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>> No. 33824 Anonymous
15th January 2023
Sunday 10:33 pm
33824 Minor Rants and Piss-Offs, Mark IX
Dogs bark with the voices of children pretending to be dogs.
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>> No. 33825 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 1:35 am
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FUCK!
>> No. 33826 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 2:11 am
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>>33825
Do they sell fish to eat, or fish to keep as pets?
>> No. 33827 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 2:30 am
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>>33826

The fish is very much dead, but I suppose you can keep a salmon fillet as a pet if you don't mind the smell.
>> No. 33828 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 3:40 am
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>>33827
If the fish is dead, then clearly the Fish Society didn't do a particularly good job of protecting it.
>> No. 33829 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 9:43 am
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>>33828
It can be cured.
>> No. 33830 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 9:49 pm
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Wolfs.
>> No. 33831 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 10:33 pm
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>>33830
Sossijes.
>> No. 33832 Anonymous
16th January 2023
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>33829
I just want to acknowledge the quality here.
>> No. 33833 Anonymous
17th January 2023
Tuesday 10:02 am
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I very much approve of the new OP image.

>>33824

They sound that way because most dogs are small. Kids are small. Small vocal chords, innit.

Big dogs don't sound like that, because they're big.
>> No. 33834 Anonymous
17th January 2023
Tuesday 11:53 am
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>>33833
>the new OP image
What's up with the X? It looks distorted somehow.
>> No. 33835 Anonymous
17th January 2023
Tuesday 12:04 pm
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>>33834
It's the legs of the K mirrored and scaled up slightly because I couldn't be bothered to match the font.
>> No. 33836 Anonymous
17th January 2023
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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>>33835
It's Transport.

t. Maker of last thread.
>> No. 33837 Anonymous
19th January 2023
Thursday 9:40 am
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-60902318
The Full Monty to return as eight-part Disney+ TV series
The series features the original cast as well as new characters, namely their children and grandchildren
>> No. 33838 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 12:25 am
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It's fucking installed Edge by itself again.
>> No. 33839 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 12:44 am
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>>33838

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-remove-microsoft-edge-from-windows-10


Bit of a fiddle depending on your knowledge of Windows, but I did it a few months ago and it appears to be permanent. Works the same way under Windows 11.
>> No. 33840 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 8:14 am
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>>33838
Edge just popped up on my win7 box. Fuck's sake. It now opens instead of IE, pats itself on the back because 'this website works better in edge' - it doesn't, 'cos activeX, which s the reason I'm using fucking IE, and whines that edge isn't supported on win7. Is this carefully calculated to enrage me?
I only need the activeX widget to configure an annoying IP camera, so here's my /101/ - fucking longtail won't get in the trap.
>> No. 33841 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>33840

I'm rooting for him, personally. I hope he outsmarts you and your stubborn determination to kill him results in a series of violent but humorous slapstick accidents that ultimately culminate in the destruction of your house.
>> No. 33842 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 3:00 pm
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>>33841
I don't want him dead! He's an outdoors pet, though.
If I was prepared to poison him, he'd be long gone. All this pissing about with thermal cameras is to get the trap into a good position, and see if we can corral him in the bathroom, as his recent adventure out into the conservatory has been bad news and raised the stakes somewhat.
>> No. 33843 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 9:18 pm
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I don't like the new wikipedia layout template.
>> No. 33844 Anonymous
20th January 2023
Friday 10:54 pm
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>>33843
It looks like I keep being redirected to the phone version of each page. But if you look at their explainer page for why they've done this, it has a lot of good points, so I suspect I will get used to it eventually and one day I will forgive them.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-desktop/
>> No. 33845 Anonymous
21st January 2023
Saturday 12:19 am
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>>33843
I think I prefer it actually.
>> No. 33846 Anonymous
21st January 2023
Saturday 6:27 pm
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In an era of ubiquitous online shopping the suffering of just trying to buy a single Death Master Snikch mini from the godawful Games Workshop website is more profound than ever.
>> No. 33847 Anonymous
21st January 2023
Saturday 8:39 pm
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>>33846

That's probably because they don't do him anymore.

