>>453421

Either she has seen way too many Insta posts about "natural contraception", or she isn't being entirely truthful about whether she wants kids. Is she in her very late 20s or early 30s, by any chance? A lot of women go a bit weird when their progressive beliefs are increasingly challenged by their biological clock.

>>453423
If I was "having a go" I would have told you to jump in front of the Virgin Pendolino. If being called a "daft sod" gets you that worked up, you can't expect me to cater for your sugar glass-like ego. What should do the next time you do something stupid? Call you a silly sausage? A big baby? Smother you with a pillow?

>>453424

The age group is right, but she's definitely not what I'd describe as progressive. Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there, because it would be very out of character.

I want to urge her to get the coil but she's uncomfortable with the idea of having something lodged in there; and despite what they tell you about it, I know from experience with exes that it can cause discomfort, especially during that time of month or if you smash their cervix in during a vigorous coked up rutting. She categorically rules out any of the hormonal contraceptives and doesn't like condoms, so there's really not much choice left.

Weird one really.

>>453425

Oooh, look who's a touchy baldy.

>>453426

>Just someone who doesn't want the responsibility of kids around their neck- More of a hedonist, which is why I have no reason to believe she's lying there

That's essentially what I mean by progressive - she's a young, fun-loving woman who doesn't want to be weighed down by kids and become a boring old mum, but her ovaries might say differently. Next time you're out together, try to look at her eyes whenever you pass a pram. She might genuinely just be feckless, but I suspect there's a bit more going on.

If she can't be tempted by any of the options - and it's worth pointing out that there are a lot more options than there used to be - then you might just have to bite the bullet and get your tubes tied. Unfortunately the perfect contraceptive already exists in the form of RISUG, but we can't have it. Bastards.

>>453422
Tbf, it's nice to do a bit of time travel to the world before. Look how care free most of this was.

>>453069
It could be a very helpful answer if you read it as a hint that a website almost exclusively used by British people probably isn't the best place to ask about very specific American laws.

>>453075
thanks mate, have a good one

>>453083
How the fuck are subtle hints "very helpful" to someone who's just being discharged from a psychiatric hospital and needs help? Christ mate.

>>453098
Not sure how subtle the name of the website is.

>>453099
Look, I get what you're saying but I don't think this is the thread to make this stand. The fact the mods have let it be should tell you something.

>>452935
WARNING!
The above poster is a known dog molester.
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>>452814
Explain the popularity of homeopathy in Germany in the context of their supposedly wonderful and completely successful healthcare system. Why are so many seeking out alternative drugs? Smells funny if you ask me.

>>452962

>Explain the popularity of homeopathy in Germany in the context of their supposedly wonderful and completely successful healthcare system.

A large proportion of medical appointments don't involve anything that could be meaningfully described as a disease or a treatment. People who are worried but not clinically anxious, people who are lonely, people who haven't come to terms with the natural wear-and-tear of ageing, people with chronic conditions who are already receiving the best available treatment, people who just want to feel listened to and nurtured. There's nothing that can be done for them medically, but they have unmet social and emotional needs.

The NHS is pretty dismal at dealing with these patients; they're dismissed as the "worried well" or hypochondriacs and they tend to go on a revolving door of GP appointments with the occasional completely unnecessary referral for tests. Some parts of the country are better than others, some GPs are better at using community nursing and social prescribing, but generally these patients are regarded as an unavoidable nuisance. Plenty of GPs sympathise with these patients, but it's hard to maintain that sympathy when there are so many demands on your time.

The German use of homeopathy is a key part of how they solve this problem. Doctors refer patients to homeopaths, the patient gets a long consultation with someone who is good at sympathetic listening and they go away with a bottle of completely harmless placebo pills. Homeopaths are nominally equal in status to doctors under German law, but they aren't allowed to treat anything that looks like a proper illness. Doctors know that it's bullshit, but it's bullshit that makes people feel better in ways that real drugs can't. Homeopaths don't step out of line and say that they can cure cancer, because they very much like being able to accept payments from health insurance. The insurers are happy, because it keeps their costs down.

The ethics of it all make me cringe, but there's no denying that it works - not in a medical sense, but a psychosocial sense. Homeopathy isn't an effective treatment for any disease, but that's entirely beside the point. It fills a need that people have always had, the need for blessings from the priest, incantations from the shaman, herbs from the drugs man, potions from the witch. In an atomised and secular society, we increasingly turn to doctors when we have problems that can't be diagnosed by any test and can't be treated by any drugs.

>>452935
In his days even saying bl**dy on recored media was crossing into poor taste category. Poor taste and poor people and poverty are all inevitable companions.

