>>461346

More to the point, menopause symptoms are caused by a lack of hormones, hence hormone replacement therapy.

>>461349
So I should be jamming my poo up menopausal women, for science?

>>461351

Only if you ask nicely first.

It's been awhile since anyone mentioned fat girls and 'spoons actually. Maybe they underwent a metamorphosis.

>He who shags with fat birds in a disabled toilet should look to it that he himself does not become a fat bird. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Also, maybe we shouldn't be dumping sewage everywhere?

>UK doctors are attempting to clear dangerous superbug infections using "poo pills" containing freeze-dried faeces.

>The stool samples come from healthy donors and are packed with good bacteria. Early data suggests superbugs can be flushed out of the dark murky depths of the bowel and replaced with a mix of healthy gut bacteria.

>It is a new approach to tackling infections that resist antibiotics, which are thought to kill a million people each year, external.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyge290l4xo

Poo science!

>>470644
I only have this issue if I put too much grated cheese in my toasties.

>>470643

I went a bit mad on cheeses last week, and bought one of just about every variety they had in Aldi. It was all great. Cheese is hard to get wrong. I don't understand the logic of people buying branded cheese unless it's a unique variety.

The thing with cheese, however, is it very much depends on the context- You don't go putting extra mature cheddar on pizza, or on top of your pasta. I mean you can, but there's a reason things like mozzarella and parmesan exist for those jobs. A very sharp cheddar like the one I bought last week, and I mean this was so ripe it had little crystals of salt you could taste throughout, is that it's really for enjoying alone, or at the most with a little plate of crackers and tapas meats. It was delicious but would I say it's the best form of cheddar? No, it's absolutely delivious but not at all a versatile cheese.

If I was going to have one all purpose cheese in my fridge it would be a bog standard medium cheddar. But there is no such thing as an all purpose cheese. I don't think I could get by with less than three types of cheese. I've always got some cheddar, some grated parmesan, a bit of red Leicester, and often a bit of brie.

A not so close friend's girlfriend has added me to a whatsapp group whose purpose is the planning of a big surprise party for his 40th birthday. Which is a bit awkward, because now I've got messages popping up all the time by people that I've never met and have no clue at all who they are.

£325 on the premium bonds this month, not bad.

>>470668
Just mute it. I find being in multiple WhatsApp group chats you have nothing to say to but can't leave out of politeness to one or two people in there is just a part of being an adult.

>>470630

The other day my neighbours had a tree surgeon cut down their 50-foot maple at 8am with a chainsaw. On a day when I was hoping to have a bit of a lie in.

Lidl are selling 500g of buffalo mozzarella for around £5.70. Just ate it all out of the tub. I'm an animal.

I was supposed to be working but it looks quiet so I was given the choice to take the day off.

There's always something much more satisfying about an unexpected day off when you were supposed to be working, be it via sickie or just not being needed. I feel like it reduces the psychological pressure you feel to spend the day well, however you define that, so you feel less guilty if all you do is dick around on the internet or videogames or something equally trivial and fruitless all day. Usually it makes me paradoxically more productive- I'll get a load of cleaning and chores and such out of the way that otherwise I would have felt resentful about having to do on a day off.

I've already put a wash on, I feel like I might go download some obscure Pokemon romhack to waste a few hours on and then never go back to. I mean, why not. I can do what I like. The world is my oyster.

I have been to every shop I can think of. It is officially not possible to buy a meat mincer from a shop in Manchester. There might be catering wholesalers if you want to spend £250 on a giant machine, but I just want a manual one for maybe £30. And I might as well be trying to buy pixie testicles.

I also got the wrong size of wooden plank from Wickes, so it will stick out 10cm further than my other shelves. Clearly they weren't just sold out of the paint I wanted, but also of the shelves I wanted. Considering I was out shopping pretty much all afternoon, this really hasn't been an especially productive Saturday.

>>470636
You'll need to go to Canal Street if you want to find a mincer.

>>466053
From £36 a pair? Holy fuck mate, I'm still using a 10 year old yellow stained pillow. What's with you office wanks?

>>466055
Do you want a good night's sleep or not?

Crosta & Mollica pizzas are the shit.

