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>> No. 425247 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 1:45 pm
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New mid-week thread.

I've got the feeling I was meant to look something up but I can't remember what and it's bugging me.
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>> No. 425248 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 1:57 pm
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I'm concerned that not masturbating is taking up so much of my concentration that I'd get more done if I just did it already.
>> No. 425249 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 2:46 pm
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>>425248
Get it done.
>> No. 425256 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 8:46 pm
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I've just been to Sports Direct to get a new pair of trainers but, unsurprisingly, they didn't have the ones I want in store so I'd have to order them online; I'm loath to pay their £5 delivery charge, though.
>> No. 425257 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 8:49 pm
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>>425256
But for that you do get a mug that comes pre-smashed.
>> No. 425262 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 9:41 pm
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>>425257
I suppose I could always get my money's worth if I'm having to pay for delivery and get a shelf full of Sports Direct baseball caps like that lad on /poof/ years back.
>> No. 425263 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 9:49 pm
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>>425257

I didn't get a mug when I bought trainers from Sports Direct.
>> No. 425266 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 9:58 pm
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>>425263

They've always charged a quid for it. They used to automatically add it to your order unless you un-checked a tiny hidden box, but they stopped being sneaky about it after Watchdog kicked up a fuss.
>> No. 425267 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 9:59 pm
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>>425263
You got mugged.
>> No. 425268 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 10:04 pm
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>>425256
They do in-store pick up of online orders, which I believe is cheaper than getting it delivered to your door.
>> No. 425272 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>425268
Click and collect is the way forward for many high street shops. Saves having to hang about all day for a courier, too.
>> No. 425276 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 10:25 pm
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>>425268
Sports Direct charge £4.99 for home delivery or click and collect.

https://www.sportsdirect.com/customerservices/deliveryinfo/deliveryoptions
>> No. 425279 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 10:29 pm
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>>425276
>Every time you use our Click & Collect delivery service and collect your parcel from our own stores, you'll receive a £5 voucher to spend in store. You'll be given your voucher by our store staff when you collect your parcel.

It's basically free, but only if you want to spend more in store. Though still good for even cheaper pairs of socks and pants.
>> No. 425289 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 1:21 am
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Channel 4 really continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Just saw a trailer for their upcoming show "Mums make Porn". And not quite the milfy kind as such.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mums-make-porn

What can go wrong...
>> No. 425293 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 2:36 am
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The redhead looks dirty, the one of the far left just looks smelly.
>> No. 425295 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 6:47 am
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How does Amazon pricing work? There's been something I've been tracking for a little while and its price generally fluctuates between £24 and £27. The last time I looked at it and actually added it to my basket (before deciding to add it to my saved for later list) the price fluctuated several times within a couple of hours before settling at just over £25. Amazon are now running a £5 off if you spend at least £25 on qualifying items promotion today, but the price of it has now gone up to £28.
>> No. 425305 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 3:30 pm
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>>425293

Wouldn't.
>> No. 425306 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 4:02 pm
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>>425305
I'd grab her lemons IYKWIM!
>> No. 425309 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 4:06 pm
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>>425289
It can't be any worse than most professional porn, it's all got such a bizarre atmosphere.

Fake Taxi just gives me the fucking creeps.
>> No. 425311 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 4:42 pm
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I bought two doners in the morning as I couldn't be arsed to cook anything and just wanted a doner anyway. It bloody had to be this lass on the shift that is way too tight with the ingredients. The big doner wasn't that big and the small one was too small. Tasty nonetheless, if only it could be a tad larger.

Found a pack of optical discs in the cupboard. Turned out to contain that Russian crime drama series about the 90s (read: blatant glorification of the whole bratva business). The disc I put into the drive had that episode where the protagonist's ma dies due to heart attack. I never asked for this. Not now when I actually can empathise.

Moaning checked. Definitely not my best day.
>> No. 425312 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 4:50 pm
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>>425311
>I bought two doners in the morning.

If you're buying kebabs, from a shop that is open in the morning, you're going to have bigger problems than existential dread. Namely pissing out of your arse.
>> No. 425314 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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I bought a new laptop battery off Amazon last night. I'm stingy and not in a hurry so I went for the free postage option, ETA April 1st.

It arrived this morning, and I feel I should point out that I live in the countryside away from any major distribution centres. The efficiency of the Amazon supply chain is frightening sometimes. Either that or this is come kind of pre-emptive April Fool's joke.
>> No. 425317 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 5:53 pm
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>>425312
They work from 07:30 to 22:00, the traffic is almost insane in that place. Thankfully, never had any problems with their food. I know several shops though whose munchies would give exactly the effect you describe.
>> No. 425319 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 6:56 pm
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>>425314

>I feel I should point out that I live in the countryside away from any major distribution centres.

Assuming you're in the UK, most of us are probably only a couple of hours away from a warehouse no matter where we are. It only takes 15 hours to drive the entire length of the island, so I'm not that surprised.
>> No. 425320 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 7:55 pm
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Does anyone know if it matters what sort of clear plastic I use to build my greenhouse? Someone pointed out that I might need some with particular UV qualities or... something. Anyway I have no idea, I was just going to buy some transparent sheets from B&Q and cut them to size.
>> No. 425321 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 8:05 pm
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>>425320
Not really, it's all down to certain plastics degrading in sunlight. Normally people either use PVCU or acrylic.
>> No. 425322 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 8:10 pm
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>>425321
I'll look into those, cheers. The quest to find some PVCU that isn't awkwardly corrugated or some acrylic that isn't awkwardly expensive.
>> No. 425325 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 10:56 pm
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>>425314
I remember fondly the very early days of Amazon, when it was just about books - I lived in Central London, and you could order things up until about 2am and still get them that morning when you woke up. It seemed like complete magic at the time and made me spend nearly all my money on books.
>> No. 425330 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 11:14 pm
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>>425325

https://primenow.amazon.co.uk/learn-more
>> No. 425332 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 11:29 pm
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>>425325

That's how I felt about Amazon in general when I was a lad (too young to really remember it as a book shop, sorry m8).

Once Prime was a thing and I had student grants burning a hole in my pocket, it became a running joke amongst flatmates about how many fucking deliveries I got per week. Then Prime Now happened and I started ordering expensive shit just for the thrill of it arriving in under an hour. I'd just find excuses to order any old shit, like a laptop because wanted to work in the kitchen, or fifteen boxes of cornettos, because it was summer.

I know Bezos is worth a lot but I reckon at least a couple of his millions are directly from me.
>> No. 425334 Anonymous
19th March 2019
Tuesday 11:46 pm
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Been doing some more ancestry research tonight. Apparently, one of my ancestors in the 1600s was found guilty of being a witch and casting a spell on a fellow villager's water well to poison it, for which she was sentenced to death.

I can see now where my older sister gets it from.
>> No. 425337 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 12:25 am
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>>425319
It's not just the distance, no delivery driver would surely make me a priority when I'm miles away from everyone else and may parcel isn't due for nearly two weeks anyway.

I think I must've just gotten lucky, maybe some crossed wires ended up listing my delivery as more crucial.
>> No. 425349 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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I got a message from my brother, about 11 to give him a call. He told me that my niece was found dead this morning by a housemate. There's no suspicion of drugs or anything, she just passed in her sleep. She only turned 23 the end of January and I am just in shock. I've had to go home from work, I really just can't concentrate.
>> No. 425358 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 8:32 pm
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>>425349
I'm sorry to hear that lad.
>> No. 425361 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 10:41 pm
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I'm going to make biscuits tomorrow, but I'll be using raspberry jam instead of golden syrup. Don't try to stop me, I shalln't be posting again until they're in the oven and by then it'll be far, far too late.
>> No. 425362 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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>>425361

They'll go a weird colour.
>> No. 425363 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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>>425361
Raspberry biscuits?? What kind of monster are you?
>> No. 425364 Anonymous
20th March 2019
Wednesday 11:56 pm
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>>425361
Yeah what kind of monster would eat a raspberry jam biscuit?
>> No. 425365 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 1:42 am
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>>425364
That is a biscuit wih a raspberry jam filling, not a raspberry jam biscuit.
>> No. 425366 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 8:29 am
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>>425365

Semantics, lad. Semantics.
>> No. 425367 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 3:43 pm
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The melting point of jam would appear to be considerably higher than that of unsalted butter.
>> No. 425368 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 3:58 pm
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>>425367

Butter will melt if you hold it in your hand, what were you expecting?
>> No. 425369 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 4:09 pm
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>>425368
I've never held jam in my hand because of how sticky it is. It got there in the end anyway.
>> No. 425370 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 5:23 pm
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I've had my pay review at work today and, as well as a pay rise, they're introducing a performance-related bonus of up to £5,000 if I can meet 7 or 8 particular targets of £500 to £750 each; most of these I can meet just by carrying on as I am.

I've been given the option of either getting them paid ad hoc as and when I meet one of the targets or having it as a lump sum at the end of the year. I'm assuming the latter would be better as then I'd be more likely to do something meaningful with it and I'd pay much less in National Insurance but I thought I'd better check with you lads in case I'm missing anything.
>> No. 425371 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 5:28 pm
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>>425370

I'd likely choose the latter too, though HRMC will almost certainly get confused and shove you in the wrong tax bracket when that happens, so keep an eye out for that.

I'm like you, If I got a couple of hundred quid extra a month I'd just spend it on shite, but five grand in a lump is basically a savings account.

I don't like the idea of OTE pay at all though, simply because I've had experiences with companies who don't know how to set appropriate targets, essentially making their daft overblown projection for what their profit (or whatever) should look like into a pay cut for you.
>> No. 425372 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 5:57 pm
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>>425371
It breaks down into roughly one-third things I'll achieve simply by turning up, one-third things I was planning on implementing anyway and one-third things that are largely outside of my control and depend on the overall performance of the company. There's nothing that'll require me buzzing around like a blue-arsed fly.
>> No. 425373 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 6:17 pm
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>>425372
Would the lump sum payment be conditional on each of the targets being achieved?

Depending on whether they know their arse from their elbow at your work or not, the safer bet may be to opt for the ad hoc payment and then just trusting yourself to transfer it into a different account or hide it under the floorboards until you are ready to splash out.
>> No. 425374 Anonymous
21st March 2019
Thursday 7:26 pm
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>>425373
It's not conditional on meeting them all.
>> No. 425376 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 8:41 am
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>>425374
I would get that bit in writing then lad. Agree with other posters caution about OTE, it's just another form of zero hours work, for sales people.
>> No. 425381 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 12:10 pm
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>>425376

Not just sales people. I took a job with about ten grand tied to profit targets, and about a month into the job they raised those targets significantly - a 10% raise in GP targets. For context they were essentially asking me to find an extra 30k a week in profit, overnight.

I don't think they moved the goalposts specifically to fleece me, they just were being daft with their projections. But nonetheless it was basically a pay cut so I left. The sad irony being I probably capable of hitting that target, that sort of thing has been the foundation of my career. If they'd paid me the extra ten grand as regular salary I'd have happily done it, or at least tried very hard to do it. But instead I wandered off within my probation period.
>> No. 425428 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 3:54 pm
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Continuing my ancestry research. It has been blown wide open because it turns out I have shedloads of members of nobility on my dad's side as my bloodline ancestors about 200 years back. If what I have found out is true, it ties me to about a dozen different noble families from Russian nobility to Poland's Szlachta and Germany's Uradle, and then later British Peerage, all going back at least to the 1300s.

It appears that one of my dad's ancestors was a commoner who then married one of their women. His occupation is listed as that of a "registrar", which meant he was not a member of the lower classes as such, but a woman from nobility marrying a commoner was apparently still quite frowned upon and it may be one reason why our family are paupers never inherited any of the wealth that must have been knocking about in those circles.
>> No. 425429 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 4:22 pm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_(2019_film)
>Midway is an upcoming American historical action drama film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Wes Tooke.

Great, once this flops no one's going to sign on for my Montgomery biopic.
>> No. 425430 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 4:53 pm
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>>425429

A.K.A "PEARL HARBOR II: THE REVENGENING"
>> No. 425431 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>>425428
> to Poland's Szlachta
Huh, that's what I was told by my grandma once too.
One question I cannot answer in regards to that is 'so what?' It's not like that gives me any kind of privileges or makes me better in any way.
Just a curious piece of trivia.
>> No. 425433 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 7:23 pm
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>>425431

>One question I cannot answer in regards to that is 'so what?' It's not like that gives me any kind of privileges or makes me better in any way.

Hereditary nobility was always rooted in the idea of nobility of the blood, the presumption that your kin had superior hereditary qualities of character that made you a rightful part of the country's elite from the day you were born simply because your parents were nobility, and their parents before them. While questionable, you can't completely deny that certain character features can be hereditary.

Aristocratic monarchies were an exclusionary, pre-democratic concept and irreconcilable with modern forms of government as we know them today, but then again, not that much more exclusionary than today's Western elites tend to be, who like to cordon themselves off from the rest of society and favour their own kind, and who have risen to wealth and power as commoners in the last 250 years and now constitute the de facto ruling class in many Western democracies. Most people have no chance of ever becoming part of that elite the same way they rarely had the chance to be knighted or otherwise ennobled by a country's monarch. These economic elites, if not in writing then at least in fact, enjoy many of the same exclusionary privileges as the noble classes did in pre-democratic Europe.

In its own way, the system of a ruling noble class had its advantages, because tied to your nobility was not only the enjoyment of privileges and prerogatives not shared by commoners, but it was also an ethos. You were expected to follow certain codes of conduct and honour, the disobedience of which could cause you to be stripped of your nobility and all its privileges, usually for life. Rehabilitation with regards to your noble privileges, once you had lost them, was not considered possible. Unlike today's economic elites, for whom the old saying that behind every great fortune there stands a great crime probably couldn't be more true. And yet, their power is just as difficult to challenge as that of nobility in the old days.

Therefore, even if nobody in their right mind would want to undo all the democratic reforms of government of the last few centuries, it's worth noting that just because we no longer call it an aristocracy, that doesn't mean we don't still have one.
>> No. 425434 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 8:38 pm
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>>425433

It would take an absolute moron not to realise we still have an aristocracy. Even more truly so in places like the States, where wealth is the only thing about a person that matters.

All that happened during the Enlightenment was a shift of power from the inherited nobility to the newly powerful merchant wealthy, and thus capitalism was born.

At least in the old days, they didn't lie to you about being able to join their class. You were a peasant and that was that. People who somehow manage to fight their way into wealth in the modern day rarely find themselves ascending to the elites- That still takes a continuous intergenerational connection to power, money and influence before you'll be accepted.
>> No. 425435 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 9:15 pm
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>>425434

> At least in the old days, they didn't lie to you about being able to join their class. You were a peasant and that was that. People who somehow manage to fight their way into wealth in the modern day rarely find themselves ascending to the elites- That still takes a continuous intergenerational connection to power, money and influence before you'll be accepted.


But by contrast, once you were accepted into the realms of nobility, all the doors were open to you pretty much from one day to the next. There was probably still a gradient of social standing between "old nobility" and newly joined nobility, but beyond that, you were now one of them.

As you said, it was kind of a more honest system in its own way. Broadly speaking, there was no false pretense that you could make it from rags to riches.

Or as George Carlin once said, it's called the American Dream for a reason, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
>> No. 425436 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 9:56 pm
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>>425433
>>425434
I've always liked Michael Young's framing of meritocracy: a term he coined in the negative, describing a class unto itself. It's a perverse irony we now all aspire to it.)
The argument essentially went that in the past when you got your ruling position by merit of being of the upper class, you felt a sort of obligation to those lower down than you. Then, as people from the working class took leadership positions (think for example of the early Labour governments), even if their personal living situation and power improved, they still identified themselves with the working class, their concerns and their struggles. Often because they had shared them earlier in life. Through that kind of system, you keep everyone in contact with each other, and get at least some degree of caring governance. Then as we began to take a more scientific, meritocratic approach, that all changed.

It's rare that we have that kind of identity-system now. Instead what we have is an educated, mobile class of people who believe that everything they have, they've earned themselves, particularly through education and smarts. Whether they come from the rich, or have made themselves up from nothing, they have no need to feel obligation to any class. Instead they have their own social group: The meritocrats. And if they've earned everything they've got, they're entitled to what they can take, and if that screws people below them that's those fools own fault for being so lacking in personal merit. A king at least owes his position to god. The meritocrat is god unto himself.

For his words rather than mine, see:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
>> No. 425437 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 10:32 pm
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>>425436

I think I agree with you that when people really do work their way up nowadays, it fosters a sense in them that what's theirs is theirs because they have worked hard to obtain it, and screw the lower classes who were unable to do the same, it's their own fault really for drinking beer and smoking fags all day in front of their 40'' plasma TVs. In that sense, having achieved personal wealth, however moderate, can make you quite an egotistical cunt.

>The argument essentially went that in the past when you got your ruling position by merit of being of the upper class, you felt a sort of obligation to those lower down than you.

This was part of upper class ethos. In a kind of condescending paternalistic way nonetheless, but the ruling class, noble or not, felt that the unwashed masses had no way of taking their lives into their own hands beyond the scraps earned for a day's work, and that it was therefore the duty of the aristocracy to both lead the way and look after them. Likewise, the system of mediaeval serfdom wasn't all just about exploiting poor peasants whom you legally owned for want of a better word, but a Lord of the manor also had the responsibility to look after his serfs and keep them out of harm's way. It would probably still pass as white slavery today, but again, you were responsible for the wellbeing of those below you.

Royalty today comes in different shapes and forms today than it used to, but it's still exclusionary, aristocratic royalty and it calls the shots and pulls all the strings behind closed doors like it always did. The Americans, for example, have their wealthy movie stars, singers and billionaire business tycoons. They are America's noble families, they are U.S. royalty. Just look at families like the Kennedys, the Bushes or the Clintons. Or indeed old ferret head now and his pretend real estate empire.
>> No. 425440 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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I spoke to a recruiter this afternoon. I sent them a CV. They say they've spoken to a client and can get me an interview tomorrow, but I have to provide references up-front. They still haven't named the client.

This sounds sketchy as fuck to me.
>> No. 425442 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 5:28 pm
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>>425440

A recruiters entire business model relies on you not knowing which company wants you to work for them, otherwise you'd just go and contact them.

It's probably some pyramid scheme or one of them delivery companies where you have to pay them to use their vans, though.
>> No. 425445 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 5:54 pm
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>>425437

>The Americans, for example, have their wealthy movie stars, singers and billionaire business tycoons. They are America's noble families, they are U.S. royalty.

Far from it lad. They're the same as highly paid footie players over here. They are the working class rich, they spend their money on drugs and fast cars, the same things you or I would if we suddenly came into ten million overnight. They might be dripping with money but you rarely see them rubbing shoulders with anyone of actual power- If they do, they'll keep it very quiet and by necessity drop out of the "celebrity" limelight. Those who pull strings can't be seen to do so.
>> No. 425450 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>425442
Normally they tell you who it is before sending a CV to the client.
>> No. 425458 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 10:45 pm
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>>425428
I've started doing my family tree. One of my great-great-great grandfathers was cleared of aiding and abetting a murder but had to to pay a fine of £5 for stealing bacon.
>> No. 425460 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 11:42 pm
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I got a shitty score on my yearly performance review at work today - the lowest, helpfully termed as 'inconsistent'. I've barely had management since I started last year and had 3 different managers in the space of the last couple months. It's a job I was thrown into the deep-end on and had to catch up on my own so now I try to look after the people who have joined after me including my new manager.

What feedback I did get from the previous 2 comes down solely to "you don't ask enough questions" which directly contradicts the experience of my current manager. The fact that they were never around and explicitly told me to stop bothering other members of the team with questions when I needed someone to help me feels like a real kick in the teeth. Fortunately there were people in other teams who took the time to look after me but the fact that despite doing what I think is a stellar job given the circumstances it is impossible to get any recognition for it.

Anyway, my question is there is a team we work closely with advertised today that they are looking to fill a now vacant space. I'm tempted to apply for the job even though it's up for an initial 6 months followed by an open interview process - not secure but from the start I've wanted to work in their area anyway. The problem is when I say we work closely I mean we sit in the same space which could make for some very awkward office politics and obviously I'd get a shitty reference if I do apply.

What do you lads reckon, burn the building down?

>>425450
This has been my past experience as well. I don't see know how you can give a decent interview if you don't know the employer beforehand and the short time-frame is itself an issue. Are you sure this isn't a gate-keeper interview with the agency?

At any rate, I'm not even sure I would say this is sketchy so much as utterly negligent on the part of the agency. I wouldn't use them in future and think it only right you at least send an email demanding to know who exactly you are interviewing for because that's not only for your benefit but there's as well.
>> No. 425461 Anonymous
27th March 2019
Wednesday 11:44 pm
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>>425458
I feel like I'd trust a guy that had been cleared of aiding and abetting a murder, but if I knew that on top of that he'd stolen some bacon...
>> No. 425465 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:35 am
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>> No. 425466 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 9:55 am
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>>425465
Literally who?
>> No. 425467 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 11:21 am
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>>425465

I'd split her in half IYKWIM.

I'll get my coat
>> No. 425468 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 11:22 am
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>>425466
Mate, if you haven't seen at least one post on here about using Are Stacey's tears as lubricant to wank with then you haven't even lived.
>> No. 425470 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 6:38 pm
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A company who tried to headhunt me nearly a year ago just sent me a box full of stuff. The fancier end of products they make (food) alongside other more expensive items. I haven't had contact with anyone at that company since I declined their offer a year ago, and nobody called or emailed or anything.

I didn't even think companies here did that sort of thing at all, it strikes me as a very American gesture and I think most brits, myself included, are far too cynical to be impressed by this sort of gesture. The fact that nobody's really explained to me what it's in aid of yet feels very strange, too. I assume their recruiter will be asking me if I fancy working for them yet but as far as it goes right now I have no indication of that. The note didn't say much other than "enjoy". Very odd.

Is this normal? I've never seen anything like it, though I've never really been courted by a proper corporation before this.
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28th March 2019
Thursday 6:44 pm
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In some industries it's really common to send gifts at christmas to customers and suppliers.

But I've never heard of stuff being sent out to individuals. Possibly they've just got your name on a list of contacts and got you mixed up. Or alternatively they still have an opening for a job and they want you, in that case sending out a random "gift" with no explanation is ok, but if they specifically told you a reason for sending it, then that has legal obligations.
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28th March 2019
Thursday 6:54 pm
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>>425470
I know of a lass who wiped her boss's apple on her arse before putting it back on her desk and watching her eat it.

All I'm saying is give it a sniff before you eat any of it.
>> No. 425473 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 7:04 pm
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>>425472
Lesbians are weird.
>> No. 425474 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:05 pm
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>>425470

If you have skills that are scarce and commercially valuable, the finder's fee for an agency could run into the high four or low five figures. You may or may not be endeared by their gesture, but you'll certainly remember it. Just keeping their company in your mind is a worthwhile investment.
>> No. 425475 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:20 pm
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>>425471

>But I've never heard of stuff being sent out to individuals. Possibly they've just got your name on a list of contacts and got you mixed up.

I had considered that. It sort of makes sense if they have me on file, it's my birthday on Sunday and they certainly could have confused me with a buyer going by my linkedin etc. Even without my birthday being a factor (can't remember if they'd know my DOB or not) this is likely a good time of year for them to be reminding people they exist.

Still seems more related to the job thing though, since they sought me out in the first place, and likely do still want me over there.

>>425474

I do understand that, I still didn't think it was something people did over here. I've heard plenty of American references to getting baskets of muffins or iPads or whatever, but never anyone over here. I know we have a couple of techlads here and I imagine they might have been sent some magic swag before.

They know I turned them down to start a business, though, so I'm not sure why they think I'd be changing my mind now, unless they assume I've tanked it already.
>> No. 425477 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:29 pm
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>>425475

We occasionally get little plushies or coffee mugs and what have you in orders from our suppliers. I think the more specialist your needs, the more likely you are to get companies who keep their clients sweet with freebies.

The manager who deals with stock ordering seems to think they belong to him, as if he orders them of his own pocket, and not from the fucking NHS budget, the prick. I stole a penguin before he could get his hands on it once and he actually sent the company an e-mail asking for another.
>> No. 425478 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:32 pm
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>>425475

You sometimes have to be inventive in roping in good talent. People who know that they are good at what they do also know that they can pick and choose job offers. So by sending you a gift basket, it might give them the edge over other possible employers on a subconscious, personal level. And it also means you get to take a first-hand look at the products they make and maybe identify with those products. In a "seeing is believing" kind of way. These can all be little things to nudge you to come work for them.

The £50 or so that it cost them to send you a gift basket are probably well spent in the greater scheme of things for them. Even if they send ten people like you such a gift basket and only one of them is swayed, it still pays off.
>> No. 425479 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:41 pm
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>>425477

I was at one point responsible for buying from suppliers and we were spending about half a million a month per supplier on stock across all the sites. I never got any free shit from any of those cunts, though to be fair if I rang them and asked them for something they'd always bend over backwards. I think I might have quickly gained a reputation for being a ruthless bastard who would drop a supplier in response to a near negligible rise in unit prices, so they never bothered.

If they'd have just send me a free car or something I'd have happily signed whatever dodgy ten-year contract they'd have suggested, would have easily changed things around to require significantly more of their stock. I was quite willing and able to be as bent as a two bob note, but nobody ever asked.
>> No. 425480 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 8:53 pm
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>>425468

Stacey Dooley is fine as long as she isn't touring some shitehole African country where half the population live in corrugated iron huts along jungle dirt roads, and three fourths of the people in the village she is intruding upon with her African poverty porn are AIDS orphans, and she has a teary with the camera and repetitively complains that "it's not fair".

