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>> No. 451674 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 8:28 pm
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(A good day to you Sir!)
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>> No. 451675 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 8:47 pm
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>> No. 451641 Anonymous
20th May 2022
Friday 10:00 pm
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I know this is pretty fucking childish and odd, but I'd quite like to make a Twitter account and troll people. I've never had any form of social media, I never get into shit slinging online, but for some reason I've been thinking today that it might be a laugh.

Any suggestions on topics/tactics? I draw the line at anything truly mean/illegal, but something spicy I can do some damage with.

Is that weird? I know it is, I just fancy it for some reason.
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>> No. 451660 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 6:09 pm
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Use a VPN and Tor so you don't get done by the Malicious Communications Act if someone has a teary.
>> No. 451661 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 10:54 pm
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Buy the dip, stick a few grand on Twitter Inc. It's flatlining due to Elon weeding out the socialist workforce, no drive that milk the advertising revenue and push bots. Once Elon acquires and develops the platform through ecommerce (open market - free speech = advanced society), Twitter will no longer be held to ransom by corporatists.
>> No. 451662 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 11:01 pm
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>>451661
You appear to be confused. OP asked for advice about doing something retarded, not advice from someone who is retarded.
>> No. 451663 Anonymous
21st May 2022
Saturday 11:04 pm
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I enjoy sending @beefybotham a picture of his own cock.
>> No. 451664 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 12:13 am
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>>451662

I don't think how you know how spergs think.

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>> No. 451548 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 2:57 pm
451548 Butterfly Effect
I've sort of fixated on the concept of the butterfly effect, to the extent it is ruining my life as I think of potential outcomes for my actions. Like if I failed my A Levels and went to my insurance choice, would Russia invade Ukraine in 2022? Or I messaged a girl on a dating app, she didn't reply, 10 years later found out she died. If I didn't message her would she still have died last year? Or if Maddie McCann got found alive and well, would I still be alive. I told my friends about it and they said it's schizo shit, but I feel it's all possible. Is the butterfly effect real? It really is beginning to consume me.
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>> No. 451549 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 3:21 pm
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When I first read about the butterfly effect, it was explained to me with quite a lot of focus on the fact that the outcomes are unpredictable. If you had a machine that could predict the future perfectly, measuring every variable now except the fluttering of one butterfly's wings, then over time the predictions would get more and more wrong due to that tiny inaccuracy snowballing into something huge. For example, a hurricane. You seem to be focusing on the idea that the butterfly caused the hurricane, but as I see it, the whole point is that the hurricane could not have been predicted. So sure, butterflies exist and hurricanes exist, but you can't link them. If you could, people would. So don't go blaming yourself for any butterfly-induced hurricanes; almost by definition, you couldn't have known they were going to happen any more than anyone else could have.
>> No. 451550 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 3:25 pm
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Here's the thing, even if it is real, there's quite literally no way to control it or plan for it. You can't just not have a cup of tea because you think it might make Yellowstone erupt, because there is absolutely no way to know what the 'right' action might be.

Equally, the effect would have as much influence on your life as you have on others - again no point worrying about your actions when we know they have been indirectly influenced by thousands of other's actions before it.

And don't forget that every decision, trillions of actions a day, would all apply to this effect. So really whatever you do is going to be completely insignificant, or drowned out by the trillions of other actions also committed.

Just remember the theory is about chaotic changes in weather systems.
>> No. 451551 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 3:29 pm
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It might give you some peace of mind to think about the implications of certain conceptions of quantum physics. We don't yet fully understand the science of how that stuff works so even laymen like ourselves are permitted to speculate freely without some boff telling us we're wrong.

There's a timeline out there where your MSN messenger crush didn't kill herself, in fact she ended up married to you. There's a timeline out there where you died in that near-miss car accident you had a few years ago. There's conceivably a timeline out there where you, by some immensely improbable series of arbitrary and convoluted coincidences, haven't ever used the word "butterfly".

