Like a child I immediately go to the window whenever I hear an aerocraft engine overhead and once again it paid off because a sodding Lancaster bomber just flew over. Rather low too, so that was a nice treat.

>>459206

You say A Lancaster bomber, but by now isn't it THE Lancaster bomber? Pretty sure there's only one airworthy one left.

I saw one of them when I was a kid at an air show, and I'm pretty sure there's one at the Imperial War Museum you can go in and look around the cockpit and everything. I had an Airfix one too obviously.

Magnificent machines.

>>456005
I just turned 40 and I am dust. I am held together by a mix of spite, alcohol, and prescription medication.

>>456155
That psychoactive substances law was the worst injustice done to the British public probably ever.

>>459262
I think it's probably the reason our nation isn't facing a gender crisis on par with the USA. Turning the frogs gay and all that.

I still don't understand this joke.

>>459019
It's a Father Ted reference.

>>445073
Glimmer gets banned from Twitter?

>>459045
Separating the art from the artist is never fun when it affects something you care for. GL wrote some (or was involved in) some seminal works, but he wouldn't be the first one to go a bit "funny" as he ages. Vicar of Dibley is still safe, I think.

>>459046
>Vicar of Dibley is still safe, I think.

>>458958
Same trend here, most new renovations are grey, white and black.
A decade ago it used to be all brown houses. Brown bricks, brown windows and if the home owner was tacky enough, some of thise shitty plastic pillars in brown.

>>458920

I think a longer and more roundabout explanation goes back to the boomer generation. Everything that came from their parents was dreary and dull because there was little choice back then, but then as they come of age into the new industrial era suddenly the choice of consumer goods and the availability of colours explodes and this goes hand in hand with the rise of hippie culture, and this carries on into the 70s and 80s.
But then as millenials have came on to the scene, they see their parents, and their grandparents things, and the decades of accumulated Stuff is such a horrible mis-matched mess (as well as the newest generations being unbelievably spoilt for choice) that there had been a desire to wipe the slate clean of all that and start fresh with a sterile minimalist look.
I think give it another decade and we'll see colours start to come back

I personally think that building materials count just as much, possibly more. Buildings assembled from rendered breeze blocks or premade panels over a steel frame, windows which just have one panel and metal or plastic frames, those kind of things are so lifeless and dreary. They age worse than wood, or brick, or masonry in that they either get covered with gunk really quickly when their only appeal was that they looked all pristine when new, or they don't change appearance at all and have this bloodless, computer-generated look.

When they do add colour to these things they either go for purple or teal, which is the colour of corporate logos, or they go for 'tasteful' restrained colours, which only look good when they naturally occur, and otherwise look incongruous or just dull.

So yeah we've fucked it basically, fat chance of stone or brick blockwork coming back.

>>458922

Where is this photo from? Because there's an awful lot of places around where I live where you could have taken that photo yesterday and the only real difference would be the models of the cars.

I suspect the same can be said of almost everywhere in Britain, and the only places you can really call nice are either a handful of really old posh towns like Edinburgh, York or Colchester or whatever, or extensively regenerated chunks of city centres, which are inevitably still surrounded by places just like that photo if you walk ten minutes down the road.

The essay “Refinement Culture” is a good read on this. While every car is grey, sports have done similar- less variation, for more wow. The same with films and music.

>>458746

Nah, I just wipe it on my chair.

>>458747
Surprised you don't use your Fruit of the Loom shirts for that.

>>458746
You don't use soap on your bellend, interior of your arsehole or your eyes. It still amazes me that in 2023 people are walking around convinced that the most sensitive area of their cock needs some antibacterial love when your greatest threat is fungus or your biome going off kilter.

Look it up. This isn't up for debate.

>>458754
Sounds like someone's never heard of eyedrops or arsedrops.

>>458754

Your knob smells like Quavers m8.

>>457848
No scantily clad women unless they're Carol Vorderman. I don't make the rules.

>>457843
What's the moderation position on AI generated imagery anyway. Celebrity fakes have been an industry for a long time and parody has been broadly interpreted as part of that.