All the old characters got retcon'd, so there's a new generic "Deathmaster" model, they made Ikit Klaw into a generic "Arch Warlock" and Queek Headtaker into a generic "Clawlord", but the one you're probably thinking of is from several versions ago now.

You're better off shopping for minis on eBay anyway m8.
>> No. 33848 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 8:59 am
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>>33847
The UI being awful is separate from the model I wanted being discontinued.
>> No. 33849 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 9:20 am
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That sounded really cunty, I just mean I get that I should have bought the decade-plus old model a year ago (my fault), but the fact the website is just as shit as it was as when Mr Snikch first got his new groove is unforgivable (their fault).
>> No. 33850 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 10:42 am
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Zoomers are absurd prudes. I feel bad for genuine asexuals having their sexuality co-opted by a bunch of socially-anxious morons who mistake neuroses for being progressive.
>> No. 33851 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 11:01 am
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>>33850
I thought being sex-positive was supposed to be all the rage.
>> No. 33852 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 12:04 pm
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>>33851

There are a staggering number of people who are so afraid of sex that they can only face it in fiction, actively seeking out and creating erotic fiction and art because that's what turns them on. But it's a lot easier to brand themselves 'asexual' rather than admit that.
>> No. 33853 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 12:19 pm
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>>33851

It's socially unacceptable to be a prude, but young people have been raised in a #metoo environment where sex is fraught with peril. They're enthusiastic cheerleaders for sexuality in the abstract, but they're terrified of the practical act of bumping uglies. The kind of clumsy and drunken mis-steps that my generation made at their age are now regarded by many as unconscionable crimes. "Sex positivity" isn't really about sex, it's about the theory of sex.

The rise of kink fits in with this - ostensibly it's subversive, but in practice it adds a layer of admin to an act that is normally impulsive and intuitive. It turns sex into a live-action roleplaying game with pre-negotiated rules. It's an understandable response to a culture in which everyone is supposed to be shagging with merry abandon, but where nobody is allowed to get it wrong.
>> No. 33854 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:14 pm
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>>33853

We live in an age where any kind of nudity in the media is automatically for some reason sexist and will trigger an angry social media mob where accusations and the mention of #metoo begin to fly. That isn't to say that in the old days there was no outrage when supermodels posed for lingerie on life-sized bus stop adverts or when the Sun had its Page 3 models. But it was just a faint background noise next to an approving majority. I guess people taking offence today just have a far bigger reach and can kick up a twitter shitstorm in no time at all that will seem far bigger than the handful of people who are actually pursuing it in earnest.

And you can be any of the 10²³ genders today that some believe exist, even all at once if that's your thing, and express your gender identity that way. But heaven forbid it gets a bit more hands-on where people are actually having sex or where even the notion of sex and nudity is used and played with in the media and advertising.

I was a younglad in the 90s and did a few things I was never really proud of looking back. Attempting to get a lass drunk to get a leg over was considered a dodgy but still legitimate means. But all things considered, being a teenlad in the 90s meant that you were a lot more free to explore your actual active sexuality, and where not every questionable thing you did was considered a sex crime, neither legally nor by other people. Or most importantly, by the person you were having sex with.

I posit that in some ways, everything really was better in them old days, not least because all the younguns wo are nowadays complaining about this, that, and the other simply weren't born yet thirty years ago.
>> No. 33855 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:30 pm
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>>33854

>We live in an age where any kind of nudity in the media is automatically for some reason sexist and will trigger an angry social media mob where accusations and the mention of #metoo begin to fly.

I know people on the policy team at Meta (Facebook and Instagram). They're dealing with the weird double standard where if they allow porn on the platform they get complaints that they're perpetuating sexism, but if they block all tits they get complaints from the same people who say that censoring the female body is sexist.