Every decision you make doesn't just set off a butterfly effect in "our" timeline, but a series of quantum junctions where a whole multitude of slightly different parallel universes branch off and diverge. We are talking to one another from a brief convergence, but tomorrow I might be off on a new one and we'll never genuinely interact again. You will only ever speak to the parallel version of me who chose to have hoi sin duck instead of chicken and mixed pepper stir fry, and consequently ended up getting nuked by Robo-Putin.
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17th May 2022
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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How do you link your choices to these outcomes? Simply existing has an impact on something, be it as little as the flow of air molecules around your body. The logical conclusion, if you wanted to eliminate your impact on the future, would be to cease existing. Are you going to restore the order of nonexistance?

I guess it can help relieve the mind to consider ourselves not as single billiard balls knocking each other about, but as the game entirely, including the players, the spectators and I guess the space they do (and don't) inhabit. Wake of the ship, tailing of the cat sort of thing. In essence you are both the cause and consequence, not either or the other.

It's really quite interesting, and very scary, when you bring solopsism into it. On occasion I've fostered the panicked idea that I'm the effector of the evils in the world, primarily because I have cause to notice them. What I mean is that my insistant believe that the world is as, or should be so, has itself manifest reality with all the unintended consequences of my wilfully ingorant morals.

I don't know, I only attended 2 weeks of sixth form philosophy. Take the piss out of me, please - i's the only way I will learn.
>> No. 451556 Anonymous
17th May 2022
Tuesday 4:33 pm
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I sometimes think back to catastrophic events that happened where I was in one way or another close to the action or where me acting in a certain way could have led to a different outcome.

One of my friends at uni got himself killed on a motorbike one afternoon after lectures. We were standing outside the building talking for a bit with a few people and then we all went our separate ways home. My friend got on his motorbike and rode it down the road back to his flat like he always did, but according to eyewitnesses, he appeared distracted and failed to spot a maintenance van behind a bend where the council were doing some treework, and crashed into the back of it head-on at speed. His neck snapped and he was dead instantly.

It kind of left me wondering all those years, what if we'd stood there just a few minutes longer? Would that somehow not have caused him to be distracted by whatever it was that was distracting him on that road?

It's just really eerie when you know you were talking to somebody just five minutes earlier when he was just a completely normal healthy person with his whole life ahead of him, and then suddenly his life got snuffed out in an instant. It just felt like such a horrible waste.

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>> No. 451479 Anonymous
15th May 2022
Sunday 2:50 am
451479 My ship has come in
I wish to consciencelessly exploit picrel new twist in the law for maximum personal gain, but I'm sure exactly how to go about doing it. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions that they would be willing to offer?
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>> No. 451500 Anonymous
15th May 2022
Sunday 6:56 pm
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>>451499
Yeah, if you're going to get your head tattooed, it may as well he something cool.

These cosmetic tattoos usually use really faint pigments, the thing will only last a year or two, probably. I've got a few mates that do the lip and eyebrow liner tattoos, and freckles, and they use very watered-down pigments meant to mimic real skin tones, so they generally do top-ups two or three times a year. It's a bit of a racket.
>> No. 451505 Anonymous
15th May 2022
Sunday 10:06 pm
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Don't say that, We don't be able to exploit baldness for financial gain if you're honest about it. "Woe is me, baldness is worse than the holocaust, the government owes me money because of this, I demand compensation" is what I want to hear out of you.
>> No. 451506 Anonymous
15th May 2022
Sunday 10:45 pm
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Yass!

BALD MEN RISE UP!
>> No. 451510 Anonymous
16th May 2022
Monday 1:18 am
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>>451498

That just looks silly.

You might as well just get a wig.
>> No. 451511 Anonymous
16th May 2022
Monday 4:04 am
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>>451496

Can you just get your head lasered? I shave my head, but where I still have hair it's rather thick, meaning I'd either have to razor shave almost daily, which is terrible, or get the >>451498 tattoos, which I feel like is going to be really noticable in real life close up. If I could just zap away the rest and maintain a deliberate looking shiny bonce, I think I would.

