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>> No. 445290 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 7:42 am
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Imagine living here.
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>> No. 463891 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 11:49 am
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A new family moved onto the street last year, with the man working some form of trade. So far they have replaced the entire back garden with decking, bought a hot tub, replaced all of the windows/fascias grey and installed LED lights inside their rooms. They are currently in the process of digging up the lovely front garden they inherited and paving it over so they have a second parking space.
>> No. 463893 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 1:01 pm
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They're planning to put >100 acres of substations here, compulsory purchase of my field, etc. Wankers.
>> No. 463896 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 3:10 pm
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>>463891
>with the man working some form of trade.
There goes the neighbourhood.
>> No. 463898 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 3:26 pm
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>>463896
He has a work van and everything. Very unsightly.
>> No. 463901 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 4:16 pm
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>>463891

The house next to mine was bought by a Persian family two years ago. It had been suffering neglect because the person living in it became increasingly frail and then went into a home, and her children spent a long time bickering over what they wanted to do with the house, without anybody living in it or even looking after it in a meaningful way during that time. And naturally, when they finally sold, there were signs of neglect all over the property, from unmowed grass and out of control weeds and bushes to roof shingles falling off.

The Persians have been doing the house up nicely, but at some point they went and covered the lawn and flower beds in front of the house with coarse gravel and concrete tiles. They left a few bushes standing to keep it from looking too barren, but it really looks a bit soulless. Apparently they are both very busy business owners and don't have the time, but if your business is doing well then surely you can hire somebody to do your gardening for you.

I've gone the other way and there's a handful of well looked after tall trees and bushes in front of my house. It's a real front garden that deserves the name. And it's a lot more eco friendly these days than my neighbours' polar landscape.

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>> No. 463797 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 4:48 pm
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To end up here you'll have had to spend a significant amount of time online so I have to ask something I've been wondering lately:

I'd say that the internet both takes up a significant portion of my own time and has significantly shaped who I am as a person. Since about age 14 I've spent a lot of my life on computers and even during times when I'm constantly around people I'll still find time to post online. It's like an outlet for me and a way of exploring the world built into one.

What's interesting when I reflect on all of this is that I can't now imagine who I'd be had I been born a decade or two earlier. It's largely inseparable as a tool from who I have become, outside of being naturally gregarious all my insights and my value in the workplace seems to come from the experiance of being raised by the internet. But I do wonder, with my life seemingly getting busier and busier whether it's a part of my schedule I should do without, or to put it another way whether the random disjointed and circular knowledge it provides has an end point that justifies any further use. I imagine that hour or two spent in a thread arguing with someone being used more productively toward a straightforward goal for example.

There's a Youtuber who always bangs on about how people need to get out and 'touch grass' and it's making me wonder whether I should do the same.


But then part of me wonders whether I'd lose something by trying to go without, I'd lose a community, a social outlet and a source of unique knowledge and viewpoints that I wouldn't get in my daily life. I feel I'd be more ignorant if anything. I'm at a loss, I'm sure you've all thought about this in the past so I'm interested to here your perspective.
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>> No. 463798 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 5:20 pm
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It's probably a good idea to set yourself a limit for time spent online, but don't leave completely. Most of the stimulation you get from our thrilling debates will come in the first ten minutes or so of being here, and then you're just refreshing the page hoping something exciting happens. Also, consider only doing one thing at a time; I can feel my attention span crumbling away to nothing and it's honestly a bit scary. And I am by no means the most online person I know.
>> No. 463799 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 6:24 pm
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As someone old enough to remember life before the internet, it's really hard to overstate how much boredom was a part of everyday life. We'd watch Ski Sunday or Songs of Praise, because it was the least bad option out of three or four channels. We spent an implausible amount of time standing around outside of places, waiting for our mates to turn up. If and when they did turn up, we'd often just sit on a wall for an hour or two doing nothing, or just aimlessly wander around the streets. We'd drink cans and smoke cheap hash and try to think of things to talk about. Sometimes we'd throw stones at a bin or smash up a bus stop or have a fight for literally no reason at all.