Somehow they're expected to write a rulebook (and by extension a set of algorithms) that can distinguish between sexist tits and empowering tits. I can only assume that people are expecting a multinational social media company to resolve their own neuroses.
>> No. 33856 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:56 pm
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>>33853

Precisely this. You're spot on about the kink too, it's as much about creating an autism-freindly set of predictable and familiar steps to the process, as it is about indulging in any depravity. At the end of the day though we have always had mating rituals, unwritten rules of courtship you're each supposed to follow. This is just an evolution of those rituals to adapt to the times.

I think there's always going to be a pendulum swing in social attitudes, and my generation is simply lucky to be one of the ones who grew up in a period of highly permissive attitudes, and free of any real reasons to worry about it. The generation that comes after Gen Z will likely swing it back the other way, rejecting this self-contradictory progressive prudishness, and finding a way to deal with the social media panopticon that so strongly influences Gen Z's behaviour. Or so one can hope, at least. Because if not, we're all fucked.

Gen Z are quite uniquely messed up, in my opinion, because they're the first generation to grow up with the Internet and social media being such an integral part of daily life, right from their childhood, but having nobody to really guide them on it. Their parents might be tech savvy, more so than mine ever were, but they're still stumbling blind into the dark in many ways. The generations of the future who grow up in a society which has figured itself out a bit more will likely come out less neurotic.
>> No. 33857 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:59 pm
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>>33856
>Their parents might be tech savvy, more so than mine ever were, but they're still stumbling blind into the dark in many ways. The generations of the future who grow up in a society which has figured itself out a bit more will likely come out less neurotic.
Isn't this assuming that the internet and social media will stop evolving and finding new ways to fuck people up?
>> No. 33858 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 2:10 pm
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>>33855

>distinguish between sexist tits and empowering tits


If you weigh 15 stone with the face of a munter, it's empowerment to whip your baps out. Regardless of how few people want to see them. If a tight sporty slim lass reveals her perky breasts, it's sexist.

No matter how much you deny it, objective physical attractiveness still plays a big part.
>> No. 33859 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 2:21 pm
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>>33856

> Their parents might be tech savvy, more so than mine ever were, but they're still stumbling blind into the dark in many ways. The generations of the future who grow up in a society which has figured itself out a bit more will likely come out less neurotic.

There's still a divide between the digital adopters who were socialised into the emerging Internet in the late 90s and the early 2000s, and those who were born after facebook was even formally started. The anecdote goes that today's teens think that facebook is to be avoided because there's only mums and paedos on in.

To put it another way, being on the Internet and socialising with other users was an entirely different ballgame twenty years ago, where social media wasn't surrounding you 24/7 whether you wanted it or not and where it didn't dictate your social life. It followed entirely different rules, and it was far less dynamic and less of a minefield. Nobody fucking cared if you posted pictures of yourself drunk grabbing a lass's tits on Myspace. It was bad decision making, but still, nobody cared. Nowadays, if you're really unlucky, it can cost you your job, or your invitation to a job interview. And you could be ostracised by everybody you know.
>> No. 33860 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 2:45 pm
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>>33857

Sure, but I'm not a luddite. Even though technology often comes with perils, I think it's largely just a matter of adapting to it.

After all, if you zoom out in history you'll realise the Quakers and Mormons and whoever else got their starts on the same basis, really. They were the all-night nofap movement of their day. None of this is new, it's just another cycle, another swing of the pendulum. I bet when Ugg first invented the wheel, Grugg kept the whole village up at night going on about how it would bring about the downfall of society, and how his son Uglugg was more interested in staying in the cave painting finger-antelopes than going out to hunt them like real cavemen.