Here’s George Orwell discussing the magic and strangeness of swearing in Down and Out in Paris and London:

>The whole business of swearing, especially English swearing, is mysterious. Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic—indeed, it is a species of magic. But there is also a paradox about it, namely this: Our intention in swearing is to shock and wound, which we do by mentioning something that should be kept secret—usually something to do with the sexual functions. But the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing. For example, – – – -. The Londoners do not now use, or very seldom use, this word in its original meaning; it is on their lips from morning till night, but it is a mere expletive and means nothing.

>>453032

God, she really is thick as pork mince.

>>453040
I have to assume there's a 'get Truss to say the daftest thing' game going on here among her team. First one to get her to reference spacewombles wins.
She just gives the impression that whe was dropped on her hrad a lot as a kid.

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>>453237

In twenty years time, this post will be on display in a museum, juxtaposed with a video of Vladimir Putin saying that the sanctions aren't harming Russia.

Thread continues >>453189

>>452559
Fuck off Charles.

>>452560

Kick the crackheads Charlie

Useless cunts

Irrelevant maak of shame wearing anti-vac cunt.

Might be better just to have a room with thousands of tins of beans.

>>452542
As long as one of us brings a fishing rod (and ideally a rotisserie chicken and some cans) we'll be fine.

>>452544
Vampire rules are silly anyway. Nobody's gonna let me drive a stake through their heart to prove whether they're a vampire or not.

50K quid as a starting bid seems reasonable, but there's a chance it will fetch something in the region of 150K to 200K, as one of the neighbouring forts sold for £117,000 in 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-45785743

Anybody buying it will have to spend an absolute fortune renovating it though. From the looks of it, in order to make it look like a place that's in good nick and not a crumbling shithole, I'd expect an additional investment northwards of £500K. With the flexibility of spending double that, if the structure is in worse shape than meets the eye. And you'd still be bound by restrictions because it's a listed site.

Its use as a commercial property would also be limited to recoup your investment. You can't really run it as a hotel or restaurant, as being in the middle of a tidal zone makes accessing it a bit tricky. There are other places like that, for example Mont St. Michel in Normandy, but it has a road connecting it to the mainland at all times. And, well, you've got a mediaeval monastery there. A WWI poured-concrete military structure doesn't quite have the same appeal.

You could run it as a WWI museum, but interest will probably be limited, and you're again stuck with the problem of getting people to and from the site.

It'll probably end up becoming some shrewd millionaire getaway, where whoever will own it can feel a bit like a pound-shop Bond villain.

>>452552
You've got to tell them "Go through that door or I'll stake you through the heart" outside someone else's house, that way you're not inviting them in but there's a very simple binary choice.

Are the police completely useless? Earlier in the week my son's friend was badly beaten in an unprovoked and premeditated assault, including being repeatedly kicked in the face leaving him with broken ribs, black eyes and concussion, so it was reported to the police. A police officer went round to interview him (and my son as a witness) this evening but she was very dismissive; she was trying to encourage the boys that the best thing to do was take their statements and not do anything further because "boys will be boys". She didn't want to talk to the school to obtain the video evidence they had or the witness statements from other people; it was off school grounds but fairly nearby. She didn't seem keen on talking to the perpetrator either.

>>452508

They just don't have the resources to do much more than answer urgent 999 calls, unfortunately. We've lost more than 20,000 cops over the last ten years, but equally problematic is the loss of civilian office staff, CPS staff and court resources - there's absolutely no point in nicking someone and preparing a case if you know that the suspect will be released under investigation and the case quietly dropped because there's no-one available to do the paperwork. Even when someone is prosecuted, there's likely to be a delay of at least 18 months before the case reaches court, by which time the case might fail due to evidence being lost or witnesses forgetting the details of what they saw.

The drop in rape prosecutions has been widely covered in the news, but it's the same across the board. A lot of forces have effectively decriminalised whole classes of offences like shoplifting and personal drug possession. The attrition rate of cases between arrest and prosecution is appalling and a lot of coppers have just given up.

Your son's friend is the unfortunate victim of the slow, insidious collapse of the criminal justice system. Most people rarely if ever interact with the system, a lot of people who do end up in the system just think they've been unlucky/lucky enough to be dealt with by a particularly laissez-faire cop, but your case is sadly entirely typical.

>>452509

They've still got the resources to dedicate multiple officers to follow Steve Bray around Parliament Square all day every day, mind.

>>452510
True, but if you read between the lines of what >>452509 said, it sounds like you can track down each one of the assailants individually with cable ties and a power drill, persuade them to never use violence ever again, and absolutely nobody is going to bother to arrest you.