I think there's a lot of rose-tinted nostalgia about what life was like before phones and the internet. We weren't doing lots of fulfilling things in our spare time, we were just bored shitless.
>> No. 463800 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 7:38 pm
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That's actually another thing I thought about after I posted >>463798. In the past, everyone was bored and so you went out and were bored together. But now, you could completely swear off the Internet and go cold-turkey and leave and never come back, but a lot of the people you would hang out with are now terminally online too, so you will wind up even lonelier than you would have been without sites like this one. It might be productive to quit (I have noticed that the least-online people I know do seem to be so much happier a lot of the time), but there's nothing to really replace it with if you do quit. If you have a hobby, or some books that need reading, then great, but otherwise you're just abandoning something you do so that you can do absolutely nothing instead. If you want to get your music without algorithmic influence, the radio still exists but Top of the Pops is fucking gone. I still watch plenty of Freeview TV, but I really do watch just the news and nothing else, because it's an absolute polar now. I touch grass regularly, and it's not that productive.
>> No. 463801 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 8:32 pm
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>>463800

It gets said a lot around here, but that's why hobbies and clubs exist. Cycling or fishing or golf is mostly just an excuse to spend a few hours afternoon hanging out with some mates. Women bond face-to-face, men bond shoulder-to-shoulder.

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>> No. 463699 Anonymous
14th April 2024
Sunday 10:06 pm
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I have read that some "pipe tobaccos" sold in shops is actually just regular rolling tobacco but marked as pipe tobacco for tax reasons.

With the prices of cigs going through the roof, does anybody have any insight into what particular brands this applies to or whether the entire thing is a load of shite.

Google and rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk are popping up with US specific stuff or outdated info so any help is appreciated

Thanks
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>> No. 463774 Anonymous
18th April 2024
Thursday 8:54 pm
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>>463724
I was thinking more that about 90% of pipe tobacco wouldn't work in a rollie, see pic related. Straight up ribbon cut yellow Virginia would probably work fine though, now that you mention it.
>> No. 463775 Anonymous
18th April 2024
Thursday 9:13 pm
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I reckon I might try a pipe one of these days.

I've mostly quit smoking for vaping, I only get the urge to smoke when I've had a drink or some particularly stiff stimulants. But that being the case maybe it'd be fun to smoke in a more indulgent fashion.

What do you do with a pipe? Do you just get pipe baccy and stuff it in and light it?
>> No. 463779 Anonymous
19th April 2024
Friday 12:19 am
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>>463775
>What do you do with a pipe? Do you just get pipe baccy and stuff it in and light it?
Pretty much. There're probably techniques to packing it, but fuck that you'll learn as you go. Some like to make a game of keeping it lit with the least possible effort, ie nursing the cherry till there's nothing left to burn. Using a match is much easier than a regular lighter, also (though a free burning fuel lighter would probably be good).
Also pipe tobacco is much stronger than rolling - smells great but I believe you're not meant to actually inhale it.

Seriously though, not to patronise you but it's generally a bad idea to start smoking if you're not already. Appart from the obvious drawbacks, you'll have a dry mouth and bad breath every moring that doesn't clear with water or a tooth brush. Your gums will begin to recede before long, which is mildly painful like a minor tooth ache. You'll get pastey skin, headaches, and possibly even sleep apnoea.

I've been smoking semi-regularly for almost a year now (>>/fit/3128) and I regret starting. Not so much for the health issues but the cost, stigma and addicting effects. At this point to give up is only as difficult as I make it, but I am making it difficult by having nothing else in my life that so reliably gets me out of the house. I finished a pack earlier today, it'll be about 2 days before I start thinking about buying again. When I do start thinking about it, I remind myself that it's a self perpetuating activity and I'm not really getting anything out of it other than feeding a light addiction and making it worse. I mean, I do enjoy many of the cigarettes but it's just not worth keeping the cycle going.
>> No. 463780 Anonymous
19th April 2024
Friday 12:32 am
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>>463779

>Seriously though, not to patronise you but it's generally a bad idea to start smoking if you're not already

I already smoke maybe a pack of cigs a month, generally I'll buy a pack on pay day and have half of them with a few beers every other weekend. Before that I was a maybe 10-15 a day rollie smoker, but the vape has got me off being a full time smoker.