That's not to say everything's fine and we shouldn't be concerned about the youth of today, because I do think they are incredibly neurotic and I think it's probably been me banging on about it that has brought many of you around to your present views. But I believe there's a solution to it that enables us to still have the nice things of the Internet and all that.
>> No. 33861 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 9:37 pm
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>>33860
>I think it's probably been me banging on about it that has brought many of you around to your present views.


Are you the same lad who also convinced all of us to become class conscious? You must be well clever.

Sage for being a snarky cunt.
>> No. 33862 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 11:36 pm
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>>33861

Naturally. I'm not the one responsible for turning you all into chubby chasers, though.
>> No. 33865 Anonymous
23rd January 2023
Monday 12:29 am
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>>33862

Sorry about that. I didn't think it'd actually work, I just found it funny to goad people who went "uurgh, a fattie" when I posted a photo of even a mildly chubby woman in /x/.
>> No. 33868 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 12:19 pm
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I like pineapple, so it follows that I like pineapple juice. However, when I open a bottle of the stuff I can't help but feel the smell, if only for an instant, reminds me of an incredibly acrid piss smell. Maybe everyone thinks this, maybe I'm a nasal freak.
>> No. 33869 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 7:26 pm
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Got a watermelon and strawberry flavour CBD vape. Tastes like shit, has no soothing effects, overall a waste of £10.
>> No. 33871 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>33869
I'm very sceptical about CBD vapes. Never had a "good" one.
>> No. 33872 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 9:41 pm
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>>33871
In the shop I overheard the shopkeeper talking to some women, saying it's best to not smoke weed for a week before using a CBD vape otherwise it's pointless. So with this knowledge, I assumed CBD would have a big effect. How wrong I was.
>> No. 33873 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>33869
CBD proucts are mostly snake oil. Therapeutic amounts are usually in the hundreds of mg, the commonly available products are in the 10-20mg amounts. If it works for you, great, but don't expect any great effect from vapes that mostly sell on the "cannabis adjacent" market.
>> No. 33874 Anonymous
26th January 2023
Thursday 3:23 pm
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So the ongoing saga of buying my house carries on. The seller's solicitors fucked around for so long I had to get a new mortgage offer, even after a months extension. After doing everything within my power to get the new offer through as soon as possible, and then letting them know when I received the confirmation, the fucking cunt has turned around and said they're going to put the place back up for sale first thing in the morning if it's not all finished by the end of the day. Today. Mental. Absolutely mind boggling. Absolutely no fucking words.

I'm pretty sure they're just under the mistaken impression I'm taking them for a ride, and trying to play hardball. Either that or they've been deliberately trying to throw the sale the whole time, and finally accepted that I'm not going to back out. Fuck knows. Either way they're a fucking moron. They're only going to have the same issues with whatever poor fucked tries next.

I've half a mind to tell them to just go and fuck themselves for that. I don't fancy the prospect of living with my parents for yet another year before I find somewhere else, but fuck me. My blood is absolutely boiling.
>> No. 33875 Anonymous
27th January 2023
Friday 10:16 am
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You have to be careful, living in the UK, that you don't begin substituting words like "dodgy" for words like "malfunctioning". Very careful indeed...
>> No. 33876 Anonymous
27th January 2023
Friday 11:59 am
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Every fucking scrollwheel of every mouse I've ever owned jumps the wrong direction when I try to scroll down. None of the 'fixes' work.
>> No. 33877 Anonymous
27th January 2023
Friday 12:46 pm
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>>33876
Mine recently started doing that, but I've been using it for 4.5 years so maybe it's just knackered.
>> No. 33878 Anonymous
27th January 2023
Friday 10:50 pm
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>>33876

Assuming it's not a recent purchase, it might be worth taking it to bits and seeing if anything's tangled up in the spindle for the wheel. I dunno if these things still use an optical method of determining direction, but a little bit of fluff on the wheel or between the optical sensors is enough to confuse them.