Other than that, yes, she makes good wank material, and I am sure she's a decent bonk. I do enjoy sex with redheads, so as long as she'll leave her social conscience at the bedroom door, I would be interested.
>> No. 425482 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>>425480
I do not believe you've been intimate with a woman.
>> No. 425483 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 10:18 pm
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>>425482

I do not believe you've been intimate with a redhead.

Something about the genetics for ginger hair (proper ginger, fair skin and all) seems to correlate with a fanny as sweet as fresh fruit and a drive like an animal in heat.

Sciencelads, please respond.
>> No. 425484 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 10:25 pm
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>>425483
The one redhead I've been with was particularly musky in a way I wasn't fond of.
>> No. 425486 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 11:30 pm
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>>425483


>and a drive like an animal in heat

And to boot, one redhead I was with was fresh off the pill because the pill gave her thrombosis (her smoking half a pack a day certainly had nothing to do with it) and she had a copper ion IUD implanted. Not only did the IUD mean worry free sex 24/7 at even lower statistical failure rates than the pill, but when a lass gets off the pill, her natural hormone balance gradually returns. The estrogen in the pill can cancel out a lot of the trace level testosterone that women have and which is vital for a healthy sex drive, and if you take away that extra estrogen, some women can almost end up glued to your knob.

It hasn't happened to me often that my knob was literally red with soreness after a weekend together, in a way that you normally only get anywhere on your skin if you fall asleep on a beach lounger in Magaluf, but during the three or four months with her, it was a regular occurrence. It didn't end up becoming something long term between us. We were just at different points in our lives and had too little in common to build an actual relationship on. But it was really the best sex I ever had. Images of her abound in my spank bank to this day.
>> No. 425487 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 6:55 am
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I was having an interesting conversation with my other half about the gender pay gap earlier; it's that time of year when firms have to disclose theirs so we've got the usual tripe like the Graun reporting that male doctors earn more than female doctors before burying in the text that men tend to specialise more in more demanding and lucrative areas, that men tend to work more hours or that most of the ones who've been around the longest are men so they'll be the highest earners and any universal percentage pay rises will simply compound the situation. There's no evidence whatsoever that a male and female doctor doing the same role with the same qualifications and level of experience are paid differently because the whole thing is a massive distraction from what really matters.

Anyway, she was saying that you can make arguments to make anything appear sexist if you really want to. Apparently people are claiming that cars are sexist because women have to be much closer to the steering wheel due to their shorter legs and also because the seatbelts start too high up for most of them. In Sweden politicians have been arguing that using snowploughs primarily on the main roads is sexist because it's predominantly men who'll be using them to get to work whereas women will be using the side streets to drop the kids off at school or pop to the local shops.
>> No. 425488 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 7:11 am
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>>425487

There was a big kerfuffle the other day about the first all-female spacewalk being cancelled because they didn't have the right sized spacesuits. It turned out that the astronaut in question had trained in both the medium and large suits, was planning to use the large suit for the walk, but changed her mind at the last minute. One of the medium suits had been partially dismantled for servicing and couldn't be made ready in time, so another astronaut who preferred the large suit did the spacewalk instead to avoid delaying the mission. That perfectly reasonable explanation didn't stop half of Twitter from decrying it as proof that science is sexist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47717937
>> No. 425490 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 3:10 pm
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>>425487

>Anyway, she was saying that you can make arguments to make anything appear sexist if you really want to.

I think the problem with actual maritime issues these days isn't that the actual maritime issues that exists is being downplayed. But it's that there is a hyperactive and very loud and vocal subgroup of militant trout farmers and fisherpersons who will call just about anything and anybody sexist for things that are both beyond the common person's comprehension and their ideas about what should really be seen as constituting actual maritime issues by a level headed person.

And programmes like "It Was Alright In The 70s" on Channel4 (?) both tie into that kind of phenomenon and perpetuate it, but also lay it bare. I simply cannot take a group of early 20something hipster comedians who have no real concept of the world around them beyond the brief five to ten years that they have spent in it as adults seriously when they cringe at clips of a woman in lingerie on a grainy also-ran 1970s BBC sitcom with their mouths gaping at what they think was earth shaking actual maritime issues.
>> No. 425491 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 4:55 pm
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>>425490
>there is a hyperactive and very loud and vocal subgroup of militant trout farmers and fisherpersons who will call just about anything and anybody sexist for things that are both beyond the common person's comprehension and their ideas about what should really be seen as constituting actual maritime issues by a level headed person.
They're probably a lot less active or vocal than you think and are to a large (though not exclusive) degree being amplified by those on the right who want to make fishing as a whole look silly.
>> No. 425492 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 4:59 pm
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I was in the main SU building for my uni yesterday lunch time, and there was a group of lads wearing blue bibs with the slogan "I am a Zionist" written on them. They handed me a leaflet explaining that Israel is the most socially progressive country in the middle east, and that most Israeli-Arabs would rather live in the state of Israel than in a hypothetical Palestinian state.

I admire their bravery being so boldly pro-Israel in a university, I assume they didn't go down well as they'd moved on after an hour or so.
>> No. 425493 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 5:22 pm
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>>425491
Channel 4 is right wing?
>> No. 425494 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>425490

I think maritime issues of the annoying, intrusive and unnecessary type are sort of going g away. There was the phase a few years ago when they tried to go for a full scale assault of the gaming press/industry, but largely that seems to have does because surprisingly, it hurt those publication's sales to try and shovel such horseshit down the necks of a largely male audience.

I think it's safe to say it'll be a quaint memory before long, like the Occupy movement or similar. Then we'll all be able to relax and concentrate on things that actually are an issue to fishing stocks, instead of hyperbolic reactionary bullshit.

Also, some new and even more annoying brand of hyperbolic reactionary bullshit will come along to replace it.
>> No. 425495 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 7:29 pm
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I don't know if it's me being a snob/bore but towards the end of the working day it was mainly me in the office with the junior members of staff and I refused to make any effort to join in their conversation because it was just so tedious.

They laugh about how thick they are and think that not knowing things is an endearing personality trait. I'm talking about incredibly basic things here, such as what the capital city of Italy is or what an MP is. I just don't think I could lower myself to joining in and joking along; I can't stand people who boast about ignorance and I reckon I'd rather wipe my arse with sandpaper than join in.
>> No. 425496 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 8:22 pm
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>>425494

>There was the phase a few years ago when they tried to go for a full scale assault of the gaming press/industry, but largely that seems to have does because surprisingly, it hurt those publication's sales to try and shovel such horseshit down the necks of a largely male audience.

Their MO is usually that they complain that a certain group of people, be it gamers or really any social group, are too male dominated. Then they try to enter and infiltrate those groups because they believe it increases gender equality when there are no all-men groups of anyting (while all-women groups of something seem to be just fine), and then next thing they do is they say they want different, usually easier and more relaxed rules for the girls within that newly "gender equal" group.

Next to gaming, another example would be chess tournaments. You now have all women's chess tournaments, but IIRC they play according to much easier tournament rules.

I believe that just as women, men need certain social groups where they can just be among themselves. Male bonding, same as female bonding, often works best in homogenous groups of your own gender. That isn't to say you don't benefit from being in a few mixed gender social groups in your life, as a man, but contrary to what we are always told, I think there is nothing sexist about not wanting women in a few certain social groups. Especially when considering that women claim their moral right to have all-woman groups for just about anything.
>> No. 425497 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 9:06 pm
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>>425496

>Next to gaming, another example would be chess tournaments. You now have all women's chess tournaments, but IIRC they play according to much easier tournament rules.

There are a parallel set of titles for women only. Anyone (male or female) can earn the title of Grandmaster by achieving an ELO rating of 2500, with an effective ELO rating of 2600 in at least three major tournaments. The title of Woman Grandmaster is awarded to any woman with an ELO rating of 2300.

Naturally, this has been framed as a double-bind by some fisherpersons - the existence of the women's titles is sexist because it sets lower standards for women, but the paucity of women earning the non-gendered titles is also sexist for some reason.

See also the motte-and-bailey definition of fishing. fishing just means that you believe men and women are equal, unless it's convenient for fishing to mean supporting policy x. If you're not a fisherperson then you don't believe that men and women are equal, if you don't support policy x then you're not a true fisherperson, ergo if you don't support policy x then you're a horrible whale poacher.
>> No. 425498 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 9:17 pm
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>>425490
>adults seriously when they cringe at clips of a woman in lingerie on a grainy also-ran 1970s BBC sitcom with their mouths gaping at what they think was earth shaking actual maritime issues.

I miss bawdy television. The problem these days is you will see a pair of Klingon tits on telly but it will all be terribly serious.

>>425494
I'm calling it getting worse before it gets better. Unconscious bias theory will sustain it for awhile yet as the permanent neuroticism ethics takes shape.
>> No. 425499 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 9:20 pm
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>>425497
I haven't seen any of the stuff you're talking about and am inclined to think you're watching people who deliberately call attention to it for whatever reason. I can't be bothered to argue about it and further, it's so tiresome.
>> No. 425500 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 10:17 pm
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>>425497

>Naturally, this has been framed as a double-bind by some fisherpersons - the existence of the women's titles is sexist because it sets lower standards for women, but the paucity of women earning the non-gendered titles is also sexist for some reason.

Having your cake and eating it.

I can understand when women have lower competitive standards in certain sports where raw physical strength counts. Woman weightlifters will by and large not be able to lift the kinds of weight totals that some ludicrously muscular blokes are capable of. That's a given, and it would seem more peculiar to not have diverging standards between female and male athletes in those sports.

But if women are equal to men in their mental capabilities, which by and large even I think they are, then a) I'm not sure that we need different chess tournament rules for women and b) it kind of does seem like disservice to society's image of women in itself.

>I miss bawdy television. The problem these days is you will see a pair of Klingon tits on telly but it will all be terribly serious.

James Buckley said in an interview last year that even a show like The Inbetweeners could not be made today because of some people's hair trigger response today to even the mildest sexual innuendo. Just ten years on, nobody seems to be able to take. a fucking. joke. anymore.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjz8jYFiNC4

I think he is hitting the nail on the head.

And even the most raunchy Benny Hill runaround scene with a bit of tit flopping out and some butt spanking was really just meant all in good fun in the 70s and 80s when the show was made, and as pushing the boundaries of painfully dull evening entertainment of its time a little. Nobody was even remotely attempting to insinuate that women were subhuman sex objects. It was all just a big laugh, nothing more, and nothing less.

We may not realise it today (well, I do, but mainstream early 20s hipster militant trout farmers patently do not), but we live in quite dark times. Where everybody is afraid to be BRILLIANT or push boundaries or even make an innocent subversive joke for fear of having an angry twitter mob with pitchforks after them about a tenth of a second later. Our culture in that respect mirrors that of the 1950s and 60s with the BBC Green Book and all that. But even back then, people could take an BRILLIANT joke for what it was.
>> No. 425501 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 10:29 pm
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>>425500
Yeah an interview done by Piers Morgan, such a reasonable man. Fucking hell.
>> No. 425502 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 10:47 pm
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>>425501

Even if you think Piers Morgan is a tit, which he largely is, then James Buckley still has a point.
>> No. 425503 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 11:02 pm
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>>425502
Does he, though? Really? The only evidence I have is his opinion that what they were doing back then is too BRILLIANT for today's audience. Which sounds a hell of a lot like ad copy to me.
>> No. 425504 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 11:21 pm
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>>425503

The evidence would be whether or not a programme has been made in the last year or so that is based around sexual innedendo and wank jokes.

Is there? I honestly don't know.
>> No. 425505 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 11:42 pm
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>>425504

Well nobody seemed to mind Rachel Riley drawing a cock and balls on Cats Does Countdown.


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>> No. 425514 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 12:27 pm
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>>425503

Ah yes, the old thing about edgelad thinking he's the only edgelad in all of nonedgeladland.

To be fair though, what rings true enough is that with all the instant Twitter mobs you get nowadays, there is a real danger of even the most benign off the wall innuendo being misunderstood by a critical mass of people to make the outrage seem many times larger than it actually is.

I read something a while ago about Twitter mobs where they said the problem isn't that people take offence and spew their discontent via Twitter, but that we've got a distorted perception of reality with these things. Considering that social media really is global now, a few hundred Twitter users voicing their anger may seem like a lot, but it really isn't, in the greater scheme of things. And the author of the article I read then said that it goes back to remnants of tribal society which we all still somehow have knocking about in our subconscious, where a hundred people wielding clubs and axes coming to your village were a real and massive threat to your kin's existence. It was live or die, and you had to defend what was yours to the death. Whereas in today's world, a hundred angry people on Twitter is barely 0.0001 percent of the UK's population and therefore not even a blip. It is only because we still subconsciously feel that an angry mob of 100 people is a lot and a real threat that we place that kind of importance on such a thing.

For companies though, even a few dozen Twitter users who are angry about one of your products can spell disaster, because it can have adverse effects of opinion leadership and negative influencing of the silent masses of consumers who will be discouraged from buying your product. You could argue that that is also because consumers think a hundred people dissatisfied with a product are a lot, but it really isn't, when you consider that some consumer products like mobile phones, cars, or certain globalised services are now marketed to target groups of literally billions of people around the world.
>> No. 425530 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 3:53 pm
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>>425494
> There was the phase a few years ago when they tried to go for a full scale assault of the gaming press/industry, but largely that seems to have does because surprisingly, it hurt those publication's sales to try and shovel such horseshit down the necks of a largely male audience.

Strange enough, a similar assault on the IT industry looks like it's been rather successful. I suspect that it has something to do with people not willing to forfeit their income unlike the gaming bollocks where you spend your cash.
>> No. 425531 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 4:00 pm
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>>425514
My favourite Twitter storm was the one about Lupita Nyong'o and Grazia magazine photoshopping her hair shorter for the magazine cover. Half of the people getting angry thought the pictures were the other way around and they'd actually photoshopped hair onto her. All they really knew was that it must be racist and they were outraged about it.
>> No. 425532 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 4:13 pm
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>>425531

I think with some people it's just a mindset. They go through life seeing dolphin rape and actual maritime issues and white privilege behind every bush and street corner. That isn't to say there is no dolphin rape or actual maritime issues. There very much still is, unfortunately. It's just that some people cannot differentiate between an unfortunate or thoughtless remark by somebody, and an actual full on mean-spirited verbal or physical attack against a fellow human being because of their gender, skin colour, or whatever else.
>> No. 425533 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 4:56 pm
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>>425532
All of it's worsened by all these echo-chambers online now though, people love 'em. As far as I'm aware we can't stop people who want to be sucked into these things from getting sucked into these things. They want a cause, a purpose and a group to belong to, doesn't matter if they're wrong.
>> No. 425534 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 5:26 pm
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Please stop giving creedance to Twitter.
>> No. 425535 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 5:27 pm
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>>425534
n2 m7
>> No. 425542 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 9:06 pm
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>>425534

I've always thought that Twitter is a portmanteau for twit chatter.

Altough they probably would have named it Twatter in that case.
>> No. 425545 Anonymous
30th March 2019
Saturday 9:42 pm
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>>425535>>425542
Did I do something other than make an embarrassing typo? I'm confused.
>> No. 425548 Anonymous
31st March 2019
Sunday 4:12 am
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>>425545

It's spelled credence. You managed to make two mistakes in one word and ignore the angry red zig-zag. Be thankful you didn't get a comedy ban.
>> No. 425606 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 1:07 am
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Can't sleep and just saw that there's a documentary about Joseph Fritzl on Channel5+1 starting right now.

Well worth staying up for.
>> No. 425608 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 1:43 am
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I saw Craig Charles do an open mike. What an odd day.
>> No. 425609 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 1:55 am
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>>425608

Is he still off his rocker?

Saw him a couple of times doing his Funk and Soul stuff in Leeds. He was off his face, lovely lad though.
>> No. 425611 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 4:48 am
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>>425609

He's off the crack last time I checked, but he has only ever been in vague proximity to his rocker.
>> No. 425615 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 6:14 pm
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Just put this year's chili pepper plants in bigger pots. Here's hoping this year will see a yield of chili peppers comparable to last year, where I had a harvest of nearly 150 chili peppers on two potted plants.

Homebase had some attractive looking strawberry and tomato seedlings when I went there this afternoon, maybe I will go back tomorrow and get a few of them.
>> No. 425620 Anonymous
2nd April 2019
Tuesday 9:18 pm
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Trying to decide whether I've recovered from being ill enough to order a pizza, or if it'll just destroy my gut. I was doing Keto before I got sick too, so my body will probably freak out either way.

Its two for tuesday though, innit.
>> No. 425621 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 12:41 am
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>>425620
Support your local takeways!
>> No. 425627 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 2:48 pm
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Hmm, I think I might have accidentally used my ex's debit card details last month. There's no other card details stored on the account, though the order page doesn't specify which card I used, it's possible I put in my own details, as I'm sure I'd have noticed her name popping up, as I did just now.

It was only 16 quid but I'm not sure I have any way of contacting her to give it back/assure her she's not had her card skimmed, no facebook or nowt. I deleted her details but if I'd been thinking I could have took the account number and sort code and sent the money, at least.

I feel quite bad about that, she probably would have had to cancel her card etc. I also assume I've committed a crime of some sort.
>> No. 425628 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 3:07 pm
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I've had my lunch 2 until 3 and I leave at 4. I'm now having a shit at work, but there's no way I'm actually going to do anything productive between now and going home.
>> No. 425629 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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Getting ready to harvest my garlics, lads.
Planted 6 cloves last year and that mad bastard of a Summer we had killed them off. But I think they grew into their own bulbs as each of the 6 plants is now its own 5-6 plants. And theyre fucking massive.

Biding my time.

No idea what the fuck I'm gonna do with them when theyre done, maybe shoulda grown an actual food instead of an ingredient. Whatever, I'll make litres of homemade Dominos garlic and herb dip.
>> No. 425631 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 7:50 pm
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>>425629

>No idea what the fuck I'm gonna do with them when theyre done

Have you checked if your area is frequented by a lot of vampires?
>> No. 425632 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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>>425629
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/roasted_garlic/
>> No. 425634 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 9:14 pm
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>>425629

You can pickle it if you've got an abundance.
>> No. 425635 Anonymous
3rd April 2019
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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This might be the most boring day of .gs posts I've ever seen. I know I'm not helping, but there we have it.
>> No. 425636 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 2:22 am
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>>425635

I do wonder why. Were we all just busy today?
>> No. 425639 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 10:11 am
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>>425636
Maybe one of us got a job or something?
>> No. 425646 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 7:14 pm
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I wanted to go see this kepekois folk band tonight but then I found out that they're playing in a church with seating and that you can't even bring your drinks back from the bar to the main hall. I already saw the band last year at a similar venue (although thankfully drinks were allowed) and the mismatch between the energy on stage and the lack of it in the sit-down crowd was palpable. I talked to the band afterwards and they said they preferred having a lively and bonkers crowd. I think I made the right decision in skipping this event, but then again, as I type this a part of me thinks it would've been nice to see the band again despite the restrictions of the church venue. Ah well. Come see, cum saw as the French say.

It's a shame that modern folk music is the preserve of octogenarians.
>> No. 425648 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 8:08 pm
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>>425646

Le Vent du Nord?
>> No. 425650 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 9:00 pm
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>>425646
>kepekois
Beg pardon?
>> No. 425651 Anonymous
4th April 2019
Thursday 9:16 pm
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>>425650
Apparently it's chantard-speak for Quebecois.
>> No. 425678 Anonymous
5th April 2019
Friday 8:49 pm
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>>425648
Yup.
>> No. 425759 Anonymous
9th April 2019
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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I just ate an expired chocolate santa that I found in the back of my cupboard. The expiration date read as March 31 of this year, so I figured there would be no harm in eating it. It did taste a bit off though. Not quite like it's supposed to taste. But I ate the whole thing anyway.

Am I going to die?
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10th April 2019
Wednesday 12:59 am
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>>425759
Yes.
>> No. 425761 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 1:19 am
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>>425759
We're all going to die, Picalad. But you are going to get there a lot quicker if you keep eating the random things you find at the back of the cupboard. Never drink anything from the cupboard under the kitchen sink those bottles mummy keeps there that look like fizzy pop are very dangerous.
>> No. 425762 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 12:15 pm
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>>425247
I am away for training seminar bollocks all week. Last night I met up with my lad because the course isn't that far away from his university. What started out as a Spoon's mixed grill and a quiet few pints soon ended up with a heavy night. I am absolutely hanging out of my arse today, struggling to keep awake during the interminably long PowerPoint presentations.
>> No. 425763 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 2:48 pm
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Having to take an ID photo for a work thing on my ageing phone has not been going well. I look like a sad egg.

I'm tempted to photoshop it but it's almost certainly some sort of daft militant wog act to doctor a photo intended for a government mandated security pass.
>> No. 425764 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 4:46 pm
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>>425761

> if you keep eating the random things you find at the back of the cupboard.

Apparently, you can eat chocolate after its expiration date. According to what it says on the Internet somebody said it, so it must be true, chocolate will mainly lose flavour over time, as well as absorb odours from its surroundings, but it should be no health hazard as such, as long as it is kept at reasonable temperatures.
>> No. 425765 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 7:46 pm
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Who the FUCK thinks it's fine to mow the lawn or strim at this time of fucking night? Everyone knows you have until about half six to make that sort of noise, and even that's a bit much on a weekday.
>> No. 425766 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 7:50 pm
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>>425765
Better than stupid o'clock on a Sunday morning.
>> No. 425767 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>425764

Chocolate often doesn't have an expiration date, just a best before. It takes quite a lot for sweets to go bad, particularly cheapo ones that are usually more sugar and oil than plant mass. Plus I've seen those lads who review old rations on YouTube eat chocolate bars that are thirty years old.
>> No. 425769 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>425767


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIdv_pnkHJk
>> No. 425770 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 9:38 pm
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>>425769
I'll see you and raise you.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdLnPGZ0Rc

I got a bit addicted to this guys channel for a while.
>> No. 425772 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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Windows Update just fucking bricked my Windows 7 installation for good. It freezes on startup, not suddenly but gradually in that it just becomes unresponsive, and none of the system restore points work, and I can't identify any services or processes that could be the culprit.

So I've just backed up the important parts of my C partition and am about to give Windows the go ahead to reinstall itself.

With Windows 7 support running out soon, maybe not the worst point in time to have to do this. And the install date of the current installation appears to have been June 8, 2015. So I am sure that Windows has bunged itself up either way over the course of four years and that it will be loads faster and more responsice when I am finished.
>> No. 425773 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>425772
I just moved on from my February 2010 install. Windows Update... took a while.
>> No. 425774 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 10:55 pm
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>>425772
Windows tech support lad here.

There are a bunch of things you could do to try and save the install if you really needed, but a fresh install if not an issue is the quickest and easiest way to achieve what you want.

Thanks for not contacting the helpline
>> No. 425775 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>425770
Love that guys channel.
>> No. 425776 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:04 pm
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>>425770

"'S'get this out on a trehh..." is such a powerful meme I once said it to my mrs before going down on her, and it didn't even kill the mood.

I'm a bit jealous of the ones where he smokes a pack of 40 year old Camels though.
>> No. 425777 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:08 pm
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>>425249
I torrented Warcraft 3 and I'm literally too stupid to play it since I can't use mounts properly. I mounted it in Windows, installed everything from the 'CD', now when I try to run it I get complaints that my CD-ROM drive is empty. I though when an .iso was mounted the system already thinks it's a drive anyway?
>> No. 425778 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:09 pm
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>>425776
Absolute legend move.
>> No. 425779 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:14 pm
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>>425777
You might need a crack.

Mounted ISO isn't always a surefire way of fooling copy protection.

Have a look on google and see if there's a simple way to do it without downloading some dodgy crack first though.
>> No. 425780 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:34 pm
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>>425774

I'm almost done reinstalling now. Last bits of custom hardware drivers installed now. Still tons of Windows Updates to be downloaded, from the looks of it, and I still need to get all my third party software back on as well. Never quite sure which is best to do first, or if the two can be done simultaneously. I will probably just put the bare minimum of software on it and then the rest after Windows Update has finished.
>> No. 425781 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:37 pm
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>>425780My advice to you is when doing the Windows updates, skip the one from last Tuesday. We've had a fuckton of people having problems with it. I'd just wait till next month, hold that one back.
>> No. 425782 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:47 pm
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>>425781
By the way, posting this from a cracked Win 7 Machine that has apart from service updates required to run certain software, never has updates. I have no firewall. I have no antivirus. Still I remain uninfected.

It's quite funny I'm doing tech support for Microsoft from a cracked copy of Win 7, using a Cracked copy of Win 10 in a VM (no internet access ever) for reference if ever needed.

Earlier I went to the pub and had a couple of pints while working from my Linux Mint netbook, and relied on memory. Worked out fine.
>> No. 425783 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:52 pm
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>>425781

Could you provide a KB number for that update, so I will know which update to untick when it comes to it?
>> No. 425784 Anonymous
10th April 2019
Wednesday 11:58 pm
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>>425783
KB4493509
>> No. 425785 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:15 am
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>>425784
By the way if you type this update into google images, one of the results that comes up is a picture of grumpy cat.