It's not ideal but believe me cigs are the least of my worries when it comes to addictive drugs.
>> No. 463786 Anonymous
19th April 2024
Friday 5:20 pm
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>>463775
Pack it fairly tightly, but not so tightly that's it's hard to draw through. You've got to be able draw through it with your nose, if you breathe in through your mouth you'll burn your mouth, and if you can't draw breath with your nose then the ember just isn't going to stay lit. Some like to singe the top of the tobacco and then tamp it down gently before relighting to get a proper ember going, but you don't necessarily need to do that. And you don't inhale it like a cigarette, you just need to let the smoke circulate in your mouth. I recommend doing it when you've had a solid meal and you're not in a hurry to do anything else.

The main benefit is the variety of tobaccos and their flavours, as well as it being a slow and easygoing experience, otherwise it has all the other problems that come with nicotine and with smoking.

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>> No. 463453 Anonymous
2nd April 2024
Tuesday 7:54 pm
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What legal routes can I go down to make sure my girfriend, of Japanese nationality, can stay in this country when her visa expires next summer? Marriage isn't out of the question but preferably not...
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>> No. 463561 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 12:23 pm
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>>463485
Thank you.

I have to say, researching all this has been depressing. If we can't sort all this, I fear I'll need to make a difficult choice and leave the country with her...

She has an impressive career history in commercial real estate, so I'm hoping that can land her a good job here at least.
>> No. 463567 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 3:59 pm
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>>463485
This, but also the Home Office really don't like being challenged when they get it wrong, and recent Home Secretaries have decided that the courts should keep their filthy noses out of the department's business.

OP, don't be surprised if you go through the process, they come to the wrong decision, and try to put the missus on a flight to Rwanda before you have a chance to contest it. Remember that former Imperial subjects who are now British citizens have been deported because the Home Office cleared out their evidence of eligibility for taking up too much space.

In all seriousness, joking and hyperbole aside, we really must abolish the Home Office.
>> No. 463577 Anonymous
8th April 2024
Monday 11:14 am
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>>463561

>She has an impressive career history in commercial real estate

If she has plenty of money you'll be alright, just hire a good specialist solicitor.

The immigration system is just another one of those things where we have a lot of dense and impenetrable legislation designed to make it seem like there's some kind of system, some kind of rules and fairness to the criteria, but all it really is at the end of the day is a wealth filter.
>> No. 463592 Anonymous
8th April 2024
Monday 10:22 pm
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>>463577
Well, I qualify for this £88k savings alone, and she has around 50k from what I gather. I'm hoping this is the biggest hurdle... Because despite healthy savings we don't really have the money for expensive solicitors.
>> No. 463600 Anonymous
9th April 2024
Tuesday 2:31 pm
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>>463592
>Because despite healthy savings we don't really have the money for expensive solicitors.

What? Between you you've got more money than most people earn in five years. Get a grip.

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>> No. 460464 Anonymous
27th September 2023
Wednesday 8:59 pm
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What languages do you two speak? I was meant to book on a language course this week to brush up and maybe make some friends. Unfortunately I missed the deadline as I dithered so I guess I might do a beginner course in something new while I wait.
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>> No. 463556 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 9:34 am
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>>463555

Also having "discussions" about Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy.
>> No. 463557 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 10:22 am
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>>463555
Back in 2009, it was one 20th century American novel (either Of Mice and Men or To Kill A Mockingbird), one 19th century British novel (I did Jane Eyre), two Shakespeares (for me The cup of tea and Romeo & Juliet. We also had the poetry anthology - some classic English poems a couple of hundred years old, some absolute wank from Carol Ann Duffy and pals, and then modern ethnic poems about being non-white.