>>470494

They're really not though are they, they're just Chicago Towns that you're less embarrassed for the neighbours to see the Ocado bloke dropping off. I tried one once, the Aldi's fancy top shelf salami and nduja was nicer.

I am convinced sourdough is a hoax too. What's the big deal. What's supposed to be better about it. It's just bread. Tastes like bread. It's nice bread, sure, but it's still just bread.

>>470495
They ruined Chicago Town when they changed the sauce.

What exactly will be different when you come back a year later? Or do you expect that Australia will give you something that you're missing here?

You won't get a proper visa without specialist skills and it has a points system that severely penalizes age. The tourist visa they offer requires agricultural work which is fine but some Australian's view it as scabbing as you're being used as cheap labour and it's mostly for kids to travel around screwing each other. The latter might sound fine but what's the point in wasting a year on something you don't really have a plan for.

>doing the flatshare thing

Australia is worse than the UK for housing with long-lines to rent

I've got some relatives over in Australia and I'll second the above lad. Sydney especially will make London look tame, it's one of the worst cities in the world for housing affordability, but my cousins in Melbourne aren't faring much better.
Do you actually have a goal or has your imagination started running wild after realising this is the last year you could make use of the visa? It's your life so if you really want to go who am I to tell you not to but at 35 I feel it's a little late to be fooling around like an 18 year old on a gap year.

That said, it may be your best and last shot at fooling around with an 18 year old on a gap year.

>>470380
I would resist any attempt to monopolise my rest time for labor. Sounds fucking hellish. Would like to force the CEO to have to work when awake and asleep for the rest of their rotten life.

>>470380
I suspect dreams happen for a reason and making a habit of replacing them with 1) conscious thought that's 2) on a specific theme, is going to have significant negative outcomes. We wouldn't have evolved to spend one-third of our lives hallucinating wildly in a defenceless coma if it wasn't strictly necessary to function.

My guess is mid to long term users will start developing symptoms of sleep psychosis and early onset dementia.

>>470380
It genuinely astounds me how gullible you pair can be some times.

Once again though, I am ashamed of my own inability to pull off a proper techno-scam. It's been blatantly clear for half-a-decade now that you can claim any old bollocks and stand a good chance of some VC money falling into your lap.

>>470380
Wasn't this the premise of Hypnospace Outlaw?

>>470386 VC money in the UK tends to be pretty poisonous, from what I've seen and experienced. Better off just rinsing some crypto muppets imho.
Maybe it's just that the companies I was involved in weren't nearly scammy enough. Ah, except for a 3D printer bunch, they were fantastic, but that wasn't VC, that was a well executed pump & dump run from the shell of a listed company.

How thin are your walls if you're worried that a kettle might wake the neighbours?

>>470334
Some of the Zojirushi's look nice. That octagonal glass one is interesting, but I'll go with a copper looking carafe, about £40 on next month delivery.

>>470337
Open windows throughout, converted HMO, higher caste neighbours across the yard.
There's often a dude who sleeps 4 meters above me, whom I sometimes hear wake himself shouting "Fhaaaakoooorf" from night terrors.
We've got a quiet place that gets bats, but in the quiet a kettle sounds out whistling.

>>470346

That's the exact type we have, although ours are blue. £40 seems about right, they'll definitely keep water at tea/coffee temp all night. I wish you luck with your soviet style living situation.

The Zojirushi arrived early and is much smaller than I expected. It pours slowly but it's cute and such a pleasure to use.
A character in the kitchen, I might actually print eyes for it.

3 weeks later and the novelty of the Zojirushi is wearing off - it's still cute but it only keeps water 'properly hot' for a maximum of 3 hours (I don't know where 20 came from, it must be being refilled surely?). I've instead come to use it for storing milk, which it does much better. A 2 pint cool from the supermarket lasts for about 4 days before the taste of strong blue cheese becomes intollerable.
I don't know how this is working, maybe something to do with the differing extremes of temperature rather than the insulating capacity? Maybe it's just perception.

>they do have quite a complicated mechanism in the lid for pouring which is a pain to clean
You were absolutely right about cleaning it though. It's a fuss taking apart - I'm trying to treat it as a meditation for the sake of it's origin (which incidentally turns out to be made in China, sold from Japan).

I considered buying a second, larger one hoping it'd keep hot water better but for now I'm weaning myself off of the deep night caffine.