That should be enough to warn you off it.
>> No. 425786 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:18 am
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>>425785
I need to stop starting posts with by the way. Drunken repetition.
>> No. 425787 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:41 am
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>>425785

Fuck, I forgot to back up all my fonts I have collected over the years. I dabble in graphic design, so recovering them off the Internet one by one will be painstaking.

The computer is indeed much faster now though after the Windows reinstall. Downloading another 800MB of Windows Update now.
>> No. 425788 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:48 am
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>>425787
>Fuck, I forgot to back up all my fonts I have collected over the years. I dabble in graphic design, so recovering them off the Internet one by one will be painstaking.
I know this pain, not with fonts but with audio plugins.

Rest in peace the fonts.
>> No. 425790 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 7:01 am
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I've been up all night with toothache and I'm waiting for the dentists to open at 8 so can get an emergency appointment.

It's such a horribly consistent pain, no change in posture or position changes it. Just a dull throb that gets increasingly worse when you try to sleep since all your other sensory input dies down. Yesterday was a really good day as well.
>> No. 425791 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:28 pm
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>>425790

So how did the emergency appointment turn out?
>> No. 425792 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 12:31 pm
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>>425791

He's probably dead, it's been over four hours. I've never trusted dentists.
>> No. 425796 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 2:13 pm
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Just got home and am now resuming my Windows 7 reinstall. In addition to the 800-plus MB I downloaded from Windows Update last night, I am about to download another 935 MB, or 179 individual update files.

When will it end. But what also blows my mind is that every line of code of those 1.7 GB must have been written and compiled by somebody at some point.

300 years ago, probably all the text anybody had ever written in human history up to that point (not counting identical copies of a book) could have fit into those 1.7 gigabytes.
>> No. 425797 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 2:28 pm
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>>425796
>Windows 7
What on earth are you doing, lad?
>> No. 425799 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 3:14 pm
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>>425797

It's an older computer which likely wouldn't perform well with Windows 10 on it. Maybe I will buy a new computer next year after Windows 7 support runs out, but for the time being, I am going to keep this PC, and with Windows 7 on it.
>> No. 425800 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 3:51 pm
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I'd be surprised if 10 didn't run on just about anything still alive.
>> No. 425801 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 4:25 pm
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>>425792
I rang around as soon as places opened and eventually got an appointment for 3. I just got home a few minutes ago.

Once I'd been up and around on my feet for an hour or so the pain mostly vanished - lying down makes it worse as the blood pressure around your gums increases. So I haven't been in pain since this morning, luckily. I made it in to an important meeting at work today before vanishing off at least.

I had a couple of X-rays done and the teeth that were hurting are healthier than I thought. They're not dead on the inside or otherwise falling apart, I just have some erosion around the gumline which is causing heightened sensitivity. He slapped on some heavy-duty fluoride paste around the area and I'm having a checkup in a week - if the pain returns then he'll attach some permanent enamel-paste-stuff at the base of the teeth to make a permanent barrier.

Sage for the most boring post ever posted on .gs. I'm tired.
>> No. 425802 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 5:08 pm
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>>425800

This does not mean it will run well.

That said, it will probably not gum up old PCs like Vista did back in its day.

I tried to update my PC to Vista Home circa 2006 (?), and it just fucked everything up completely. So much so that I reverted to XP just days later. Vista was just not a good choice if you didn't have the proper hardware resources.
>> No. 425804 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 5:37 pm
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>>425797
What? I run 7 myself and have only a vague idea what I'd do when the 2020 comes knocking.
10 is a bit all too sure in doing exactly what it is told not to do. I'm not fond of the data collection practices either.
Even as I have several scripts and check-lists to use and make it shut up mostly, I'd rather not bother. Besides, 7 does perform alright for me.
>>425801
Congrats on having it easy.
>> No. 425805 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 5:57 pm
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>>425802
At least it wasn't Windows M.E, which give your computer actual ME. It hogged so many resources that PCs at the time they became massively sluggish.
>> No. 425806 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 6:09 pm
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>>425797
>What on earth are you doing, lad?
He's choosing the best version of Windows released to date.
>> No. 425812 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 9:09 pm
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>>425805

Windows ME was the most shit system that Microsoft ever annoyed its users with. Stability was fucking awful, driver issues were abundant, and it just looked and felt like Windows 98's retarded cousin.

I got a pirated CD with a system builders version of ME on it from a friend back in the day when it had just come out, and for some time, I thought that I had all those problems because it was an illegal rip. But one of my friends then bought a new computer at the time with an all legit copy of ME, and he had the exact same problems on his computer.

It's just the natural course of events with Microsoft. For every really quite usable, stable, well designed operating system that they come out with now and then, they seem to feel the need to get one or two shit follow ups out of their system again before the OS after that will then amount to something good again. Just look at how poorly received Vista and Windows 8 were. With Windows 10, they seem to have rolled back a few of the unfavourable quirks of Windows 8 again, but having seen both systems side by side, 7 and 10, I would always advise somebody to stick with 7 as long as possible.
>> No. 425813 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 9:21 pm
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Am I paranoid for believing Windows is moving towards a subscription based payment system? Basically everything else is doing so and the auto updates you have no say over seem like the thin end of the wedge for just that kind of thing.
>> No. 425816 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 10:10 pm
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>>425813
Windows 10 has heralded the move from a paid product towards a free one.
>> No. 425818 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 10:27 pm
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Just use Linux. For fucks sake lads it's 2019.
>> No. 425819 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 10:33 pm
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Windows gave me a free update to 10 from my cracked copy of 7 Ultimate. It was a pretty good deal if you ask me.
>> No. 425821 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 11:11 pm
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>>425818

>Just use Linux. For fucks sake lads it's 2019.


Take a minute to think about what you just said before we move on, lad.
>> No. 425822 Anonymous
11th April 2019
Thursday 11:18 pm
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>>425818
Keep your own farm animals. It's 2019 after all.
>> No. 425827 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 10:34 am
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>>425822
I do. Need to move the sheep off the hayfield onto their summer grazing, but they've gone feral over the winter. Took a week of trying to coax the wooly bastards into the barn so I could load them into the trailer - when I realised that the keys to the trailer are in the towcar, which is 100 miles away. Fuck's sake. Sheep released.
>> No. 425835 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 5:42 pm
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Still busy updating my Windows 7 reinstall. A good three GB of data so far. And counting.

Fuckssake. Seems like my Windows 7 version is proper ancient. It's a disk image on a bootable USB thumb drive that I originally downloaded directly from Microsoft. My computer originally only came with a recovery version of Windows 7 Home which was stored on a system reserved hard drive partition. And then when the cheaply made hard drive went kaput and needed replacing just after the warranty ran out, I happened upon the downloadable disk image on Microsoft's web site. It lets you install anything from Windows 7 Starter 32-bit to Win 7 Professional if you type in the correct serial number. But apparently it's a very early Win7 build, which doesn't even contain Service Pack 1. Might have to check if they offer a more up to date disk image now, but obviously too late for this reinstall now.
>> No. 425837 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 5:45 pm
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>>425822

He's right. Stop being goddamn plebs who depend on Windows-brand spyware/bloatware.
>> No. 425838 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 5:47 pm
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>>425837

>Stop being goddamn plebs

>I'm Linux edgelad, behold mah edges.
>> No. 425841 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 6:07 pm
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>>425837

I love Linux and have ran it in many forms since I was about 12, but there's still too many specialist programs that will likely never run properly, so I'm stuck with Windows or OSX for at least half of my computing time.

You can viably use Linux for gaming now, which is great, but until it runs Ableton, certain CAD programs, and Adobe suite, I'm going to have to remain a pleb.
>> No. 425842 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 6:12 pm
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>>425837
Ganoo Slash Lunicks has its uses, but it's still simply not there for serious productivity. Unsupported by Adobe CS, Altium, SolidWORKS, AutoCAD, etc, and LibreOffice is fucking useless compared to MS Office. I suppose with Google Docs, that's not as much of an issue unless you're going full FOSS. Hell, even Netflix was a bit of a pain until very recently.
>> No. 425843 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 6:24 pm
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>>425841

LibreOffice and GIMP both have their merits, which is what I use often on my Windows computer. Exporting to PDF tends to be somewhat more convenient in LibreOffice, and GIMP in its current 2.10 version, although still not a de facto alternative to Photoshop, has really come a long way.
>> No. 425844 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 6:54 pm
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Eating an apple.
>> No. 425846 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 7:02 pm
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>>425844
If it's going to take you all weekend get some lemon juice on it or it'll go all manky.
>> No. 425848 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 7:17 pm
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Someone called me eccentric today, purely based on the fact that "you drive a much worse car than you can afford"

I asked them if they could understand the value in having a car you don't care about getting scratched etc but still runs perfectly well, but he genuinely seemed to struggle with that idea.

I just need to get a Defender again, people assume that's a rich person car.
>> No. 425862 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 11:17 am
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Formula E is fucking boring.
>> No. 425863 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 11:20 am
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>>425862
Do they still sound like drills and have the pit stop where they have to jump out of one car and get into another?
>> No. 425875 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 1:50 pm
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>>425848

>Someone called me eccentric today, purely based on the fact that "you drive a much worse car than you can afford"


As opposed to most people, who drive much more expensive cars than they can realistically afford without having to eat fish fingers and spaghetti all week.
>> No. 425876 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 1:54 pm
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>>425863

Couldn't be arsed watching long enough to see if they still switch cars, but they definitely still sound like drills or Jetsons cars.

I found out recently that sound is just what straight cut racing gears sound like at high speed, you'd just never know in a combustion car because of the engine noise drowning it out.

I went to a Formula E event at Silverstone last year, or the year before, I forget, and talked to some bloke from the Virgin team. Despite being a giant nerd and very much into cars myself, he did not succeed in impressing or even entertaining me with his waffle about electric motors.

I did get a Virgin Racing branded bluetooth speaker with a robot face on it from them though.
>> No. 425883 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 2:44 pm
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>>425848
I've had a similar run-in recently, replace cars with phones.
Would do the same if it came to cars too. Unless, of course, I had a sudden windfall of a fortune to afford a W221 and its maintenance.
I suspect I'd still prefer a W124/W140 though.
>> No. 425884 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 3:14 pm
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>>425848

>I just need to get a Defender again, people assume that's a rich person car.

Or a murderer's car.

https://sniffpetrol.com/2014/10/01/one-life-live-it-sticker-defines-land-rover-owner/
>> No. 425887 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 6:53 pm
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>>425884

>Or a murderer's car.

Still better than a white van. One of my mates had one for a while, mainly to transport his surfboards, and people kept asking him jokingly if he was a child snatcher or a paedo.
>> No. 425888 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 7:29 pm
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>>425887

My missus has a white van to transport her bikes around in and nobody ever asks her if she's a paedo. Typical double standards.
>> No. 425889 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 7:31 pm
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>>425887

Does he look like a paedo though?
>> No. 425890 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 9:09 pm
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>>425889

Long shaggy hair and beard stubble.

Your guess is as good as mine.
>> No. 425891 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 10:47 pm
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>>425890

If the hair is a bit greasy too, that's very paedo.
>> No. 425892 Anonymous
13th April 2019
Saturday 11:57 pm
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>>425891

How do you know this?
>> No. 425893 Anonymous
14th April 2019
Sunday 8:15 am
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>>425892

Paedos excrete a chemical that attracts children. It smells like hammers, and makes the hair look greasy.
>> No. 425927 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 4:47 pm
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Watching two pigeons outside my window in a tree competing over a female pigeon. But if I am not entirely mistaken, both males have mated with the female in the last ten minutes.

Proper dirty slag, that female pigeon.
>> No. 425929 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 4:59 pm
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How do I become less of a judgemental cunt? When it was in the news about that lad being mauled to death by a dog in a caravan one of my first thoughts was "I bet they've got a chav name like Lexi, Hayden or Jaxon and I bet their parents are proper pondscum too." When that was confirmed right on both counts it made me think less of them, like the death doesn't count as much because it's one more waste of space elimated from the gene pool. I know it's terrible to think like people such as these don't really matter, they're not real people, but it's the first thing that automatically and instinctively pops into my noggin.

>>425927
Pervert.
>> No. 425930 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 6:37 pm
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>>425929
Consciously choose to have a more open minded approach to other human beings, and especially become more open to making friends or at least connecting socially with other humans regardless of background or class. Talk to people. Try to understand their lives. Deeply question what, if anything, makes you much better or that fundamentally different to them, and be honest with yourself about your own shortcomings and strengths with the attitude that no one is perfect, and that we're all just learning to get by.

Except Bike Thief though, he's just a cunt.
>> No. 425931 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>425929

>How do I become less of a judgemental cunt?

>Pervert.


I can't say I have doubt that you need help.
>> No. 425933 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 7:21 pm
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>>425770
Lads could someone please explain why I've just lost 45 minutes of my life to watching a man get very excited about a freeze dried slice of pepperoni pizza

Why is he so genuinely enthuasistic about the flavour of coffee powder

Why is this such compelling viewing what is going on
>> No. 425934 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 7:31 pm
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>>425930
I'm probably tainted by the fact that I've spent too much time growing up around these kind of people to know they're the absolute dregs of society. It doesn't help that the more I read about this case, such as the fact that it was members of the public who tried to help the boy rather than friends and family in adjoining caravans because they were too busy getting hammered at 5am to even notice anything was wrong, the worse it gets and it just ends up confirming my prejudices were correct (even if that's just at a superficial level).

However, when I hear in the news about a stabbing, shooting or acid attack in London my first thoughts are generally along the lines of "I bet the perpetrators are black." When I'm proven correct I don't think less of them, I think that they're a byproduct of the culture they've been raised in where joining a gang and engaging in criminal acts helps make up for a lack of male role models in their lives, gives them a sense of camaraderie and they see it as an easy way to get rich rather than joining the daily grind; a bit like the local Asian kids who don't try hard at school because they want to emulate people they know who deal drugs and drive flash cars. I think what I'm getting at is that I find it very hard to emphasise with chavs.

>>425931
If you're watching multiple pigeon intercourse then chances are you're a wrong 'un. The mere fact that you're posting here in the first place means you're almost certainly a pervert.
>> No. 425935 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 7:56 pm
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>>425934

>The mere fact that you're posting here in the first place means you're almost certainly a pervert.

I would say that it takes one to know one, but there is probably no hope that that would alter your view on the matter.
>> No. 425936 Anonymous
15th April 2019
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>425935

That poster is also posting here so that's really a moot point.
>> No. 425940 Anonymous
16th April 2019
Tuesday 8:45 pm
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>>425929
Oh, I was under the impression that was perfectly normal, and wouldn't worry about changing.
>> No. 425942 Anonymous
17th April 2019
Wednesday 2:09 am
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>>425934

When Madeleine McCann's disappearance was in the news, I wondered how the coverage would be different if her parents were called Wayne and Tracey and she had gone missing in Magaluf.
>> No. 425943 Anonymous
17th April 2019
Wednesday 2:15 am
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>>425942

You only have to compare Madeline McCann's case to that one where that bird in Dewsbury faked the kidnapping of her own kid for a bit of money for a stark picture of how classism works in modern Britain.

Both of them blatantly, obviously did it,and everyone knew they did it. The McCanns got away with it and became media personalities, whereas the chavvy Northern lass was just another hate figure of the week.
>> No. 425949 Anonymous
17th April 2019
Wednesday 7:13 pm
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>>425943

>The McCanns got away with it and became media personalities

Class privilege at work, without a doubt.
>> No. 425950 Anonymous
17th April 2019
Wednesday 7:33 pm
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>>425949
It's because the McCann's are friends with Gordon Brown. Nothing like the establishment to close ranks and cover up a missing child.

Karen Matthew's mistake was not inviting ol' Cyclops around to share a few tinnies after Shannon had disappeared.
>> No. 425951 Anonymous
17th April 2019
Wednesday 7:56 pm
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17th April 2019
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>425951
I've got this album on CD. It's fucking amazing. I want a live show of it.

Get another Kickstarter going, Kunt.
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17th April 2019
Wednesday 10:12 pm
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>> No. 425969 Anonymous
18th April 2019
Thursday 2:37 am
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>>425961
I cannot believe it is Easter already.
>> No. 425997 Anonymous
18th April 2019
Thursday 3:45 pm
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>>425436
>I've always liked Michael Young's framing of meritocracy: a term he coined in the negative, describing a class unto itself.

Does the rise in the so-called meritocracy coincide with the decline of industry in this country? If you back 50/60 years then it didn't matter if you didn't try hard at school because it was almost guaranteed that there'd be a job for you for life at the local factory, down the pit or whatever. There may have been lower social mobility but those at the bottom were still able to build a nice, if somewhat modest, life for themselves where they could afford to buy a house from a relatively early age.

My Dad left school at the age of 14 and spent almost 35 years working in the same factory, a job he got because his brother worked there. I don't think he ever earned much more than £20,000 before he retired in his late fifties due to being a member of a final salary pension scheme. That was enough for him to buy a house, raise two kids, own a nearly new Rover 400 and go abroad on holiday almost every year.

Once those industries were decimated then if you didn't try hard at school or have much in the way of aspiration then you were pretty much fucked and apparently it's all your fault for not having the benefit of hindsight. Throw in some people becoming docile because of the welfare state and others believing their brilliant entrepreneurs solely because their wealth has grown due to house price rises and you can see why we are where we are now.
>> No. 426007 Anonymous
18th April 2019
Thursday 9:50 pm
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>>425997

It's all about wealth generation and the distribution thereof. Back when your dad was in the workforce, work productivity was a tiny fraction of what it is today in terms of output per man hour. With today's technology, a single worker can output ten times as much in a given time period as in the mid-20th century. This stark rise in productivity was anticipated by sociologists and futurists alike in the 50s and 60s.

The fallacy that they then committed, however, was that they assumed that all that increase in productivity and fewer man hours needed to maintain a certain level of output would mean that workers would get to spend more time off with no loss of pay. I've got stacks of old issues of Popular Mechanics in my basement still from my dad from the late 1950s to early 60s, and in them, you can read loopy visions of the future, of people barely working three days a week as early as the 1980s, and spending their income and all their free time on holidays to space stations orbiting Earth.

What went wrong was that all these increases in productivity ended up not being paid out to workers and employees, but they led to competitors undercutting each other on prices per unit on goods markets. And it kind of makes sense from an economist's view point. In industries were you have oligopolic competiton, enterprises will tend to see increases in productivity as a cost advantage against other competitors. So the price for a good goes down nearly the same way as productivity has increased. This in turn means that not only do workers not see wage increases, but as time goes by and technology evolves yet more, workers will be made redundant because machines tend to outperform human workers many times over and at much lower cost. And therefore, increases in productivity have not generated more wealth for the common worker.

Also, you have to consider the role of capital. Capital wants to see interest, and as that interest is generated through investment returns, for example from investments in factories and companies, that money then needs to appreciate as well. So what you have is an enormous feedback loop of compounded interest over decades that has made certain segments of the population obscenely wealthy in the last 150 years and especially in the globalised world of the last 20 to 30 years, but today, there is just so much capital that all of it will not appreciate unless you take chunks out of the paychecks of the people who actually generate that wealth through their own hands' work. From that perspective, every quid that is paid to workers won't go into somebody's return on investment.

And then you notice very quickly where it has been going from there. Nearly all industrialised countries in the last 25 years have seen countless "job market reforms", ostensibly to make the job markets more flexible, but what they really did was take away most of the workers' share of the wealth that they generate. And it isn't just your actual monthly pay, but also things like job security and other marks of a person's standard of living that have eroded.
>> No. 426238 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 6:35 pm
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Sitting on my balcony right now, with a waft of cannabis smell blowing by. Turns out there is a couple sitting on a balcony over 100 metres across from me, smoking a bucket.

Either that is some very strong stuff they are doing, or the wind just blows in a peculiar way today so that it carries the smell almost undiffused over that kind of distance.

I'm not sure whether a couple smoking bucket on their balcony is just a sign of the times, or an indication that this neighbourhood is going downhill.
>> No. 426239 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 6:39 pm
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>>426238
You did report them to the police, right grandpa?
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25th April 2019
Thursday 6:57 pm
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>>426239

It's everybody's duty as an upstanding citizen.
>> No. 426245 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 8:29 pm
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>>426240
I'm more of a downsitting type myself.
>> No. 426246 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>426245

Is that you, paraplegiclad?
>> No. 426255 Anonymous
26th April 2019
Friday 12:02 am
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>>426245

I quite like facesitting.
>> No. 426312 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 2:00 pm
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Been doing some more ancestry research.

One of my great-granddads died in prison in the early 20th century. This was kind of common knowledge in our family, but what everybody tried to avoid as a conversation topic was why he went to prison in the first place. He was a somewhat well to do shopkeeper with his own shop, and I was always given to assume that he probably got done in for tax fraud or some other white-collar crime related to his business of selling men's attire.

But due to some research using online prison registers and other sources, I was able to establish that he was sentenced to prison for the repeated rape of his female shop assistant. His cause of death while in prison is listed as "inmate violence". So I take it he was beaten to death because someone found out he was a rapist. Quite a dark piece of family history, that. No wonder all the elderly people in my family prefer not to talk about it.
>> No. 426313 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 6:20 pm
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I'm not happy about this conclusion, but after seeing Netflix simultaneously recommend I watch both "Upstart Crow" and "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" I'm forced to conclude the Americans are better at being funny than us. Perhaps it's not true in the long term, but for the following twelve hours that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
>> No. 426314 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 6:39 pm
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>>426313
Comedy over here has become far too reliant on panel shows. Since the final episode of The Inbetweeners was first broadcast in 2010 what British sitcoms have there been that are truly hilarious? Peep Show plodded on for a couple more series, s you've got Derry Girls but that's it.

We've moved on to comedies which are pleasant and amusing but not really funny. Catastrophe. Detectorists. Motherland. There She Goes. I enjoyed Back to Life, which recently became available on iPlayer, but it's not going to raise many chuckles my labia is moist.
>> No. 426315 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 6:47 pm
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>>426313

If those are new to you have you not watched Arrested Development either?

It's great. The multi-episode setups and payoffs are brilliant.
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29th April 2019
Monday 7:03 pm
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>>426314
What you said about the "pleasantness" is so true. I wanted to like The Detectorists, but everything was so understated that I was just bored by it. Did anyone, anywhere laugh until their stomachs hurt at any scene in that show? Smug is too malicious a word, but it gave off a vibe approaching that, as though it didn't need to make you laugh because it was doing something even better than that already.

I haven't watched Back to Life despite saying I would, but I will now you've left me with that spoilered comment, my curiosity is thoroughly piqued.

>>426315
I've seen both of them and Arrested Development, just not Netflix.
>> No. 426317 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 9:24 pm
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>> No. 426318 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 9:36 pm
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>>426314

>Since the final episode of The Inbetweeners was first broadcast in 2010 what British sitcoms have there been that are truly hilarious?

Thanks, now I feel old.

You have a point though. Even Mitchell and Web have been showing their age the last few years. "Back" was a decent effort on their part, but nowhere near as good as the early Peep Show series.
>> No. 426319 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 10:49 pm
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>>426318

Were a long way from the heyday of Spaced, Black Books, Mighty Boosh etc. What happened to our comedy? I think the last one of any true quality was The IT Crowd.
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29th April 2019
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>426319
The IT crowd really wasn't all that. Fleabag just finished airing and is significantly better. So is the Detectorists, frankly. Hell's teeth, even Toast of London makes The IT Crowd look like total wank.
>> No. 426321 Anonymous
29th April 2019
Monday 11:45 pm
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>>426319

>Mighty Boosh

Noel Fielding definitely lost his edge further down the line. Luxury Comedy was often a real cringefest and painfully unfunny.
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29th April 2019
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>426319
>heyday
>Mighty Boosh

u fuckin wot m8?
>> No. 426323 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:03 am
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>>426322

Noel Fielding has always been an acquired taste. Never been my cup of tea personally, but you can't deny that Mighty Boosh was an innovative approach to absurdist comedy.
>> No. 426324 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:12 am
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>>426323
>you can't deny that Mighty Boosh was an innovative approach to absurdist comedy

Was it really that different to alternative comedy from the 80s? Except with added lolrandumb XD for teenage girls.
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30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:36 am
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>>426321
Classic Yin/Yang comedy duo - Neither could create a decent show on their own, but together keep each other in check and on track. "(I've got a dark, fractured, paranoid sort of side to me and he had the light, sunny, simpleton feel. Together we made one whole person."). So Noel on his own is just way off in his own crazy world.

I felt Seinfeld/Larry David had a similar dynamic. Jerry on his own lacks a bit of bite, Curb is just too full-on awkward at times, but Seinfeld (the show) was a great balance.
>> No. 426326 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 1:03 am
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>>426322

If you don't rate the TV series you should really give the live shows a go. Much more impressive when you see it in that context. Sort of like the League of Gentleman, though arguably that one made the transition a lot more gracefully.
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30th April 2019
Tuesday 1:26 am
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>>426324
It was nothing like the alt-comedy of 80s, which itself can't really be pigeon-holed because it was more of a label for anything that was a break from the "my mother-in-law's a right old laplander" stuff of the preceding years than a singular style or genre.

I don't know how you can claim the Boosh, which had very clearly defined itself on stage and BBC Radio 4 long before it got a telly show, was somehow cynically concocted to appeal to the emo girls of the noughties. It sounds like you're retroactively putting that "lolsorandumb" label on a show that more likely helped usher in that kind of humour, but you can't really blame the Boosh for that anymore than you can blame Monty Python for that one lad with a pubey beard who talks you through all the sketches, ruining them before you ever even got to see them for yourself.