Other than Of Mice and Men which I do genuinely like, every other element put me off their respective genres/time periods/mediums. It's instilled a genuine hatred of poetry, I physically cringe when reading or hearing a poem, doubly so if performed live. An entire art form ruined because I had to spend hours writing essays on how Carol Ann Duffy is not a talentless hack bitch and her imagery was good actually.
>> No. 463558 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 10:57 am
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>>463555
And you didn't even learn it well enough to remember the proper title.
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7th April 2024
Sunday 1:14 pm
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>>463557
I've seen a similar reaction after telling Spaniards that I love Don Quixote. I guess you can't underestimate the power of the school system to forever destroy a child's love of reading.

>>463558
You're not supposed to say the full title; legend has it that if you say it three times the mice will come and make you one of their 'men'.
>> No. 463565 Anonymous
7th April 2024
Sunday 2:12 pm
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>>463547

>I actually wonder if it might be another reason we struggle to pick up a second language. At least if you're working class.

Working class implies a low level of schooling. Maybe you left school with your GCSEs, or even without them. In any case, the amount of foreign language classes you've had by that point isn't enough to be functional beyond ordering chips on holiday or checking into a hotel. Especially if you're the kind of working class person who was struggling in school to begin with.

I took French and German in school. French is somewhat easy because of all the Latin words shared with English, and German because of the common Germanic roots. I find that both languages can be rudimentally intelligible against English, i.e. even somebody who knows neither language can make out bits from texts in French or German.

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>> No. 463481 Anonymous
4th April 2024
Thursday 9:50 pm
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Don’t let the doomsters and the naysayers trick you into talking down our country.

The UK is as strong as ever 🇬🇧
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>> No. 463494 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 11:42 am
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I'm intrigued to see where they're going with this. There's someone in CCHQ who has fully embraced shitposting over the years and this time they may have free reign to lean into their madness. I can just imagine Rishi scurrying into their office and demanding that the people be made to love him like they love Boris and this is the result.

The only thing that isn't leaning into absurdism on the poster is Rishi in the centre and that might be a concession.
>> No. 463495 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 12:33 pm
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>>463494

Apparently, it's a deliberate strategy. People like us will share it in order to mock it, but the kind of people who might still vote Tory are also the kind of people who still like Minions memes.
>> No. 463496 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 1:07 pm
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I do like the series Sunak is doing where he just gets a flip-chart and a pen to explain his positions:


Maybe he's targeting the .gs demographic by slowly morphing into Carol Vorderman. And maybe we've not had a Carol post since Christmas because someone got picked up by CCHQ. Whose to say how deep the Conservative Party goes in this country.
>> No. 463508 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 7:40 pm
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>There's someone in CCHQ who has fully embraced shitposting over the years
You bastard. You've got me listening to Boriswave again. It's just too brilliant to move past.


>> No. 463515 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 10:03 pm
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Rishiwave is still in the prototype stage.


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>> No. 463269 Anonymous
19th March 2024
Tuesday 10:51 pm
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What do you have planned for your mid-life crisis, will you reinvent yourself by trading in your old car and wife or will you do something more original?

We're getting to that age now and I think we should nip this in the bud by finding things to make us feel young again. Otherwise this place is going to get very weird and we'll start doing the bloke equivalent of sticking unicorns up everywhere.
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>> No. 463359 Anonymous
23rd March 2024
Saturday 1:27 pm
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>>463356

My friends and I have pretty much stopped going to clubs entirely, most we'll do is go to a pub or cocktail bar, but more the ones that cater to our age group. Let's say 35-55.

But back in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was definitely not the norm that you saw many 30somethings, let alone 40somethings out and about in clubs at the weekend. We still occasionally went out to bars and clubs that were meant for the older crowd up into our late 30s, so we're talking early 2010s by then, but people of our age group were definitely a dying breed by then, and a while later I pretty much stopped going. I still remember the day when I decided that I'd had enough. I was at a singles party, and other single people my age that were there just looked incredibly sad. And I didn't want to look or be like them.

I spent over 20 years of my life partying, from age 15 into my late 30s. I did all the outrageous things you do when you're young and out having a good time. I did them for 20 years. That's enough for one lifetime, if you ask me. You've got to know when to quit.
>> No. 463361 Anonymous
23rd March 2024
Saturday 2:56 pm
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>>463359

As is my eternal mantra in life, all things in moderation.