>>456359

Commercial music broadcasters (and their BBC equivalents) use a fairly straightforward system of playlisting. The playlist is compiled each week based on the station management's assessment of the most popular songs among their listenership. The list is tiered, with the big hits being in the A list and new or fading songs down in the C list.

Daytime DJs have an hourly quota, with the requirement to play a certain number of songs from each list - more from the A list, fewer from the B and C list. Shows will typically start and end with an A list song and they'll usually schedule A list songs before and after things like news bulletins, to keep listeners hooked at a moment when they might be inclined to change stations. DJs will usually have a certain number of "free play" slots, allowing them to play their own choice of song (subject to pre-approval by management).

There are persistent questions about the integrity of playlists - it's illegal to pay or otherwise induce a radio station to include a song on their playlist, but obviously record labels have a very strong incentive to get their music onto radio playlists. In the interests of transparency, the BBC publish their playlists each week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3tqPdBWF9yMbTrfjWvfKV8t/radio-1-playlist

Radio 4 Extra mainly broadcasts archive material, so (outside of themed slots like The Comedy Club) any patterns you're noticing are almost certainly just coincidence. Recurring themes on a station like Radio 4 or LBC are primarily driven by topical concerns.

Located his ip address and camera link his camera is in London as I geolocated it using some online software and I am happy to leak his camera ip address and link to go and watch what he does on camera btw he smokes and drinks a lot.

Camera Link: http://82.0.237.47:86/?src=1&mode=1

>>470289
I found his exact physical location in about 30 seconds. Now what? I'm not going to write him a letter.

>>470289

Why are you stalking old men?

>>470294
Everyone needs a hobby.

Delete thread.

Such a bad thread I have to assume it's some kind of double bluff to out complete dickheads by getting them to reply approvingly.

(A good day to you Sir!)

What do you call it when something that was parodied does a parody of the parody?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J6eN2cbnoM

>>470084

Simulacrum, I think.

>>470084
Lazy as fuck?

One for my "British popular culture is basically dead" scrapbook, mind you.

Happy choccy egg day.

I just listened to the new Dan Carlin Common Sense poor guy is watching it all fall apart before his eyes.

Other than that:
Foreign Affairs Interview - for various insights from the US establishment and beyond including top diplomats and ex-policy officials.
GZero World - again another US foreign affairs show, this one is more a light weekend listen.
Looking Outside - if you want something with more of a futurist or corporate fart-sniffing ideas. Hosted by Jo Lepore who is one of those marketing people.

I also do Rest is Politics and Rest is Money but I'm not sure I can recommend either. I'd probably be happy with Rory Stewart and Peston doing a pod together for dull people.

>>469662
Podbean?

>>469662
Soundcloud, maybe? Although I just looked there if they had the Private Eye one and I couldn't find it and just wound up listening to some excessively BRILLIANT violent rap music. So if you're looking for something in particular, maybe Soundcloud isn't that good.

>>469662

Any podcast that's available on Apple Podcasts (i.e. practically all of them except for a handful of Spotify exclusives) is also available on any other podcast app via RSS.

I use Pocket Casts, which I think is the best podcast player available; it used to be a paid service, but now it's completely free. It'll sync all of your subscriptions across the web player and the phone app. There is a "Plus" subscription tier, but you don't need it.

https://play.pocketcasts.com/discover

>>469672
The web player needs the Plus.

>>469695

Not any more - the web player was added to the free tier earlier this month.

https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/03/11/webplayer/

I'm sure there is some term for it, I do it at work all the time. For me, if management won't listen to a concern I have about a procedural loophole, I will openly and aggressively exploit it until something is done about it. I'm definitely morally in the right in terms of my intentions, as it's only ever to do with safety or shoring up potential for genuine breaches in security, but I would concede that my way of doing it is probably annoying as fuck and disruptive.

But the alternative would be going over everyone's head and snitching to the government, so I think this will be the way I do it until my plan to purge all of the useless middle managers has come to fruition.

Anyway in terms of a bug in a game, if the bug is ruining the enjoyment of the game and allowing people to have an unfair advantage by exploiting it, then it would be illogical to ignore the bug and play without the advantage, never knowing if it would be fixed.

