The internet nowadays is filled with echo chambers that really are just places people want to mutually ego-masturbate, and hate having any dissenting opinion, even (or especially) when it comes from someone who is on "their side". They are not places for discussion, they are places for validation.
>> No. 33776 Anonymous
28th December 2022
Wednesday 10:21 am
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>>33775

I'd give you that adage about "If you run into a cunt, you ran into a cunt. If you run into cunts all day..." but it's reddit you're talking about.
>> No. 33777 Anonymous
28th December 2022
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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>>33775

Who actually goes to reddit for earnest debate.
>> No. 33778 Anonymous
28th December 2022
Wednesday 2:04 pm
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>>33776
>>33777

So where exactly do you go instead, smartlads?

Exactly.
>> No. 33779 Anonymous
28th December 2022
Wednesday 2:11 pm
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>>33778
Here, obviously.
>> No. 33781 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 12:31 pm
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I've picked up the entire A Series of Unfortunate Events books from a charity shop today. They're unread and would be in mint condition if it wasn't for the fact one of the volunteers decided to write the price on the sticky labels after they'd put them on the covers, rather than before like a normal person, meaning
each one has £1 deeply embossed on the front.
>> No. 33782 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 1:10 pm
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>>33781
Well that's an unfortunate event innit.
>> No. 33783 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>>33782
If they've done it on every single book, it would be a whole series of them.
>> No. 33784 Anonymous
3rd January 2023
Tuesday 6:58 pm
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People who have such poor control of their supermarket trolley that they keep bumping into you or miss your car by a mere fraction of an inch while going past it in the car park.
>> No. 33785 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 6:17 pm
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>>33784
>miss your car by a mere fraction of an inch while going past it in the car park
I do this on purpose because I get points for a close miss. The closer the miss, the more points I get.
>> No. 33786 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 9:00 pm
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I think my favourite thing about infinite scrollnig is how often is simply breaks down entirely and makes an entire webpage basically unusable, or at the very least much more of a hassle.
>> No. 33787 Anonymous
4th January 2023
Wednesday 9:07 pm
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I'm glad I wasn't complaining about infinite *scrolling in a work email. Don't buy a cheap wireless keyboard, lads, it's not worth it.
>> No. 33788 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 9:57 am
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>>33786
Facebook is entirely broken now. If I click a picture to look at it, I can't click the X to get rid of it. I have to press Esc on my computer keyboard, which is no use for the colossal percentage of Facebook users who are on a phone or tablet.
>> No. 33789 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 2:10 pm
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Does the bloody Archers really have to be on about four times a fucking day? No matter when I choose to have my lunch or fag breaks, it's always the fucking Archers.
>> No. 33790 Anonymous
5th January 2023
Thursday 2:25 pm
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>>33789
Now you can get that awful feeling anytime you like:


You could probably pick out something else from the Radio 4 schedule via the Whatever BBC Radio Player Is Called This Week app.
>> No. 33791 Anonymous
6th January 2023
Friday 9:45 pm
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A new series of Father Brown has started today but I don't think Bunty is in it.
>> No. 33792 Anonymous
7th January 2023
Saturday 10:07 pm
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I really like It's Always Sunny, not exactly a controversial opinion, but whenever they use CGI for a gag I just don't find it even a little bit funny. Maybe there's some gene in my head that makes me hyper aware of it, or I'm just a prick. Both could be true also.
>> No. 33793 Anonymous
8th January 2023
Sunday 2:06 am
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>>33792

When have they done this? I don't doubt they have, I just don't remember it.
>> No. 33794 Anonymous
8th January 2023
Sunday 12:12 pm
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>>33793
There's the boat burning the end of the "implication" episode and the blood effect when Dee's hair gets ripped out when they visit the Jersey Shore. I think there are some others too, but those are the ones I've seen most recently. I get why they have to do it, but even so.
>> No. 33795 Anonymous
8th January 2023
Sunday 12:36 pm
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>>33791
God Peterson is so old now.
>> No. 33796 Anonymous
8th January 2023
Sunday 8:19 pm
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My shopping delivery is late. I was told as the slot came that it was going to be late. At 4pm I got a notiification saying it had been picked. At 7pm I got a notificfation saying I was next. I'm not sure where the previous delivery was because it's been an hour since then and it's still not here.

Also, hilariously, one of the substitutions is for an item I added because the thing I wanted was out of stock. They've substituted it with ... the thing I wanted in the first place.
>> No. 33797 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 1:01 am
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Any man who's ever worn a black shirt with a red tie should be deeply ashamed of himself.
>> No. 33798 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 1:15 am
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>>33797