When you go out partying every weekend for 20 years, sure, you'll just be sick of it one day. I got like that with live music after a while, and especially after having been in a bands for several years and seeing it from the other side. I still occasionally enjoy a gig, but if I do go to one it's an expensive do because I know I'll be drinking a lot and probably buying some coke, so it's only a couple of times a year at most.

I think for me, the thing is I was always quite reserved, I never went out with a big group of mates every single weekend. I had plenty of big and memorable (for the right and wrong reasons) weekenders, but I spent much more of my time as a twenty-something living the kind of life a mid 40s bloke might be expected to anyway, so the wild times were always more exciting by contrast.

It's all about balance innit.
>> No. 463362 Anonymous
23rd March 2024
Saturday 4:17 pm
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What if going out is like it's always been, great if you get a big crew together of decent lads but it just gets harder to have that crew when you're all grown-up?

Imagine if a bunch of us old geezers went out and started standing around in a circle with drinks in our hands talking about some bollocks from 15 years ago Moaty. I bet it would make the young folk uncomfortable.
>> No. 463363 Anonymous
23rd March 2024
Saturday 4:53 pm
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>>463362

>but it just gets harder to have that crew when you're all grown-up

I think that's the difficult part. For most of early middle age, people have demanding jobs and a spouse and kids to raise. Even if you could manage going out one Saturday a month, most of your friends will have the same problem and probably won't be free the same weekend.

I think that's what ends many partying cliques as you get older. Between the end of school and about the end of uni and then into the early years of your work life, it's no problem at all to get people together for a good night out. But then by your late 20s, most people have less and less time and energy for it. Everybody, yourself included, is just dealing with too much adult stuff. The best you'll be able do on a regular basis is dinner parties at someone's house that are over by 11 o'clock.
>> No. 463386 Anonymous
25th March 2024
Monday 2:15 pm
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Somebody told me on the phone today that I sounded 25. Despite turning 50 this year. Some help desk younglad on the phone at a car parts company I called, and he got chummy with me the way he probably would have with somebody his own age. I then mentioned to him that I'm 49, and that product A was probably more for the young crowd, and that I'd rather have product B. So he said, "Wait, what? Really?".

It happens occasionally that people place my voice much younger. Although I'm not sure what you are supposed to sound like at 50. What I can say is that I quit smoking twelve years ago and don't really drink alcohol at all.

Ten years ago, that kind of compliment would have made my day. These days, I don't fucking care if I sound 25 or 50. I'm 50, and any day above ground is a good day.

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>> No. 451186 Anonymous
30th April 2022
Saturday 10:19 pm
451186 THIS MAN WILL CHANGE THE INTERNET AND IT IS EXCELLENT
You knows it.
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>> No. 463064 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 9:58 am
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>>463063

We're not going to undo climate change at this point. It's all about slowing it down now. But even that is worth doing. Defeatism doesn't get you anywhere.

But it doesn't have to be a Tesla. There are increasingly other options, where a car company isn't run by a pound shop Bond villain.
>> No. 463065 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 1:54 pm
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>Defeatism doesn't get you anywhere.
It gets me to any airport on the planet at around 600 mph actually.
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6th March 2024
Wednesday 2:07 pm
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Honestly I think climate change is too convinient a cover for the use of weaponised weather manipulation technologies for it to be meaningfully tackled before a third world war. Also they're defrosting the Arctic to get at whatever's within the ice..
>> No. 463067 Anonymous
6th March 2024
Wednesday 3:22 pm
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>>463065

>It gets me to any airport on the planet at around 600 mph

Don't many planes fly slower today than they used to, to save fuel and reduce emission?
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6th March 2024
Wednesday 5:59 pm
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>>463067

No, but also sort of yes. There hasn't really been a strategic decision to run at lower cruise speeds, but narrow body jets naturally have a cruise speed that's 40-50 knots slower than a wide body. The shift from hub-and-spoke to point-to-point operations mean that more passenger miles are being flown on smaller narrow body jets, which has unintentionally resulted in a reduction in average speeds.