>>469251
I'm not going to pretend I'm the world's leading Charli XCX historian*. But in 2015 she began collaborating with Sophie and later A. G. Cook which has lead to her current sound (see Hannah Diamond's "Every Night" if you want a forebear of our recent Brat Summer. And before any of that:

>At 14, Charli XCX persuaded her parents to grant her a loan to record her first album, 14, and, in early 2008, began posting songs from the album as well as numerous other demos on her official Myspace page. This caught the attention of a promoter running various illegal warehouse raves and parties in East London, who invited her to perform at them.

Apprently she thinks her early stuff is shit now, and clearly she's a massive posho, but none of this is making me think her and her career are "completely manufactured". I'm not sure how working with producers is a mark against her as doesn't basically every musician and band do that? If I've understood you correctly, most music is on the outs if those are the standards we need to hold it to. Finally, I don't reckon anyone else is writing songs like "So I", "Girl, so Confusing", or her cover of "Welcome to My Island" on her behalf, because in one or another these are clearly very personal songs.

*But I might be PC Music's strongest soldier.

>>469254

Her dad's a talent agent, which probably helps.

>>469254

>I'm not sure how working with producers is a mark against her as doesn't basically every musician and band do that?

Producers in mainstream pop music really have a very different role to producers in other (what I can only call, although I am aware of how elitist it sounds, "real music") genres. Producers in pop basically just listen to the ideas the "artist" wants the song to be, and marshalls the team of session musicians and writers to make it happen, whereas in other genres they are there just as a sort of overseer and nudge in the right direction; in rock or metal, they are more of a head engineer responsible for the technical aspects of the recording process and actually have very little creative input. Usually you're not going to be heavily produced on your first couple of releases as an underground, up and coming artist- Things are very DIY at the lower levels of the industry, which always makes these popstars stand out.

They never have a self-produced EP under their belt, it's always a debut album on an international label with global marketing and radio/TV coverage, and that alone is suspicious.

>>469255

Ah, there we have it. That explains everything.

>>469256

> Producers in pop basically just listen to the ideas the "artist" wants the song to be, and marshalls the team of session musicians and writers to make it happen, whereas in other genres they are there just as a sort of overseer and nudge in the right direction; in rock or metal, they are more of a head engineer responsible for the technical aspects of the recording process and actually have very little creative input.


Isn't that also because many artists who do mainstream Top 40 music have somewhat sparse musical talent? At least when I was growing up, bands on the fringes of, or beyond the mainstream were often deep into actual songcraft and were capable musicians in their own right that had been earning their merits for years before they finally broke big, whereas many Top 40 singers seemed like they could barely carry a tune and were just picked off the street.

I was awake at 5am this morning. Things on my mind, couldn't sleep. Tried to lie-in for another hour, but at 6:15 I thought, sod this, I'm getting up. I don't think I slept more than three hours in total.

Problems are a cunt.

>>469228
MIDDLESBROUGH ISN'T YORKSHIRE.

>>469229

If you haven't been to Middlesbrough, it really is pretty grim in a few places. I visited a friend there once about ten years ago, who lived in a more middle class part, but we went through a few areas that looked absolutely fucking depressing, in a way that I'm not sure I'd seen before.

>>469229
I'll just shut up now, then. I was going to say "Shithole, South Yorkshire", because that's where most places that I consider to be poverty-stricken shitholes are congregated, and then I had a horrifying vision of your exact reply, from someon assuming that I was dumb enough to think Middlesbrough was in South Yorkshire.

In my defence, though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesbrough
>Middlesbrough (/ˈmɪdəlzbrə/ ⓘ MID-əlz-brə), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

Student politics hasn't changed in over 10 years. Still people making a big deal about Palestine, trans, and fighting the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

All totally valid things to be concerned with. Maybe the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society issue is a bit dubious. I thought Gen Z were meant to be the conservative generation, but so far they seem as left wing as millennial students were in 2015.

One guy who is running for president's main goal was an immediate 20% increase to the maintenance loan. I chalked it up to being an overly optimistic, ambitious youth, and appreciated the hopeful but ultimately empty pledge. But he's in his early 30's. So I just think he's mental or stupid.

>>469232
>But he's in his early 30's. So I just think he's mental or stupid.

On the contrary, it sounds like he understands his target audience.