>Claire Yaxley owes her mother thousands of pounds, but has still splashed out recently on a Fitbit, an exercise bike and a trip to Butlins. "Things are getting more difficult every single day," the single mum-of-two admitted. "And yet I'm not putting money aside, I am spending it."

>New research seen by the BBC suggests 25% of people are similarly stretched, but reluctant to stop spending. The Grant Thornton and Retail Economics report surveyed 2,000 UK adults.

>Ms Yaxley, who lives near Norwich with her daughters Pearl, nine, and six-year-old Tallulah, earns around £16,000 a year through various jobs in the education sector. She has borrowed £6,000 from her mother to help make ends meet, and knows that she should be trying to pay her back, in addition to saving a bit every month given the rising cost of living. But she said this rarely happens, because she's prioritising spending on treats for her family after a tough few years during the pandemic.

>That has included spending £100 on a foldable exercise bike and £430 on a weekend trip to Butlins holiday resort over the school holidays. Ms Yaxley said she does feel "guilty" for spending on non-essential items, particularly given the rising cost of petrol and food. But after two years of Covid restrictions, she feels like the family deserves it.

>Joseph Hussain, a paralegal and student from London, recently spent £300 on rare vinyl which, he admits, "I didn't really need". The 27-year-old, who earns £27,000, sets himself a monthly allowance but said this quickly goes on petrol, food and other essential items. So he turns to credit cards and buy-now-pay-later companies to fund purchases, which recently included a whole new wardrobe, a Lego bouquet, video games.

>"I can't really describe it, I think you just get into this mindset of, well, 'I've already spent so much this month, so I have permission to spend a bit more'," he said. Joseph admitted he does question whether he should be spending on these items, given the soaring cost of living but doesn't want to miss out on things that bring him joy.

>"There's no way on earth I need these plastic Lego flowers or stuff like that, it's just that I very much enjoy them, they make me happy and therefore that's my philosophy in general," he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62148525

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>>452335
Keir Starmer's probably staying as close to her as possible because at least he knows she's definitely a woman.

And if he loves LGBTQIA+ activism so much, they've really missed a trick by not calling him Queer Starmer.

>>452342
Well thank you for reminding me that whilst Labour's messaging has been weak these past couple of years, it could have been much worse.

>>452342

Is he a queer charmer or a queer harmer? We'll never know.

Also, if you were busy thinking of a political dig rather than enjoying that magnificent hourglass figure, you should probably check to see if you've dropped your gay card.

Just bought this tie.

Lot of women out were out today without their bras on. That was nice.

>>452363

This is a boring answer, but my Wusthof nakiri I swear by, but I've used Wusthof all though my cheflad career, so perhaps it's more familiarity than anything else.

In general for Japanese style knives my first reccomendation would be Shun, but they're definitely over budget. Seki would be my next recommend, they're make by the same people as Shun (Kai) but are a little more affordable. They have a traditional look but a lot of modern techniques go into making them. They're very nice.

I have zero experience with the sort of knife you posted, with the super decorative handles, Damascus style blades and so on, but I've always been a little suspicious of them - to me they feel like they probably put form over function, but I have no hands on experience so really can't say for sure.

I also have a lot of time for ProCook. Their X50 range is ludicrously high quality for the price, and they last forever - they're definitely designed to live in professional kitchens. They do a posh damascus one now, I'm sure it's good, but I've only ever used their X50 stuff.

Controversial answer: get a vegetable knife (菜刀 - càidāo) from your local Chinese supermarket. It's basically a massive nakiri with a deeper blade, which also allows you to use it like a fish slice to transfer food to the pan. It looks a bit like a western meat cleaver, but the blade is much thinner with a finer bevel angle.

It's the only knife that most Chinese chefs and cooks use, so economies of scale mean that you can get a good one for about £20-£30. The cheap catering-grade knives look a bit rough, but they're made of good steel and will last a lifetime.

>>452375
Yeah, this is the general sort of oriental cleaver I'm after, not quite so fussed about how it looks, more if it's suitable to act as a paddle to move food from the chopping board to pan/pot after doing some fine, good chopping, but I am still open to the £100 mark.

>>452371
Heard good things about the Wusthof blades, I think the one I had in the past was another German brand nakiri from TK Maxx that I got for about £30 ~10 years ago, so I would imagine it would've been around the £70 mark.

I'll give it a fortnight of thought to make an informed decision. Cheers so far!

>>452371
>Damascus style blades and so on, but I've always been a little suspicious of them - to me they feel like they probably put form over function
In theory they're putting the hard steel at the cutting edge and soft steel around the outside to make it strong and tough.
Great on a big sword or machete you're going to be chopping deer antlers up with, on a little kitchen knife though, ehhh probably is a bit of form over function. Perhaps a good damascus knife can be made much thinner without sacrificing strength which would be good for japanese style knives, but the cheaper ones probably aren't made that well.
Indirectly, damascus does at least serve as visual evidence that the steel is forged and has been extensively worked from the billet. This is very good for the properties of the knife although you don't necessarily need it to be damascus to get these benefits.