And speaking of Monty Python, I suppose Michael Palin's absolutely gut-bustingly funny Ripping Yarns was a "lolsorandumb" with it's absurdist stories about traversing the Andes by amphibian, and such like.
>> No. 426328 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 10:57 am
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>>426327

Monty Python never really was laugh out loud funny though. It was more a smorgasbord of subtle upper class wit committed by a bunch of liberal arts students.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U
>> No. 426329 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 11:32 am
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I'll be honest lads, I don't think Monty Python stuff is very funny at all. I understand what they were going for and how they've influenced comedy over the years, but it's always felt like a mixture of 'lolrandom' and trying too hard. It just strikes me that everyone seems to think it's a lot more clever than it actually is, but maybe that's because I'm coming from a place of viewing it in my late teens after I had already been exposed to and formed my own views on comedy.

To save you all some time in dismissing my opinion, my idea of funny is somewhere in between Always Sunny and Stewart Lee, so I would take anything I say with a large chunk of salt.
>> No. 426330 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 11:58 am
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Depends on your sense of humour really. I've always thought stuff like Monty Python, while on the face of it pretty surreal or "lolrandom", is actually quite relatable. You've got to have that style of humour though, I like the inherent sort of absurdity a lot of it involves, and the way it resembles that kind of exaggerated "what if x happened" banter I've always had with my mates. That thing where you take an ordinary situation and you just run with the tropes until you end up with something completely daft. I can picture exactly how they wrote those sketches and I love it.

Mighty Boosh is the sort of thing I think a lot of people are fundamentally put off befire they even give it a chance. By comparison, many people think The Office is the best thing to happen to comedy, but I flat out refused to watch it for a long time because it's just Ricky Gervais playing an arsehole. I don't like Ricky Gervais as an actor, he's a good comedian, but I hate that character and the style of humour that revolves around it. Even when I did watch it and didn't hate it, I still have that disdain in the back of my mind.

Basically what I'm saying is you're all just being big contrarian hipster cunts. Same reason my Mrs says she doesn't like Arnie movies, when she's objectively wrong.
>> No. 426331 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:16 pm
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Well, I've never really watched any Python which is why I just used it to compare fandoms and then segue into talking about Ripping Yarns. I do think this stuff through, y'know.
>> No. 426332 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:20 pm
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>>426329

One of my exes in my student days was from Germany, and she told me that when she was in school in the mid-90s, her English teacher was obsessed with Monty Python and pretty much presented it as THE quintessential British humour. So when my ex came over to Britain for the first time on a student exchange in the late 90s, she was a bit surprised to find out that Monty Python had long gone out of style, and that contemporary British comedy had nothing at all to do with it.

I guess it plays into sterotypes that people from one country have about people in another country. Much the same way you won't find a single person wearing Lederhosen north of the Weisswurst Line.
>> No. 426333 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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>>426330

>That thing where you take an ordinary situation and you just run with the tropes until you end up with something completely daft. I can picture exactly how they wrote those sketches and I love it.


You have to remember though that a good 80 percent of the humour was single handedly carried by John Cleese. As a person, he still is genuinely funny when you watch recent interviews with him. He has the genuine talent of incorporating all the self-contradicting traits of upper (middle) class Britishness all into a single character and being spot on with it. And IMO his best performances were on Fawlty Towers or in A Fish Called Wanda, and not together with Monty Python as such. Somebody like Eric Idle on the other hand, who did most of the actual Monty Python writing, never had that kind of versatility on camera. He was funny as well, but never quite as good as Cleese.
>> No. 426334 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 12:43 pm
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Do you have to be a massive prick to sit on the right most part of the screen during Politics Live or is it just a coincidence? I'm not a regular viewer.
>> No. 426335 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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>>426330

>Basically what I'm saying is you're all just being big contrarian hipster cunts.

Normally I'd take that as a spot on evaluation of me, but I'm old enough now that I don't care if I appear cool or unique, and have made a concerted effort to enjoy Python but I just don't. I do get why others do, but it'll never work for me. I feel the same about Lee Evans - he's obviously talented but I just don't find physical comedy funny.

I think my deal is that I like subtlety.
>> No. 426336 Anonymous
30th April 2019
Tuesday 6:04 pm
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Four months without fizzy drinks.

When is a habit officially 'kicked'?
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30th April 2019
Tuesday 6:32 pm
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>>426336
You'll be back.
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30th April 2019
Tuesday 6:45 pm
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>>426336

I think with food it's only about 30 days.

I'm definitely a bit sick of hearing about it now mind, it's only pop.
>> No. 426340 Anonymous
1st May 2019
Wednesday 12:01 pm
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>>426336

I have also eliminated fizzy drinks from my diet. I now only drink water and unsweetened tea and coffee with milk.

I read an article online that your body basically produces its own glucose from the food you eat, and that therefore consuming any kind of pure sugar is largely unnecessary. That got me thinking, and as a consequence, I stopped drinking pop and eating sweets. I have been able to reduce my body weight that way by about a stone since I started with it a year ago. I also eat far fewer processed foods which are known to contain shedloads of hidden sugar.

Self sage for being a preachy cunt.
>> No. 426341 Anonymous
1st May 2019
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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The lad that came to fix the chip in my windscreen looked about 16. He's presumably at least early twenties, but I'm so old now that everyone under about 28 looks like a youth now.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 1:51 pm
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>>426341
The lass who plays Lyanna Mormont is 16. Legally you could fuck her, but you'd be an absolute paedo in my eyes.
>> No. 426343 Anonymous
1st May 2019
Wednesday 2:17 pm
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>>426336
When you forget that you had even had that habit in the first place, I think.
>> No. 426344 Anonymous
1st May 2019
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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>>426341

They say you are old when policemen and authority figures seem young to you.

I got stopped for speeding a while ago, and one of the two PCs looked half my age. I'm not sure what the minimum possible age is at which you can conduct speeding stops after training, but he barely looked 20 to 21. The other PC looked more seasoned, my guess would have been late 20s. But even that seems scarily young to me now.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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>>426342

I didn't have any desire to fuck the lad from Autoglass, even after he saved my nice heated windscreen.

>>426344

I typically feel like coppers are about my age at the moment. I'm 30 so I'm sure there's plenty of younger ones, but usually everyone I interact with in authority, from coppers to bank managers to airport security tends to feel my age or older.

I fully understand why adults thought I was an idiot as a 20 year old, though. I was. They all are.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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>>426345

> but usually everyone I interact with in authority, from coppers to bank managers to airport security tends to feel my age or older.

One of my mates at uni was two years older than me and originally trained as a bank clerk before taking up economics together with me. He very convincingly looked early 30s at his tender age of 22, and he said that that was a big advantage at the bank where he used to work, and he got to do things that normally only seasoned staff were entrusted with. A lot of bank clients tend to associate maturity with trustworthiness, and are reluctant to hand their life savings over to be managed by a 22-year-old younglad who looks his actual age.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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I've just turned 29 and have noticed in the past year or so that youths of trouble-making age no longer instantly move in to take the piss out of me when I have the misfortune to be in a public space occupied by them. I don't see how anyone could credibly be a police officer out and about on the beat before they're at least at this point, probably a secondary school teacher also. Sorry if I've offended anyone.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 9:39 pm
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>>426348

It only occurred to me recently that many of my teachers would have been in their early twenties. Fuck knows how anyone of that age can control a classroom full of teenagers. I'm not surprised (and more than a little guilty) that we made so many of them cry.
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1st May 2019
Wednesday 11:37 pm
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>>426348
>I don't see how anyone could credibly be a police officer out and about on the beat before they're at least at this point

You will find out at your own peril if they are credible or not. Even a baby faced 20-year-old officerlad has the authority to pepper spray you if you threaten him.


>>426350
>It only occurred to me recently that many of my teachers would have been in their early twenties.

Certainly. One of our French teachers at school was in her early 20s, not more than that, and she told us that she was pretty much just fresh out of uni, give or take a year.

One of our maths and physics teachers at school was a former RAF engineer. He decided in his late 20s that jet fighters and the military weren't his life passion and began his school teaching career just shy of age 30, I think. Nice fellow really, always had exciting stories to tell about his time in the RAF. And you better believe that he commanded respect.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 9:14 am
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>>426353
> And you better believe that he commanded respect.
I still have a rather hard time grasping how this worked. Why we'd treat some of them decently and some like shit.
Yes, some of those teachers had some a presence of sorts, something that subliminally radiated 'you don't fuck with me, you'll regret it' [0]. Some didn't yet we never caused them any grief. And some were almost asking for trouble.

[0] I must note that these were a minority.
>> No. 426363 Anonymous
2nd May 2019
Thursday 9:24 am
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>>426362

In our school the line was drawn between teachers who actually liked/gave a shit about us and those that didn't. If they were invested in us we could tell, even if we didn't actually care about school at all (we didn't), we'd not torture those ones. I think that's all it takes. You can be a scary authoritarian, or a Rather Nice Chap, and either way if you're talking to the kids like you actually might care about them, you're onto a winner. The teachers that suffered the most at our school ranged from vicious bastards to those who were probably quite nice people really, but it was clear they had nothing invested in the kids, so they never saw any respect from us. I think noticing this dynamic myself when I was there was the most valuable thing I ever learned at school - a practical demonstration that respect earns respect.

Probably the worst teacher I ever had in terms of being a strict, rude arsehole to all of us was still someone who was listened to by the class, her deadlines respected and her advice taken. Not because we were scared of the consequences, but because without her ever saying it, it was abundantly clear that she wanted us to be better. I hated being in her lessons but still worked my arse off in that class, and followed her advice about what I should do after school. She was right, too, that fat old bitch.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:15 am
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>>426362

well that former RAF engineer turned teacher did spend a lot of time in the military, and I guess they just teach you along the way how you ensure the respect of your subordinates. He was a nice chap really, but up to a point. I can't remember him ever treating me unfairly or being too harsh, but his militaty background definitely showed in his demeanor. If you were pulling your weight in class and paying attention and making an effort, you were firmly on his good side. But if you didn't, he could remind you quite sternly of your duties as a pupil in his class.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:38 am
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>>426363
Thinking about your post, maybe you're onto something; I can't tell if it isn't just my confirmation bias though. Myself, I tended to like more those who were less tense and weren't afraid to show some humane side despite the implicitly dictated 'high moral authority' code by the school administration.
I recall one particular situation with our then-new English teacher - a bloke in his mid-thirties, obviously having mild problems with alcohol consumption. One of the class trouble-makers decided to act a bit and nag him with inane questions about swearwords - something that usually prompted several minutes of yelling and other silliness.
He didn't react the way we had been expecting him to. Instead, he gave him a nonchalant 'that's not even wrong' response, before turning to explaining how to actually swear with some semblance of class, veering into the origin of trash talk and some other interesting anecdotes and myths about it.
Needless to say, we never caused him trouble any more.

Sage because so many years have passed it almost reads like a tale now.
>> No. 426366 Anonymous
2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:59 am
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>>426363
This is basically the same method I use to distinguish between men who are not blood relatives but who I call "uncle" and men who just so happened to be friends with my dad at some point when I was a child. It's difficult to explain precisely but the ability to smell the difference was vital when I was a child.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 12:12 pm
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>>426365

I had an English teacher who was kind of a very sad case. A cynic about life itself and it showed in everything he did. He was in his mid-40s, if that, although he looked much older, and his wife had left both him and his Down syndrom daughter for somebody else, and he himself was a chain smoker who reeked so badly that you tried to avoid having to come to the front to his desk by any means necessary. He had a worryingly ashen, gaunt face behind his Coke bottle glasses, and his fingers had visibly yellowed from all the smoking (rumours were along the lines of more than two packs a day), and the sad sight was completed by his greasy, grey combover which was always held in place by plenty of hairspray. He came to school every single day wearing a suit and tie, but his suits always looked like they were 20 year old bottom price range department store ones. All told, he looked like a deeply depressed John Major.

His style of teaching was marked by a complete disinterest in whether you were playing along or not. You could have failing marks all along and he simply wouldn't give a toss. I remember several instances where he came in at the beginning of a class, sat down at his desk and simply said and did nothing for five minutes straight, with a completely expressionless face, waiting until the noise had died down on its own as we realised ourselves that from that point on it would just have been incredibly rude to not sit down and be quiet. And maybe by then then we just felt genuinely sorry for the guy. At other times, when he asked us a particularly tough question in class and nobody had any clue, he would just sit there saying nothing for several minutes, before he would finally very quietly say, "Well then, I guess we should move on now".

Quite predictably, he died from lung cancer just a few years after I left school. Kind of still breaks my heart thinking about him because he was such a deeply sad person.
>> No. 426369 Anonymous
2nd May 2019
Thursday 12:52 pm
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Got a trackball. I used to have a Logitech Marble, but without a scroll wheel or middle click it was basically useless. This is a newer thumb type one and it's very difficult to get used to.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 9:57 pm
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>>426369

I've tried many different designs over the years, but somehow I've always come back to a bog standard wireless laser wheel mouse. It's just a simple design that is the most practical and versatile to use. My current model, altough not noteworthy whatsoever, is a Logitech M215. I think it was ten quid last year at a Curry's sale or something. It works well, and is inexpensive to replace.
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2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:25 pm
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>>426371
I have an Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, one of the best mice ever made. The Marble trackball is still the best input device I've ever used. It was also really good for FPS games, I sometimes still use it for GunGame or other games that don't need a scroll wheel. My ideal one would be one with a scroll wheel/middle click under the thumb.
>> No. 426373 Anonymous
2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:43 pm
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My new neighbours have settled in quickly. Already acting like they're on Jezza and stinking up the stairwells with Chiesel.

So I'm playing Adham Zahran / Akufen / NHK yx Koyxen / Shinichi Osawa / Sutekh with the subwoofer on so they can at least know that their neighbour is a twat with taste.

I am saving "Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole" and "Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006" for when they scream at me on the way in from work.
>> No. 426374 Anonymous
2nd May 2019
Thursday 11:52 pm
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>>426371

I really think I prefer The ClitNipple TrackPoint to anything else, real proper laser mouse included. There's obvious downsides, I don't think it'd be fun to game with one, but it's just such an accurate, neat, and intuitive little pointer. I'd be lost without one on a laptop now, and I don't think I'd say no to one on a desktop keyboard either - I'd pay good money for a mechanical board with a trackpoint in it. (though not the $300 wanted for the one production board currently available with one)
>> No. 426375 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 12:38 am
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>>426374

I love trackpoints, but they badly aggravate my RSI. The ThinkPad Compact USB keyboard isn't mechanical, but it's bloody good for a membrane board, as you'd expect from Lenovo.

I'm pleased as punch with my Logitech G305. I was skeptical that a wireless mouse with several months of battery life could perform like a high-end gaming mouse, but it really does - the tracking is indistinguishable from my Zowie FK2. It's a small mouse and won't suit a lot of palm grippers, but the shape is bang on for claw or fingertip grip.
>> No. 426376 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 12:44 am
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Finally got a comment featured by The Guardian, lads. I'll have my own column by the autumn at this rate. It was only a year since they warned me that my posts were being especially monitored because of how often I was calling people "wankers" too; I've come so far.
>> No. 426377 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 1:16 am
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>>426376

There are no bad epithets; just bad epithees. You just took a greater risk while sussing this out.
>> No. 426378 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 1:39 am
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>>426374
You can get the IBM Model M13 with a clit. I can't say I'm a massive fan of them though, I often found their speed either too slow move across the screen or too fast to be accurate.
>> No. 426380 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 8:45 am
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>>426377
I have no idea what you meant by this, but it was late so I'll assume you were drunk and feel much the same way about it as I do this morning.
>> No. 426381 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 9:48 am
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>>426380

I think he's trying to say that as long as you insult the right people, you can get away with it. Not sure what the risk involved in commenting on the Guardian's website is, mind.
>> No. 426382 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 9:52 am
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>>426376

Quite right, once you were telling truth to the wankers in power. Now you've become a sell out wanker. Theres nothing worse than someone who actually succeeds.
>> No. 426383 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 11:02 am
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>>426381
Oh, I see. I think it had mostly just been people who obviously hadn't read the articles but were clearly being arsey about them anyway.

I'm quite in agreement that I shouldn't be calling people wankers on the Guardian website anyway, I'm just a mardy cunt sometimes.
>> No. 426384 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 12:35 pm
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>>426378
Since when was it acceptable to use gendered language and foster an IT environment hostile to women around here?
>> No. 426385 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 12:38 pm
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>>426384
What are you trying to satirise with this post exactly? You've clearly taken a very long run up to this joke, but I don't see a landing zone.
>> No. 426386 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 12:56 pm
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>>426385
Whoooosh.
>> No. 426387 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 1:16 pm
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>>426385

Not them but there is a poster in these parts that anytime someone says something like IYKWIM and sometimes with no clear promting at all seems to get on their soap box and campaign to clean up the internet for the sake of the fairer sex.

Their post is exactly in the structure used here. No debate no argument just a blunt moral statement that some evil is allowed to perpetuate here. They are taking the piss by doing it in response to the mention of a keyboard clit.
>> No. 426388 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 2:04 pm
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>>426387
Interesting. I don't think it's me but I have no recolection of seeing posts like that, but I can't remember what posts I made yesterday, so who can say?
>> No. 426389 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 2:27 pm
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>>426374

Track points are shit though if you do things like graphic design on your computer. Ideally, for graphics and especially for illustrations, you should use a pad with a stylus anyway, and most professional graphic artists do. But a good mouse can get 70 percent of that kind of work done, at similar quality. Track points are just completely useless in that respect and the times I have used one for Photoshop stuff, it turned out pretty awful.
>> No. 426390 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 2:30 pm
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>>426387
>Not them but there is a poster in these parts that anytime someone says something like IYKWIM and sometimes with no clear promting at all seems to get on their soap box and campaign to clean up the internet for the sake of the fairer sex.

That's me. I haven't pointed it out in a while because the alt-right woman haters seem to have fucked off after shitting the place up for a while.

A fair number of the posts objectifying women or posting IYKWIM are also by me. That's different from woman hating.
>> No. 426391 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 2:39 pm
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>>426390

Show us your tits
>> No. 426392 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 3:15 pm
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>>426391
IYKWIM
>> No. 426393 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>426392
AITTYD.
>> No. 426394 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 3:26 pm
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>>426393
RHLSTP!
>> No. 426395 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 3:49 pm
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>>426394

EIEIO.
>> No. 426396 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 4:18 pm
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>>426395

STFU Donnie.
>> No. 426397 Anonymous
3rd May 2019
Friday 7:17 pm
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Just got back from the Asian supermarket down the street where I bought an all new assortment of Asian sauces and condiments. Eating some homemade - not instant - ramen as we speak.


I got violently sick last weekend when I made some homemade chop suey with some oyster sauce which, it turned out, was six months off. It got so bad, I almost went to A&E. Spent the evening at home with severe stomach cramps and vomiting.

So I've thrown away all my old Asian sauces, just in case the other ones were off as well.
>> No. 426422 Anonymous
4th May 2019
Saturday 10:18 pm
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>>426394
That'll never catch on.
>> No. 426457 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:17 am
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Trackball update: My thumb motor control has definitely improved, but I still prefer the normal mouse for precision stuff, as I'm still finding it difficult to accurately trace stuff in say, Photoshop.

I've found one which is pretty much what I want (i.e. the index finger trackball with a scroll wheel, rather than the thumb trackball) on Amazon, but it's £50, and I don't really have that sort of cash to be throwing around right now. Maybe when I have more stable income I'll give it a go.

I am enjoying the fact I can use the wireless thumb trackball from bed, though.
>> No. 426460 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 8:14 am
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I don't get ill often, so my current not-quite-throat-infection is strange to me, because it mostly seems to be bothering the bit where the nose tubes meet the neck holes, rather than the throat proper, if you follow.

All I know is that Marmot liver tasted spectacular and I don't regret it for a minute.
>> No. 426461 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 8:28 am
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>>426460

I have that exact same ailment, and also don't often get ill. How very odd. Maybe we've all been poisoned by the shadowy britfa elite.

It's very unpleasant though, isn't it? I haven't found a way to relieve it yet, either. Cold and flu tablets seemed to work a bit but not enough. Considering something drastic like buying Fisherman's Friend.
>> No. 426462 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 11:12 am
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>>426460

Marmot Liver? Time to get a checkup for the Buboes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/mongolian-couple-die-of-bubonic-plague-after-eating-marmot
>> No. 426463 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:14 pm
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>>426462
It's almost like that was the joke.
>> No. 426464 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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>>426463

Not everybody is as familiar with bodily orifices as you, Quincylad.
>> No. 426465 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:52 pm
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>>426462

>Authorities have warned people against eating raw marmot meat

How the fuck can you arrive at the conclusion that that is a good food source.
>> No. 426466 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:52 pm
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Did the Ancient Greeks use Roman numerals or did they have their own number system?
>> No. 426468 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 12:58 pm
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>>426466

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals
>> No. 426480 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 5:17 pm
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>>426468
They also invented gayness.
>> No. 426481 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 5:33 pm
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>>426468

They must have had a proper shit time with algebra.
>> No. 426498 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 7:55 pm
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>>426480
Arguably their greatest contribution to humanity.
>> No. 426500 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 8:00 pm
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>>426481
Algebra hadn't been invented yet. They were still doing maths mainly by geometry, which is why Elements is such an important text.
>> No. 426501 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 8:02 pm
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>>426480

>They also invented gayness.

So that's where ARE George got it from.
>> No. 426509 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 10:50 pm
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I had loads of fried mushrooms with onion for dinner tonight. Now I'm farting worse than a Ukrainean peasant.
>> No. 426530 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 3:57 pm
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>>426509
Do be careful not to have any Russians around.
They'll tell you it's their gas.
>> No. 426542 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 6:07 pm
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Really getting into minimalism. Nothing extreme like throwing out everything but two jumpers and my laptop, but just making sure my living spaces are clean, clutter free and relaxing to walk into.

Even started archiving emails when they're read so my inbox looks clutter free and is empty unless I've had a new email.

It's surprising how good this has been for me. I sleep much easier now.

Weird post I know but I encourage you lads to look into it.
>> No. 426543 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 6:12 pm
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>>426542
>Even started archiving emails when they're read so my inbox looks clutter free and is empty unless I've had a new email.
But now your archive folder is all cluttered.
>> No. 426544 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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>>426543
It's not cluttered, it's stored and it's doing its purpose. I know you're joking but just in case you're not.

Imagine it like a pile of papers on your desk, every time you look at your desk you can see all the past assignments and everything else you've worked on, sometimes papers you haven't completed with ones that you have done, all mixed together.

I've basically grabbed all the completed work and put it in a filing cabinet so if I need it it's there, but nicely filed and not in my desk.

Instead of arriving at work and seeing that mess I see a clean desk ready to tackle whatever is the most important thing, similarly to when I open up my emails.
>> No. 426563 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 12:08 pm
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>>426542
Been there already.
It takes just one case of home repair to appreciate not having tonnes of useless shite around.
>> No. 426564 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 12:23 pm
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>>426543
Out of sight, out of mind.
>> No. 426568 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 3:32 pm
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Just happened upon a site called thispersondoesnotexist.com. It aims to generate random hyperrealistic pictures of people who don't actually exist. The AI framework behind the site can create images that will even fool state of the art face recognition software. Really quite unsettling.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
>> No. 426569 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 3:37 pm
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>>426568
Why's it "unsettling"? You can reserve image search the "photo" and figure out it's fake in seconds.
>> No. 426570 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 3:41 pm
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>>426568

This thing has a problem with hats.
>> No. 426571 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 3:43 pm
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A really big problem.
>> No. 426573 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 3:48 pm
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>>426570
If my hairline wasn't knackered I'd get that do.

>>426571
And she looks she's in a old film back when they'd just get white women to play "Arabs".
>> No. 426574 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:02 pm
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>>426571

I think it's quite fetching.
>> No. 426575 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:03 pm
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Haven't you come across the ones where they have some kind of demon standing next to them yet?
>> No. 426576 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:05 pm
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>>426575
Is this Hide the Pain Harold's daughter?
>> No. 426577 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:06 pm
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>>426569

If you think you're being catfished, the first thing you should do is reverse image search and see if the profile photo has been nicked from somewhere else. This GAN allows identity fraudsters to create a limitless number of photorealistic images that seem plausible precisely because they aren't stolen from somewhere else.

The important concept is how these faces were created, using something called a Generative Adversarial Network. This technique pits two neural networks against each other, one generating faces and the other recognising faces. The two algorithms effectively train each other without human supervision, in an arms race of improving generation and recognition.

With recursive training, you could generate multiple photos of the same non-existent person, creating an entire gallery of that fake person attending fake weddings and hanging out with their fake friends. With an order of magnitude more processing power, you could map those faces onto an existing video using a variety of Deepfake techniques; with another order of magnitude, you could spontaneously generate completely fake videos. GPT-2 can already write believable fake statuses and tweets. We are worryingly close to being able to create entirely fake people with entirely believable social media activity, autonomously spreading rumours about politicians and scamming lonely divorcees out of their alimony.