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>> No. 450978 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 2:34 am
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Today I had a special interest in rabbit meat online then just now on my way back from a restaurant I saw a baby rabbit by itself in the bush
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>> No. 451216 Anonymous
1st May 2022
Sunday 4:40 pm
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>>451209
That explains why they taste so good.
>> No. 451226 Anonymous
1st May 2022
Sunday 10:42 pm
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I've tried rabbit and it has an undesirably strong flavour. Probably an acquired taste.
>> No. 451234 Anonymous
2nd May 2022
Monday 11:56 am
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>>451209
Pardon me, I meant to ask how small of a flock would be able to provide fresh meat daily. If I took a picture of my garden would you be able to tell me if its big enough?
>> No. 451235 Anonymous
2nd May 2022
Monday 1:05 pm
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>>451234

If they go from egg to harvest in ten weeks, then I am guessing ten. Assuming your meat consumption is not such that one bird can't last a week, in which case make it fifteen or twenty. Remember you also get the eggs, which are as good as meat. Meat precursor.

Rather than the dystopian insect and soy protein future vegans and assorted self-flagellating machochistic mentalists want for us, I'd much rather see a world where everyone has the capability of rearing a few chickens in their garden, maybe a pig or something, and a little patch of veg. It would be un-feasible to have everyone growing all their food that way, but it would go a long way to reducing our reliance on absurd shit like shipping stuff from Florida just for you to leave half of it in the fridge and then chuck it out when it goes bad.

Then again that requires everyone to have a garden, which means everyone has to live in some sort of low density suburb, and we know those are the least efficient way of living for transportation and such. Maybe once we all work from home and the city centre dies as a concept; but that's a blinkered middle class pipe dream too, and the only people who believe it will ever happen are naive cunts who don't realise just how much shit goes into the daily running of society, that can't be done remotely, because it requires actually doing things with your hands.

So it's back to square one- Let's just kill half the humans on the planet so the remaining ones can still eat meat and enjoy life. There's no point humanity existing if we're all going to be a set of joyless wankers eating Sarah Millican's Squelchy Fanny Custard.

I need a cig.
>> No. 451236 Anonymous
2nd May 2022
Monday 3:27 pm
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>>451234
What are you aiming for? Cheaper, tastier, greener, more ethicl, more resilient after armageddon, something to eat all the slugs, avian companionship, bestiality, other?
I don't know anyone who keeps chickens for meat, it's more usually for eggs and because they're fun to have around.
If you're aiming for cheaper, you'll struggle. You're up against some very streamlined competition growing quite specific and un-fun chickens.
Bear in mind you can't legally feed chickens kitchen scraps, and they'll not get what they need from scratching around your garden, so you'll be getting through a fair amount of chicken feed.

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>> No. 450741 Anonymous
16th April 2022
Saturday 6:21 pm
450741 is picrel true?
is it true?
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>> No. 450888 Anonymous
19th April 2022
Tuesday 8:26 pm
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>>450887
In fairness the other 125 were most likely brown victims of police encounters so don't count as homicides or people.
>> No. 451151 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 8:45 pm
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>American media gave my childhood self an especially skewed idea of what a "normal" house was.
Its a shame that nobody warned you that American television was all lies and propaganda back when you were young and impressionable and being exposed to that type toxic, harmful and intentionally manipulate media. It seems like far too many people go late into their lives before realizing that TV, movies, etc. is all fictional and does not reflect the reality that they live in.
>> No. 451152 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>451151
I think the only TV that effected the shagging habits of .gs users was Countdown and Supersize vs Superskinny.
>> No. 451161 Anonymous
30th April 2022
Saturday 7:10 am
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>>451152
Countdown?
>> No. 451164 Anonymous
30th April 2022
Saturday 9:23 am
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Yeah, synchronize yourselves with one of the countdowns.

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>> No. 450863 Anonymous
19th April 2022
Tuesday 11:04 am
450863 Fighting for countries other than your own.
General discussion about going to war for countries other than your own. Any anecdotes or experiences?

A guy who worked for my dad fought all over African in various late/post-colonial conflicts and said he did it for the rush rather than money.

I find myself in a strange place. I want to volunteer in Ukraine, and I’m ex army with above average experience.