I think raking over every stupid internet meme is beneath me. Will not be partaking in this thread.

Marg bar Amerika.

>>452362
Why do you always have to bring his mum into it?

>>452364

Yo momma so fat, the userbase of dot gee ess fancies her.

Anyway, while we're on the subject, why are women more likely to be fat than men? I propose it's because women are less capable of self responsibility, which we have already firmly established to be the root cause of fat.

>>452365
It's all biblical innit, the first thing Eve did was stuff her face without thinking of the consequences.
Us blokes should set about finding Eden again and asking that big flaming sword of a doorman if we can get back in since it wasn't our fault we broke the rules, a fat bird put us up to it while we were in a state of diminished capacity.

>>452365
Why does it have to be the fault of too much food, rather than not enough exercise? Society is undeniably more sedentary than it used to be. And while I absolutely could not ever walk my way to abs, it's worth considering that it's harder to eat while pushing a hoop down a cobbled street with a stick than it is to eat while watching TikTok in your bedroom.

>>452367

We're definitely less active than previous generations, but it takes a remarkably high level of physical activity to seriously shift the balance of calories. It's very easy to eat way too much and very hard to substantially increase your caloric expenditure.

You need to walk a mile to burn off the calories in a single chocolate digestive. If (as a lot of people do) you think nothing of scoffing half a packet of biccies over the course of an evening, nothing short of getting a job as a hod carrier is going to redress the balance. A single chocolate digestive per day in excess of your calorie requirements amounts to half a stone per year of weight gain.

My diet consists mostly of tea, rollies and half-eaten sandwiches, but for normal people it's incredibly hard to maintain a healthy weight in our current food culture. There are too many cheap and tasty treats on offer, too many inducements to eat, too many well-meaning people who foist food on others out of a misguided sense of generosity.

>>448374

You know I tried a dozen times to get purple aki to work and didn't get anywhere.

Shame it took us this long mind.

>>448379

That's because the prompt wasn't "purple Aki" but something like "Black man".

>>448377>>448379
Yep, but I just used his full name "Akinwale Arobieke", instead of purple Aki.

Tbf i've been trying to generate something I could post in /x/ but no luck.

You know they are getting really quite good these days.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

One of my great-grandads was a habitual felon in the early 1900s and went to prison several times for offences like fraud, extortion, forgery, grievous bodily harm and lewd conduct. My grandad somehow came by some of his old prison medical records, and in one of them, it said something like, commitment to a mental institution should be considered due to the unregenerate nature of the inmate.

Nobody really ever talked much about my great-grandad in my family, also because my great-grandmother eventually divorced him. She then married somebody else, who was from much better social circles and allowed my grandad to enjoy a solid upper middle class upbringing.

My grandad only really started sharing stories about his dad in his old age because he felt they needed to be passed on before he went. I guess at some point when my grandad was an adult, he got back in touch with his biological dad because he felt sorry for him.

>>451706

Lewd conduct means noncing?

>>451707

Could be. What is known is that he married my great gran when she was 17 and he was approaching his late 30s. But if I remember the stories correctly, there were also rumours that he was a bit of a closet bumder and had occasional relations with young men, which surely would have counted as lewd conduct back then.

How'd you find stuff like this out? It sounds like you've been on Who Do You Think You Are?. I know finding out about your ancestry is technically something anyone can do, but not everybody has a television production crew following them around.

>>452102

Unless you're told all those details by your parents or grandparents, I'm sure most of it will just be forgotten about as generations pass, unless your ancestor was actually in any way famous and/or a public figure. Even if you find out via some ancestry site who your great-great-grandparents were, in all likelihood all you'll ever have is their name, but not much information about how they lived out their lives.

>>451894
Timestamps are often stored and communicated alongside their time zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

>>451896

Yep. There's also a system to synchronise everyone's clocks.

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

If you need really accurate timekeeping (usually for finance or distributed database applications) you'll use a GPS-disciplined atomic clock.

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appliance/

>>451897 If you need really accurate timekeeping

Nah, if you need really accurate distributed time (because your experiment is hundreds of kilometers across and you care about times in the nanosecond range or less), you want something like white rabbit - accurate to ns, precise to ps,
https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch
glorious madness. None of this pissing about with time zones - is the time at your head the same as the time at your toes? Light takes a while to get there, does time?

>>451884
Why hasn't this Q-drop tier spam been reported yet? It's being spammed all over the shop.

>>451901
Thanks.