I was going to post the 'Oops I farted again' Britney video as an example but despite it being the very height of early 00s internet comedy I feel that I'd have to unplug my router for a week to think about what I did.

>>457851
I assume fully AI images are fine but anything intended to look like a real person is a potential hassle.

>>457849
Not really what I had taken issue with.

>>457848
>You freaks left up the antisemitism website link
Mate I made a mistake of judgement with that link while under the influence of fatigue and boredom. It was probably left up to signal a raised eyebrow or possibly due to the neutral comment.

There's also the arguement that talking about Jews Jewish people Israel uh .. interest groups that happen to include a measure of extremism regardless of racial, political or religious inferences doesn't necessitate antisemitism any more than talking about Are England necessitates bald headed racist thugs - but we'll leave that discussion to the secret courts, sharn't we (or a different thread at the very least)?

>>457842
It was pretty special, huh? Like a haute cuisine Quality Street. I felt bad about my attraction considering the context. Now that it's gone I'd have liked to have saved it but .. well, we've got to allow ourselves modesty.

Christ, this is getting sad. Also Laura Kuenssberg's really annoying.

When you were a kid if someone said "pack it in" would someone reply with "Paķi's don't come in tins, they come in boxes/banana boats/something else" or is that just a northern thing?

>>457767
She's definitely changed over the past year or so into an entirely different person. Almost like she's slowly morphing into Andrew Neil.

>>457769
How has she changed? I haven't noticed anything. She was the main presenter for last night's coverage, which I acknowledge she never used to be, but as a journalist she's still the "ask tough questions, accept worthless softball answers" epitome of BBC reporting that she has always been.

>>457769
If you must insist on posting that photo, at least get his name wrong too.

Don't imagine Dame Edna will be far behind though they've got a good couple of decades on Paul O'Grady.

Rest in panto.

>>457211
67 is no age to die. All the best to his husband who i understanably asking for some privacy. May he rest in doggy heaven.

I watched 'An Evening with Lily Savage' as suggested by the youtube search algorithm. Not my cup of tea - Lilly Savage being a bit of a bitch during a question and answers show. I would hazard to call personality insult comedy. Many of her manerisms are very recognisable however, which i guess is part of the joke being a man and all - I suppose that's the art of performing drag (and arguable why some people find it offensive).

It's sad to see another recognisable face fall off the TV moist dicks in my face

>>457218
Well that's a lovely wordfilter. Trying to guess what it might be replacing.

>>457219

I can't help, and I wish you luck finding it, but I have to ask - why the fuck do you want a novelty 'clock' like that? Telling the time in abstract ways makes it less functional that a normal clock. So it's just pretentious, isn't it? You want to feel like a cleverclogs?

>>457039
On the contrary, there's nothing abstract about it. As the squares dissapear it makes time feel so much more real, to me, anyway. It's not pretentious, it's just a different way of reading the time. I don't understand how knwoing there were x number of sqaures and then there being y number of squares is especially cerebral either, I suspect most dogs would be capable of it.

Anyway, no one has any idea what I'm on about, clearly, so it's all academic now.

>>456678

There are loads of mobile home parks in this country, but they tend to be over-55s only or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

>>456677
Be aware planning departments take a dim view of such activities and your one complaint away from coming to their attention.
A story I've heard from multiple sources has someone buying land, gaining planning permission to construct a lake or pond, when signed off as completed by the local planning dept promptly craning in a narrow boat to live in and sticking two fingers up at the local council - not particularly practical advice to most but I admire his chutzpah

>>456687
> or have restrictions that prevent year-round occupancy.

This. Plenty of static caravans go for about 20 grand, with a sea view, on the South coast - I'm sure they are cheaper elsewhere too; but they all have restrictions on how many months per year you can stay in them, and hardly any allow year-round living.

>>456707
What if you bought two or three caravans in different parks and split your time between them?

