>Sunday, Febuary 23, 2025,
>The 22nd of October will mark the final day of Ramadan
Did you forget to edit your copypasta properly?

>>468943
Yep.
https://28chan.org/board/pol/res/1331.html
https://erischan.org/5/thread/14498.html
https://awsumchan.org/ra/res/1146.html
https://cuatrochan.org/b/thread/1469.html
https://28chan.org/board/b/res/11685.html
https://lainchan.org/r/res/44148.html
Managed to post the whole original message unedited here, too.
https://tvch.moe/dup/res/154948.html
That's some lazy as fuck trolling.

>>468944
Holy shit, I called it >>468923 , he really was from 2006. My noughties knowledge remains unbeaten (and worthless).

>>468921
Don't mess with Football.

Thanks for warning us mate, appreciate it.

>>468161

Yes, I am still here on this field and continuum and third/fourth/more-dimensional reality we know as 'Earth'.

I lost my phone; moreover, it was stolen while I slept in a tent I inherited. First winter homeless, I sleep in doorways due to not wanting people to know where I am consistently. My earner has dried up of late, January has been very hard, I'm planning on leaving Bristol soon after seven months now of homelessness, living on the streets. I'm really willing to share my story because I think it is culturally relative and I think I'm still energetic and altogether smart enough to communicate the sort of thing I feel I have a purpose to dissect, analyse, explain and promote solutions for, in wider society.

Ultimately I'd love to be at the forefront of a movement I'd call #MeThree, as in me myself and I, promoting ableism as I feel that ableism is the last domino to fall for us to have a truly equal society, in the west - remember I'm talking about equal rights and equity, not privilege for the perception of burden.

And I would do this by prosecuting the NHS on the basis that they've told me my psychiatric, medication oriented, 'you've lost capacity and are burdened for life' sort of treatment costs them £2000 a month just for medications, whereas psychological oriented, talking therapies would cost maybe £240 pcm - £60 per sesssion? once a week?

So I would argue that is medically negligent as I was not respected on an emotional level - the reasons I had for attempting suicide where not explored, when I was sectioned five times over two years - and I was relegated to a mentally bereft and deficient weirdo with a lack of capacity, no agency, no way to advocate for myself due to that perceived lack of capacity and that I was a risk to self and others.

Following that argument, I also would argue that I IDENTIFY as neurodivergent, not schizo-whatever, so they are medically slandering me and relegating me to a diagnostic category that creates and results in me a desperate sympathetic-less dysphoria. As Trans people felt when they were relegated to transvestites and called mentally insane, thirty years ago.

So it may take thirty years to build on these arguments, but this is my purpose in life, so I feel.

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>>468746

for some reason (almost certainly DWP network ailments and my extra sensorially over sensitive aspergically defunctive self inhibitions and such) this posted like more than five times, probs due to me clicking reply cos the page seemed to freeze.

Coincidentally I might try to extract further benefits from the DWP whilst I'm here at the job centre by claiming that a lifetime spent online (at age 34, I'm the first generation to really be a product of the internet, no) and accidentally on purpose being exposed to internet porn and BDSM categorisations in due course has robbed me of my ability to make concrete decisions based on hierarchical dominance categorisation, because everything just seems to me to be the onset and introduction to a cheap porn movie now. How can I respect a boss and assume responsibility for his directives and commands when it gives me a sexy?

I blame Judi Dench. for mostly no reason at all. but also first power woman that came to mind. second fault person is Theresa May.

Yeah solid argument for being signed off work forever, though, no? ahe.

>>468757
It posted 19 times, I think that's a record. Anyway good luck with all that.

>>468758
I read all of that and still don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I could easily imagine myself becoming in such a state, however, given similar circumstances.

As little as it may mean, I hope you can get some decent rest soon. Surely there's a shelter, hostel or something you could be using?

>>468308

Is your sister on Instagram, incestlad? I'd slide into her DMs IYKWIM.

How do you know that you've found a good men's hairdresser? I think I recognise that Turkish barbers have fallen out of fashion as people don't want tight cuts anymore.

