Lads I've just had a BRILLIANT IDEA. I get a job as some form of tutor, teaching French or piano or something. The specifics aren't essential right now. It doesn't matter that I don't know these subjects myself. See, what I'd do is I would for example start taking piano lessons myself and what I'd do is I'd spend the next week teaching my pupils exactly what I was taught during my lesson. Pay for it once. Replicate it about six or seven times. The best investment out there.

>>455995

Not really a good idea. How are you going to handle sudden in-depth questions by pupils that go beyond that week's lesson, in a way that only somebody with profound knowledge could answer.

>>455996
They'll be small children, they probably won't know any better. I don't have to be good at piano, I just need to be a good teacher.

>>455997

You're sounding like a pound shop Jimmy Saville right there.

>>455995

Simpsons did it.

>>455936
Etsy is appraoching the way of ebay and amazon to being a general store front to all comers, and sod the buyer.

They've fast turned from a craft seller to allowing all and sundry. In some cases that's OK, someone who hires 2-3 people to make stuff should still fit in, I think. But it's also rife with drop-shippers and re-sellers now, people who would be right at home on ebay or amazon (and often are).

With some sluicing you can often work out if the seller is legit, but good luck ith that.

>>455936
I bought some wall hangings from Etsy, page said made in UK. Then a couple of days later I get an email saying they've been shipped from China, so it lied to me.

>>455939
I bought a gift for my cousin's bain that said it would be made and shipped from Portugal, but the seller immediately messaged and said "please don't cancel your order but I'm from Ukraine so it'll take a bit longer than Etsy said". I have noticed a few Ebay parcels being fulfilled by Amazon recently, which is disappointing.

I can go years without seeing Mark Bonnar in anything and then he seems to be in everything I watch for a while.

I've just put on Babestation for the first time since I was a teenlad to find some of the same women still working the late night chat circuit. That's a little bit off-putting.

>>455859

I'll see your Vorderman and raise you a Riley.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is it sexist to worry that ARE Rachel won't age well?

>>455861

Fuckssake. I need to stop drunk posting.

I was going to post the question "Is it sexy to worry that ARE Rachel won't age well?", and instead of using the spoiler tags for it, I used the yt tags.

So yeah. Honest question. I guess.

Rachel > Voiderman

2023 - No more Voidermans. Stop voiding yourselves.

Hope you all had a good new year lads.

I took a bit of sidenfadil, sidenfadil, whatever its called. The knock off viagra, because we'd been drinking and snorting all night, which usually puts me out of action as far as sex is concerned. Only had about a quarter of one pill, but I shagged the missus into a coma for about an hour and still woke up with a raging hard on this morning.

It's quite good.

Maybe I'll change my name to James James this year.

>>455632
Ah looks like one of them has crawled out of the woodwork. Calm down mate there aren't any fisherperson evangelist christian korean youtubers here to hurt you.

>>455632

He's not wrong though in that there are certain people in the Atheist movement who are blessed with a similar kind of zealotry as proselytising Christians or eskimos.

The problem is when people feel superior to everybody else because they think they are in possession of the only real truth. It's bad enough that some religious fanatics think that way, but outspoken atheists can be just as much insufferable cunts about it.

You lot need to have words with yourselves.

Am I doing it right?

>>455634

Being insufferable isn't the problem though. The human rights abuses and just general cultural regressiveness religion proselytises is a much greater evil than just being an edgelord who quotes Richard Dawkins. It's like with the environment lot. They're often tossers but that doesn't stop them being unequivocally right.

It annoys me that there's so much apologism for religion now, particularly in liberal and lefty circles, which appears to have come about purely and entirely as a contrarian response to the BRILLIANT fedora atheist stereotype, when it flagrantlyflies in the face of what their values should be. You see some real displays of cognitive dissonance where they're are banging the drum for women and LGBT rights and what have you, until Shamanism comes along and goes "but it's our culture lol, can't criticise us we're brown" and then they just have to shut up and look nervously at the floor.

>>455636

On the one hand you've got ISIS and Boko Haram, on the other you've got people being a bit snotty and arrogant on the internet. Swings and roundabouts innit.

>>455240
If only there was a way to shrink the size of the legs. Or to get one designed with an adjustable height.

>>455240
I have a standing desk - the lowest it goes is 58cm, my normal seating position. Anything sitting down can be difficult ergonomically, but I can totally recommend a height-adjustable/standing desk.