>>456707
There was a case in East Yorkshire where someone built a holiday lodge park on the edge of Beverley and misled people into thinking they could live there all year round. Retrospective planning permission was denied so the council ended up having to evict the owners, about 200 pensioners. It was on Look North all the time for what felt like a decade or so and I'm sure he got away with it in the end.

>>456508
You can meet women anywhere.

>>456508
Yes but most people stick with volunteering regularly at the one place so if you don't get on with the handful of available women at one, there's rarely a fast turnaround. You'd have to volunteer at a range of different places to increase your chances. Luckily for you there's no notice period when you want to quit.

>>456510
Not him but wouldn't it make sense to find the right kind of charities for all that. Does Weight Watchers do charity?

>>456511
Definitely a factor. In terms of time investment to available women met, he'd be better off doing something else entirely.

>>456498
Spent some time at a Barnardos charity shop back in 2003, it was a laugh with a few of the older folk there to have somthing to do, and the college kids getting sent in for community experience. We also got first dibs on anything that came in before it even went on the floor, had a load of CD's and PS2 games etc for pennies.

Nowadays it's not like that, I still pop in once in a while and chat to the manager who is still doing the same job. Everything has to be properly catalogued, value checked and so on. Ebay gets a go on anything that looks worth a few quid, but apparently it's more hassle than it worth as nobody actually wants to pay the average price.

>>456442
I actually really like a lot of drill. You're right that a lot of it is better than airplay.

>>456443

>Whenever one of these murderers turns out to also be a drill rapper, he was always, invariably, a shit drill rapper who couldn't rap
Which rappers do you like?

>>456445
It's a weird one, because I don't actually like a lot of the acts I named there. Nevertheless, I can tell that other people would like them. They are professionals, even if they are painful to my ears. If you're just looking for UK rap recommendations, the song Black by Dave is the best one that springs to mind in recent years. If you're curious about my rap tastes in general, Americans like Tech N9ne and Jedi Mind Tricks are my go-to acts.

If you're trying to catch me out by getting me to name grime acts who are not drill music at all, then I assume you have succeeded.

>>456446
>If you're trying to catch me out by getting me to name grime acts who are not drill music at all, then I assume you have succeeded.

I wanted to catch you out by pointing out that they were involved in gang life. I can do 67 at least.

https://www.rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.com/r/ukdrill/comments/p91e0u/a_brief_background_into_67674/

>>456438
I do. Makes pennies, really, but I won't say no to it.

>>456304
Almost certainly air. Very common. You can hear others too.

Also, I recommend KiwiSDR.

http://kiwisdr.com/public/
http://rx.linkfanel.net

>>456305 Thank you mate

>>456304
Also suggest you search for HFGCS on YouTube to see/hear lots of examples of people listening to US Air Force traffic on HF.

>>456281
Middle-class career academics on suicide watch at long last.

>>456290
What? How? Why?

>>456271
Further melding of man and machine.
Cyberpunk universe stuff.

>>456291

A lot of academic guff nowadays is already gibberish that sounds like it was written by GPT3. They won't be able to compete.

>>456294
Lorem ipsum generators didn't put Greek translators out of business I think they'll cope.

>>456160
Weirdly enough Hinge -- a dating app that markets itself as trying to promote itself as being the app where folks actually talk to one another before shagging -- has become more the place for casual sex over Tinder, at least in the experience of me and my pals.

>>456158
I think 70s are underrated because they were tacky and unstable, even though much of that tackiness is largely a sign of the rising living standards and increased social liberalism which we associate with the 1960s actually arriving on the doorsteps of ordinary people. The economic situation was far more mixed than it might seem - it was unstable and unsightly to have the bin men go on strike or for the power to cut out because the miners had the audacity to expect wages in line with the government's own pay policy, but living standards went up through the decade. That's a stark contrast to life since 2008, where things have stagnated but done so in a stable fashion.

But then, history is written and tastes are set by the people who did alright out of the 2010s and the 2020s, and a good chunk of them were there to remember the 70s, where they personally - or their parents - ran into such intolerable inconveniences as the government saying you can't take what would today be thousands of pounds out of the country for your holiday abroad. They've no reason to care about the real terms pay of a bin man, but the image of rubbish piling up in the street is so unsightly...