>>468308
Do you ever think to yourself that you'll meet a big lass and do that for a few years but then semaglutide injections will become affordable enough that she'll lose it all so things won't get boring? You'll go from a big-lass to shagging a tetradactyl with all that loose skin. I was thinking about this today.

Anyway, either of you two done the whole Ozempic business? I'm not obese but could do with losing a stubborn couple stone. I seem able to maintain weight easy enough, it's the losing that's difficult.

>>468310

>Do you ever think to yourself that you'll meet a big lass and do that for a few years but then semaglutide injections will become affordable enough that she'll lose it all

If by "think to yourself" you mean "wake up in a cold sweat panicking", then yes.

Can't find a more recent weekday thread.

I made a concerted effort to get a lot of social media followers this past couple of weeks, I'm about to hit 6,000 and it's changed how others react to [my account] in a way I can only relate to as when you get in shape. Suddenly strangers want to interact with me, share the things I've posted (despite them being just as tedious as they ever were) and ask my opinion on things. Social proof is a powerful tool.

>>468706
You want >>>/b/468323, the one with the big dam.

You know, I haven't bothered to watch The Snowman for years. Sod the new one, I',m talong the horrible scratchy pencilled animation.

It's on Youtube, we should give it a watch to see out the season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzplnhz1SLc

>>468261
Father Christmas > The Snowman.

>>468261
I really do love Walking in the Air, but the rest of it is pretty forgettable. He goes to a whole island full of snowmen and dances with them for fucking ages. If it wasn't for the dusty and decrepit animation style, I probably wouldn't like it at all. So I give it three years before they replace it with a CGI one that looks like Toy Story, and then never show the original ever again.

>>468269
>He goes to a whole island full of snowmen and dances with them for fucking ages
When he's invited to be the centerpiece of a ring of baying, eccentrically dressed oldsnow men, then later taken to Santas belowground shed. Connotations I've never noticed before, I'm wondering if that speaks more of my mindset than anything else.

>>468284
Pictured: James when he sees what Father Christmas has in his sack.

>>468092
>There are also a million other intimacies that we would feel strange about our partner having for that exact reason.

I wonder to the degree these will vary from person to person. I'd probably just be confused if I came home and someone was mowing the grass but I'd be upset if I saw my Mrs washing up and there was some bloke was stood next to her drying, because I view washing up together as carrying an emotional intimacy.

I don't even have a Mrs or someone to help her do the drying up but it probably invalidates me from ever joining a polycule. Not that I'd ever have to worry about them doing any housework, I suspect.

>>468082

>Are they the most masculine men of all? They care not for this covert sense of ownership of another person. They are so strong minded and willed they see their wife getting fucked by other men to be fine.

No. They're just lying to themselves. They have a fetish that falls squarely into the category of getting off to something you dislike, usually as a form of trauma response. These are blokes whose mum was a slag and had a revolving door of not-dads, or who have been serially cheated on by previous partners, enacting a very basic form of agency reclamation.

It's the direct male equivalent of those middle class uni educated fisherperson lasses who without exception have a "CNC" i.e rape fetish. It's more or less the same insecurity in inverse for the gender's relative position and interests. A modern woman fears above all her sexual agency being denied. Having her sex obtained illegitimately. Having a man commit sexual piracy on her. Downloading her fanny instead of paying the subscription.

Inversely, a bloke feels emasculated when he is forced to confront the fact he is nothing special, he's just another customer, even within the construct of a "relationship". Personally I find such fetishes quite revolting, partially because they lack imagination, but mostly because they are so real, in terms of the sexual and romantic dynamics of the modern world.

My socks smell vaguely of Chilli Heatwave Doritos and I somewhat like the waft of them from under my desk.

>>468115
There used to be a POV foot dom porn video on PornHub before the big purge. It was a sassy Latinx woman trying to mind control the viewer with the smell of her feet. I remember she described the smell as "corn chippy". I guess corn chips are a common foot smell - there's at least you and the Latinx woman.