The technology is really weird and brittle right now, but it's plausible to believe that we're now at the ZX Spectrum stage of AI development - it's a weird gimmick for nerds that doesn't do anything useful, but within 30 years it will transform society in ways we can't yet imagine.
>> No. 426578 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:07 pm
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>>426575

There are certainly demonic things happening, possibly even worse than psychedelic puppies.
>> No. 426579 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:11 pm
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>> No. 426580 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:12 pm
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>>426578

I'm kind of happy that person doesn't exist.
>> No. 426581 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:14 pm
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>>426575

Totally would.
>> No. 426582 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:16 pm
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>>426581

It looks like she's spoken for.
>> No. 426583 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:17 pm
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I like their glasses/no-glasses hybrids.
>> No. 426584 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:17 pm
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I've been smashing F5 for a while now, writing mundane captions for those few worthy images. Idle fun.
>> No. 426585 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:19 pm
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racist
>> No. 426586 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:21 pm
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This guy looks exactly like my old maths teacher.

Always wondered what happened to him.
>> No. 426587 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:22 pm
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>>426585

>racist

Did somebody blink?
>> No. 426588 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:22 pm
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>>426587

I think it hybridised it with winger eyeliner.
>> No. 426589 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:24 pm
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>> No. 426590 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:26 pm
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>> No. 426592 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:27 pm
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My father loved the sea. He said: "The sea is a filthy bitch who will fuck you with a smashed beer bottle".
>> No. 426593 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:27 pm
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>>426590
>> No. 426594 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:28 pm
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>> No. 426595 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:30 pm
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>> No. 426596 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:31 pm
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What's the score with the little galaxies on some of these?
>> No. 426597 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:31 pm
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>> No. 426598 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:31 pm
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This guy looks like a shit Noel Gallagher impersonator.
>> No. 426599 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>426596

I think it's an earring/not-earring.
>> No. 426601 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:35 pm
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>>426599

It's messing with the spacetime of this bloke's cranium, though.
>> No. 426604 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>426577
Ah, I see, fair enough. Consider me unsettled.

>>426589>>426590>>426595
Doubly so, even.

You should probably put the images in a collage, a alot of them will get lost, like tears in the rain, if you dump them one by one.
>> No. 426605 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 5:10 pm
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Could I get a knock on the door for looking at these? I'm feeling uncomfortable.
>> No. 426606 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 5:16 pm
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>>426590

I don't know why that one kind of looks like an album cover.
>> No. 426607 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 5:21 pm
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>>426606

Google's Visually similar images doesn't suggest a specific one.
>> No. 426611 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 5:55 pm
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There seem to be many pictures of white European, Mideastern or East Asian people. Other ethnicities appear underrepresented.



This calls for an angry letter.
>> No. 426612 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 6:01 pm
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>>426611

Just a reflection of pesky western demographics innit
>> No. 426616 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>426611

Hey we've made a huge technological break through! We've managed to create an algorithm capable of generating a random human face. Our sample didn't include many black people though because they don't live in the bay area where I got my data so it can't do them maybe someday it could.

Tomorrow's online woke headline: new computer software is racist!
>> No. 426618 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 6:46 pm
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Woah, not only do we have randomly generated photo-real faces, but this lad's inventing his own fictional clickbait to be upset about. What a time to be alive.
>> No. 426620 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 6:57 pm
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I'm just posting this because I am enamoured and also confused: is that a neck brace, or is she just really comfy? There is also a NEBULA a bit like a peacock feather pattern threatening her right mandible. These nebulae seem to feature in a few images and it is concerning.
>> No. 426621 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 7:05 pm
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>>426616

>new computer software is racist!
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9th May 2019
Thursday 7:41 pm
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This was ages ago.
>> No. 426624 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 7:53 pm
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>>426607

Maybe I'm thinking of this.
>> No. 426625 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 7:58 pm
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She wears glasses while keeping a spare pair on her head?
>> No. 426626 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 7:59 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 8:01 pm
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Severed head
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9th May 2019
Thursday 8:01 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 8:02 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>426601
>> No. 426631 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:07 pm
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>>426577
I'm thinking believable NPCs in online videogames. Especially VR. you don't know who's a player and who's not. Scary.
>> No. 426632 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:10 pm
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Witness protection program.
>> No. 426633 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:14 pm
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Having seen what peculiar morphed hats it comes up with, I wish they would make thispieceofclothingdoesnotexist.com
>> No. 426634 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:23 pm
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>>426633
What about thisporndoesnotexist?
>> No. 426635 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:27 pm
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Or the "name anything in this photo" which recently went viral.
>> No. 426636 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 8:32 pm
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My favourite thing about >>426635 is that a lot of the people responding to it (on twitter) seem entirely unaware of its nature and actually try to make sense of what it shows.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 8:46 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 9:38 pm
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>>426605

ummm...
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9th May 2019
Thursday 9:40 pm
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>>426633
>> No. 426640 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:42 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 9:44 pm
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>> No. 426642 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:47 pm
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Fatboy Slim?
>> No. 426643 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:49 pm
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>>426628

Why do only Asian ones come out looking cartoony?
>> No. 426644 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:57 pm
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Some of the faces really look like respectable people. It'd be a doddle to set up a scam web site offering some sort of dubiously priced consultant services, and stick a few pictures on it of white middle aged men in suits. Who don't really exist, ergo what way of telling will you have if it's a legit business or a scam.

Is the guy in the picture a former HSBC branch manager now offering independent investment advice, or just an image file created by a computer algorithm? Your guess is as good as mine.
>> No. 426645 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:58 pm
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>>426639

Pic + bike helmet?
>> No. 426646 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 9:59 pm
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>>426643

I suspected these were loading a bit too quick to be generatrd on-the-fly.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:04 pm
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>> No. 426648 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:07 pm
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>>426647
It's that bald Finnish downy kid in drag.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:08 pm
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>>426644

Some have recognisable components, like Julian Rhind-Tutt here.
>> No. 426650 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:08 pm
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>>426647

Really looks a bit off, this one.
>> No. 426651 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:09 pm
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You can tell it's not real if you look closely but it wouldn't be hard to fix it
>> No. 426653 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:11 pm
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>>426650

Fuck you. I have doughnuts growing out of my head.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>426640

Don't tell me it's not representing squids in my face.
>> No. 426655 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:19 pm
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>>426654

That wordfilter is oddly apt in this thread.
>> No. 426656 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:23 pm
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>> No. 426658 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 10:29 pm
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I like how it smooshes baseball cap logos into indistinct weirdness.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:33 pm
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I see this type of hat is quite popular in the parallel universe where these people live.
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:34 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:36 pm
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9th May 2019
Thursday 10:57 pm
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>>426662

Is this supposed to be a hat, or a cross between an ASDA plastic bag and a bathing cap?
>> No. 426665 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 11:01 pm
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>>426662

>Ha ha. I have put a Christmas Decoration on my head.
>> No. 426667 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 11:22 am
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>We are the truth masquerading as perversion. We are going to lie to you, make up incredible stories of prowess and power, and you will join in and love it.

>The world is your playground, my friends. Enjoy it, and enjoy this story as much as I do. We've been talking about this for so long that it doesn't seem so strange anymore. You and I, the people you worship and worship to this day, must stop lying to yourselves for the sake of it. Stop being the hypocrites.

>I don't care if it turns out that the world of football is a hellhole or not. You know what I'm just gonna say: Fuck that.

>(And yes, if a football team ever wins a Super Bowl, I will actually watch it. I don't care how horrible the game is, the result is irrelevant. When the Patriots went up 27-3, I could swear if I held my nose I'd vomit. It'll probably take me two weeks.)

>So that's what we're talking about here, guys.
>> No. 426668 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 11:42 am
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I think I've found Maddie.

Somebody tell their parents that she lives on as an image file created by an AI.
>> No. 426669 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 11:46 am
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>>426668

Maybe she was AI in the first place, hence the peculiar artifact in her iris.
>> No. 426670 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 11:58 am
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>>426669

Great. So in essence, millions of taxpayer money and criminal justice resources were wasted on the hunt for a missing image file.

Next time, do a fucking backup.
>> No. 426671 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 12:29 pm
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>>426618

It is based on a true story of a Facebook friend rant about facial recognition software being racist, because it couldn't tell Chinese people apart.
>> No. 426672 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 12:53 pm
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>>426671

I think I read somewhere that white Europeans really actually have the biggest statistical variance of facial features and traits like hair colour and skin complexion etc. among the world's major ethnic groups. It's still a step on from statistical data like that to say black, Asian or whatever people all look the same, and that is often construed to be a racist statement, and perhaps rightly so. But the statistical evidence does seem to point towards the fact that facial features tend to be more homogenous among East Asian and sub-Saharan African people.
>> No. 426673 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:21 pm
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>>426672

I remember reading that people recognise people they barely know mostly from their hair colour and style. Bald men are harder to distinguish from each other.

The other week I was walking to Sainsbury's and there was this black girl walking towards me and I glanced at her and she was lowering her hand and I got closer and she said hello while looking disgusted at me. I smiled and said hello back. She must have been waving. Oh shit. That was my neighbour and I didn't recognise her.

I still wasn't sure but the day after I took in a parcel for her and she came and got it wearing a navy coat like the girl from the day before but she seemed cool that time.

When I was at college there was a bald lecturer and and bald technician and I thought they were the same person for the first month and one's about a foot taller than the other.

I'm terrible at remembering faces. I was dreading seeing a black neighbour outside in case I blanked them and now it's happened.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHMjO7UbMo
>> No. 426674 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:27 pm
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>>426673
Just tell her you have face blindness.
>> No. 426675 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:31 pm
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>>426667

That does sound exactly like something purps would say
>> No. 426676 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:33 pm
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>>426674

I think she might have taken it as oops-sorry-I-was-miles-away. I was actually looking at her facebook pictures after, trying to memorise her face.
>> No. 426677 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:37 pm
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>>426673

>Bald men are harder to distinguish from each other.

I've noticed that since shaving my head fully. I often get mistaken for other people's bosses, as a lot of executives seem to be bald men with beards. I've had a few conversations over the years where I'd slowly realised the person talking to me isn't just being nice and talking to me because I'm the new consultant, it's because they think I'm their CEO.

Racist, innit.
>> No. 426678 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:40 pm
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>>426672

>But the statistical evidence does seem to point towards the fact that facial features tend to be more homogenous among East Asian and sub-Saharan African people.

Even if this wasn't the case, I don't think it's unreasonable to understand that if you don't spend a lot of time within that particular race, you might not be as good at distinguishing their specific features. I'd not be surprised at all if all Asian people think white people look the same, even with our apparently more diverse faces.
>> No. 426679 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 3:58 pm
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>>426678

Probably a fair point.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y1o8910Xs4
>> No. 426680 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 4:12 pm
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>>426679

I don't really see how people get those two mixed up, except when Fishburne was bald for The Matrix, which is further proof of otherlad's hairstyle theory.
>> No. 426681 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 4:24 pm
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>>426680

Also, Laurence Fishburne doesn't hold a candle to Samuel L. Jackson in terms of coolness. Jackson is just about the coolest brother in the Universe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5jnBJvGUs
>> No. 426682 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 4:31 pm
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>>426681

Aye, but Fishburne's daughter does porn.
>> No. 426683 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 4:31 pm
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>>426681
Jules is cool. Not Sam.
>> No. 426685 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 4:52 pm
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>I'd not be surprised at all if all Asian people think white people look the same
I can confirm that with some, I haven't met all of them this is not only true but they're surprised when they find out we think the same of them.
>> No. 426686 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:00 pm
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>>426685
I heard a story, that may or may not be true, about a group of black criminals in the US who could nick just about anything from Chinatown because they cottoned on that the Chinese couldn't tell them apart.
>> No. 426687 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:21 pm
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>>426685

Can you tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean people? Find out here!

http://alllooksame.com/app/quiz.php?tid=1
>> No. 426688 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:22 pm
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>>426644
He's clearly broken his glasses, and can't afford a new pair so he's glued on the left arm off an old pair to fix them. I wouldn't trust him with my money.
>> No. 426689 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:24 pm
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>>426687
I got 4/18. I just assumed the uglier ones were Chinks.
>> No. 426690 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:26 pm
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>>426644

We'll have to start scrutinising financial sites to see if the people have one of their teeth right in the middle of their mouth. It's a good job Tom Cruise didn't go into that line of work.
>> No. 426691 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:28 pm
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>>426687

Hmmmn.
>> No. 426692 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:32 pm
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>>426687

I got seven, every single one I got right was Chinese. This makes sense because I'm from Newcastle where there's an appreciable Chinese community, so I was able to work out those ones. I can't quite explain how I knew that, other than that they reminded me more of the people I know/meet up here.

I think this is enough to convince me it's all about how long you've spent with different races.
>> No. 426693 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 5:33 pm
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>>426692

One of the two I got right looked much like my old housemate who was Chinese-Malaysian.
>> No. 426694 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 7:22 pm
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I got 7. One of the ones I got wrong was the spitting image of a Chinese-Malaysian woman I know but it says Korean.

I think a lot of the time when I try to guess, I take how they dress and groom themselves into account. It's hard to give examples as it's mainly subconscious but Koreans dress far more like Americans, the Chinese are often much more simple* in their choice of clothing. What throws me off about this thing is they're all Asian Americans, so they have none of those things to go on.


*Simple as in a more minimalist fashion, it's not that they're all poor.
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10th May 2019
Friday 7:29 pm
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She looks like she'd be a filthy deviant in bed.

Her left eye looks a bit off though.
>> No. 426696 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>426694

>What throws me off about this thing is they're all Asian Americans, so they have none of those things to go on.


I was thinking "this is weird, they all just look American" too.

That definitely throws this experiment. You can spot a yank a mile off.
>> No. 426697 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 7:38 pm
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>>426696

At least it does demonstrate that the similarities or differences are cultural rather than genetic.
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10th May 2019
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>426696

>You can spot a yank a mile off.
>> No. 426699 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 7:43 pm
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>>426698

They don't even look American, the faces I mean. I reckon they're from somewhere Euro.
>> No. 426700 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 7:48 pm
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>>426699

Spend one Saturday afternoon in summer near Piccadilly Circus or Trafalgar Square, and you will see droves of Murrikins who look 101% like that picture.
>> No. 426701 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 8:31 pm
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I've definitely been asked for directions by septics looking very similar to them.
>> No. 426702 Anonymous
10th May 2019
Friday 9:16 pm
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>>426701

One of my mates used to work in a souvenir shop right across from Westminster Palace for a while. He told me that Americans would always ask particularly stupid questions. Like, what time did the Queen come out every day at Buckingham Palace. As if there was some sort of timed schedule that the Queen was adhering to in presenting herself to the public as part of some sort of show for tourists. I guess if your only grasp on the concept of monarchy is that it must somehow be like the daily Main Street parade at Disneyland, then that's a fair question to ask.
>> No. 426754 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 2:37 pm
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>>426673

Imagine how difficult the game Guess Who would be if the characters were all Chinese.
>> No. 426755 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 2:37 pm
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>>426754

and what is that one doing to my coke?
>> No. 426756 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 2:42 pm
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>>426755

Mysteries of Old Peking was hilariously racist.
>> No. 426757 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 2:44 pm
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>>426756
My money is on Dun Wong.
>> No. 426758 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 4:39 pm
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We had a thread about Multicultural London English years ago. it's interesting how they talk the exact same in Toronto.


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>> No. 426759 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>426696

I think there is probably an element of 'they identity as Asian' but have mixed heritage to a few of them. When you are looking for specific distinguishing features it buggers it up a bit.

Mind you I can't say Europeans would be much easier if you integrated them into different cultural attire.

My mother (God bless her racist heart) taught me a full proof way to identify forgoing exchange students from appearance.

If they are attractive and stylish they are Italian
If they aren't attractive but stylish they are French
And if they are neither they are German.
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13th May 2019
Monday 6:08 pm
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>> No. 426770 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 9:22 pm
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White people look really quite similar too, you know. We just spend far more time looking at each other than we do other races, also I'm going out on a limb to say we generally live in more developed countries so we end up buying more diverse types of clothing and many different kinds of dumb haircut. A Chinese paddy farmer isn't choosing between his Yeezys or his Vans each morning. Do the kids still wear Vans? I'm literally 100 years old now, I have no idea.
>> No. 426771 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 9:49 pm
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>>426770

*>A Chinese paddy farmer isn't choosing between his Yeezys or his Vans each morning.*

You might be surprised. Internet shopping is now the norm even in the most rural and remote parts of China, thanks largely to JD.com and Alibaba's extensive drone delivery network. That rice farmer may well have a wardrobe full of knock-off Yeezys and knock-off Vans.
>> No. 426772 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 9:57 pm
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>>426770

It's a bit daft to consider China a rural backwater. They have an enormous middle class, even if the rural bits are still dirt poor in a lot of cases.
>> No. 426773 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 10:14 pm
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>>426771
Yeah, but they're still farmers.

>>426772
That's why I was sure to be specific about rural China and didn't just say "Chinese".
>> No. 426774 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 10:45 pm
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I used to work with a Czech woman and she'd be able to tell from someone's accent whether they were Hungarian, Slovenian, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian, etc. whereas they all just sounded like Slavs to me.
>> No. 426775 Anonymous
13th May 2019
Monday 10:54 pm
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> even if the rural bits are still dirt poor in a lot of cases.

One of my friends visited China last year and told me that in the most rural areas, people by and large still live like we did in Britain in the 19th century. They may have buses that stop by the village twice a week, and some villages even have rusty old tractors, but that's about the only luxury. Naturally there is no mobile phone reception, and a lot of times they don't even have electricity. And if they do, their grid consists of some solar panels and a car battery.

I think the solar panels and car battery combo is actually quite popular in the more remote rural areas of Africa as well, and there are foreign aid organisations that specifically equip villages with them so they will at least have a little bit of electricity. I guess twelve volts is better than nothing. A decent size car battery should keep a light bulb and a flatscreen TV running for an evening until the battery is recharged the next day.
>> No. 426800 Anonymous
14th May 2019
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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Gave my flat the first proper clean in months tonight. Some of the corners were really quite dusty with cobwebs and everything.
>> No. 426842 Anonymous
16th May 2019
Thursday 12:53 am
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Pilots are all fucking boring. As my grandma would have said, they've got no craic about them at all.
>> No. 426849 Anonymous
16th May 2019
Thursday 2:02 pm
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>>426842

I'm not sure that I'd want an exciting pilot.
>> No. 426853 Anonymous
16th May 2019
Thursday 2:29 pm
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I just shooed away a door to door salesperson who rang the doorbell of my flat from the entrance downstairs.

He said over the intercom that his name was "Mr. Fuller" and that he was "with the gas company".

So I said, "Which gas company is that?". And he said, "Well, it's not British Gas, but we work together with different gas suppliers to offer you the best prices on the market for natural gas".

So I said, "So then you're not really with THE gas company, are you?". That took him a second to process, but then he said, "Erm, no, but if you could let me in, I could tell you about our special offers for you today".

But I just said, "Maybe somebody else will let you in, but I'm afraid I will not".

Fucking salespeople. At least be honest about what you are pitching. I'm sure they screw over plenty of unwitting old nans with the line "I'm with the gas company". Isn't there somewhere that you can report these people for false advertising?
>> No. 426857 Anonymous
16th May 2019
Thursday 3:31 pm
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>>426849

But that's how some great yet risky shows got commissioned!
>> No. 426860 Anonymous
16th May 2019
Thursday 4:03 pm
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>>426849

This is a fair point. It must be a boring job anyway, even a bus driver can't read a book or have a nap half way through the journey.

Cabin crew aren't really as fit as they should be these days, either. Equality has ruined the aviation industry. Though female pilots are usually less boring. Hmm.
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17th May 2019
Friday 5:19 pm
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Been getting back into my Minecraft FTB server.

It's weird to think there is almost a decade's worth of buildings scattered across this map.
>> No. 426891 Anonymous
17th May 2019
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>426890
On making this post, I had no idea that Mincefaff turned 10 today. Wow.
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17th May 2019
Friday 8:39 pm
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Eating a Snickers and enjoying a cup of hot chocolate at the moment.

Life is fucking great.
>> No. 426894 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 11:36 am
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>>426687
You ever notice that you may have a type but so does everyone else?

I've always had preference for Asian women* but for whatever reason they just don't seem to like me. Same as brunettes for that matter. I'm not taking the piss here but big chested and nerdy blondes definitely like me. My initial assumption was maybe I was just loosing my cool but looking back on using dating apps and going to singles events gives the same results.

Either of you two have a similar experience?

*My first girlfriend was Asian and I guess it started when Miho Hatori was playing Noodle in Gorillaz. I feel the need to qualify this because I'm fully aware of the stereotypical white guy with an Asian fetish. I don't even live with my parents.
>> No. 426895 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 11:48 am
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>>426894

> white guy with an Asian fetish

Well it worked out for The Zuck.
>> No. 426896 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 1:09 pm
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>>426894
I lost my virginity to a fat girl.
>> No. 426897 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 1:36 pm
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>>426896
It doesn't count if you can't feel the walls of the vagina when you're inside them.
>> No. 426898 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 1:38 pm
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>>426894

I do find that slim, tall brunette women are the subset of women that are most likely to be into me, despite me not being that into them most of the time. I've turned down 'stunners' according to my mates, but that sort just don't do much for me, at least not compared to the short, blonde, massive tits crowd that I go for - though luckily a few of those women still want to shag me, so I get by.

More interestingly I've had quite a few lesbians attracted to me, I've heard more than once something like "I'm gay but I'd definitely shag you" and have indeed shagged women who insisted they were otherwise fully gay. I try not to think about the implications of that one - maybe it's my tits.
>> No. 426899 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 1:49 pm
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I just looked on an old USB from when I was at uni about a decade ago that included my 'political writing'. Christ I was a fucking nutter, it makes me uncomfortable reading it now. I never realised how much I had changed. I don't know if I should keep it as a reminder of how far I've come or if I should destroy it in case someone finds it in the event of my death and uses it to create an inaccurate portrait of me now.
>> No. 426900 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 2:16 pm
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I've caught some bad cold. It drives me nuts; I really want to crawl into some dark and chill place and just not exist for a few days.
It's bollocks. I managed to weather through the whole winter whilst my mates, colleagues and relatives had been falling prey to the ailment. Then it's spring and I got some shite flu at the beggining of the March. Now this fucking cold near the end of the bloody May.
Fuck me.
>>426899
What did you write mate? Were you a commie?
An anarchist?
>> No. 426901 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 2:34 pm
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>>426899
You've got to post the highlights now, unless it's "I am absolutely going to make an attempt on this public figure's life and those NWO buggers won't stop me!" and could get GCHQ all hot and bothered.

I've been keeping a written journal of basically nonsense and dreams since the beginning of the year. None of it's violent or deranged, but my handwriting is both of those so it still looks like the scribblings of a madman.
>> No. 426902 Anonymous
18th May 2019
Saturday 3:08 pm
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It's probably just the usual "everyone who voted Tory must be evil" teenlad bollocks.
>> No. 426925 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 4:24 pm
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>>426902

I was always different, in that my parents always voted Conservative, and I had a feeling pretty early on that Labour was about taking away other people's money, of which we as an upper middle class family had a very decent amount. I never subscribed to the old saying that if you're not a socialist at age 20, you have no heart. The second half of it always rang more true, meaning if you're still a socialist by age 40, you've got no brain.

And when you look at many people who were glowing socialists in their youth, quite a few of them now have pretty decent incomes and have built careers for themselves, and they are in a position where they themselves can get on the business end of Labour's take-from-the-rich stance. But oh, that's different, they have worked hard to get where they are now in life. Tax the old money, people who were born into privilege, and leave us alone.
>> No. 426927 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 5:06 pm
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>>426925
>Tax the old money, people who were born into privilege, and leave us alone.

It's already been taxed.
>> No. 426928 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 5:11 pm
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>>426925

>Tax the old money, people who were born into privilege, and leave us alone.

Except you'll disagree with that too when you've got kids of your own.

That's different, you'll say- Just because you're middle class doesn't mean you're going to spoil them, right? Why shouldn't you be allowed to start them a savings account, move into an area nearer school, maybe buy them a nice car for their 18th, pay for their uni costs if they get good grades... That's just what any good parent would do, isn't it? That's not privilege.

I'd still be a socialist if I was on minimum wage or the CEO of a business; but then I'm a much harder line of socialist than your average Graun reading ponce. It would actually make me feel quite genuinely guilty to have more money than I need to live comfortably- The one time in my life I inherited money, it was barely enough for a deposit on a two bedroom semi. You get kids out there whose parents will spend that on a birthday present- But I felt utterly ashamed of it.
>> No. 426930 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 5:30 pm
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I don't like the underclass. I've been out for a walk in the woods today and it was somewhat spoiled by the presence of a chav family. Their seven unruly kids screaming and shouting at one another whilst the parents ignored them and stared at their phones. Their poorly trained dog who was barking constantly and loudly. Fuck's sake. The woods are one of my calm places. I like listening to the woodpeckers. I like smelling the wild garlic. I like admiring the bluebells. I thought chavs had containment places on Sundays, like car boot sales and carveries stacked sky high with black puddings, so everyone else can escape from them.

I know there's a lot of focus on alleviating poverty, but there should as much (if not more) focus on raising paupers to have decent manners, show people common courtesy and to stop being fucking shameless feral scumbags.

That said, I also detest the proper middle class as they're insufferably smug. If everyone was lower middle class like me then everything would be alright.
>> No. 426931 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 5:48 pm
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>>426928

Different people have different amounts of personal assets and wealth. It has always been that way. Because some people in life just succeed where others don't, or were in the right place at the right time, or they were indeed born into wealth without their own doing.