Who remembers mouse balls, eh?! Dippin' 'em in isoproohhpyl alcohol nicked from yer gangan's shed, scrapin' the gunk off the rollers wiv yer nails,lobbin' the baall at yer lirrul bruvver! Nowadays yeh gotto put fishin' weights in thuurr ta get the feel right.
>> No. 33879 Anonymous
28th January 2023
Saturday 12:22 am
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>>33876
I use to have a really nice Logitech mouse with a dual action wheel. The wheel would act as normal with slight resistance 'clicks' as you scrolled, but when you pusshed it down it'd click into a secondary mode where it'd just run freely and very fast. Was super useful for scrolling large documents, zooming out of images, etc.
>> No. 33880 Anonymous
28th January 2023
Saturday 12:35 am
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>>33879

I've had several of those and the ratchet thing that holds it in place always eventually breaks, leaving you with free spinning only.

I've lamented it before but it's fucking annoying how Logitech legitimately make the best stuff, functionally, but their durability is complete shit. Right now I'm dealing with this fancy schmancy mechanical keyboard that I really like typing on, except it randomly gives me double keystrokes, and the blue part of the RGB LED died in one (and only one) key, which eternally and relentlessly gnaws at my inner autist.
>> No. 33881 Anonymous
29th January 2023
Sunday 2:41 am
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>>33880
It's always been a a little bit hit or miss, but when they hit (and then don't stop making the hit) it's amazing. I still use a K510 keyboard (and have a few spare) that's just a rubber dome thing, but if it ges manky I just stick it under the shower and it's good as new. I've dropped a Das and a Majestouch2 for this thing, unless I was in hardcore typing mode its Fine™ and, wobbly keys and all, good enough.

What killed my MX518 was not mechanical failure but the rubber parts becoming icky sticky bollocks. The G400 was not a replacement, it was a downgrade, and I've been sort of lost since ( I currently use an MM711 which performs well, but is darn uncomfortable for my claw grip).
>> No. 33882 Anonymous
29th January 2023
Sunday 12:19 pm
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>>33881

My current mouse is a G402, I got it because it was down to £20 on Amazon, and I'm not the type to replace something that's perfectly serviceable so I'm just going to put up with it, but the shape and position of the buttons is awful.

My favourite one remains the G300s but I gave up on them because I went through about four, and they all develop the double click issue within 12-18 months.
>> No. 33883 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 8:42 am
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Has anyone made a phone case that looks like a slice of pizza? Because that's what it looks like when you walk around blasting your whole conversation to everybody via speakerphone. Just fucking eat it.
>> No. 33884 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 9:38 am
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>>33883
When have you ever seen someone walking around holding a single slice of pizza and talking into it?
>> No. 33885 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 9:47 am
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>> No. 33886 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:18 am
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>>33884
No, he's right, it looks like they're moving a big slice of pizza into their gobs.
>> No. 33887 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:33 am
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>>33886

OM NOM NOM
>> No. 33888 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>33883

This is a weird one, because where the fuck did it actually come from? What possible benefit does it have over just talking on the phone properly? Is it literally just a fashionable trend people do because they think they look cool?
>> No. 33889 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 1:12 pm
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>>33888

Modern phones are sufficiently large and slippery that some people (particularly women) find it awkward and uncomfortable to actually use one like a phone.
>> No. 33890 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 1:19 pm
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>>33889

Then they should buy a phone that suits them, or does that make far too much sense? I think it's just dopey people who demonstrate this phenomenon. I imagine there's a large overlap with the sort of person who stands gormlessly in busy doorways and appears annoyed when you ask to get past them.
>> No. 33891 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 2:15 pm
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>>33890

They literally don't make them like that any more, or at least, the "real" phone companies don't. Go to Carphone Warheouse or wherever it is and just see if you can find a phone by a mainstream brand that's significantly under 6" tall and 3" wide.