>>468150

I'd totally be into that if we were furries and had paws. Dogs feet smell like popcorn, it'd be quite nice actualy. And they have those neat squishy pad bits, and claws for if you wanted to get rough.

I sadly don't have a real life foot fetish but I do respect foot fetishists more than most types of pervert. They know what they're about. None of that psycho-social bollocks, just a good honest weird turn on.

>>467932

You've ruined my weekend.

>>467942

$2500 is a lot to spend, but sometimes you've just got to treat yourself. It's Christmas, after all.

>>467945
It's actually 10% off. Who here can afford to waste $250 by waiting?

>>467946
It's already gone up to $2,399.00
https://www.favdoll.com/product/climax-doll-lola-150cm-c-cup-fantasy-rabbit-sex-doll/

>>467947
Fuck it then, dad can have whiskey for Christmas again this year.

>>467694
I believe a lot of young people do boardgames these days. It's weirdly having a renaissance and every other pub seems to be putting on events so nerdy twats can play D&D wrong. Call me old fashioned but I'd much rather do a few lines of Mcat and go bonkers even if it exposes that I was last somewhat cool in 2014.

I'll try and be helpful though: The thing about friends is that it's all about the tribes. You've got to have friends to get friends and to get friends you need to get friend (who has friends). Try talking to someone in one of your hobbies, actually ask how they're doing and offer to help them. Basically meet someone cool and then practically suck their dick until they let you into their circle.

I was shown the below 10 years ago and I ended up picking up some of the tips that I still use in office politics - ask people how they're doing sometimes when you sit next to them. It's magic.

>>467699
Read what I'm telling you. The world is full of people who don't match the measurements but they get into relationships just fine and end up staying in them even when they can sometimes feel like the grass could be greener, but they mostly stick at it because life is more than measurements.

Your ex might be a cunt but equally if she gets led off by empty promises of a better life then there's clearly a dead relationship at work anyway.

>>467700
Picard wasn't upset that he was a science man, that wasn't the point of the episode. There are lots of people happy in other places and sometimes their passion isn't even their job - but getting to and living the good life takes effort, stress and risk.

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>>467716

>Read what I'm telling you

Not being funny but I have heard everything you are saying before, and while this might be the 40th time we've had the discussion, it exasperates me to just hear the same trite bollocks like you think anyone will suddenly have the eureka moment this time. It's not even that I disagree, it's that what your saying is such a completely surface level, non-insightful perspective it makes me kind of angry. It's not that you are wrong it's that you are not engaging with the true spirit of the discussion.

You're just saying what we all already know and have to just go along with because it's how the world works, but this conversation is about why and/or how things could and should be better and how we've ended up here. Do you understand? I'm trying not to just make a rude sarcastic remark to you because that's the only way I really know how to express the irritation it causes me, but I hope you can get more of what I am trying to communicate this way.

>>467716
Sure I'd best go talking to the little girls in the street, they're not too young! Show them what's in my sack IYKWIM (it's an apple).

>>467717
>It's not that you are wrong it's that you are not engaging with the true spirit of the discussion.

...Okay. Now, the symptoms you describe point to "bonus eruptus." It's a terrible disorder where the skeleton tries to leap out the mouth and escape the body.

>but this conversation is about why and/or how things could and should be better and how we've ended up here

No it's not. Male loneliness issues that evolved into talking to otherlad about ambition via the TNG episode Tapestry and then other-otherlad whinging that his Mrs left him because she wanted something more from the relationship. We'll keep having this tedious discussion until you stop being wrong and start following a healthy approach to life rather than what feels counter-culture to you.

>>467735

Lad I have sincerely never read anyone sound so smug while saying so little as this.

>>467213
>Except that time he told everyone to go out and spread the plague, in the middle of the plague, and gave out vouchers to do it. He caused hundreds of thousands of excess deaths.

Was that, purely economically, a bad decision?

>>467214

From a purely economic standpoint, we should have just let the fucker rip - it would have killed off a load of unproductive people and we wouldn't have racked up hundreds of billions in debt from closing the economy for months at a stretch. Obviously that would be disastrous from a health perspective, but a lot of US states did go with that strategy.