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>> No. 462226 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 8:42 am
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New weekday thread: school sports hall edition.

How's it going, lads? Did you have a nice 2023?
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>> No. 463007 Anonymous
1st March 2024
Friday 12:42 pm
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I buy ten sausage rolls and a big multipack of crisps from Asda for my work dinners. It's not the healthiest but it covers my pack up for three or four quid a week. I usually leave the roast chicken flavour til last because they are my least favourite. But I've had two packs just now and I have had a change of heart, and now I'm looking forward to getting home tonight to scoff the rest.

Also eating the cheapo crisps all the time has really put into perspective how bloody hell, "posh" crisps like Sensations or Kettle Chips etc are a complete rip off aren't they? It's literally just slices of potato, when you buy into the luxury behind their brand you really are paying solely for marketing.

Surplus enjoyment I suppose innit. Bet my boy Slavoj eats own brand crisps.
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1st March 2024
Friday 2:55 pm
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>> No. 463028 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 10:45 am
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>>463006
He never actually turned up, did he?
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3rd March 2024
Sunday 11:07 am
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I've been promised he'll be here between 8am and 6pm Monday.
>> No. 463030 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 2:11 pm
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My flat was due to have a leak in the kitchen looked at (delayed by like two weeks obviously), and on the due day a guy turned up at our door just saying he was here for the kitchen, so my wife let him in while I was shaving. Then I heard a huge smashing noise so went to see what it was, and the floor was covered in the smashed remnants of our oven door. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was removing the oven, and naturally I told him there is no reason to smash our oven to pieces just to look at a leak, which he didn't seem to understand at all. But it was clear the gears in his head were finally turning, and he went outside to his mate to talk with him. Turns out they were both meant to be installing an oven in a flat two doors next to us, I guess he can't read numbers? I was actually too taken aback to get angry at him, some man I am.
We got compensated, but the paperwork was a shitemare. And that is why I cringe at being told the repair man can't come today, wait til next week.

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>> No. 460951 Anonymous
28th October 2023
Saturday 6:11 am
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New weekend thread.

How's it going, lads? What are you up to?
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>> No. 462798 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 7:48 am
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https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1756846542529400924
>> No. 462799 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 8:24 am
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>>462795
You are the guy Deborah Cameron was writing about. Men gossip and always have done.

https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/599428/mod_resource/content/1/CAmeron%2C%20Performing%20gender%20identity%20young%20mens%20talk.pdf
>> No. 462800 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 8:33 am
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>>462799
Yeah, the notion that men don't bitch, gossip and backstab is outright bollocks.
>> No. 462802 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 12:56 pm
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>>462800

Speak for yourselves I suppose, but I still think social media has made it all the more common, and I stand by the second half of the post. Being nasty about people who have done nothing to you and aren't hurting anyone comes out of nothing other than a personal failing within oneself.

I've certainly been guilty of it in the past and won't deny it, but I realised it's really a horrible behaviour and nowadays I consciously try not to. It's one of those things I don't think there's really any excuse for, and people know it, so the best they can do is pretend everyone else is just as bad, therefore it's okay.
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12th February 2024
Monday 3:31 pm
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I didn’t enjoy it myself. The teams are quite boring and it was mostly field goals. I was furious when I stayed up till the end of the fourth quarter and it went to bloody overtime. That said, it was a close and cagey game, so I think some of the criticism I’ve seen is a bit harsh.

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>> No. 462686 Anonymous
4th February 2024
Sunday 10:15 am
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I earn probably c. 50k, I've been offered a job at just under 70k (although likely to peep over it with bonuses etc). The pension arrangements are good, I'd have about 30 days annual leave.

The problem is the new job, I never expected to get and is a bit of a change from my current job which I excel at, but am stuck in a bind where I keep getting temporary pay increases and am very well liked, but am not getting the bandwith to make my promotion permanent. Several colleagues have said how fucked everybody would be without me but the senior levels just aren't interested in sorting me out a promotion.