You might get a cheap Chink one that fits small hands, but what normie wants one of those.
>> No. 33892 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 2:20 pm
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>>33891

So it really boils down to "want latest fing, can't be bovvered if it's too big, want latest fing anyway"
>> No. 33893 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 2:25 pm
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I use mine handsfree at home a lot. It's not as though they had to add special hardware for it, it's always on speaker when you're using it for a video link.
>> No. 33894 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 2:28 pm
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>>33892
To what extent do you use a phone as a phone? For many people, a phone is really a laptop. Why would you deliberately buy a tiny unusable laptop just so you don't look silly when you need to phone someone on it?
>> No. 33895 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 2:37 pm
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>>33892

You can't blame the consumer for a market that lacks credible alternatives, of a product that they essentially need to fit into modern society.

You might still be happy with your Motorola G from 10 years ago that doesn't run any present day apps, but that's cause you're a saddo shed goblin billy no mates with nobody to communicate with anyway.
>> No. 33896 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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>>33894

Precisely. About ten years ago, we used the term "phablet" to describe extra-large phones; we were still in the transitionary period of realising that the only meaningful difference between a phone and a tablet is whether it fits in your pocket. The young folk consider phone calls to be quite rude and I don't particularly blame them. Even for us codgers, the "phone" part of a phone is increasingly irrelevant.

Apple were the last hold-out in continuing to offer small phones, but they gave up due to poor sales. The number of people who say they want a small phone is far greater than the number of people who actually bought one when given the choice.
>> No. 33897 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 3:54 pm
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>>33896

I think that's a bit unfair, because I noticed most manufacturers adopted a trend where their "slim" or "compact" or whatever model was hobbled in terms of features and performance.

I doggedly kept buying the Xperia Compact models as long as they existed, because they were the only ones who didn't do that; until they eventually did it too, and the last one I had genuinely felt like a downgrade from the phone I had before. Now they don't even do it at all, so I'm stuck with a phone the size of a... Well, the size of a modern phone. To awkwardly big to use in one hand, but still too small to comfortably type on. Worst of both worlds.

Fucking hate it honestly.
>> No. 33898 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 5:28 pm
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>>33897

>I noticed most manufacturers adopted a trend where their "slim" or "compact" or whatever model was hobbled in terms of features and performance.

That's mostly an inevitable fact of making a small phone. Camera modules, headphone jacks and fingerprint sensors have a fixed size. Smaller phones necessarily have smaller batteries and less cooling capacity; going thicker only gains you a bit of extra battery capacity and might do nothing for cooling. Modern phones are absolutely rammed with stuff and if you make them smaller, something has to go.

The other factor is economies of scale - the cost of design and development is higher on a per-handset basis if you aren't selling a lot of a particular model. Apple could make it work for a bit, because they have a very limited range of options and sell squillions of phones. Android manufacturers have far tighter margins and far more competitive pressure.
>> No. 33899 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 6:09 pm
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>>33896
>Apple were the last hold-out in continuing to offer small phones, but they gave up due to poor sales.

I'm treasuring my iPhone 13 mini - gonna keep it until they launch another small one. I got my wife the Pro Max (because she has poor eyes and prefers the screen) but it's an absolutely monster.
>> No. 33900 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 7:19 pm
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>>33898

Not really. When you look at the motherboards on these devices they're tiny, you can easily make a handset with an overall smaller footprint. Like I said, that's exactly what they were doing on the Xperia up until about 2018-ish. What's gone up in size is the screen real estate people want, which in turn means you need a bigger battery to drive it for the same amount of time (and most still barely manage a day on a full charge) and the daft arrays of cameras. Honestly, I don't need five bastard cameras, one was just fine.