The job of a cabinet should be to hammer out all those disagreements between different departments, with the Prime Minister having the final say if the ministers can't agree among themselves. The problem that the covid enquiry revealed is that Boris Johnson's own personal dysfunctions stopped us from even approaching that. He was known as "the shopping trolley", because he would wildly veer from one extreme to the other depending on who was talking to him at the time.

Eat Out To Help Out made perfect sense as an economic policy, it just didn't fit with the health strategy that we had chosen. You could argue that the Chancellor should have foreseen this, but ultimately it's not his job.

>>467214
>>467216

I would argue that killing people is bad for the economy no matter what. That's people who could be paying taxes and buying stuff, but instead they are dead.

I could see the argument for just letting it rip, I wouldn't have agreed with it but it would have been logically consistent at least. Whereas paying people furlough and giving out supplements etc so that people stay at home, and then following that up with a policy to encourage people to go out, that's entirely self contradictory. It doesn't make sense.

>>467217

For every pound you pay in tax, about 44p goes towards the elderly, either through state benefits, social care or the increased health expenditures on older people. If we just killed everyone who was eligible for a flu vaccine, the survivors would be living in a utopia. Obviously we aren't going to do that, but it's just a statement of fact that covid mitigation measures were a massive economic transfer from taxpayers to non-taxpayers.

>>467219

I am quite confident that the covid measures were much more vastly a transfer from taxpayers to business owners. Business owners who greased the right palms. If the responses were intended to protect the elderly then they wouldn't have fumbled it so badly by letting it leak into care homes in a manner so crass it can only by described as appearing to be intentional.

The covid response was an excuse to turn the money tap on and do what they did in 2008, on an even bigger scale- Socialising the losses for the wealthy while making the ordinary person foot the bill. The lockdowns weren't intended to protect anyone's health, young or old. That's why it was so half arsed and inconsistent. It was a cover up for pure opportunism on a scale that I am almost certain we will still be seeing shocking exposes and documentaries on in 20-30 years time.

The eldery suck up resources while they are alive, but in fact they are quite economically efficient, they pass it all on when they die and they keep a lot of people in jobs who would otherwise pile on top of the 2m people we already have unemployed.

>>464347

I can follow how, if you're desperate to crowbar racist stereotypes into the conversation, someone could argue that being a pregnant teenager is crass, but that doesn't explain how the winning candidate for a position is the poster child for one of the runners up, specifically.

>>464360
>poster child for one of the runners up
Posterchild for the campaign. I was talking out of my arse when I posted the initial message.

>>464361
That's more accurate then.

>>463536
>She has depression, autism, and borderline personality disorder. I don't know how unbearable her life is
Not nearly as unbearable as her boyfriend's...

>>467071
He's had five months of peace and quiet by now...

>>467063
>For a while I was really into gay furry porn where the dude with the bigger dick is the bottom. Same basic underlying principle there

I'm afraid your example doesn't make things any clearer for me, but thanks

>>467073

Want a demonstration? Obviously I'll have to be the bottom.

>>467074
You talk about your gay furry preoccupation like how a grandpa tells war stories.

>>467076

Nah, it's your mum I talk about like that.

You're in a thread about fetishes trying to get a rise out of me for talking about fetishes. Stop being a plonker.

>>467078
>You're in a thread about fetishes trying to get a rise out of me for talking about fetishes

Well I mean, I don't really get what is analogous between getting turned on by being dominated by women and looking at gay furry porn. But I will stop talking now.

>>466576
They're usually not too busy from what I've seen. I think that's the real logic to it, you can either be a place that gets high-traffic or a place that has to rely on gimmicks and you don't really get to choose.

There's a couple of wanky beer places in London that are alright if done right. Go out in Shoreditch and get a few random beers from the Mikkeller Bar and then when you've had your fill head to Beigel Bake and get the salt beef bagel. It's okay.

>>466577

In fairness, it's really difficult to keep the lights on if you're just running a normal pub that charges normal prices. I hate the twattification of pubs and cafes as much as anyone, but the cost of doing business is just unsustainable if you aren't charging rip-off prices for pretentious crap or a big chain with massive buying power.