My hesitation is twofold. Firstly there is a ton of confusing information about how best to volunteer, some of it probably propaganda from multiple sides, so I’m not sure if the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is the way to go. Currently it seems they are mostly held back as reserve units and on logistics and medevac duties. My background is light infantry and forward observer, so from a professional perspective I would feel I was taking a massive step down, something that has happened in my civilian life too. There are other options, but they all seem to be under septic command and full of a mix of Afghan vets acting out some sort of shock therapy and military walts who are trying to pass themselves off as snipers from tier one units when they were forklift drivers in Bastion.

Secondly I’m not sure if my motivation is entirely healthy. My life in civvy street has been mostly disappointing. I found it very difficult to have meaningful friendships or even conversations with people who are upset about trivial shit like pronouns when you have dealt with hundreds of people who have lost everything, been tortured etc. And I will admit that I have always been drawn to danger and extreme situations.

Autism because this might be better suited to emo or pol.
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>> No. 450974 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:01 am
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>>450863
My initial reaction is "don't go". To address the points you yourself brought up, firstly my understanding is that the Ukrainian Foreign Legion requires you to sign up until the war's done, which could be a very long time indeed. Though I have also read they let you go if it's obvious you can't hack it for one reason or another. As for your second concern I'd add this; you will (probably) end up on civvy street again anyway, unless you become .gs' very own John Rambo. So whatever the problems you currently have probably won't be made any better by a stint in the Ukraine. However, you also have to consider how shit civilian life could be after you're on the wrong end of a flurry of 20mm autocannon fire, deafened by shelling or with a plain old knackered knee from landing wrong with an NLAW on your back. Being captured doesn't seem like much of a lark either, as Aiden Aslin appears to have had the shite kicked out of him since being made a POW.

>>450968
Don't be a tourist.
>> No. 450975 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:03 am
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>>450974

My apologies, so is /b/ just for people who understand cockney rhyming slang?
>> No. 450976 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:16 am
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>>450975
Not at all, I was just being glib.
>> No. 450977 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:21 am
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>>450976

Fair enough, sorry for taking it like a dick
>> No. 451150 Anonymous
29th April 2022
Friday 8:37 pm
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>>450863
>and said he did it for the rush rather than money.
back before the invention of video games, theirs was the only way to experience playing "the most dangerous game".

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>> No. 451009 Anonymous
25th April 2022
Monday 12:53 am
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Ok I drank a 24 pack of bud light this weekend finishing with about 10 beers this evening
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>> No. 451091 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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In Rayner's 2003 review of McDonald's he said he "quite liked the berry and yogurt crunch. The yogurt was sharp and there was real fruit in the berry mixture."
>> No. 451092 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 11:11 pm
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I wonder if foodies would be fooled if you took a Maccies burger and cut it into really small vertical sections, then presented it on a slate with a smear of ketchup next to it, and called it a "deconstructed American grill" or something like that. I feel like they would almost certainly give it more credit than it deserves in that context.

It's probably a testament to my culturally impoverished upbringing but to me a Maccies or a Burger King or whatever still feels like a bit of a treat. You'd have to ask your mum to take you for one specially as a bribe when she dragged you around doing the big shop after school, instead of being able to go out with your mates; or you'd get to take a couple of the lads to Maccies and then see a film for your birthday. It's a treat I have, in my less proud moments, given myself upwards of three nights a week, as an adult, but nevertheless, it's a treat.

It doesn't really matter that it tastes like shit. There's a decadence about just eating shit.
>> No. 451094 Anonymous
27th April 2022
Wednesday 11:41 pm
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>>451065

Both McDonald's and shit beer are fine but if it's all you eat and drink then you're fair game for a bit of abuse.
>> No. 451102 Anonymous
28th April 2022
Thursday 12:15 pm
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>>451087

That's exactly the kind of thing I was getting at, yes. Sometimes predictability trumps overall quality, and once I twigged that I finally understood why people eat there.

>>451085

Just out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about drinks?