Inequality of wealth distribution is only a bad thing if as somebody who comes from poverty you have no way of acquiring wealth, however modest, for yourself through your own effort. Otherwise, what is the point of putting your back into your work and your career, taking on challenges and risks that other people don't, when at the end of it, you don't have more than the other person who just bumbles through life never attempting to make something of themselves. On the other hand, we as a society should always make sure we enable people who come from a more humble family background to move up the social ladder.

But even if your wealth stems from the fact that you were simply born into affluence, that's fine also. I really do not have a problem with somebody who has inherited more money than they can ever spend. People like that just simply exist, and you will go through life a lot less miserable if you just accept it and don't complain that they have it so much easier than you.
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19th May 2019
Sunday 5:48 pm
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>>426930
I think you have to pick a side, or forever be a weirdo outsider.
>> No. 426934 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 6:25 pm
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>>426930

>focus on raising paupers to have decent manners

I think manners are really THE telltale sign of your upbringing. You can get a good education and/or make shedloads of money even if you come from poverty, but the kind of manners, or lack thereof, that were instilled in you from your early childhood through your formative years are really what defines your social interactions and marks you as a member of a particular social strata. From about the middle class upwards, people, and parents, know the importance of good manners and how much further they get you in life, while among the lower classes, what counts more is elbows and self-assertion. Just look at any episode of Jeremy Kyle to see the extreme bottom dregs of this phenomenon.

People from working class backgrounds often say that no matter how much they move up the social ladder, there is always what seems to them like a secret code of social interaction among upper class people that they have no way of getting in on. You may make just as much money as them and be just as high up in your company's hierarchy, but there's always a kind of residual feeling that you don't fully belong with them.
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19th May 2019
Sunday 6:32 pm
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>>426934
Aren't you suggesting that the "secret code" is "being polite"?
>> No. 426936 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 6:37 pm
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>>426935

It's part of it, but it goes far beyond that.
>> No. 426937 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>>426934
>Just look at any episode of Jeremy Kyle to see the extreme bottom dregs of this phenomenon.

What's boiled my piss most about the Jeremy Kyle furore is how Guardian writers have assumed the participants are representative of the typical working class person when the reality is they're utter scrotes who are reviled more by the working class than anyone else.
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19th May 2019
Sunday 7:36 pm
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>>426937

When you're petite-bourgeois but pretending to be proletarian, it's convenient to pretend that the lumpenproletariat are actually the proletariat.
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19th May 2019
Sunday 8:03 pm
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>>426937

That's why I said they are the bottom dregs of the lower classes. People with more children than teeth, who can't put together a coherent sentence beyond "Oi! Fuck off!", and who have never held down a decent job in their life. They're not representative of the working class, they are unwitting paupers who were hired for shock value to be on a poverty porn format.

Jeremy Kyle boils my piss too though. IMO he's just a judgemental arsecock who uses society's weakest to feel good about his own self-righteousness.

These people need genuine help, not a TV show host having a mental wank over every single one of them.
>> No. 426943 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 10:00 pm
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>>426931

You know what lad, after more than a decade and a half your well written and succinct explanation of why it's perfectly fine to be rich has persuaded me. I'm cured of my socialism, all thanks to you, and now I can go out and become a buy-to-let landlord entirely guilt free, just like I've always wanted.

>>426934

My favourite part about being a not entirely dirt poor working class person is when I get to make posho cunts feel uncomfortable with my apparently uncouth and oblivious demeanour. In reality I know exactly what's up I just like to make them feel awkward. It works in reverse too, where you bring poshos to a dive of a pub in the town centre and watch them squirm when a bloke in a football shirt starts shouting about something.

Really though the class system is the fucking worst thing about this country. At least the Indian caste system is explicit about the fact you're worse than excrement, in this country you're supposed to figure that out yourself.
>> No. 426944 Anonymous
19th May 2019
Sunday 10:05 pm
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>>426943

>I'm cured of my socialism, all thanks to you, and now I can go out and become a buy-to-let landlord entirely guilt free, just like I've always wanted. 

Ah, good on you, lad.

Come over here and let's hug it out... there, there...
>> No. 426949 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 1:47 am
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>>426943
You come across like a garden variety twat, maybe that's why you make people uncomfortable. You sound like the Drunk Guy Who Knows How The World Works™ who everyone else at the house party wishes would just fuck off.
>> No. 426951 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 9:15 am
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>>426949
It's not the lads fault he has actual political beliefs and not just a symptom of his age.
>> No. 426952 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 9:38 am
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>>426949

House parties are for twats.
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20th May 2019
Monday 10:07 am
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>>426952

Say that to my face you cunt.
>> No. 426957 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 11:07 am
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>>426931
>Inequality of wealth distribution is only a bad thing if as somebody who comes from poverty you have no way of acquiring wealth, however modest, for yourself through your own effort. Otherwise, what is the point of putting your back into your work and your career, taking on challenges and risks that other people don't, when at the end of it, you don't have more than the other person who just bumbles through life never attempting to make something of themselves

Great point. Once capital accumulation is out of the picture everyone just sits on their arse: that's why socialist countries have never, say, won the space race or developed a vaccine for lung cancer.
>> No. 426958 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 11:08 am
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>>426952
Communist parties are for twats.
>> No. 426959 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 11:24 am
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>>426957

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04lcxms/cosmonauts-how-russia-won-the-space-race

I quite enjoyed watching this.
>> No. 426965 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 12:22 pm
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Saw this logo and immediately thought of y'all for some reason.
>> No. 426966 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 1:02 pm
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>>426965

>y'all

Lad.
>> No. 426967 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 2:10 pm
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>>426957

Well the important thing is that they were able to at a state level blow billions on missile tech whilst average people failed to be delivered the basic necessities for living and because of the nature of the economy had no one to turn to for help but the mafia.

Imagine praising the virtues of an economy where you might starve despite 'putting your fair share' in.
>> No. 426972 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>426967

>at a state level blow billions on missile tech whilst average people failed to be delivered the basic necessities for living and because of the nature of the economy

Kind of hate to burst your argumentative bubble there, but the U.S. today has a defence budget that eclipses that of all other nations on Earth combined. While at the same time, a full 13.5 percent of American citizens were below the poverty line in 2015. Meaning, the income they earned was inadequate to lead a bare minimum lifestyle where basic needs were consistently met.

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

Sadly, even without the level of government military spending of the U.S., the UK fares even worse, and you read numbers online around 17 percent of the population.

But the point is that capitalism is no guarantee that all the people will live in prosperity. In fact, the argument goes that if you removed all the institutions from a capitalist system that exercise some form of wealth redistribution and act as a counterbalance against monopolisation or other forms of economic overconcentration, then capitalism itself would implode almost like a black hole and you would have only about a handful of people owning nearly all of a country's wealth, while vast swaths of the general public would live in poverty.

So we have the curious empirical observation that neither socialism nor capitalism are in the long run viable without government and institutional intervention.
>> No. 426973 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 4:03 pm
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>>426972

>While at the same time, a full 13.5 percent of American citizens were below the poverty line in 2015. Meaning, the income they earned was inadequate to lead a bare minimum lifestyle where basic needs were consistently met.

The definition of "a bare minimum lifestyle" is a moving target. In the 1960s in Britain, you were officially poor if you shared an outside toilet with another household. By the late seventies, you were poor if you still had an outside toilet. By the late 80s, you were poor if you didn't have central heating. By the late 90s, you were poor if you only had one television.

Soviets got an equitable share of fuck all; Capitalist Americans got the leftovers from the finest banquet. Given the choice between being a poor American and a poor Russian at the fag-end of the cold war, it's an absolute no-brainer. There's no substitute for productivity. A society can be deeply inequitable and still provide an enviable standard of living simply by being really good at making stuff. Conversely, a society is always fucked if they're bad at production, no matter how just their economic system. The soviets were consistently shit at making stuff, almost entirely for political reasons.
>> No. 426974 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 4:23 pm
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The lazy assumption that inequality drives innovation has always grated.
Especially when it comes to culture, I've always been partial to the alternative hypothesis that social mobility of the working class drives change and innovation.
Though really the way we blandly assume that "providing incentives for people to innovate" must translate into large scale monetarys reward is also grating. So far as I know most scientists don't go into the field because it looked like a quick and easy way to make a few hundred grand.

I'm not jumping to the immediate opposite conclusion, that we need full communism and the abolition of money that goes with that. It's just a remarkably unhelpful mindset even when you're trying to fiddle around the edges of a capitalist economy, or even run a business.
>> No. 426975 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 4:40 pm
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>>426973

You sort of have a point, but at the same time we have people in the US and UK who have full time jobs yet still rely on food banks. Yes, they have a telly and a phone they wouldn't have had in the 70s, but they're also picking up tins of beans from a charity to feed themselves.
>> No. 426977 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 4:43 pm
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Arguing about "capitalism" and "socialism" in the wholesale is almost as pointless as arguing that red is better than blue, or vice versa. It's just intellectual wanking for people who can't be arsed to become policy wonks, or, in the case of many right-wing talking heads, a lazy scare tactic to make people think a higher national wage is the same as the Holodomor.
>> No. 426978 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 5:03 pm
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>>426974

People need a motivator, some people are happy to do things for the 'great good' and that is truly wonderful but highly rare.

Most people however, who require some level of direct benefit to themselves as a motivator. That isn't to say just money but they need something that they can observe as a direct result of their hard work paying off. Be it someone saying thank you, some level of recognition, reward in heaven, or having more than they started with in some way.

I think this is not just social conditioning to expect a direct effect, but a fundamental element of our self actualization. species that just do pointless busy work die out, there needs to be a pay off. You need to know your work had some form of impact, or at the very least is acknowledged.

>So far as I know most scientists don't go into the field because it looked like a quick and easy way to make a few hundred grand.
Scientists largely are driven by recognition I'd say, what makes them happy isn't more money but everyone being impressed with how smart they are. If they all decided to sit down one day and read a books about self empowerment we're fucked.
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20th May 2019
Monday 5:15 pm
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>>426978

IME most scientists just didn't want to leave uni. Some are genuinely motivated by a deep curiosity or whatever, but most just find academia to be a relatively comfortable niche. Nowt wrong with that particularly, it's just an observation.

>>426974

It's not about incentives, it's about allocation of capital. If there's any amount of skill in making money, you'd expect to end up with a handful of exceptionally rich people, simply because they're really bloody good at making money. Because they're very rich, they get to choose how that money gets invested - which companies get started, which factories get built etc. That's quite a useful trait in an economic system. People with a demonstrable ability to profitably employ capital get to make decisions about ever-increasing amounts of capital.

Social democratic redistribution is mostly fine, because it doesn't fundamentally alter that mechanism of capital allocation unless tax rates are insane. The problem comes when the state has too much power (or exclusive power) to make decisions about the allocation of capital. You almost inevitably get grotesque amounts of waste and corruption, because none of the central planners have skin in the game. If an entrepreneur or the idle son of an aristocrat make some really bad investment decisions, they go broke; if a bureaucrat makes some really bad investment decisions, they get a bit of a slagging in Private Eye.
>> No. 426980 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 5:28 pm
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>>426967
I wasn't praising the virtues of anything, my subliterate friend, I was pointing out the objective fact that the removal of the profit motive has not historically been associated with a cessation of civilisational progress.

You should be aware though that living standards in the Soviet Union were increasing at a meteoric rate at the same time that their space programme was at its height. In the 60s caloric intake was similar to that of the US. They suffered famines decades before in the 20s and early 30s. Assuming that that was the state of affairs for the entire 20th century is about as dumb as hearing about the blitz and assuming London was under aerial bombardment for the last 100 years.
>> No. 426981 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 5:30 pm
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>>426978

I'd say neither of you know what a scientist actually is or does in the real world. Science is a much less lucrative career than most people would imagine, and all the scientists I know got into it for much the same reasons as folk end up hairdressers or RAF aircraft mechanics or anything else you can imagine. People just sort of bumble into a job.

I've always sort of been on a bit of the wishy washy optimist side of the spectrum. I think even if you had a socialist utopia with a full citizens income and nobody had to work, people still would, simply because a great many of them have nothing better to do. Sure a lot of people would fuck it off for a life of drugs and tits, but most of those people already are; lots of people would give up their day job to become artists and musicians and what have you as well. But the majority of the population wouldn't know what to do other than work. All they do when they're not at work is watch telly and eat. People are simply not as high minded as these types of discussion give them credit for- They'd still put in the effort to be good at their job because that's how the majority of people define themselves.
>> No. 426982 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:04 pm
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>>426980
Well once Stalin had killed off a million or so, there was more food to go round.
>> No. 426984 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:11 pm
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>>426975
>we have people in the US and UK who have full time jobs yet still rely on food banks

Is it commonplace for people in full-time employment to be reliant on food banks or is this a case of embellishing one-offs and anecdotes to try and make extremes seem the norm?

For example, the rise of in work poverty is often brought up. This is households were at least one adult is in employment, but the people who bring it up often distort this to make it sound like a couple working full-time on minimum wage would be in poverty. You won't find them because they don't exist. Even when the Guardian recently ran a sob story about in work poverty they couldn't find anything beyond a household with one adult working 18 hours per week; the majority of households classed as being in in work poverty are working the bear minimum to qualify for tax credits.
>> No. 426985 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:13 pm
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Stabbed me self in the finger with a lino cutter. Proper deep gash, goes right across the pad. Bleeding a lot. Finger still bends though, haven't nicked anything important.
>> No. 426986 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>426973

>The definition of "a bare minimum lifestyle" is a moving target. In the 1960s in Britain, you were officially poor if you shared an outside toilet with another household. By the late seventies, you were poor if you still had an outside toilet. By the late 80s, you were poor if you didn't have central heating. By the late 90s, you were poor if you only had one television.


Yes, but there we go then, that's exactly my point. If you're consistently unable to afford the kinds of things that are the bare minimum of the standard of living that society considers acceptable in your country and in your historic time period, then you are poor. In the Middle Ages, even most castles only had one or two communal pit toilets. By the 1800s, if you had running water anywhere near your flat or house, you still had it made. Some villager in sub-Saharan Africa today who lives in a corrugated iron hut with his wife and four kids probably thinks a council flat in the rough part of Birmingham is heaven. Which goes a long way explaining why so many immigrants still come to Europe and the UK. Even with a shit job mopping the floor and toilets at Nando's, you're able to afford a standard of living in the UK that some middle class people in Africa struggle to maintain.
>> No. 426987 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:53 pm
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>>426984

https://www.jrf.org.uk/data/workers-poverty
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20th May 2019
Monday 6:53 pm
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>>426981

>I'd say neither of you know what a scientist actually is or does in the real world

Poorly researched. Does not demonstrate conclusion. Do not publish.
>> No. 426991 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 9:02 pm
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>>426987

It's no secret that the working poor have become a social class of their own.

One of the most deplorable developments of the last 20 years or so. In the old days, if you had a full-time job of any description, you were usually paid enough to be able to lead at least a modest lifestyle that met all your basic needs. These days, you have people working microjobs or they do freelance which barely pays their expenses.

It's the gig economy as it's called. Companies love it because it means no more fixed costs of keeping staff employed when demand is slow. Total flexibility. While the employment histories of many workers and employees become increasingly chaotic.
>> No. 426992 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 9:10 pm
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>>426898
>I do find that slim, tall brunette women are the subset of women that are most likely to be into me
>short, blonde, massive tits crowd that I go for

Then we clearly need to exchange details on whatever it is we do that attracts women.

Curiously I have the same situation on the lez thing which seems common for internet people now that I think about it. In my armchair I'd say they can respect an awkwardly non-threatening bloke that will talk about technical things or filth with them.
>> No. 426999 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 12:09 am
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>>426991

It's mostly disguised unemployment.

Blair just parked millions of unemployed people on Incapacity Benefit, by allowing JobCentre staff to unsubtly suggest to the no-hopers that people with depression and bad backs don't have to sign on. Three million people on disability benefit doesn't fit with the austerity agenda, so we asked a private company to do medical assessments and acted surprised when they denied a sick note to anyone with a pulse.

The Tories get to claim they cut unemployment, but they didn't create any new jobs, they just spread the jam thinner. Force people off benefits, liberalise the labour market to allow for zero-hours contracts and contrived self-employment, and here we are today - record low unemployment, but an epidemic of poor job security and low pay. We don't have enough jobs to go around, but the private sector has been happy to carve up those jobs into ever thinner slices.
>> No. 427000 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 10:38 am
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>>426985
I punctured mine with a stapler once. It was painful enough.
Thank fuck it wasn't a staple gun.
>> No. 427001 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 11:40 am
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>>426999

> liberalise the labour market to allow for zero-hours contracts and contrived self-employment, and here we are today - record low unemployment, but an epidemic of poor job security and low pay.

It's the predictability of someone's career path that is no longer a given.

My uncle was an electrical engineer all his working life and he joined British Telecom in the mid-70s pretty much right after uni, when they were still called Post Office Telecommunications. A job at BT meant you had it made. As an engineer the pay was very decent (although not outrageous), and if you didn't fuck up massively, it was very likely that you would be working there in one function or another until your retirement.

The changes came in the 80s with the formation of British Telecom and then in the 90s and 2000s with the liberalisation of the whole telephone market. Luckily my uncle was in a position by then where he would have been difficult to replace, but a lot of younger people from the early 2000s often didn't stay with BT for more than a few years, and sometimes only for one or two projects, and a lot of work began to be farmed out to consultant firms.

I think the gig economy will be here to stay, you won't be able to turn back time in that respect. But it's still worth pointing out that it's at the expense of job security, work incomes, and career predictability.
>> No. 427002 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 11:41 am
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>>427000
Just changed the dressing. Still bleeding a fair bit. Can't bend the finger so well now but suspect it's just the pain.
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21st May 2019
Tuesday 11:41 am
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>>426999

> liberalise the labour market to allow for zero-hours contracts and contrived self-employment, and here we are today - record low unemployment, but an epidemic of poor job security and low pay.

It's the predictability of someone's career path that is no longer a given.

My uncle was an electrical engineer all his working life and he joined British Telecom in the mid-70s pretty much right after uni, when they were still called Post Office Telecommunications. A job at BT meant you had it made. As an engineer the pay was very decent (although not outrageous), and if you didn't fuck up massively, it was very likely that you would be working there in one function or another until your retirement.

The changes came in the 80s with the formation of British Telecom and then in the 90s and 2000s with the liberalisation of the whole telephone market. Luckily my uncle was in a position by then where he would have been difficult to replace, but a lot of younger people from the early 2000s often didn't stay with BT for more than a few years, and sometimes only for one or two projects, and a lot of work began to be farmed out to consultant firms.

I think the gig economy will be here to stay, you won't be able to turn back time in that respect. But it's still worth pointing out that it's at the expense of job security, work incomes, and career predictability.
>> No. 427004 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 12:37 pm
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>>427002
It'll be aching for a while mate, going to worsen a bit before it gets better.
Yet again reminds me to appreciate having my extremities intact.
>> No. 427005 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 12:59 pm
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>>427004
Local clinic told me to go A&E but fuck spending 8 hours waiting for someone to put something on a flesh wound. It reopens when I make the rest of my fingers straight, stupid interconnected tendons.
>> No. 427006 Anonymous
21st May 2019
Tuesday 11:53 pm
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Going to Gran Canaria tomorrow. A week's worth of eating potatoes with red sauce and driving around in a New Beetle convertible. Ah, the simple things.
>> No. 427007 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 12:45 am
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>>427006
Take a telescope. The night sky is apparently really good there. Haven't been (yet) but I would also eat my own weight in patatas bravas.
>> No. 427008 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 5:31 pm
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I've just had a couple of Mormon missionaries at the door, both American lasses. I can see why organisations use attractive women as a recruiting tactic because one of them would seriously, seriously have got it.
>> No. 427009 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 5:35 pm
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Now someone from Virgin Media has knocked on the door trying to flog me their internet and TV.

Fuck's sake. Is today National Door-stepping Day or something?
>> No. 427010 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>427008

The main selling point of mormonism, as I understand it, is that you could have had both. Clever bastards.
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22nd May 2019
Wednesday 5:51 pm
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>>427008
>one of them would seriously, seriously have got it

Why not both? This is Mormonism we're talking about.

Now that I think about it, surely Mormons must have a chance at doing some right shagging while knocking on doors all day. They even send the young ones all over the world, the dirty bastards.
>> No. 427012 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 6:08 pm
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I think I definitely fancy the older german woman at work. She looks about mid forties but could potentially be about fifty, so she's got about 20 years on me, but I definitely would. I don't know if it's because I've watched so much fetish porn over the years that I've conditioned myself to be into older strict blonde german women, or if she's actually just quite attractive.

I've no idea how to flirt with a german anyway so I'm sure I'll never have the chance to find out.
>> No. 427013 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 6:56 pm
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The younger one was brunette and in her early twenties. The other one was around forty, had unstyled short-medium sandy hair and glasses; she had the vibe of that one friend with the really strange mum who doesn't let him cross the road by himself or something weird like that.
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22nd May 2019
Wednesday 8:37 pm
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>>427008
I was nearly convinced to attend my local Mormon church when I was stopped in the street by two stunning Mormon girls. One was Asian American, the other a blonde Australian. We swapped phone numbers, and they texted me to ask me to come to church, but my autism got the better of me and I ignored them because I am socially inept and feel I would have humiliated myself at Mormon church.
>> No. 427015 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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There's a racist furry who comments on a YouTuber's videos I watch and I was mean to him the other day, I haven't seen him post a comment since and even though he's a racist furry I still feel bad. No bugger becomes defined by their desire to shag anthropomorphic antelope in SS get up because everything's going swimmingly for them, do they?

I really envy our pre-historic ancestors. My monkey brain just hasn't developed for this kind of quandary.
>> No. 427016 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 6:48 am
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>>427014

As I understand it, mormons are strictly forbidden from sex before marriage, to the extent that some churches consider masturbation just as bad. So I suppose it could have gone one of two ways - they would have had their legs closed tighter than a bear trap, or they'd have been horny as fuck and lusting for you to teach them the ways of the secular flesh. It was probably worth the gamble.

The two american mormon girls that showed up to my door were incredibly attractive, too, and so friendly/flirty that I immediately got the sense that I was being primed for a cult. They were truly very pretty though, enough that I still remember them years later.
>> No. 427017 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 11:34 am
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>>427012

>I've no idea how to flirt with a german anyway so I'm sure I'll never have the chance to find out.

German women are tough to flirt with. On the upside, they will give it to you pretty straight when they are not interested. So there isn't much wavering about and letting you off easy. You will know when you've got no chance.
>> No. 427018 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 1:17 pm
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>>427015

The nazifur lot aren't necessarily racist, in my experience. It's just a wierd uniform fetish, and you have to consider that when you're already into animal dicks it really isn't as big of a jump to make. Then there's the added irony that furries themselves are subject to a considerable degree of discrimination.

I think it's really quite unfortunate that furries are victims of that and yet widely viewed as acceptable targets, when they're completely harmless. They don't actually fuck animals, they're into cartoon porn. They're not deviants in any way comparable to peados or rapists. Who has ever heard of a furry committing a mass shooting or bombing? Why do people feel so comfortable in hate against them?

Anyway he might well have been a racist, for all I know, just felt like putting that out there.
>> No. 427019 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 3:06 pm
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>>427018
I've always found furries distasteful. It's not sexual prudishness, surely everyone is used to sexual deviants online by now? But their community is so commercialised (on a small scale where it makes social relations weird, rather than just empowering corporations) and it sucks up all the space where there could be a community for anthropomorphic media (stories, games, etc.) and replaces it with one where individuals can pay someone else to draw them a character and then throw their own ego around. They got first dibs on anthropomorphism and now something that could be central to a community is on the periphery of a very different community. Furries are usually bigger fans of the furry fandom itself than fans of media like The Secret of NIMH.
The hate from outsiders is a tedious legacy of SomethingAwful memes rather than people finding something seriously objectionable. In the age of post-irony I'd say furries have embraced the idea of being hated/'furry trash' and non-furries are more tolerant, mind you. My fear is that their cultural-commercial model is becoming more mainstream. Prudishness and cultural norms can't withstand contact with the dollar.

I can't bring myself to be nasty, but seeing a furry avatar in a comment section always drags down my mood. It's a real reminder that we could have had a better internet with less money grabbing and cunt-offs alongside more hobbyists and DIY creativity but we never will, that seeing the potential good in everything is a curse rather than a blessing.
/blog.
>> No. 427020 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 3:38 pm
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>>427018
Honestly furries don't bother me, but out and out Nazis do. Most furry hate is just "I've heard I'm supposed to be annoyed by this" and some people who remember them spamming their avatars everywhere, but you have to be literally 70 for that to be the reason.

Yeah, even if he was a racist though, I still feel like a dick. It's not like I could have invited him to the pub and explained the harms of dolphin rape to him or anything, but maybe watching a Rimworld let's play was teaching him about cooperation and togetherness in a way 8chan won't. He was spending half-an-hour doing not racist stuff at least.
>> No. 427022 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>427019

That's a fair point, but I think that also depends on whereabouts in "the fandom" you look. There might well be whole communities based around the trading of Zootopia smut (which I'm honestly amazed Disney haven't sued everyone involved for, making it all the more amusing when artists get bumsore about their work being distributed), but there are also plenty of role-playing hubs and some veritably ancient MUD communities.