>>466588
I'd take any pub that had interesting people drinking there. In my experience, nowadays the only people in pubs are depressing barflies. Even ten years ago, all sorts of people would go to pubs, but either I go to worse pubs now or pubs have worse patrons than they did. Something has poisoned society and even if you can excise the poison from yourself, and start going out again, you won't meet anyone worth meeting any more.

>>466594

Pretty sure that were the pandemic.

Healthier and more well adjusted people found better things to do, the only people left going to pubs for their social life are poorly adjusted delinquents like us, who were raised by borderline alcoholic working class parents and genuinely don't know how to really do anything else. Or at least, even if we do know how to do other things socially, we'd still prefer to bookend it with a couple of pints, because that's the ritual we are accustomed to, and we feel lost in a world where people don't want to do that any longer.

I know I am saying we and really just speaking about myself but I assume at least a couple of you can relate.

Trying to figure out how to keep Google from indexing pictures on a web site. I've had pictures of me taken for my business (I'm self employed), but I don't want Google indexing them in its image search. In fact, being somebody who lives a very private life outside my job, I don't want any association between my personal name and my business in Google's search results. So one thing I've done is that I've replaced my name wherever it appears on my site with an image file with the same font, so that somebody browsing my site will be unaware that it's not just text. And I want to make sure my new pictures are only visible to somebody who directly goes to my site.

Google's own advice to keep images hidden is to make a robots.txt file with the command:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/disallow/

and then put your images in the /disallow/ folder. Or whatever name you want to give a folder.

I've given that a dry run the past 10 days and sure enough, some dummy pictures I've put in that folder don't show up on Google's image search, despite being linked in HTML page files.

Call it paranoia, but I want to maintain control over what happens with information about me and pictures as tightly as possible. And with some success, in that there isn't a single picture of me on the web. Or in other words, every search engine I've tried draws a complete blank. Which is just the way I want to keep it.

>>465333
Oh also don't get me started on the bizarre arms race for people in my cute village to get ever bigger cars that our roads aren't built for so they can drive to the supermarket and back.

There are points where two cars can't find down the road so people will just mount the pavement with you on it and beep for you to move so the cars can pass, like they have a god given right.

Unfortunately I've stopped trying to convince people because saying 'cars shouldn't be so centric to everyday life' is taken as a personal sleight, so I just enjoy the money saved and the fitness benefits.

>>465335

> so people will just mount the pavement with you on it and beep for you to move so the cars can pass, like they have a god given right.

What a bunch of cnuts, I'd personally find that so enraging that I'd be tempted to egg their windscreen on a freezing night if anyone did that to me.

One of the jobs I've applied for recently is at a depot just around the corner from me, and I really hope I get it just because it will just be great not having to spend £80+ on petrol every month to commute, and just being able to use my car for leisure.

>>465332

Anyone know? I'm still wondering about this.

>>465332
>>466671
Hydrogen is pretty much still a meme. There are a few places that are trying it with trains and buses, but while it does have the bonus that the emissions are mostly water, there are still concerns about sourcing (setting aside that you're driving a mini-Hindenburg if your storage cells aren't designed properly).

There's a whole spectrum of colours to describe hydrogen sourcing, but the theory that we can substantially reduce our emissions by using hydrogen is pretty much entirely based on the assumption that we would be using "green" hydrogen, obtained from electrolysis of water (effectively the converse operation to what happens in the fuel cell), powered by renewables. "Black" and "brown" hydrogen come from burning coal and lignite respectively, and "grey" is obtained from the by-products of burning natural gas. "Grey" hydrogen isn't too bad, because the process is something you can just bolt on to gas power stations, and so it has minimal carbon impact as it would be a by-product of a thing we're already doing, but ultimately still depends on burning gas, and isn't the "green" vision that's being sold. There's also the doubly memetic "blue" hydrogen, which is what happens if you do the "grey" process but also do carbon capture for maximum imaginary power. There are some other colours, but they're either similar to the above or theoretical to some degree between "shower thought" and "fever dream".

