>>442487

This.

My company is considered quite progressive in the industry in that we'll hire people with tattoos for public facing roles, as long as you cover them up when you're working. It's pretty funny as everyone uses those flesh coloured bandage sleeve things, so half the floor staff look like they've been involved in some sort of accident. I'd argue even a shit tattoo of a dolphin looks better, but if your customer base is 60% pensioners, you sort of have to suit their tastes.

>>442482
>>442487
>>442501

So when was the last time any of you sacked someone for coming in with a new tattoo?

>>442517

I haven't but if they didn't cover them up while on shift it wouldn't take long to get them out on uniform standards.

>>442517
It's like coming in with an open wound. I would expect them to be covered with detectable blue, once healed no one gives a shit.

>>442519

(I also wouldn't ever do this because I don't care and don't agree with the policy but someone would)

>>442344
People have decided this lockdown is a great opportunity to recycle topics we've gone over again and again.

>>442345
But this was an illusion which served not to set us free, but to make us weird and paranoid like Richard Nixon.

>>442343
>if one simply aggregates vibrancy from tangible factors then the resulting figure will be worthy of suspicion with some ropey assumptions about how to weight those factors.

That's ultimately going to be shaped by policy of the day and the relative levels of oversight (including of course public transparency) but I'm sure you can see why a regional standard would be a broadly good thing. These days you really can't address knotty problems like loneliness or drug use using one or two metrics because effective solutions require coordinated government action across multiple factors and agencies that necessitate an overarching framework.

I suppose ARE ADAM would play some Brian Eno over this post and argue "approaching the world like a man left alone with a tape measure only creates a simulacrum" but I don't see how else you can try to solve complex problems or track returns on investment in public goods. We do have complex problems that have been solved very well in this context, the London Olympics being a good example where from start to finish its was simulacrum'ed to death to ensure the underground didn't break or we end up like Greece after their Olympics with no plan beyond the closing ceremony to deliver benefits.

>did we see a gigantic expansion of the vibrancy of our rural communities under Blair?

I don't know from personal experience as I was 9 when Major left office. It's difficult to find metrics on this because the public sector has only really just started on doing end-of-life policy assessment and over the period there are much more sexy topics for academics to study like militant daft woggery prevention strategies.

If you have nothing better to do on a Sunday there have been tomes written on how we should address complex problems in recent years and something society in general has really only just started to approach:
https://hbr.org/2018/05/what-it-takes-to-think-deeply-about-complex-problems

>>442344

If this is the mandella effect both you and I skipped the same universe. fortunately I've found a portal back >>/v/23506.

>>442355

In my timeline it was spelled Mandela.

>>442316

I still have a Charlie White business card from Leeds somewhere. It had a picture of a horse on it.

I worked with a chap who occupied/maintained grow houses as a side gig/place to live, the sheer amount of them was staggering, and that was just one bloke telling me what he knew from one operation.

Yorkshire is definitely a centre for many drugs, I am from Newcastle and I noticed that drugs up here are still more expensive than Leeds despite the scottish connections. So much so that buying a few grams of coke at street price in Leeds/Bradford then taking a trip back home could prove usefully lucrative. It wasn't bad stuff either, it was good fishscale at £60 a gram. If one was inclined one could have made some serious money just selling on to people they knew. Not that I did that.

>>442316

I always enjoyed how charmingly uncreative dealers are with their names. Mine was called Greeny.

Sarf Leeds folk will no doubt know of the big hench back guy who goes by Major, who used to just poach people on Morley high street.

>>442314

Tea isn't grown in Yorkshire though.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-totally-loses-plot-after-11996817

>>442320

My mate Dave grows it hydroponic in his shed in Barnsley. It's proper good.

He's considering using his tabby cat to make some Yorkshire-style Civet Coffee to take advantage of post-brexit pro-business incentives.

>>442336

You wonder how people first got the idea to have a brew from coffee beans shat out by an animal. It must have started as some kind of dare between coffee plantation workers. Or some practical joke.

And it's not even highly regarded in coffee expert circles:

>Within the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item. The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) states that there is a "general consensus within the industry ... it just tastes bad".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak#Taste

I'm not sure where your weird roleplay would be appropriate but it's not /b/.

>>441490
My favourite part of her statement is saying she doesn't have the authority to cancel it, when she decided she had the authority to bring it back in the first place despite no demand for it whatsoever.

>>442223
Is this post what the young 'uns would call "based" and "sissifyed"?

>>442224
they've never had it so easy as they have during this pandemic

>>441488

Everything about this post makes me sick. The self importance, the persistent implication that she's in the right, the idea that "We're just trying to show our appreciation" through a fucking *clap*, it's all shit, all bollocks, she doesn't deserve to be getting threats but something tells me she's not gotten no more abuse than being called 'cunt' in a variety of ways.

Why do people who use "I'm just trying to do something nice" get in my arse so much? There's something so insidious about it, like because it seems like a nice thing it *must* be good. But it's not, it's a fucking distraction and a waste!

>>442226

Because it’s a true example of the shipping forecast. The cause is always irrelevant to these people and they’re not there to provide meaningful support, rather just the public appearance of support for the purpose of their own self satisfaction and/or gratification from the people too stupid to recognise what is actually going on.

>>442033

Hamburg is fun, there's loads of things you can do, but you probably won't experience it with your (female) friend the same way you would on a lads night out like we did.

Make sure you eat a shrimp sandwich. That's sort of their local specialty. Ask your friend about it.

>>442135
Female?

>>442136

Well I assumed you've got a lass in Hamburg who wants to have a shag.

If you're shagging men you can't say it's being "lewd", there's too much testosterone involved for words like that.

>>442139

Wasn't the definition of illegal homosexual sex in the old days that you were engaging in "lewd acts" with a person of your own gender?