Woah woah woah.
>> No. 33799 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 1:48 am
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>>33798
Case-in-point.
>> No. 33800 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 4:26 pm
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I closed my bank accounts with HSBC years ago, both the member of staff and the manager confirmed they were closed in person.
But I'm still getting emails from them which have turned into text messages saying I owe them for overdraft. I haven't got the cards, can't log into Internet banking, haven't authorised any payments or direct debits, local branch is closed so can't go there to sort it out and because I closed the accounts I don't have a record of the details they need to "verify" me on the phone because the people on there have no power whatsoever. Thanks to their fuck-up I'm being extorted by this fucking robot-voiced bureaucrat of a machine that'll keep racking up the bills because it every supposed way to opt out is a catch-22.
>> No. 33801 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 10:39 pm
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>>33800
Might be a pain in the arse but go to the nearest branch that isn't closed? Be less of a pain in the arse than trying to fight a CCJ.
>> No. 33802 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 10:56 pm
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A bit annoying when some moron spends a week - A WEEK - researching a fucking Chinese made hook and keeps on posting about it.
>> No. 33803 Anonymous
9th January 2023
Monday 10:59 pm
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>>33801
That's the plan, I was just pissed off as I made a special trip to my nearest branch to find it shut down and the next-nearest closing for the day in the same amount of time it would take to get there.
>> No. 33804 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 12:03 am
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Years of browsing the stupidest imageboards on the planet Earth has made it so this is the first I'm hearing of a Chinese hook. In fact I'm inured to the ramblings of the more mentally ill netizens I had to reread the post in this thread because I thought maybe it was a hook like in a song, which is a prime example of how incredibly powerful my mind has become through years of training. Just try to make me pay attention, I can't do it.
>> No. 33805 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 1:07 am
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>>33804
Mate, just buy it. You don't need years of academic studies before buying them.
>> No. 33806 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 10:13 am
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>>33802
I don't see why you're getting your knickers in a twist about hooklad. If it wasn't for him there wouldn't have been a single post in the weekday general thread yesterday; would you prefer that nobody posts at all?
>> No. 33807 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 6:08 pm
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>>33804
Don't forget your stylish cape!
>> No. 33808 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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>>33807
What?
>> No. 33809 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 6:37 pm
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The inflationary use of the attribute "vegan" in the last two to three years on food products that have by their nature always been vegan. I spotted a vegetable oil in Tesco tonight that touts itself as "100% vegan", as well as a bag of frozen chips that does the same.

Even some brands of hair shampoo seem to be in on it now. Who the fuck eats their shampoo.
>> No. 33810 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 6:56 pm
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>>33809

We had the same thing a few years ago with "gluten free".
>> No. 33811 Anonymous
10th January 2023
Tuesday 7:15 pm
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>>33809
I tried looking through the Ocado veganuary promotion but there was hundreds of items because it included things like Shredded Wheat and orange juice, so I gave up.
>> No. 33812 Anonymous
11th January 2023
Wednesday 8:36 pm
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>>33809
I prefer "vegan" over the glut of "plant based". My shit is "plant based", it means nothing on your advertising copy, say you're vegan or vegetarian and fuck off with that "plant based" none sense.
>> No. 33813 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 12:59 am
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I bought the fanciest wine I could find in a shop, the 2020 Chateauneuf du Pape red wine from Asda for £18, a few weeks ago. I haven't opened it for ages, because I don't want to drink it all in one go and I didn't have a bottle stopper to close the bottle again. But then I bought one! And I just opened the wine, and it really is very nice. It has a very mellow flavour, great for someone who wanted to feel fancy but doesn't particularly like wine.

Anyway, the bottle stopper is fucked. I don't think it works at all. You're meant to be able to push it onto the top of the bottle, then press the button for a vacuum seal. It wouldn't go on, and in the end I got it on by applying most of my body weight. Predictably, the button does fuck all now, and I am somewhat uncertain that I'll be able to remove it again. Fuck everything. Never buy anything nice, ever. Just stab people and take it. It's no worse than this world deserves.
>> No. 33814 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 1:00 am
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>>33813
It's a message from the universe to just drink all the wine.
>> No. 33815 Anonymous
12th January 2023
Thursday 1:17 am
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>>33813
You could try sabreing it, but I think that specifically only works with unopened champagne. Also you're lurching into The Lady Who Swallowed a Fly territory.

I think it says something about me that that's probably my most frequent literary reference, and it's not something good.
>> No. 33816 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 12:36 am
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Girlfriend has fallen asleep on my lap. I don't have the heart to wake her up, but I've been stuck here holding in a piss for four episodes of Red Dwarf and my vape liquid has almost run out. It mostly goes to shit after the second series too.
>> No. 33817 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 1:58 am
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>>33816
This is why they stash pillows.
>> No. 33818 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 2:44 pm
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>>33816
Should have pissed into the empty vape chamber.
>> No. 33819 Anonymous
13th January 2023
Friday 3:43 pm
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>>33818

New slang for arse just dropped.
>> No. 33820 Anonymous
14th January 2023
Saturday 1:05 am
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>>33819
We must innovate to survive.
>> No. 33821 Anonymous
14th January 2023
Saturday 11:10 am
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>>33816
I wouldn't draw the line at the second series, don't be a snob.
>> No. 33822 Anonymous
14th January 2023
Saturday 5:04 pm
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>>33821

Well, it still has plenty of laughs throughout series 3, but it's definitely getting stale by 4 and 5. 6 is puffing it's last breaths, and I don't think you'd disagree with me that by 7 it was dead. Especially if you binge watch it, you really notice some of the recycled jokes and premises.

It's weird for me though because I remember watching it a lot as a kid in the mid-late 90s, and none of it is really how I remember, which I'm sure affects how I judge it.
>> No. 33823 Anonymous
15th January 2023
Sunday 5:01 pm
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Cracked the windscreen of my new (to me) car after owning it for one day, whilst replacing the old wipers.

Fuck my LIFE. God forBID I have anyhing nice. It's covered on my insurance but it's still £115.

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