It's entirely a design issue, because the market is stuck in the current paradigm, it's run out of space to "perfect" existing designs, which are all functionally about as good as the concept of a touchscreen smartphone is going to get. Nobody has come up with a genuine innovation in the last decade, and this is what it's going to look like for the next ten if nobody does.
>> No. 33901 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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>>33895

Shut up and get that phone eaten, or you're not getting any dessert.
>> No. 33902 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 7:51 pm
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Spent four hours helping my dad (by which I mean, basically doing it myself) build a new telly stand thing. After it was all done and I got their ludicrously massive 70-odd inch telly on it, I was thanked with nothing but complaints because the thing at the bottom when you change from normal telly to the BT box didn't say the same thing it said before. Still worked fine, did the same thing as before, just for some reason didn't say Sky any more (which was wrong in the first place).

My parents are just relentlessly negative people and I sometimes want nothing to do with them, and it annoys me that I can't even complain about it because whenever I do people always either try and one-up me about how their parents beat them senseless, or give me that whole "Oh but they're your paaaareeents they gave everything to raise you! You can't be nasty about them!" kind of shit.
>> No. 33903 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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"Declaring my pronouns". I don't care in places where it's optional, let people be themselves and it makes no difference to me. But if it's a required field on a form, that's taking it a bit far. Why do you want to know about my genital situation and my preference about it? That is just weird.
>> No. 33904 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>33903

You don't even get the good old fashioned "prefer not to say" or even just "other"?
>> No. 33905 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:48 pm
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Is this some sort of elaborate joke or are you lot being serious when you keep banging on about pronouns, wokeness and shit like that? What you keep talking about on a regular basis does not reflect my daily life at all, so I feel alien to it.

It's either those topics or that lad who I think has recently come from Reddit and will pipe up once every week with "is life in this country going to keep getting shitter?" or something else glum.
>> No. 33906 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:50 pm
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>>33903

They actually only want to know your preference about it, which seems reasonable to me, woman.
>> No. 33907 Anonymous
1st February 2023
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>33905

I think it might be that Aussie lad from a bit ago, snuck back in through the back door wearing the internet equivalent of Groucho Marx glasses and hopes we won't notice.
>> No. 33908 Anonymous
2nd February 2023
Thursday 1:45 pm
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>>33903
Forms have had a Mr, Mrs, etc field since time immemorial; this is barely different. Fuck off back to Reddit/The Other Place/Twatter.
>> No. 33909 Anonymous
2nd February 2023
Thursday 2:15 pm
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>>33908

It's weird that most forms still have a box that basically asks "are you a married woman, a barren old spinster hag, or some sort of dyke fisherperson?".
>> No. 33910 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 5:47 pm
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Not being funny but what's the deal with supermarkets being packed on a weekday lunchtime.

Sometimes I'm working from home and need to pick up an essential like milk or I just feel like a bit of a walk at lunch but when I get there it's absolutely packed with OAPs, parents with young children and people who only use the cash checkouts. Is there perhaps some logic I'm missing with this because surely it would be a lot simpler for everyone to go around 10-11 or 2-3 if you're not at work? Why wouldn't you avoid it on the lunch hour as a courtesy for people who only have so long on their lunch break?
>> No. 33911 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 5:57 pm
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>>33910
You're right. You're not being funny.
>> No. 33912 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 6:25 pm
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>>33910
I'm not a huige fan but Windows has been, you know, Windows. I was a little perturbed when Win10 cheerefully announced that it could generate an advertiser ID so I could joyfully be marketed to better just like I can on a mobile device. But now they've made it clear they don't give a flying fuck about agency. I'm going back to OpenBSD, lack of features be damned, if I cannot fucking trust my OS vendor which I god damn fucking paid for then full on tech hippy time it is.