>>442071
Shipman was atypical of a multiple murderer. The vast majority of serial killers have a sexual motive to their crimes.

>>442116

Not to be That Contrarian Lad, but looking at the statistics more as I got older has really diminished my interest in the subject. War/crime related to the economy and other forms institutionally-embedded violence kills far more people than the work of individual murderers.

Even psychologically it seems like a bit of a dead-end in terms of research, as by now I think the patterns of the garden variety American spree shooter or serial killer are fairly well understood.

I think the interest you describe is more based on the human drama of it, which in my opinion is absolutely the wrong way to look at people who are largely repeating traumas.

>>442120
Women in particular are raised to feed off drama.

>>442120

>Even psychologically it seems like a bit of a dead-end in terms of research, as by now I think the patterns of the garden variety American spree shooter or serial killer are fairly well understood.

>I think the interest you describe is more based on the human drama of it


It's the media, innit. If it bleeds, it leads, every time. Any story of a spree shooter or some sexually abnormal serial rapist or murderer is tabloid gold and gets milked for every last drop.

>>442120

I mean yeah, but you evidently had enough interest in the subject to look into it in such a level of detail. That it turned out to be a bit disappointing and mundane under the surface just is what it is, really, you know?

My fascination has always been with war, because it's so impersonal and formalised, almost. Industrialised slaughter where humans just throw themselves in the grinder. It's chilling.

>>442034
>might as well punch yourself in the face.

Oh is this the blood thing? I'd get on Tinder lickety-split if I saw Andrew W. K. on there looking for a support bubble. I've got a big tub of Vanish Oxy Action here doing not much at all because I wear darks mostly.

Found a lass I used to work with that I fancied the pants off on bumble. Cue me spending an inordinate amount of time trying to sell myself with her in mind on my profile and realising I don't really have any pictures.

Let's hope the algorithm hides me as I'm liable to make a fool of myself.

>>442034
Numbers game lad. Numbers game. I find you will get weeks where all your matches come in and then you can be disappointed in a whole new way as all the good ones bin you before you meet.

Tinder is still completely wank though but for different reasons - it's all people trying to get you to follow them on Instagram. Disgusting app.

>>442039
>it's all people trying to get you to follow them on Instagram.

So they can get you to buy their Onlyfans or follow pay for a private snapchat account. It's some fairly impressive SEO optimisation.

>>442041

>SEO optimisation

They'll be laughing all the way to the ATM machine.

>>442042
You can blame the tosspot "consultant" my company brought in to teach about SEO. he kept on saying SEO optimisation to the point that I completed that saying in a Pavlovian response. I really should hold myself to a better standard, otherwise I'll end up using more superfluous words.

How often does she buy you flowers?

I got a kilo bag of self raising the other day because the Mrs needed it for baking.

>>442024
similar i bought her some raisins for baking and snacking

>>442024
I see what you did there.

>implying i have a lass

(A good day to you Sir!)

I've just put a whole clove of chopped garlic in one portion of fried spaghetti.

I may need help also.

>>441892
Unless you mean 'bulb' rather than 'clove' I don't see the issue.

>>441893

>Unless you mean 'bulb'

I'm not a lunatic.

>>441892

That's really not that much garlic, to be honest, especially for what I assume is a version of aglio e olio.

I don't know why you all thought you shouldn't eat garlic in the before times, who fucking cares if your breath smells, just have some gum. You've been missing out for years. I suggest you all try roasting some heads of garlic in the oven now and spreading the result on crusty bread.

>>441895

>a version of aglio e olio

It was pretty much that, yes. I had a little bit of spaghetti left over from last night, so I fried it up with olive oil, the garlic, and a few herbs. It was absolutely delicious, but I've already got that sharp garlic taste in my mouth that you get a while later and which lingers till the next day.

I wonder if the alleged health properties of garlic already take effect if you occasionally go crazy on fresh garlic, or if it's the same as some other fruit and veg where you'd literally have to eat tons of the stuff to make a measurable difference. Like the way red vegetables are supposed to give your skin a healthy looking hue, but you'd have to eat nothing but tomatoes and carrots for a month for it to actually show.

>>441551
I don't know what xis name is

>>441569
We're going to need more clues.

>>441573
The clues are there.

>>441573
the radio station is in the low 90's on FM

>>441586
Well, given that the range of broadcast FM is about 40 miles, it's unlikely we'll have heard that station in the UK.

Ok

>>441294

> but if it's something soft like MDF

Probably best to use solid hardwood as a backdrop for steel tip darts, if you really want something durable. Some good 18mm pine wood should do.

>>441295

>hardwood
>pine

Sort it out m8.

>>441296

I stand corrected. I somehow thought pine was hardwood.

Go on then. English oak. Or something.

>>441300
Oak's nice.

Going through my Arduino parts bin again here at the moment, looking for something to throw together to kill the boredom of being stuck at home.

I've got several ATtiny microcontrollers and an ESP32 dev board, as well as temperature sensors, a gyroscope/accelerometer, PIR sensors, two miniature TFT colour displays, a whole bag of assorted resistors and capacitors, a few LEDs, and miscellaneous parts like transistors and MOSFETs, and a 1.5'' paper cone speaker with a 3W amplifier.

I could make a burglar alarm with the PIR sensor and the speaker and the amp, the only question would be the whole point of it, when there are days at the moment where I don't leave my flat at all.

>>441346
I'm not saying he's an angel but you're still putting a lot of effort into this.

>>441347
Remember, lad. He's not the angry one.

>>441348

I think it's clear we're all angry, it's just one of us is angry because he's outed himself as a mental hat woman aficionado.

Christ this takes me back, I've not seen a cunt off as caustic (and funny) as this in years.

>>441350
It is the season, after all.