My girlfriend has great taste and I can definitely appreciate her choice of food and wine. At the same time, there are some moments in life when nothing beats a greasy-spoon egg and chips with a strong mug of tea, or a burger and a tall glass of weak-as-piss beer. I could happily polish off a few bottles of Budweiser on a sunny afternoon.
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28th April 2022
Thursday 1:08 pm
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>>451102

>Sometimes predictability trumps overall quality

Service management lad here. The quality of a product or a service is highly subjective and varies in its perception from person to person. A lot of people value predictability of service and products, often preferably at a low price point, because they will reasonably know what they'll get each time. Then again, with other products, the perception of quality lies precisely in the fact of predictability. And then to other consumers/customers, they will see decisive marks of quality in individualised and bespoke service as well as in the variation of meals or products offered. Many people probably won't keep going to a high-end restaurant for long if they never have any specials. Then again, other customers going to the same restaurant will precisely value the consistency of that place's standards, and not so much the fact that they have a new fusion-cooking experimental dish every other week.

In a very general way, the more a customer pays for a product or service, the more they'll expect to get some sort of preferential treatment or (high-quality) variety. In essence though, as with everything, know your customers, so you can tailor your service or product to them.

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>> No. 450992 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 3:41 pm
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>> No. 450997 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 4:53 pm
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RIchard of York gave blowies in Vegas.
>> No. 451008 Anonymous
25th April 2022
Monday 12:25 am
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>>450997

And all I got was something contagious

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>> No. 449993 Anonymous
14th March 2022
Monday 1:05 am
449993 Limmy's show
I feel like I'm going insane. Can somebody link me to the Limmy's Show sketch where he zaps somebody whose trousers are hang down round their arse. I can't find it anywhere on Google. Cheers.
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>> No. 450735 Anonymous
16th April 2022
Saturday 3:25 pm
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>>450732
In the exact same sense that humans are horrible, sure?
>> No. 450963 Anonymous
23rd April 2022
Saturday 11:33 pm
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>>449995

I started this thread and haven't checked since this reply and find it fucking hilarious how fast you lads got into a row about Limmy cucking
>> No. 450981 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 5:36 am
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>>450963

Things have changed since the early days of this thread. That was all primitive, reactionary bellyfeel stuff.

I have a much more comprehensive analysis these days about how the rising prevalence of cuckolding (and similarly pathological sexual fixations) relates to worker precarity, loss of agency, and social atomisation in the neo-liberal hegemony.
>> No. 450984 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 10:20 am
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>>450981

I thought it was just a class thing?
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24th April 2022
Sunday 3:28 pm
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>>450984

I don't quite have the data to add class analysis to my theory, but if I were to blindly make assumptions I would say the lower classes are more likely to conform to something resembling more heteronormative, traditional patriarchal sexual mores; the more deviant tendencies we are focussing on here are likely to be most common amongst the lower middle class.

University graduates who find themselves exposed to a world that doesn't offer the same kind of security and opportunity it used to, at the same time as having been exposed to changing norms on gender and sexuality, people for whom more traditional sexuality is unfashionable. Hipsters, basically, is what I'm saying.

But of course that's all entirely pulled out my arse.

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>> No. 450808 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 9:46 pm
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I'm 49 this year, and haven't felt better to be frank. I look at the Spine Race and think ooh that looks interesting,maybe I should give it a go.
The people that I have known since school and who are still friends seem to live on a different planet. A so called comfortable bubble filled with interpersonal psychological projections. Doing the same things, living in the suck, treating anything new as alien and trying to capture the times of youth gone by.
How are you doing, otherolderlad?
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>> No. 450849 Anonymous
18th April 2022
Monday 8:33 pm
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I think it's fair to assume the average age of a poster here is mid 30's.
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18th April 2022
Monday 8:55 pm
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>>450849
I'm 34, and lately, there have been a suspiciously high number of posters here who are 1-5 years younger than me. That, or one poster who really likes mentioning his age, but only in very vague terms.
>> No. 450851 Anonymous
18th April 2022
Monday 10:00 pm
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>>450844

>I think you just become more grateful for making it through the day unscathed. The trivialities of everyday life bother you much less when you've watched your dad die or had a cancer scare or been through a rough divorce. It might sound pessimistic, but life is fucking hard.

Very well said. I've had some absolute fucking tragedy in my life of a magnitude that would have done other people's head in. As a result, a lot of people today actually say they admire my ability to not become unsettled by all the everyday annoyances and just keep calm and carry on. Well, it is hard earned. Every shrug of my shoulders at something that is as minor as it is inevitable is the consequence of having been to hell and back in my life and having realised what really matters.