The new job is way less interesting, but would take my standard take home pay from like £2600 a month to around £3300/3400 a month which is obviously a huge difference.

Would I be mad to turn it down and wait for a better salary in a sphere more aligned to what I'm doing now and keep applying for jobs slightly more in line with my experience?

Any thoughts/experiences on money vs passion in careers very welcome here.
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>> No. 462803 Anonymous
12th February 2024
Monday 2:42 pm
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>>462784

Is it worth it though fro a boring and uninteresting job?
>> No. 462815 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 1:57 am
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>>462803

Maybe you should moan about this on the Grauniad? Pretend to be a Woman and I'm sure you'll get the answers you need.
>> No. 462816 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 3:02 am
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>>462815
Are you high lad?
>> No. 462817 Anonymous
13th February 2024
Tuesday 3:35 am
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>>462816

What the hell does that have to do with the price of fish?
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13th February 2024
Tuesday 5:13 pm
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>>462817
About the same as >>462815.

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>> No. 461725 Anonymous
9th December 2023
Saturday 2:45 pm
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Let's have a proper men In sheds type of discussion then shall we. I bet it's one you lot will have a good bit to say about.

What do you think the UK's realistic military capabilities are in current year? Is the UK still a significant global player? Or are our resources even adequate to defend the island from our potential enemies?

I've come across a few discussions on other places and it seems like there's a bit of a polarised opinion here. There's a lot who seem to think that while obviously, the US, Russia and China dwarf us in terms of size, we're still one of the hardest countries around, punching well above our weight. But that feels to me like a cope. To me it looks like we've cut our military just about as near to the bone as we can while still being able to say we have one, and that if we should ever have to defend ourselves, we might find ourselves in pretty deep shit.

Moreover, as an island nation that still aspires to global reach and influence, could we really back that up if push came to shove? If Ukraine went hot, how much help could we really give (discounting nuclear armageddon, obviously)? If the Aregntinians decided they fancy a rematch, do we still have the capability to respond? What if China went mad and invaded Australia, would we have their back?

Obviously, there's people who believe we should spend even less on the armed forces, and that's fair, but for the sake of the discussion let's assume we're talking about the military in terms of a fundamentally necessary arm of the state, in terms of defending ourselves and ensuring we can uphold obligations to our allies. What do you reckon?
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>> No. 462624 Anonymous
29th January 2024
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>>462620
I raise you the Frontline Morale Destroyer
>> No. 462625 Anonymous
29th January 2024
Monday 12:48 pm
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>>462622

>Kind of depressing that we could destroy our selves before we get a chance to reach for the stars.

Great Filter, innit. The idea that civilisations that become technologically advanced run the risk of using that technology to fight and wipe out themselves before managing to fully conquer space.

Which could go some way explaining why we haven't found evidence of alien civilisations. Maybe life itself isn't that rare in the Universe, but intelligent life almost always pisses it up the wall. And we're essentially still apes with nukes.

The Drake Equation already implies a Great Filter without directly arguing for it, especially the factors fc and L at the end, which look at the probability of alien civilisations releasing detectable signs of their existence into space, and doing so for a certain length of time. We have only broadcast ourselves into space for a little over a century. In cosmological terms, that's more than fleeting. And what if an advanced civilisation 500 light years from us that is capable of detecting our radio waves ceases to exist by nuking itself in 300 years from now. They'll never even know we exist. Or existed.
>> No. 462626 Anonymous
29th January 2024
Monday 1:14 pm
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>Great filter
What did he originally type?
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29th January 2024
Monday 3:33 pm
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>> No. 462628 Anonymous
29th January 2024
Monday 3:42 pm
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>>462626

I typed Great Filter. Which isn't a word filter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

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>> No. 461586 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 9:05 am
461586 Christmas 2023
It's the first of December. It's that time of year again.

Open your advent calendar chocolates, listen to Andrew, put up your tree this weekend, put off the present shopping for at least a fortnight, surviving the Christmas party at work, watching shit on telly.