If you lack the mechanical aptitude to cut down a desk, Ikea do adjustable legs for their modular desk system that go down to 60cm. They're available for home delivery if you don't live near a store.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/olov-leg-adjustable-white-10264302/

>>455244
Thanks this is really helpful

There is no one-size-fits-all table height. Nor does any chair fit every person, though [i]that[/[i] Hermann Milller model tries. Ikea does some really nice hand crank models to let you adjust yout height and posture, if you work at a desk from home get one. If your employer requries you to work from a desk and doesn't have any accommodation? Oof. Going up, sheafs of A4 under the table legs can help. But if they're hostile to you having a reasonable work environment, you'll have to weigh staying employed v.s. getting this fixed :(

Fat Stewart Lee, as acknowledged in his new iPlayer show Tornado, looks exactly like fat Jim Davidson. He doesn't acknowledge that but it's true.

I started crying because I love Rocco Botte so much just now.

>>454567

Fuck, now he's going to take twice as long to get to the joke because of his COPD. I can't wait 40 minutes.

There's a play on Radio 4 which is actually quite funny. Most unexpected.

>>454567
Stewart Lee and Jim Davidson are the same person.

Look, I'm not going to do it, but one of us needs to step up and make a new weekday thread, first thing Monday. Unless, I suppose, if Putin does use a nuclear device in Ukraine, then it's bang on point again.

>>454613
I'll do it if nobody else does. I'm thinking either hedgehogs, badgers, something else autumnal or Bamber Boozler.

>>454614
Might I suggest a photo of an antique radiator? It would look old and unused, but it would also be a radiator. Or you can use a different picture; van Gogh wasn't appreciated in his own time either.

>>454615

What if we make all our new thread pictures by AI generation.

>>454617

https://creator.nightcafe.studio

Today's pack of mozzarella sticks contained 13. Let the good times roll.

McDonald's missed a large fries off, so they re-did the entire order plus the fries they missed first time round. I am stuffed.

I went to Morrisons and someone had left their 5p off a litre of fuel voucher at the till, so thanks to that I've saved £1.05 when filling up my car.

I got two packs of Gruyère for the price of one because one of the labels stuck the packs together, and the packers presumably didn't have the time or the fucks to separate them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFT2t5frWo

>>454404
What I wanna know is why you'd give the corgis to Andrew. Might as well give them to Rolf Harris. I'm going to call the RSPCA.

>>454405
Corgis are small dogs, and they say Andrew has a way with the little 'uns.

>>454406

>and they say Andrew has a way with the little 'uns

Maybe he likes dogging, too.




I'll get my coat.

>>454407

They'll be well groomed, at any rate.

>>454408

Let's just hope he won't screw the pooch then.

>>453160
That looks like a leaking over-oiled bit, but I don't your particular gun.

>>453161
Your local RFD will not ship you an air gun that way, but private sales you're only limited by what your chosen delivery services ToS are.

The RFD requirements say that it must be done in person, hence you get a rather bespoke service by those who do delivery (it's how I got pic attached) but outside of Scotland at least person to person you can do what you like.

>>453162
As far as I can tell PCPs are "don't ask don't tell". Most carriers have a ban on ammunition, but air gun pellets are tacitly permitted. Lead's heavy, so order in bulk if you can.

For lead free, I've had absolutely rubbish results with the plastic jacket excite pellets (H&N Sport's budget line) Apollo/Prometheus (wild fliers were the norm, more than 2" at 10m), but RWS was decent. YMMV, of course. For everyday plinking I still use exxcite econ :).

>>453162 you need to send pcp empty or they wont take and was private sale not rfd. could of been worse.

(A good day to you Sir!)

You know what's weird is you can buy a proper air rifle, you can buy a crossbow, you can buy a massive fuck off ninja sword, without any form of real legal barrier. But as soon as you want an airsoft rifle, it has to come in bright orange. Makes no sense.

The requirements to get one in normal colours are that you actually have to go and play 3 games at an airsoft game place for them to verify you. Fuck that, I can't be arsed. Nobody had to verify that I'm shooting rabbits or whatever when I bought my air rifle. Is there any way around it?

I ask because I fancy getting an airsoft replica AS VAL, for no other reason than because it's my favourite gun in Stalker. I'd also like to imagine that one day I'll get arrested for having a henry's of weed on me and the police will search my flat, then post my dangerous collection of offensive weapons on Facebook to make it look like they stopped some kind of super daft militant wog.

>>453176
Thank fuck for that, I was about to have an aneurysm reading these atrocious posts.

>>454230

>ITV rarely do anything besides forgettable fluff.

They occasionally commission a competent drama mini-series with some combination of actors you remember from other ITV drama mini-series.