One thing where I really notice nowadays that life is about drawing enjoyment from all the little things is that I've really gotten into gardening. It's absolutely brilliant, nothing beats the feeling of spending a few hours in the back garden planting two dozen new strawberry plants like I did yesterday and then looking at the result with great satisfaction and looking forward to plenty of your own homegrown strawberries come June. I used to roll my eyes at my parents for their love of gardening, telling them that it was "such an old people's hobby", but here we are now, I'm old, and I enjoy it every bit as much as they did.
>> No. 450964 Anonymous
23rd April 2022
Saturday 11:43 pm
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>>450841

Think the most important thing here is not to end up with the all too typical beer gut. That'll fuck up how you look no matter if you're 21 or 61. My dad's just hit 59 but he was a fireman and cycles a shit load and I dare say he'd pull just as well as me.

>>450849

27, and I've been coming here off and on for 10+ years.

Christ, get me a fucking drink.
>> No. 450966 Anonymous
23rd April 2022
Saturday 11:47 pm
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>>450964

Nevermind, got myself one.

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>> No. 450716 Anonymous
16th April 2022
Saturday 7:55 am
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I took a rescue Patterjack puppy some months ago. Yesterday I was walking her, and I noticed how happy she was. She just needed some grass to run on, a wooden stick, and possibly a friend to play with, to be as happy as she possibly could. I have never seen a human as happy as her.

I was wondering whether there is something flawed in human nature, maybe some hidden mechanism that keeps us from experiencing true happiness. Maybe it is what drove us to develop technology and civilization: maybe there was a gang of cavemen finding themselves deeply unhappy with their lot, and deciding to build an first a town, then a city, then an empire, in the hope of getting rid of their unhappiness. Maybe there were other tribes that were happy with their simple life, and went butchered and enslaved by their chronically unhappy neighbours.
I have seen true happiness, and it was in the eyes of a Jack Russell!
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>> No. 450757 Anonymous
16th April 2022
Saturday 9:23 pm
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I always like to see a 3 legged dog. They're always happy.
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16th April 2022
Saturday 9:27 pm
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I keep telling you lads. Hedonic treadmill. It's a real thing and if you get your noggin round it it explains an awful lot about our collective bipolarity.

Evolutionarily speaking, we are a goal oriented social species. We are hard wired to want to always be working on something, we need to make progress to be satisfied. Because throughout our history, that has been the direct and fundamental source of our survival and success.

The work is never done- When you bring home a mammoth you just hunted with the other cave-lads, you know the meat on it isn't going to last forever. You are biologically compelled to start making mental preparation for the next big hunt, start thinking about the change of the seasons might affect your prospects, and whether Big Ug and the Boyz from the other side of the river is going to try squaring up after he saw your lads dragging home the big kill. Maybe you and the lads should arrange a pre-emptive clubbing for him just to be safe. That kind of thing.

We are at our happiest in the short term when we have a full belly and our feet up on the settee, and the missus next to us, because that means we have successfully fulfilled all of our primary goals. We have food in our belly and there's a good chance we're about to procreate. Abstracting it out, this also goes for having money in the bank, having a nice house, having a new car, whatever- Fundamentally they are all signifiers of security and comfort.

But it never lasts long. We always need to be looking for the next thing, in order to ensure the ability to put our feet up on the telly with a full belly and a missus to spaff up [i]stays[/] secure. We need goals, and a plan to get there.

TL;DR Get a hobby.
>> No. 450762 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 12:36 am
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>>450758
Hobbies would delay and obstruct my progress towards the fundamental goals that everyone should achieve as a bare minimum. My misery is noble and austere and, best of all, free.
>> No. 450836 Anonymous
18th April 2022
Monday 11:30 am
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>>450762

I've gone through periods of thinking like this in my life, and the tongue-in-cheek tone of your post suggests you already know this isn't an ideal approach.

I understand that there are times you just have to gut things through and do long periods of tough work, just make sure you have a plan to ensure that it's temporary. Otherwise something will break, physically or mentally. It is not possible to live in an unbalanced way for very long. I'm just about psychologically recovering after a year of spending virtually no money and dedicating all my waking hours to work.