It's mostly the younger furries that have developed this strange cult-like worship for the artists and commodification of their work. I would go so far as to suggest most of that market isn't even really furries, as such. It's really just one step further than hentai, for the people who find they need something a tad more exotic when the futas and tentacles stop doing it for them.

I think what defines someone as a full on furry is that they want to be the anthropomorphic animal; they don't just get off on fapping to it. The otherkin and other assorted mentalists are well beyond meme status by this point, but I think there may well be a comparison to be made with body/gender dysmorphias.

>I can't bring myself to be nasty, but seeing a furry avatar in a comment section always drags down my mood.

I get your reasoning, but do you feel differently when you see someone with a rainbow avatar? For furries in particular, the internet is the only way they can even remotely express that self image. Let's not start on fursuits, nobody has ever made a fursuit that doesn't look like warmed up shit
>> No. 427024 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 7:54 pm
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>>427017
Yes I would agree. One doesn't so much flirt with German women as discuss the sex you would like to have together. In my experience, this conversation has always ended well.
>> No. 427025 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 8:23 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aF2GxWi7Ag
It's quite an investment at 44 minutes, but the video explores the history of the furry fandom and offers an explanation for the current hatered of the group.
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23rd May 2019
Thursday 8:52 pm
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>>427024

I tested the waters with a borderline, half joking salacious comment and she said "aren't I too old for you to be thinking things like that?" and I said no, not really, to which she replied "oh - interesting" and walked off to do some work. She might have just learned how to be ambiguous in her ten years in England, though.
>> No. 427027 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 9:28 pm
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Would a midget walking for 30 minutes be more tired than a tall person walking the same length of time? Obviously they'd cover far less distance.
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23rd May 2019
Thursday 9:32 pm
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I imagine they've less reserve energy, at the very least.
>> No. 427029 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 9:35 pm
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Summer Solstice next month, can you believe how fast time flies? got any plans? I'm thinking it's about time i went to an event but i haven't got a clue what's going on.
>> No. 427030 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 9:58 pm
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>>427029
What's the big fuss? Is it about shagging pagan birds?
>> No. 427031 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 10:03 pm
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>>427030
Phwoar yeah I'd reach her most northerly excursion relative to the celestial equator IYKWIM
>> No. 427032 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 10:15 pm
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>>427031

Fun fact: Stonehenge is not a henge.
>> No. 427034 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 10:27 pm
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>>427032

ur a fuckin henge mate
>> No. 427035 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 10:41 pm
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>>427034

That statement henges on evidence, m4t.
>> No. 427038 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 11:09 pm
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>>427025

You don't need a 44 minute video to suss out that, like a lot of groups, furries are hated because of a small minority of their most vocal fruitcakes. There's just nobody really interested in defending furries, even those staunch progressives interested in preaching tolerance and equality turn a blind eye to the old "yiff in hell".

I suppose it's only a matter of time before some disaffected Yank lad shoots up a church dressed in a wolf costume.
>> No. 427046 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 7:29 am
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>>427022
The problem with the good subcommunities of the fandom is that they're tainted by association (and cross-membership) with the parts that are objectionable, rather than being distinct communities. There's a bit of security by obscurity, but it's easier to just set the whole thing to one side. I think part of the problem is a simple lack of a name. We have the words to distinguish anime from hentai, but not really anthropomorphic media fans from furries. That immediately helps to frame how we look at things by providing a ready made category. Furry hate then makes it so that people who try to disassociate themselves from the category while sharing some elements of members just look like members in denial. If there had been more distinction made at the start, it wouldn't be an issue.

I don't get any reaction when I see a rainbow avatar since it represents something different. I've no real reaction to otherkin types either. It's not specifically anthro animals as avatars, I can specifically tell when the art has come from a furry artist or someone in that community rather than an outsider and it reminds me that it exists, embodying everything that can go wrong when markets and communities collide. There's something about the style and presentation that always gives it away. Touching on self-image, an idle thought that just occurred to me is that I'd probably rather people built their self image around their actions, while furry is intensely appearance focused. I suspect that's part of the philosophical problem I have with the whole thing.
>> No. 427052 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 4:37 pm
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>>427046
>There's something about the style and presentation that always gives it away.
It remains a mystery to me why furry artwork is, almost without exception, just really poor quality, in a technical sense. You'd think that a few of them would be capable cartoonists, given their particular perversion.

Are they too busy tugging on their dick to draw properly? Maybe that's it.
>> No. 427066 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:38 am
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I had cactus salad tonight. One of my Mexican friends told me that I should cut up and eat the largeish new leaf that my opuntia ficus-indica cactus has grown. He says young cactus leaves like that are a popular vegetable in Mexico and are eaten both raw and cooked.

Absolutely interesting taste. Like a mix of green asparagus and green beans, with a drop of lime, curiously. The texture when eaten raw is indeed similar to peeled green asparagus in a crunchy, pleasant way.

Google says he really wasn't putting me on, and that cactus leaves are chock full of healthy minerals.

Now, where to get a steady supply of cactus leaves in Britain...
>> No. 427069 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 1:11 am
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>>427035
>That statement henges on evidence, m4t.

Druidlad?
>> No. 427071 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 1:16 am
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>>427069

We have a druidlad?
>> No. 427078 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:05 am
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>>427066
Yeah they are mad for nopales in Mexico. I'm not a fan of the slimy little things personally.
>> No. 427079 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:13 am
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>>427078
I had to google that - they're not even psychoactive ?
>> No. 427080 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:42 am
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>>427079

Opuntia ficus-indica isn't psychoactive, as I can confirm after last night's meal... you want the peyote cactus for that -

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

Opuntia ficus-indica seems to have been declared the new superfood for its health benefits.

Typical food hipsters. Always ruin everything.
>> No. 427081 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:58 am
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>>427080
I used to dabble in San-pedro back in the day, which I think is similar to Peyote. Used to be able to get it in headshops.
>> No. 427092 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 3:29 pm
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>>427081

Once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
>> No. 427108 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 7:16 pm
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Are self-service checkouts not popular outside the UK? Do they have them in America?

I live in a really touristy part of London and more than once I've seen Americans absolutely flummoxed at the sight of self-service on more than one occasion. I always just took at as one of those things that must be everywhere but maybe they're not?
>> No. 427109 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 7:20 pm
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>>427108

Also managed to add a tautology in there so perhaps they're flummoxed at my inability to construct a basic sentence.
>> No. 427111 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 7:24 pm
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>>427108
Don't Americans have people who fill their cars with petrol instead of doing it themselves? Maybe doing stuff for themselves isn't a big concept over there.
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26th May 2019
Sunday 7:30 pm
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>>427108
I didn't see any in Nashville, Northern Alabama, or San Diego, but I did see a couple in LA, but only at a fancy hipster supermarket called "Erewhon".

>>427111
It's the law in some states (Oregon and New Jersey iirc) that you can't fill your own fuel.
>> No. 427113 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 7:31 pm
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>>427108

>Do they have them in America?

They're almost non-existent. America has a much stronger service culture, to an extent that Europeans often find a bit creepy. At most American supermarkets, there are two staff at each checkout - one to ring up your stuff and another to put it in bags for you. Going from that to a self-checkout machine or the Aldi sprint is a big leap.


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26th May 2019
Sunday 7:35 pm
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>>427113
>America has a much stronger service culture, to an extent that Europeans often find a bit creepy

Because it is creepy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOkQJm_UGM4
>> No. 427118 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 8:40 pm
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Today, two of my friends, both 40+ family men with international jobs with salaries in the highest tax bracket, were getting excited about some free energy mechanisms they found the instructions for on a '90s looking website. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. It didn't have that "old friend suddenly trying to sissify you about lizards" vibe but it's still weird. I mean... I'm no electrical engineer, I can't prove them wrong. But nor are they.
>> No. 427119 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 9:36 pm
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>>427108
The way they come up in American minimum wage debates is that a certain labour cost threshold must be met before automation takes hold. Who knows though, America hadn't even adopted chip and pin last time I was there.

My favourite American tourist thing is when you give them directions to a landmark a couple minutes away and they decide it's too far. St James Park seems to be especially onerous to them.
>> No. 427120 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 9:47 pm
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>>427119

>My favourite American tourist thing is when you give them directions to a landmark a couple minutes away and they decide it's too far. St James Park seems to be especially onerous to them.

In addition to that, the last time I was in America a couple were telling me about how they got a black cab from central London to Stonehenge. Absolute lunacy.
>> No. 427121 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 9:53 pm
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>>427113

When did we as a society decide that the best way to teach people both menial and safety critical information was via a dodgy, cheaply made video? I had to do one recently on aircraft balance calculations and it's just a VHS quality Bruce Dickinson doing a powerpoint for 20 minutes. No matter what they do, or who they get to do it, they always feel a bit off.

At least the infamous American ones like the Wendy's ones are quite fun.
>> No. 427122 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 10:03 pm
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>>427121
Best, or cheapest but passable?
>> No. 427123 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>427119
You mean you don't tell them to go the wrong way? I thought that was what all Londoners did when asked for directions.
>> No. 427124 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>427120

An anecdote that was told in my family for a long time was that an American friend visited us a few weeks after the Lockerbie bombing. And he and his wife suggested we should just get in a cab and go there to have a look at the site "and pay our respect". We lived in the middle of Glasgow at the time. It was over 70 miles from my parents' old house to Lockerbie. Probably close to 150 miles round trip.

Also, there's a fine line between paying your respect and disaster tourism. What were they hoping to see there besides unaccounted for wreckage and body parts still strewn across the Dumfries countryside.
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26th May 2019
Sunday 11:05 pm
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>>427124

Grotesque disaster tourism aside, I suppose 70 miles really is a short trip for a lot of Americans. There's surely a shitload of yanks whose next town over is at least a hundred miles away. I know at least one mentalist who commutes from Dallas to Austin via plane five days a week.
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26th May 2019
Sunday 11:26 pm
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>>427125

I had to go into A&E while on holiday in Majorca once (stumbled over a kerbstone in the dark and stretched some ligaments), and one of their resident trauma specialists was a doctor from the UK who told me she was working at that hospital every Monday through Thursday, and then flew home to Stansted again every Friday morning to be with her family. She said that yes, it was one hell of a commute, but that even with all the travel expenses, the pay was good enough for it to be a worthwhile career step. I think she said something that doctors in Spain got very decent extra pay for night shifts or something. Might be different today, this was 15 years ago.
>> No. 427127 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 10:19 am
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Not so creepy as obsequious and too servile.
>>427126
Still a thing as far as I'm aware. US is a weird country in some respects.
>> No. 427128 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 1:33 pm
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I'm pretty certain smokers are one of the most selfish yet accepted groups in society. The way they react when confronted with this truth also supports this.
>> No. 427129 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 2:26 pm
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Has anyone died at the North West 200 yet?
>> No. 427130 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 5:27 pm
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>>427128

I'm pretty certain fat people are the most selfish yet accepted group in society. The way they react when confronted with this truth also supports this.
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27th May 2019
Monday 5:39 pm
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>>427128
Daft, for sure, but I don't see any evidence to support their "selfishness".
>>427130
And you're just trying to sound BRILLIANT, so stop it.
>> No. 427136 Anonymous
27th May 2019
Monday 9:40 pm
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>>427130

Going edgelad a bit perhaps by saying this, but everybody knows that being considerably overweight is just as unhealthy as smoking, and for the majority of people, it is just as much a consequence of poor self discipline. Yet by and large as a society we accept fully that people should be persuaded to quit smoking, while telling somebody that they should make an effort to reduce their body weight is now called fat shaming.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4YZiKbklAE

Going by Google though, apparently there is now such a thing as "smoke shaming" as well.
>> No. 427141 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 7:06 am
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>>427136
>it is just as much a consequence of poor self discipline

Taking this attitude towards overweight people doesn't help them, it probably just makes the problem worse.

Telling people being fat is completely their fault is true in only the simplest and childish of terms. It completely overlooks the huge power of hormones on how we behave. It completely overlooks the outright incorrect and harmful advice that doctors, governments, the food industry, and pharmaceutical corporations have been pushing on people for decades.
>> No. 427142 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 7:24 am
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>>427141
Eat less, move more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rov6eCtbzaU

I've put on a bit of weight, so I've cut down on the snacking and started walking to work more. It's not rocket surgery.
>> No. 427143 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 8:04 am
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>>427141

No, it isn't completely their fault, just as smoking, or keeping smoking to be more exact isn't all someone's fault. Both are the result of unhealthy relationships with certain things, i.e. tobacco on the one hand and too much food on the other hand, and they can have deeper underlying causes.

But if you condone obesity, you are doing nobody a favour, least of all to those who suffer from it. It does not follow that on the one hand we are so health obsessed as a society these days that we have banned smoking almost entirely, but are told to have a completely cavalier attitude towards obesity, when it kills almost as many people each year as smoking.

I used to be a smoker, and after I quit, I put on 25 lbs at some point, which I then shed again through self discipline and rigorous exercise. So I have a bit of an idea what I am talking about.
>> No. 427144 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 8:56 am
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I'm not having it pal, sorry. Sure there are a fraction of people out there who are going to really struggle with weight thanks to medications or disabilities, dietary requirements that stop them eating what they really ought to. Those people I will let off the hook slightly- Even though it really is, in concrete, black and white, medical terms, as simple as eating fucking less.

What we have today though (and I really hate to sound like that Daily Mail THEY'VE BANNED CHRISTMAS kind of sensationalism, but it's true) is a pervasive attitude that people are simply to be excused for their shortcomings because... Well, as far as I can tell, because it's hard. The same logic that has been used to make a legitimate case against victim blaming and harmful expectations of body image and so on, has been extrapolated far beyond what was once sensible and valid reasoning, to pretty much just become a culture of excuses.

It's transparent as fuck frankly. I mean, I get it. Obviously it's dead convenient if you're a fat cunt to latch onto concepts like body shaming and pervert them to enable you to keep up your five a day cake habit. But I find it offensive that people who are, for want of a better term, lazy, have distorted the social justice agenda to their own ends; and beyond that I find it pitiable that social justice types allowed it. But then, lots of those people were fat birds from the start, so it was sort of inevitable.

The sin if gluttony is quite literally going to be the downfall of our species. Were all being told we have to eat less meat, go vegan and all that bollocks. It's not my fault that some other cunt eats half a fucking dairy farm a week. Start with them, not the skinny cunt who's voluntarily ending his carbon footprint ten years early by giving himself lung cancer.
>> No. 427145 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 9:19 am
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>>427144

I used to be fat and I don't think anyone should be fat, but I can tell you it's really fucking difficult to "eat less and move more" once you're so used to (addicted to?) eating large amounts of calorific foods.

I'm not really saying we should walk on eggshells around fatties, but certainly shaming them or telling them how easy it is to be thin doesn't help. I'm not sure anyone tells smokers it's easy to quit.
>> No. 427146 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 9:31 am
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>>427145

With smoking, it's well known to be one of the most addictive substances on the planet. Nobody tells smokers it's easy to quit, sure- But we ARE pretty brutal about trying to hammer it into smokers that they should be trying. Have you seen the stuff they put on the front of fag packets now? It's worse than some of the stuff you'd see on Rotten back in the day.

I think the key difference is that we do see that sort of stuff as acceptable with something like smoking, but with obesity we really d tiptoe around the subject and try not to hurt anyone's feelings. You don't order a cheeseburger from McDonald's to find a picture of an orphan stood next to his dad's grave on the front, with big white text reading OBESITY KILLS. You literally do on a pack of Lamberts.
>> No. 427147 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 10:24 am
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>>427146

I do agree with you, but at the same time, we also don't see people making fun of smokers for being smokers, or laughing at them in the street/in media. The reason people feel the need to tiptoe around obesity (or make fun of it to be cruel) is because we know it's tied into people's self image and self confidence in a way that smoking isn't - if anything we still think smoking is cool, deep down.

And I think it's fair to say that many modern studies would suggest that sugar or high fat foods are on a par with nicotine in terms of being an addictive drug. Though as there's often an emotional component to overeating (or any self abuse, in my experience) then I don't think tiptoeing around is the worst solution. I'm also not particularly convinced the pictures of gammy lungs on fag packets are that effective either, to be fair.

As much as I hate to admit it the best way to deal with this sort of thing in a modern society is though taxation. The sugar tax seems to have, anecdotally at least, pushed a load of people into finally switching to a sugar free variant of a soft drink, in much the same way that the massive price hike in tabs pushed people towards vaping or quitting. I'm not usually a fan of the government dictating our habits in this way but with both smoking and overeating it's ultimately a strain on the rest of society and the NHS so I think it's the way to go. I'll be fine paying a fiver for a Big Mac if it means my hospitals can direct funding into something other than buying an elephant MRI machine from the zoo.
>> No. 427148 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 10:39 am
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I disagree with the whole "fat people are just lazy" angle because I've known plenty of very motivated and determined overweight and obese people, and biscuits cost less than fifty pence a pack and you can use the self-service to bypass much of the shame of buying three at a time.

I get mad as a hatter when I hear anyone pipe up in support of "healthy at any size though". I don't know why or how people convince themselves of that crap. He might have been the life and soul but Type 2 Diabetes still killed by favourite school teacher.
>> No. 427149 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 11:04 am
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>>427146

I think we should indeed put pictures of fat people on such things as chocolate bar and cake packages, fizzy drinks, or pasties. If we accept that that sort of message is A-OK to give to smokers on fag packs about the dangers of smoking, then why not also on foods. At least the ones that contain very high amounts of sugar and/or fat and aren't normally considered to be part of a healthy balanced diet.
>> No. 427152 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 1:37 pm
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Probably more of a /fat/ post but probably nothing at all, but if my heart's been pounding away really noticably since I got out of bed and I feel periodically light headed, what do you think's going on there? Low blood pressure? Anxiety? I've felt this way before some time ago now, but I don't why.

I had bourbon cremes for breakfast too, might just be that.
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28th May 2019
Tuesday 2:27 pm
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>>427152

It's probably anaemia or hypoglycaemia. Given your choice of breakfast, I'm guessing you diet is less than ideal? Anaemia is more likely if you're a vegetarian, hypoglycaemia is more likely if you're a fat lad or you eat unreasonable amounts of sugar and could be a sign of pre-diabetic illness. It's probably nothing to worry about and it'll probably go away if you eat more sensibly, but if it keeps happening then get to the doctor.
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28th May 2019
Tuesday 3:24 pm
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>>427153
I'm pretty skinny but I do binge on some kind of fat + sugar snack like twice a week or so. I barely ate anything yesterday so maybe it's just my body flipping out, yeah.
>> No. 427156 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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Is that lad who's sons missus does porn still on here? Can you give me the answers to her quiz on Instagram please?
>> No. 427159 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>427154

Skipping meals then binging is one of the worst things for you. I'm the same, because frankly I see cooking and eating as such a massive chore at times, especially if I'm feeling a bit down or just grotty and lazy and can't be arsed.

You probably hate the idea but get some of that huel stuff. I don't like the taste, but my girlfriend left some at my place because she's been using it at work when she's too busy to get a real meal. Those times I'm too lazy to eat proper food, I just hold my nose and chug down a bottle of the stuff- I feel loads better more often, just for making sure I take in nutrients to keep my meat robot functional more consistently.
>> No. 427161 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 8:18 pm
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>>427152
carbon monoxide . Check your boiler seriously
>> No. 427163 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 9:08 pm
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>>427143>>427144

Yes at the end of the day, the fat people have to get off their arses, eat better and move more. I don't disagree with that.

The problem is that the advice and support has been absolutely appalling. The weight loss advice that has been given by doctors and governments over the past few decades has often been useless at best, and positively harmful at worse.

Plenty of people set out with the best of intentions, they do everything they're told. They take up jogging, they switch to diet coke, they eat ONE biscuit instead of the whole pack.
Then they fail miserably and are completely drained of whatever willpower they had to begin with.

Concepts such as "fat is bad", "fasting is dangerous", "calories in=calories out" are based on scientific evidence about as flakey as vaccines cause autism. When you look into it, all the bias and poor scientific practice behind official health advice is appalling and borders on criminal.
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28th May 2019
Tuesday 9:11 pm
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>>427154
>I'm pretty skinny but I do binge on some kind of fat + sugar snack like twice a week or so.

Bear in mind that your weight and waist size only has a partial impact on your risk of diabetes. It's fairly common for people to be outwardly skinny, but have quite a bit of visceral fat (around your organs), which puts you at much higher risk of developing insulin resistance.
>> No. 427165 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 9:13 pm
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Has anyone noticed the weird shit going on in porn these days? I'm particularly talking about that other place, and to a lesser extent the subcultures in pornhub.
>> No. 427167 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 10:08 pm
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>>427165

Porn has always been weird, it's just evolving faster these days. Back in the 70s, Denmark had no obscenity laws and ended up producing some properly heinous grot, much of which is still illegal in the UK. An entire generation has mild PTSD from grainy nth-generation copies of Animal Farm. Germany was producing loads of scat and heavy BDSM stuff in the 80s and 90s. You wouldn't have encountered most of that weirdness unless you were a serious pervert, because it was all being sold under-the-counter.

TBH I was expecting the whole Eskimo fetish to take off much sooner. There's an obvious connection between Obama and the cuckold stuff, but I'm not sure where all the step-incest stuff has come from. I'm not sure if midgets have gone out of fashion, but we haven't really had a famous midget in over a decade.

A lot of the really niche fetish stuff is just economic. It's really hard to turn a profit by filming two attractive people having athletic sex, but you can run a decent small business on manyvids/clips4sale making cakesitting or inflation fetish videos. People with really specific kinks are far more willing to pay for porn, in large part because it's hard to find that sort of stuff on the tube sites.
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28th May 2019
Tuesday 11:04 pm
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>>427165

I have noticed porn culture seems to go in waves, but I can never be sure whether it corresponds with any trend in mainstream society. Fetishes are nearly always linked with some kind of quirk in the psychology of a viewer, as you could easily observe (until recently) by looking at any millennial girl's acrobat.

I noticed there has been a massive surge in interracial porn over the last few years, along with women on dodgy websites after BBC and all that. It's always troubled me in terms of how it reflects the audience; clearly the eroticism is founded in the purity of the white woman and the inherent savagery of the black man. Case in point, that one that got sacked from Drunken Racists for having an affair with an ethnic.

I'm not sure about the dwarves, though, frankly.
>> No. 427175 Anonymous
28th May 2019
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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>>427167

>Germany was producing loads of scat and heavy BDSM stuff in the 80s and 90s. You wouldn't have encountered most of that weirdness unless you were a serious pervert, because it was all being sold under-the-counter.

Who would think that the Germans had it in them.


> People with really specific kinks are far more willing to pay for porn, in large part because it's hard to find that sort of stuff on the tube sites.

I'm not sure that's still true. Even tube sites now feature quite offbeat fetishes.
>> No. 427182 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 1:09 am
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>>427175

>Who would think that the Germans had it in them.

Maybe you're just too young? Germans being into scat and gimps was a running joke in my day.

>Even tube sites now feature quite offbeat fetishes

They do, but only a small selection, and often are teaser videos put up by the videomakers themselves. Yes, you might be able to find five or so clips of Princess Renee calling you a gay sissy, but she has a hundred more to sell you if you get sick of those ones.
>> No. 427184 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:15 am
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>>427175

>I'm not sure that's still true. Even tube sites now feature quite offbeat fetishes.

Hence the acceleration of weirdness. Creators are seeking out more and more specific niches, because it's more profitable to create the perfect scene for 100 people than a scene that's merely acceptable to a wider audience. A significant number of independent performers now work primarily on a commission basis, creating completely custom scenes just for one customer.
>> No. 427186 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 11:43 am
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>>427175
>Who would think that the Germans had it in them.
Everybody poops
>> No. 427187 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 12:19 pm
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>>427184

> creating completely custom scenes just for one customer.

Sounds like a nice profit margin. What production costs do you really have these days besides paying the performers. An HD camera can be had for a song, and there is enough free editing software that you can use on an off the shelf computer which you will already have anyway. Even if you run a whole web site of your own with HD streaming content, it's not going to cost more than 100 quid a month.
>> No. 427188 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 12:37 pm
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They don't even have to take their clothes off these days. It's crackers.
>> No. 427189 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 1:20 pm
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I got both Skyrim and Fallout 4 with all their DLCs for £20. Not sure which to start with.
>> No. 427191 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 2:56 pm
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>>427188
An average of $64 a month, per person. Jesus.
>> No. 427192 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 3:01 pm
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>>427189
Dunno' about Fallout but Skyrim starts with four to five hours of downloading mods.
>> No. 427193 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 3:21 pm
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>>427192
That's a side quest. I didn't do it.
>> No. 427194 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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>>427188

why are so many men gagging after a girl who looks about 14?
>> No. 427195 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 3:33 pm
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>>427194
I know right, she isn't even backing No-Deal.
>> No. 427196 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 3:45 pm
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>>427194

She's not fooling anyone though. She's clearly a 25-year-old with retirement hanging over her head like a big black throbbing dick about to squirt, and who was done up to look like a 14-year-old.

Stick-on braces can be had for a few quid. There are places that cater even to that kind of fetish.

Somewhat disturbingly, I think braces are even mentioned in government guidelines on a long list of indicators on how to determine if grey-area pornography can be classed as child porn.

Which is probably bad news if you're a 25-year-old with genuinely wonky teeth.
>> No. 427197 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 5:51 pm
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I like how all over the place the weather is right now, it's like, funnily enough, Skyrim where it changes constantly with little rhyme or reason.