This message is brought to you by some piece of shit decision to add a weather forecast thing to my pristine taskbar.
>> No. 33913 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 6:28 pm
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>>33910
If you're "working" from home, just go whenever you feel like it, same as all the other layabouts.
>> No. 33914 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 6:50 pm
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>>33913
People like you don't understand the emotional labour of helping (over Google Meets) a person in their twenties set a default browser and being amazed that Microsoft uses the same password for multiple Microsoft websites.
>> No. 33915 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 6:52 pm
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>>33910

For about 20 years, my grandparents would go out every Saturday and then spend most of Sunday complaining about how busy everything is. I dunno whether they were so set in their ways that they couldn't imagine going for a day out on Tuesday, or if they just liked complaining.
>> No. 33916 Anonymous
3rd February 2023
Friday 8:43 pm
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>>33910

Everywhere is busy all the time these days, ladm8.

Morning rush hour in my city starts about 6 and ends about 11, afternoon rush hour starts about 2 and ends about 7. Supermarkets are rammed on Fridays and Saturdays, because that's when regular 9-5 workers shop, but they're also rammed at lunchtime on Monday because that's when work from home layabouts go and half 5 in the morning on Wednesday because that's when night shift workers go. Phoned my GP for an appointment and they told me they might be able to get me in by the next passing of Halley's Comet.

It's as though the population of the country has increased by about 10 million over the last couple of decades, with almost zero expansion of infrastructure to accommodate it.
>> No. 33917 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 2:32 pm
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My crappy work laptop has two fan modes; silent and taxiing for take-off.
>> No. 33918 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 3:49 pm
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Dogshit. The route from my house to the nearest Londis/town is marred by dozens of dogshits. I went to Londis today and someone had left a massive orange dogshit right outside the door, the man who worked in the shop spent 10 minutes trying to get rid of/cover up said dogshit before serving me. When I walked my parents' dogs growing up, I always picked up shit. People who leave dogshit lying about are subhuman scum.
>> No. 33919 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 4:07 pm
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>>33918
You sure it's not fox poo?
>> No. 33920 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 4:33 pm
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>>33919
Yeah it's not as bitter.
>> No. 33921 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 4:39 pm
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>>33919
It's all localised on the pavement and I see tons of people round here with big bully dogs that would do the big shits I see.
>> No. 33922 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 6:38 pm
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>>33917

Would taxiing to stand be louder or quieter?
>> No. 33923 Anonymous
6th February 2023
Monday 6:44 pm
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>>33922
Yes.
>> No. 33924 Anonymous
7th February 2023
Tuesday 9:31 pm
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>John Cleese is set to reboot his much-loved comedy series Fawlty Towers.

>The actor and writer will team up with daughter Camilla Cleese, with the pair both set to write and star. The new series will “explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world”, according to early information, with the plot focusing on his relationship with his daughter as they manage a boutique hotel together.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/07/fawlty-towers-john-cleese-reboot
>> No. 33925 Anonymous
7th February 2023
Tuesday 11:12 pm
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>>33924

Why do I get the awful feeling there'll be an episode about pronouns.
>> No. 33926 Anonymous
7th February 2023
Tuesday 11:20 pm
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>>33925

He'll spend the whole episode in drag as some sort of elaborate ruse to win a spot in a magazine as the best female hosted hotel or something like that. It will have the potential to be quite clever as a reflection of how such a plot line would have been seen as purely light-hearted in the 70s but now assumes a lot of socio-political baggage; but instead he'll just screech at people for not calling him she-they.
>> No. 33927 Anonymous
8th February 2023
Wednesday 12:27 am
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>>33924
Whenever I watch Fawlty Towers I can't help but think about how, sure, it's funny, but wouldn't it be funnier if Basil was 83 and everyone else was a skeleton? I'm glad Cleese has, at last, wised up to this incontrovertible fact and isn't wasting any more time on projects that lazily and cheaply exploit his once colossal comedic reputation.
>> No. 33928 Anonymous
10th February 2023
Friday 7:09 am
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>>33925
>John Cleese snubs BBC over Fawlty Towers remake because the corporation is too 'woke' to handle the sitcom's near-the-knuckle gags

https://www.thedailyfuckingmail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11734211/John-Cleese-snubs-BBC-Fawlty-Towers-remake-woke-handle-gags.html
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