>>454213
Harmony is a Therapist now.

https://www.oxfordhousetherapy.com/our-therapists-in-west-london/victoria-shalet

>>454243

We've definitely discussed this before. I think we came to the conclusion that booking a course of therapy just to gawp at someone you used to have a crush on is unethical.

If I remember rightly, Jet off of Gladiators now does something called "desk analysis", whatever that is.

>>454249
It's at least the fourth time we've discussed what Harmony is up to these days, to the best of my knowledge.

>>454250
It shows the level of attachment from back then I suppose.

>>454141
Not that lad, but public spending doesn't have to fall for cuts to be made. If it takes - say - a 10% increase each year to maintain the same quality of public services and you're trying to keep public spending within certain limits, so you make a 5% increase, overall public spending increases yet services get cut to meet the budget.
The NHS is a good example of this: It gets piss all funding compared to practically any other first world healthcare system, while an aging population means demand is growing far faster than budgets, so things wind up being cut even though on paper budgets are going up all the time.
(For a fun chart: look at the real terms wages of NHS workers, which were intermittently frozen or given below-inflation increases during the coalition years. The number on the budget stays the same or goes up, yet they got poorer...)

>Does "austerity" just mean "we want potentially unlimited budgets for Good Things"?
No, but this quickly leads into a separate argument about the nature of public spending, the relationship between deficits and growth, and all sorts of other things. It's perfectly possible for a cut in public spending to lead to higher borrowing in the long term, and for higher spending to lead to lower borrowing, and for all sorts of other things to happen. The very short version would be that the government had options and it broke for shrinking the state relative to the economy as a whole.

>>454141

>I wonder if you could answer something that has been bugging me for a while, could you please explain what you mean by "austerity"?

Austerity was the name used by David Cameron and George Osborne to describe his economic strategy after the 2008 financial crisis, announced at the 2009 Conservative conference and implemented in the 2010 budget. It's a widely-used economic term to describe reductions in government spending with the intention of reducing government debt and deficit. It has a sound (but disputed) theoretical basis; when a government is heavily indebted, reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio increases the confidence of debtors that they will be repaid and reduces inflation.

This was, from the outset, coupled to an ideological argument that the government had grown too big, undermining personal responsibility. Cameron's 2009 conference speech makes the intent explicit:

If win this election, it is going to be tough. There will have to be cutbacks in public spending, and that will be painful. We will need to confront Britain's culture of irresponsibility and that will be hard to take for many people.

And here is the big argument in British politics today, put plainly and simply. Labour say that to solve the country's problems, we need more government.

Don't they see? It is more government that got us into this mess.

Why is our economy broken? Not just because Labour wrongly thought they'd abolished boom and bust. But because government got too big, spent too much and doubled the national debt.

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>>453905

>We need a system in which The Millennial Party can get 20% of the seats in Parliament and force the blue Boomer Party or the red Boomer Party to compromise

Fine with me, just as long as they can agree to form a coalition to keep the Zoomer Party from ever having a say about anything.

>>454141
In addition to the other points that spending needs to go up by a lot just to stay still, and that there was much more expectation in 2008 that basic services like public toilets and libraries should be provided, lefty Maoist kneeling places also point to examples like Iceland where the government spent money and saw a massively better economic recovery compared to ours. So the claim that we couldn't spend our way out of recession was, with hindsight, never even true. The government policy of refusing to invest money it didn't already have was at least a moderate failure.

>>454145
>So the claim that we couldn't spend our way out of recession was, with hindsight, never even true. The government policy of refusing to invest money it didn't already have was at least a moderate failure.

IIRC the economy was starting to recover under Brown and then the Tories stamped that all out.

>>453782
>CCCP
You keep doing this. The government of China is the Chinese Communist Party, which abbreviates to CCP. Personally, I never call them this because I don't think they call themselves that and it's not really an immediately intuitive term to read, at least partly because it does look a bit like CCCP. CCCP, meanwhile, is Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, AKA the USSR in English.

>>453784

Sorry, I'm quite pissed.

>>453780

While we were knobs, the Chinese had their own problems which made things much worse. No one could actually say to the emperor "look, we're fucked and these guys will bum us a lot". They let their own people down because they couldn't lose face. Japan is a similar case, but they were (eventually) humble enough to embrace and learn from it.

Fun fact: I have immense yellow fever

>"So...Hong Kong. You see that shit Xi's selling, about how they now have a chance for "true" democracy? Why don't you fuckers take that place back? C'mon, he broke the deal...England should just take Hong Kong back! Free the Chinese!"
-geopolitical strategist Axl Rose at a recent lecture in London

>>453803

Guns n Roses did put out an album called Chinese Democracy.