>>456171

I guess you could say that even though the 70s were a bit of a rubbish decade, there still wasn't all this craziness going on as we have today. Maybe it just seems to us like life was much more simple in a good way back then. I guess people in the 70s were probably saying that about the 1950s as well. But I'm pretty sure that the past few years have not been a time that people in the future will wish they could go back to.

>>456173

In every decade since the 1940s, things basically got better on average. Lots of shit things happened in the 1970s, but most people had a better life in 1979 than they did in 1969 - they had more money in their pocket, the stuff in the shops was better, more people had more civil rights and so on. Some people had their lives marred by deindustrialisation in that decade, but a much larger number of people saw a substantial improvement in their wages, got on the property ladder, took their first foreign holiday and so on. Pick a post-war decade and you'll see marked improvements in all sorts of areas of the lives of working people. That trend also broadly maps to the period between the start of the industrial revolution and the outbreak of the Great War, albeit on a slightly longer timespan.

The period since 2008 is the first major reversal of trend. Most people were no better off in 2019 than they were in 2009; people are definitely worse off in 2023 than they were in 2013. The reasons for that are complex and contested, but we can at least start by acknowledging that the wheels have in fact come off and this isn't just nostalgia.

Something happened in Britain at the end of the 2000s that put a hard brake on the usual march of progress; "voting in the Tories" is part of the answer, but only part. The Tories of today are unrecognisable compared to the Tories that won the election in 2010. Cameron was daft enough to call a referendum, but he campaigned to remain. I don't think anyone who voted for Cameron in 2010 imagined that we'd end up with Liz Truss in Downing Street, however briefly. The Tories didn't invent Jimmy Faragé.

The only pithy explanation I can give is that we've all gone a bit mad - like Germany's national madness of the 1930s, only in a quintessentially British way that is shit and ineffective and ultimately self-destructive. A certain section of the British public has hypnotised themselves into believing that nothing is going wrong, it definitely isn't the fault of the Tories or Brexit and actually these snowflakes could do with a bit of hardship to toughen them up. I never stole your shoes, you can't prove I stole your shoes and your shoes were uncomfortable.

In the 1990s, there was a magazine called Continuum that denied the existence of HIV. It ceased publication in 2001, because all of the staff had died of AIDS. I'm reminded of that magazine every time I see the front cover of The Daily Express.

>>456174

I don't think it's as much to do with our mass psychology as it is just the prevailing global headwinds and some rather unwise decisions in how to deal with the obstacles as they came up.

At the very fundamental level, I think we sort of bet on the wrong horse in becoming a more or less entirely service based economy. That was all well and good in the 80s and 90s, but what happened in the 2000s is something we, in fairness, probably couldn't have seen coming, but at the same time really should have taken steps to defend ourselves from. This might sound mad, but hear me out- The problems all started at roundabout the same time as the "on hold to someone in India who hardly speaks English" model of customer service became ubiquitous. Remember when you'd hear someone moan about that at least once a week?

We didn't account for the fact lots of services can also be imported and exported, and in the increasingly interconnected digital age we stepped into from the early 2000s and onwards, companies naturally went ahead and did just that. We are a big exporter of financial services, and we do quite well out of it; but the people in charge didn't see it coming that practically everything else can just be packed up and sent to India for much cheaper. It was one thing having the Niko Belic coming over to do the plumbing, but we were also haemorrhaging plenty of jobs to Mumbai and Delhi.

I think failing to put the brakes on, or at least install some kind of crumple zones and air bags, to deal with the impacts of globalisation when it really started to ramp up in the early 00's is what put us where we are today. The public could see and feel all this happening, and especially after 2008, they felt angry and cheated, but didn't know exactly where to direct that anger. Jim'll seized on that and directed it at Brexit; and meanwhile the establishment flopped around like a level 5 Magikarp, seemingly unable to muster any response other than "B-but th-that's racist! You're a big meanie!", which in retrospect it's amazing didn't work. But here we are.