The biggest issue is that the entire thing is sold on the basis of using "green" hydrogen, while pretty much all of the systems currently in use or being demonstrated are actually using "grey" or "brown" hydrogen.

>>466673

The Toyota Mirai is the only hydrogen-fuelled car currently on sale. It costs £20,000 more than a Tesla Model 3, it has less range and it's significantly slower. In theory you can order a Mirai in the UK, but I've got no idea who would actually buy one.

Hydrogen is a dead-end technology, even if you could buy green hydrogen at every petrol station. The energy density of hydrogen is poor - hydrogen just does not want to be densely packed - as is the power density of fuel cells. Nobody has made meaningful progress on either issue in a decade, while batteries just keep getting better and cheaper.

So Florida was bummed by Hurricane Helene from the 24th to the 29th of September. Now, Floridians are being warned to prepare for the storm of the century which means probably very little will happen and it will be a damp squib, Hurricane Milton:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cq64vnj51p1o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr753r34n3rt

So that's two major hurricanes in a fortnight. But Helene begins with H and Milton begins with M. What happened to I, J, K and L? Hurricanes - hold on while I look them up - Isaac, Joyce, Kirk and Leslie? I know not every hurricane is a big one, but surely it's not normal for a new one to form every three days?

>>466632

I saw some of my Yank mates on another interweb place talking about a hurricane a couple of weeks back, and I assume it was that one, but when I was trying to google it for information I kept getting different reports. I think it's just that round those parts, the bit at the southeast of the USA and like, Caribbean, Mexican gulf, sort of area, there's just loads of hurricanes over this time of the year and that's normal for them. We only hear about it when they're proper mega ones that people will lose their homes and everything in.

What I think is wild is how the American government does basically fuck all to help too. When we have a couple of feet of flooding it's all over the news for a week and the emergency services and army are all hands on deck with the aid effort, in America they're just like "fuck 'em".

>>466632

What happened to I, J, K and L?

They didn't make landfall in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Atlantic_hurricane_season

>>466632
The conditions for storms to form happen every day, and the region for naming these storms runs all the way from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

If you want to get into the maths of it, the storms are discrete events happening on continuous but bounded time (there's an official "season" from June to November). They roughly fit a Poisson distribution, with an average of about 14. That means the interval roughly fits an exponential distribution, with a mean of a around 13 days and a median of around 9 days. So something like Isaac being named around two weeks after Helene while Joyce gets named the following day is not particularly unlikely.

>>466636

>What I think is wild is how the American government does basically fuck all to help too. When we have a couple of feet of flooding it's all over the news for a week and the emergency services and army are all hands on deck with the aid effort, in America they're just like "fuck 'em".

"I also convened my entire cabinet as part of a whole government response and that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather events and be wary we're going to be... Use all the resources available to us as the government to do it." - President Joe Biden

>>466524

I ask them how much they want.

Probably doesn't work if your girlfriend is fat and you're trying to get her to eat less, but I find with a fat bird you have no real choice but to demonstrably eat the same portions as them at mealtimes, and secretly feed yourself the extra calories you actually need as a man without her knowing.

>>466525

That works equally well for those of us with the opposite problem. Most of the lasses I go out with are at least twice my size, so I always order or serve a couple of side dishes "for the table" so they don't feel self-conscious about eating more than me.

>>466523
I still buy albums from time to time. Mostly old ones but occasionally modern. Would buy more if were easier.
I think CDs are still going strong inside developing countries.

I got a new oven and fridge freezer delivered today. They beep a lot more than the old ones.

>>466523

The metal scene definitely still places a lot of value on albums and physical releases in general. One of the better things about it, even though a lot of people criticising it for being an "elitist" scene that discourages newcomers from listening to mainstream artists and all that, and call it "gatekeeping", is that the fans in that genre are still committed to supporting the grassroots of the genre. They are hostile to the corpos and labels taking over and watering everything down, and that's a large part of the reason the genre is still going strong 40 years after its heyday.