You know the drill by now, lads.
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>> No. 462351 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 9:23 am
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Might as well post here seeing as the thread has been bumped. I decided to give my girlfriend the velvetiser for her birthday instead as it's fairly close to Christmas. When she opened it she pulled a face and said "if you're going to spend that much on someone, make sure it's something they actually want." before being a bitch for most of the day; that wasn't because of the present, she always turns into a bit of a monster on her birthday. She used it three times on her birthday and in the evening she apologised and appreciated me getting her such an indulgent treat; she also had a hot chocolate while we were out for the day and said it wasn't as nice as ones made with the velvetiser, so I've probably ruined other hot chocolates for her, and that she was salivating on the way home thinking about using it. I think sometimes knowing what she likes better than she does herself is a bit of a curse, because she may not have a good initial reaction to gifts but will really appreciate them over time.
>> No. 462352 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 11:01 am
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>>462351

To me that sounds more like she just realised she'd been a cunt and she was over-compensating to make you feel better. At least she has the self awareness to do so though.

Bless you lad. She must know she's got a good 'un deep down.
>> No. 462358 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 4:06 pm
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>>462351
Sounds like she regretted her response. Weirdly I've been like this too before, very quick to dismiss a gift and realise much later it's very good. I'm sure she meant no harm.

How is the hot chocolate in it? Worth buying?
>> No. 462359 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 4:07 pm
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>>462352
She's never been good at apologising. Usually when she knows she's in the wrong she'll start being cuddly and affectionate to make it up, but rarely will she actually say sorry out loud.

Birthdays (and Christmas to a lesser extent) have always been a bit of a nightmare because she behaves as if she expects it to be a special day like when she was a child which never happens in reality, especially as she has a lot of baggage with her family and they'll frequently disappoint her.
>> No. 462360 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 4:11 pm
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>How is the hot chocolate in it? Worth buying?

It is very nice, especially compared with what you'd get in a cafe or from instant hot chocolate, but I wouldn't think "holy shit, this was worth paying £70 for the machine and about 50/60p on chocolate flakes and milk per cup."

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>> No. 460864 Anonymous
22nd October 2023
Sunday 9:35 pm
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Is it a really dumb idea to buy a house if I'm not massively sure I'm ready to be a homeowner?

Basically I'm about to buy a house because I'm fed up of renting. I have a weird thing about committing to long term decisions and always like the safety of being able to change course or back out.

Anyway the house is in a cosy commuter village to London, so I can have my outside space and relaxation whilst also being in the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world in no time.

On the plus side it beats renting, even with silly interest rates I'm building equity in something, and it's a bit of a fixer upper, so I can maybe get some money down the line.

The problem is I always imagined at some point I'd fuck off and go travelling or go live in Australia or something, and obviously it's much harder with a house, and a spouse who wants to live in it. It feels like the nail in the last bit of my freedoms as a young man and that this is it, the serious middle patch of life begins, but I could be overthinking it.

Anybody been in a similar position or have words of advice? Can I easily just drop it and fuck off in two years if I change my mind?
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>> No. 461784 Anonymous
12th December 2023
Tuesday 4:37 pm
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Had a dream last night that professionals started taking out mortgages to own a room in a flatshare. Need to hide this thread now.
>> No. 461785 Anonymous
12th December 2023
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>461784

I bet you a tenner that the broadsheets have already done an article about exactly that, describing it as some sort of exciting experiment in shared living.
>> No. 462292 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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The update nobody asked for: Despite the new stresses of maintenance and the unknowns, this might be one of my best ever decisions.

No more landlords, rent increases, letting agents pestering (bullying), fresh air, equity (however small) added each month.

What a joy. I don't know how anybody could experience this and be a NIMBY and not want others to have this significant life upgrade.
>> No. 462293 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>462292
Wait, I've already posted a self satisfied update it appears weeks ago. I had no recollection.

Sorry everybody.
>> No. 462294 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 7:44 pm
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>>462293

Did I already say "told you lad"? If not, told you, lad.

Now let's look down on the rent plebs together and start voting Tory.

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