When you do have the space to recover, it helped me a lot to change my environment for a bit. It wasn't quite a holiday, but I just spontaneously booked a few weeks out in the country by myself. Can't put in words how much it helped.

>>450757

What I find lovely is not only that it doesn't inhibit their happiness, but that they don't even notice. Dogs are brilliant.
>> No. 450864 Anonymous
19th April 2022
Tuesday 11:41 am
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>>450758

>Evolutionarily speaking, we are a goal oriented social species. We are hard wired to want to always be working on something, we need to make progress to be satisfied. Because throughout our history, that has been the direct and fundamental source of our survival and success.

Every organism will at some point try to spread to new habitats. From bacteria to plants and indeed humans. Even feral cats are forced to claim new habitats all the time because in some ways they're just as territorial as us humans and will not be tolerated in another cat's territory that was there first.

That said, of course no species makes as much of a big deal of it as we do. Our instinct to explore new habitats and constantly better ourselves and find out new things about the world around us has not only helped us propagate profusely, but has also given rise to things like science and technology. And thus, social evolution has long superseded biological evolution. As a species, we've made leaps and bounds in the last 300 years that are far from explainable through genetic mutation.

What's interesting is that following the "Out of Africa" hypothesis, almost all humans outside Western sub-Saharan Africa who are alive today are descended from a line of homo sapiens sapiens who left East Africa around 70,000 years ago, probably as a result of climate change, that being the beginning of the last Ice Age which saw much drier conditions in Africa and therefore diminishing natural resources. It could be that some of those human traits were honed as a result of having to cope with adverse conditions and scarce resources. While it is assumed by some that human populations in western Africa were under no pressure to leave their surroundings and spread to other habitats because their natural environment was much more plentiful.

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>> No. 443102 Anonymous
9th April 2021
Friday 12:12 pm
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>> No. 450310 Anonymous
1st April 2022
Friday 5:03 pm
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>>450274
I have a feeling by then she will require a complex system of ropes & pulleys to make a public appearance.
>> No. 450520 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 3:40 pm
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https://deathlist.net/

12th place on the current 2022 death list. Not really a hot contender, going by that, but far from safe. She did move up 13 places from last year.
>> No. 450521 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 4:21 pm
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>>450520
They'll be pulling out all the stops to keep her alive until at least June, so we can celebrate the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday.

Though quite frankly I think the government is selling us out cheaply if we're only getting one extra day for it.
>> No. 450527 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 7:57 pm
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>>450521
We're getting two, aren't we?
>> No. 450541 Anonymous
9th April 2022
Saturday 11:25 am
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>>450527
We're getting two consecutive days but one of them is just the usual Spring Bank Holiday pushed back a few days.

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>> No. 450379 Anonymous
3rd April 2022
Sunday 10:44 pm
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I know both of you are into some deviant shit, so let’s just get it all out there and share our most embarrassing experiences, sexual or not.
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>> No. 450434 Anonymous
5th April 2022
Tuesday 10:21 am
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Recently I've been wondering about that shared house I lived in where the landlords mysteriously knew where I'd left my drugs, coming over for a surprise inspection on a day I happened to be out. Housemates let them in, not knowing their rights and they were very angry to find I'd happened to lock my bedroom door so they couldn't get in there. They stopped trying to find excuses to kick us out after I started regularly bringing attractive women back for athletic, drug-fuelled sex. This could be paranoia but I suspect there's some grainy footage floating about somewhere of my exploits.
>> No. 450510 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 6:51 am
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>>450430

Yeah wanklad and BDSMlad both shared their stories in threads over 4 years ago.
>> No. 450511 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 6:56 am
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>>450426
I remember this story. Your dad became a hero to us.
>> No. 450512 Anonymous
8th April 2022
Friday 8:59 am
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>>450426
That story is part of .gs lore, like Moaty & ARE SI.
>> No. 450529 Anonymous
9th April 2022
Saturday 12:24 am
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>>450512
Thanks, lads, I'll buy the auld man a beer when I see him again but I probably won't bring up the story.

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