>>427196
I just don't understand why you'd write that but okay.
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29th May 2019
Wednesday 6:11 pm
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>>427188

Apparently this is symptomatic of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and exploitative of women and all that jazz. What I want to know is if there's a single bloke on the planet who wound't sell his left bollock to be able to make that much money just for a few photos.

There's no such thing as inequality. Our world just has asymmetrical class balance.
>> No. 427200 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 6:16 pm
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>>427189
Both at the same time. They become boring very quickly unless you're dropping in and out because the expansive map/quests leads to a good deal of repetitive game-play.

You will also want to draw up a simple character base before you start. I only found the interest to complete Skyrim by playing a lost Spanish conquistador.
https://roderick.tech/ultimate-skyrim/character-gen

>>427193
I see that you've yet to play Bethesda games.
>> No. 427203 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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I found this far more entertaining than I should have done.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4O5WqC-6E
>> No. 427204 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 7:36 pm
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>>427196
> I think braces are even mentioned in government guidelines
I don't suppose you would elaborate on these grey area guidelines?
>> No. 427205 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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>>427204
If you have to ask you probably shouldn't be wanking over it.
>> No. 427206 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:04 pm
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Is it weird that I usually cum inside during sex? Apparently I'm told it counts as a fetish which seems bizarre to me even with the risks involved. It just feel right.

Don't get me wrong, there are times where she's just finished (or I can't be bothered and finish her off) where I wank off on her, but it doesn't feel like sex to me if it doesn't involve shooting my glue-gun inside. It detracts from the sex. Like having to stop at foreplay and put a condom on.

Anyway, I googled it and apparently it is a fetish thing with people sharing graphic stories of such sexual encounters.
>> No. 427207 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:09 pm
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>>427206
You mean you cum inside somebody else or do you mean the cum doesn't actually have to be released from your penis for you to orgasm?
>> No. 427208 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:13 pm
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>>427207
The former.
>> No. 427209 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:15 pm
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>>427208
Lad. That's how babies are made. There is nothing weird whatsoever about shooting your muck inside of someone. If your dad didn't spunk up your mum good and proper then you wouldn't be here.
>> No. 427210 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:24 pm
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When I spunk up my missus she makes me lick it out of her
>> No. 427211 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:32 pm
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>>427209
Well yes, but we're talking sex for non-reproductive purposes. I presume most people would avoid ejaculating inside a woman in anything but a serious relationship.

>>427210
What about when you put it in her bum?
>> No. 427212 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 8:33 pm
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>>427210
Dear God. I hope you spit it right out into her face.
>> No. 427215 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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>>427211

Have you never heard of the pill or the coil or the implant or the injection or any of the vast array of non-condom contraceptives? I mean I know we should really practice safe sex and bag up these days, but even on one night stands most of the time I've just about taken it on faith that there's not going to be an issue. Most lasses I've been with express dislike for condoms, because of the way it changes the feel.

My ex actually had a proper fetish for having me cum inside her though. I remember the time we spent a month without contraception because she was switching from the pill to a coil; and that month not being able to shoot my load in her was the most blissful kind of torture. We'd shag for hours whispering in each other's ear about how dangerous it would be to let go and flood her pussy with seed and hnnnghh jesus fuck. Gets a lot of mileage in my wank bank that one.
>> No. 427219 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 9:45 pm
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>>427215

> I remember the time we spent a month without contraception because she was switching from the pill to a coil;

A lot of women will not get pregnant right away after they've gone off the pill, especially if they've taken it for several years. Their reproductive system tends to need some time before it will function as before and ovulate normally again, or even allow a fertilised egg cell to nest in the uterus.

I was with a lass once for a few weeks who had gone off the pill a little over a month before we first had sex. She simply wasn't expecting to be having sex with someone any time soon before we happened to meet, and had wanted to take a break from the pill after a good 10 years of taking it. She told me when we got intimate for the first time that she couldn't have full on sex. The next night of that weekend, I did the most irresponsible thing that any 14-year-old is told not to do, and pulled out. I'm pretty sure some of my spunk stayed inside her at that moment, and I was worried sick the next two weeks because to me she really wasn't much more than a coincidental shag which also for some reason turned into a half arsed, insincere romance. Definitely not someone that I could remotely have imagined having kids with.

But she didn't get pregnant despite not being on a proper contraceptive at the time. So that is my case in point.
>> No. 427220 Anonymous
29th May 2019
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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>>427219

I'd previously got this bird pregnant when she WAS on the pill, so I don't think your theory would have been quite as reliable in that case. Good job she was into it, mind you- I didn't have to force her into the abortion like I did my previous partner.

Conversely my current girlfriend has a literal phobia of pregnancy, which propels her into a state of mindless fear arousal if I start talking about it during sex. Women are weird.
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29th May 2019
Wednesday 10:29 pm
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In a pub today in a passing town whilst waiting for our transport to arrive.

Grim as it was, two of us stood side by side at a quiz machine and she actually asked one of us to move as we were supposedly in the route of the fire escape.

We were a good 10ft away from the door and it wasn't particularly narrow. Also had to listen to her moan about whoever did 'her till' because she has 'her system'.

I just cannot fathom that level of being a jobsworth.
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30th May 2019
Thursday 1:04 am
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>>427220

>which propels her into a state of mindless fear arousal if I start talking about it during sex

Unless you're bonking a lass who is hell bent on finally getting pregnant, that is normally not a good thing to talk about, however remotely, to somebody during sex.
>> No. 427225 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 7:38 am
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>>427222

You'd be surprised how many lasses have some sort of fetish about that, even if unacknowledged and subconscious*.

I mean it makes sense really, considering that's the entire reason our sexual functions exist whatsoever. All of it is just a sneaky way for our instincts to get us to reproduce.

*In fact I find most bird's fetishes are unacknowledged because they don't want to admit them. Most of them swear blind they don't like anal until the first time you slip a finger up when they're riding you.
>> No. 427226 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 8:25 am
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When I was 16 I was spending the weekend at my girlfriend's and we shagged our way through a plentiful supply of condoms. I don't think I've ever seen anyone as horny as her on the night we were sharing the bed together without any condoms left; the thought of me being inside her without any form of contraception and risking getting her pregnant was sending her wild. She came buckets whilst I pulled out and came on her chest.

It's only really an issue if you're dating a hefty lass who will either pin you down or wrap her arms around you to keep you on top of her whilst she forces you to cum inside her.
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30th May 2019
Thursday 9:09 am
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>>427226

>It's only really an issue if you're dating a hefty lass who will either pin you down or wrap her arms around you to keep you on top of her whilst she forces you to cum inside her.

Well, that's me stuffed.
>> No. 427230 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 10:35 am
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>>427226

>It's only really an issue if you're dating a hefty lass

I had sex a few times with a lass whose arse, well, wasn't fat as such, but definitely a bit wide for anyone's liking. While she was riding me, I could definitely feel the weight of her thighs coming down on my pelvis, to the point where I just thought that she could break my knob in half with any accidental movement. To this day, when I happen to have sex with someone who isn't light as a feather, I prefer not to let her ride me.

My last girlfriend was a bit over 8 st. at 5'4'', and with her, this was not an issue. She had an astonishing sexual appetite though. I remember driving home after weekends together and my knob glowing like a light bulb with soreness.
>> No. 427232 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 12:34 pm
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That feeling when I got a vasectomy for free on the NHS. I told the doctor that I already had two kids in the old country and he did not even pretended to believe me. I got the surgery for free anyways, I have not used a condom since.
>> No. 427233 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 12:47 pm
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>>427232

See, bloody immigrants, coming over here, taking our vasectomies.
>> No. 427235 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 1:04 pm
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>>427233

If furriners want to take themselves out of the gene pool, more power to them. They should get 1000 free nectar points and a £20 John Lewis voucher for their trouble.
>> No. 427238 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 4:42 pm
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>>427232
Do an occasional check once or twice per year, shit happens sometimes.
>> No. 427239 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 4:47 pm
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>>427232

I had the snip last year. They used a electroscalpel and only left a tiny incision about 1cm long which is now invisible.

How did they do yours?
>> No. 427240 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>427239

A leatherman and one of those things you clip onto the bread bag to keep it closed.
>> No. 427244 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 10:25 am
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I was giving myself a haircut yesterday and had a mishap with the clippers. Took off the guard in preparation to put the clippers away, did a final check in my wardrobe mirrors and found a tiny stray hair on the back of my head, came back to shave it off and...BZZZRRT. Had to shave my entire head to match the giant square bald patch.

Being bald actually feels pretty liberating and practical. If I could grow a goatee I'd consider being bald intentionally.
>> No. 427256 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 6:28 pm
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What determines how many spam emails one gets on a daily basis? I used to get about 10 a day, then it went down to about 3 day. Last week I went four days without any, but today I've had about 10 in six hours.
>> No. 427261 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 8:30 pm
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>>427215

Talking about sex without condoms, take a look at this:

https://www.adultwork.com/4865067

Her fanny must be a cesspit of STDs!
>> No. 427262 Anonymous
31st May 2019
Friday 8:37 pm
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>>427261
I doubt it. All her reviews are written in the same voice.
>> No. 427273 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 12:38 am
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>>427215

>My ex actually had a proper fetish for having me cum inside her though.

Imagine, becomeing so divorced from our animal nature that we consider the idea of cuming in someone a fetish. our species is doomed.
>> No. 427276 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 5:24 am
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>>427273

Our species is doomed because we have recreational sex?
>> No. 427277 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:03 am
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>>427276
Speak for yourself.
>> No. 427278 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:24 am
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>>427273

It's ironic because I'm the lad who posted that, and I am also the resident furfag.

Oh well.
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1st June 2019
Saturday 7:51 am
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>>427261
£120 an hour? I like her optimism.
>> No. 427283 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 8:58 am
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>>427280

I am uglier than sin, and I shagged better ladies for free.
>> No. 427286 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 9:57 am
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>>427283

I think with prozzies it's more that you don't have to put in the legwork, not that you're paying for a higher class of bird. Compared to something like a hook up site or tinder, you don't have to spend a few weeks texting them and warming them up to what will ultimately just be a shag. Instead you just front up a bit of cash.
>> No. 427287 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 9:59 am
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I've had a look at Adult Work in my area and it certainly seems that the uglier ones charge more. This one is £80 for half an hour.

https://www.adultwork.com/ViewProfile.asp?UserID=5134517
>> No. 427289 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 10:08 am
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>>427287
Christ.
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1st June 2019
Saturday 10:23 am
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>>427283
weird flex, but okay 👌
>> No. 427292 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 10:33 am
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>>427287

Those sorts of women are often on AdultWork as an ego thing - they're not trying to earn money, they're seeking validation. You can tell from their ratings that they're not doing a lot of business, but a few paying punters a year are enough to make them feel desirable.

The actual professionals are far more realistic about their place in the market, because they need to keep the bookings rolling in.

>>427286

Also discretion - if you're a married man, it's usually far easier to hide an escorting habit than an affair. To be fair, there are plenty of absolute stunners on AW, but you'll pay the thick end of £200/hr for the privilege.

For the record, the dirtiest woman on AdultWork is undoubtedly Kirie. Public Health England really should get involved, because she's like the typhoid Mary of venereal disease, roaming the country in her motorhome of pestilence.

https://www.adultwork.com/ViewProfile.asp?UserID=242526
>> No. 427295 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 10:43 am
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>>427292
15 minutes for £30, half an hour for £140? What's that about?
>> No. 427296 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 10:46 am
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In the age of modern drugs, what's wrong with a few STIs?
>> No. 427301 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 1:53 pm
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>>427292
>Those sorts of women are often on AdultWork as an ego thing - they're not trying to earn money, they're seeking validation.

Did you read her profile? Did you make it to the 'I DO NOT CURRENTLY SEE ASIAN, INDIAN OR BLACK MEN, I AM NOT RACIST THIS IS JUST MY OWN PERSONAL PREFERENCE' bit?

She's clearly as thick as pig shit. She's also only available when the kids are at school or are in bed and she'll only do it when her husband is home for her safety. They're probably both dolescum and this is their way of having a bit of extra cash for turkey twizzlers; why else would she be selling used toilet roll?
>> No. 427302 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>427292
>For the record, the dirtiest woman on AdultWork is undoubtedly Kirie.

Just when you think you have seen everything. Wow.
>> No. 427304 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 2:28 pm
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>>427301

>Did you make it to the 'I DO NOT CURRENTLY SEE ASIAN, INDIAN OR BLACK MEN, I AM NOT RACIST THIS IS JUST MY OWN PERSONAL PREFERENCE' bit?

That's on about 30% of all escort profiles. On the advice of my solicitor, I decline to give an explanation.

>>427302

She's got loads of videos on Xhamster, but I can't in good conscience recommend them.
>> No. 427305 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 6:22 pm
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>>427301

Currently I'm not seeing any male men, that's just my personal preference. Am I a sexist?

You've clearly never visited a site like fabswingers. On Adultwork it's understood that the sex is transactional; on a site like that you get to truly witness the sense of elevated self worth an ugly fat bint can achieve if the men around her are sufficiently desperate.

But yes, most of them are thick as pig shit. That's why the only thing they can think of for validation is getting their holes ploughed.
>> No. 427309 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:18 pm
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If I own a private parking space, can I issue fines/charges to people parking in it the way that supermarkets and parking structures etc do? I know you used to be able to clamp people but you can't now.

It's one space in a residential car park, the entirety of which is considered a private road/area. I must be able to do something. Very willing to go to great lengths and personal expense to mildly annoy the cunts who keep parking in my space. I just block them in with my car at the minute, but I'd much prefer to get them towed or something hilarious like that if possible.
>> No. 427310 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:47 pm
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So...

What's the going rate for a tranny?
>> No. 427311 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 7:49 pm
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>>427310

Manual or automatic?
>> No. 427313 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 8:05 pm
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>>427311
Either is fine, provided they've got a great big throbbing functional meaty cock.

I've answered my own question. There's only two trannies within a 30 mile radius who don't have great big man faces and I think they're both post-op so no chance of getting a right good bumming from them.
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1st June 2019
Saturday 8:12 pm
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>>427313
http://www.penny-ts.com/
Penny Trayshun passes I guess.
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1st June 2019
Saturday 8:26 pm
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>>427313

Have you had a look on BirchPlace?

https://profiles.birchplace.com/go/b/pros/area/united+kingdom

Also, most of the better professionals do occasional tours.
>> No. 427316 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 8:38 pm
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>>427315
XXXL Zoila's penis looks suspiciously photoshopped to me
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1st June 2019
Saturday 8:54 pm
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>>427315
That's more or less confirmed that if I want a convincing tranny with a big cock that I'd have to go foreign, most likely with a Brazilian. Why are our trannies so crap?
>> No. 427318 Anonymous
1st June 2019
Saturday 8:58 pm
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>>427317

Underfunded NHS.
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1st June 2019
Saturday 9:02 pm
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>>427318
Which of our parties are pledging to fund attractive British trannies?
>> No. 427353 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 5:05 pm
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>>427319

What do you have against attractive British trannies?

I'm myself quite partial to this early 2000s transmission from a Jaguar S Type 4.0.


I'll get my coat.
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2nd June 2019
Sunday 5:08 pm
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>>427353
Would you sleep with it though?
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2nd June 2019
Sunday 5:38 pm
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>>427354

Well I won't need extra lubricant if I do.
>> No. 427360 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 7:22 pm
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>>427354
Would probably be a better shag than some of the suggestions posted earlier.
>> No. 427363 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 8:52 pm
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>>427353
I'd connect my drive shaft to that IYKWIM
>> No. 427368 Anonymous
2nd June 2019
Sunday 10:55 pm
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>>427363
>drive shaft


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuQba4inleQ
>> No. 427370 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 2:01 am
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I just got stopped by coppers walking home from a friend's. They said I matched an eyewitness report to some extent about someone who had broken into a shop window in the neighbourhood earlier tonight.

Fuckssake, lads. I've not even remotely done anything like that ever in my life, and now they were coming at me like I'm some sort of cat burglar. I'm 5'9'' with brown hair and average build, I'm sure there were half a dozen people like me casually walking along the streets here tonight in the dark. Besides, if I was that guy, surely the last place I would be just after smashing in a shop window would be out on the street.

When I came back clean with no criminal record at all, as well I should have, it was apparently enough to convince them that they had the wrong guy. When I then asked why they didn't have a CCTV shot of the guy so that they'd have more to go on when stopping pedestrians, they said that "they were not at liberty to tell me those specifics". I guess that's police speak for grainy unuseable footage from an out of focus camera.
>> No. 427371 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 2:38 am
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>>427370
Are you, how do I put this, one of those folk that's never in much of a rush to slap on the SPF come summer?

Regarding police and CCTV, years ago I had some lads come in and nick a few bottles of booze from a shop I worked in. Took the CCTV to the police, they weren't interested and even mumbled something about how them identifying the culprits via looking at the footage might be evidence of them trying to prejudice a case (no, me neither). So basically they whipped out a couple of mugshots and wanted me to identify one of them from memory, which I couldn't do. They were very insistent I pick someone but I didn't, as I rather felt they were just using me to slap more charges on some bloke I'd probably never met. And that was that. Didn't leave me with much professional respect for that particular force.
>> No. 427373 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 9:15 am
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I don't know anything about boxing, but watching massive slab of prestine muscle Anthony Joshua get KO'd on the news by a man who looked like he'd fallen out of a Weatherspoons was pretty funny.
>> No. 427376 Anonymous
3rd June 2019
Monday 11:27 am
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>>427371

No, I'm white European, and identifiably so. I'm sure you can tell me apart from ethnic minorities from 100 feet away, even in the pale light of an overhead street lamp.

What made me feel really quite uneasy was that I was being treated like a full on suspect until they got back the information from their headquarters that I had a clean slate. I guess it comes with the territory of being a cop and investigating a shop window burglary or whatever it was that went on yesterday. But to be confronted with someone who was trying to figure out if I had committed a crime and who clearly wasn't discounting the possibility that I actually did felt a bit insulting.
>> No. 427394 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 8:21 am
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>>427376
>someone who was trying to figure out if I had committed a crime and who clearly wasn't discounting the possibility that I actually did
This is like a definition of the remit of the police. I don't understand why you would be insulted by them doing the most basic aspects of their job.
>> No. 427397 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 11:13 am
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>>427394

You've clearly never been on the receiving end. And it does feel like a bit of an insult when somebody gives you to understand that they don't put it past you that you might be a criminal.
>> No. 427406 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 12:08 pm
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>>427397

I've been on the receiving end a few times, which is exactly why I'm not surprised when a policeman treats me, matching a suspect's description, as a suspect.

The real dodgy bit is that they let you go simply because you had no priors. Every criminal has a first crime.
>> No. 427407 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 12:21 pm
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>>427397
>You've clearly never been on the receiving end.
You're such a bellend.
>> No. 427408 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 12:45 pm
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>>427406

I think it stands to reason though that you don't just out of nowhere begin to smash in shop windows one day. Never having had a criminal career myself, it's just a guess, but I would think you start out with petty crimes like shoplifting or other minor offences before you move on to shop window burglary.

What happened was that one of the cops gave my details to headquarters via radio and I'm not sure what they answered him back, as he did it with the car doors closed and the radio at a volume where the radio chatter was unintelligible for me standing ten feet away from it. But they probably mainly cross checked my non-existent criminal record. He then emerged from the car, took another close look at me with his torch and then told me that it appeared that I wasn't the person they were looking for. And then they just left.
>> No. 427409 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 1:27 pm
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>>427408

Also, I remember a case of a lad at my school who got done in the first time for attempting to steal a coat from a shop. And then a year or two later, word got around that he and a friend got nicked for breaking into the front window of a surf shop at night where they stole all kinds of merchandise.

I'm not sure what kind of punishment he got for that, and I think he was only 17 at the time. He did have to do community service as part of his sentence, if I remember correctly. It was kind of a long time ago. We weren't very close around school, besides him bonking a good friend of mine for a few weeks once.

Anyway, before I start rambling, my point is, as far as I know, he started out trying to nick a coat in a shop, and only then did such things as break into shops at night.
>> No. 427410 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 1:31 pm
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>>427397
Actually yes, in the noughties I was stopped and searched by the Met because I set off a metal detector they had set up at a bus stop. I also think they were only searching schoolkids and young people and letting everyone else go.

At the time I was a bit miffed at their cavalier use of their powers. If, however, they had told me I matched the description of a suspect in a recorded crime, I wouldn't have been whinging about it like you have been.
>> No. 427411 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 1:42 pm
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>>427410 If, however, they had told me I matched the description of a suspect in a recorded crime, I wouldn't have been whinging about it like you have been.

And that's why they always say that. It's not provably false and avoids all that 'random isn't random' accusation stuff.
>> No. 427412 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 1:56 pm
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>>427411

So you're saying it's just tactics when they tell you you look like a guy who just broke into a shop, when they really just think you seem overall dodgy but would otherwise have no cause to stop you?
>> No. 427413 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 2:16 pm
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>>427408

The overwhelming majority of acquisitive crime is committed by a tiny number of habitual criminals. Some people might occasionally be tempted to sneak something through the self-checkouts, but there are groups of drug addicts who go out shoplifting all day, every day to fund their habit. Most people would never commit a burglary, a handful of people might succumb to temptation if they spot a door left open, but a career burglar could commit dozens of burglaries a month.

It seems a bit lazy and trite when coppers talk about "wrong'uns", but they really do exist.
>> No. 427420 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 2:51 pm
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>>427413

That was exactly my point. When cops pull your criminal record and you come back clean as a whistle, then that should be a strong indication that you didn't smash in a shop window a few hours earlier that night. This is not something that an until then law-abiding citizen just suddenly decides to do at random.
>> No. 427421 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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I'm not sure what the issue going on here is.

A crime had been committed, they didn't have any real leads, so they were just probably stopping anyone passing through the areas they'd expect the crim to show up, or stop checking anyone young enough and male enough to plausibly be a shop burgling yob. It's a spray and pray technique but it I'd guess for coppers who have been doing it long enough, it works as often as it doesn't.

If your record had come up as a previous offender you might have been detained and then let off when it turns out you still weren't the one what done it; but you weren't and they pretty quickly let you go once that came to light. They didn't stop you as a suspect, they stopped you in case you might turn out to be a suspect.
>> No. 427422 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:14 pm
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>>427421
>They didn't stop you as a suspect, they stopped you in case you might turn out to be a suspect.
Stopped on suspicion of being a suspect. Right.
>> No. 427425 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:19 pm
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>>427422

No, that would require them to suspect you were a suspect. What I'm saying is they knew in all likelihood you probably weren't, but made a check just on the off chance because you were the only person about.

It's not that hard to grasp.
>> No. 427426 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:21 pm
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>>427425
Yes, they suspected that the only person about was a suspect, probably found his presence suspect too. He was stopped for suspiciously being suspected of being a suspect.
>> No. 427427 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:27 pm
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>>427426

To be fair being the only person about in the vicinity of a crime is plenty of grounds to be a suspect, not just a suspected suspect.
>> No. 427429 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:40 pm
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I don't trust the coppers much either, but you aren't Wakefield's answer to Rodney King because they ran you through a database.
>> No. 427432 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 3:56 pm
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>>427426

>He was stopped for suspiciously being suspected of being a suspect.

Now this is a court case I would love to see.
>> No. 427454 Anonymous
4th June 2019
Tuesday 11:11 pm
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>>427408

Listen, I don't like coppers at all, and have been legitimately fucked over by them and don't trust them or the system the operate in, but even I can understand why they'd want to talk to a bloke on his own in the street near a broken shop window.

I hate to use your 'clearly you've never been on the end of it' argument against you, but clearly you've never had much experience of the police if this is what's getting your back up.
>> No. 427468 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 11:28 am
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>>427454

I understand your view point.

I just didn't like somebody who doesn't know me and has never met me questioning my integrity as a person. Maybe it rubbed me the wrong way precisely because I've never had to deal with police in this kind of way. Even if they are just two policemen doing their job and keeping an eye out after a shop burglary.

I've been stopped for speeding, but that's different. I was only a few miles over and the cops were dealing with it in a very matter-of-fact kind of way like I was just one of a few dozen of their "customers" that day.
>> No. 427469 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 12:52 pm
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I have this persistent stabbing pain in my eye that is drilling right into my brain, I think it might be eye strain which might mean new glasses. I really can't be doing with a huge bill for new glasses, but this is grim.
>> No. 427470 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 1:13 pm
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>>427469 blag a free eye test (employer, or is there a povvo subsidy or free offer somewhere?), get new lenses from glasses direct or whoever. 2 pairs, £20. You've got to be really strapped for that not to be bearable to fix an eyestrain headache (which I agree - grim)
>> No. 427471 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 1:26 pm
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>>427469
Brain tumour?
>> No. 427472 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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How weird are the Nords?

I'm interviewing someone on Friday and I've spoken with two people who used to work with him and they've each separately described him as an oddball; they've both attributed to him being Norwegian, as if that explains it.
>> No. 427473 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 3:42 pm
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>>427472

The norther you go the weirder they get. Who knows why, it's just one of those peculiar truths, like how Aussies are always slightly racist and sexist.
>> No. 427475 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 7:11 pm
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What kind of stuff do you keep in your fridge, britfa/gs? I'm wondering about turning my fridge on but all I can think to put in it is a little milk and bacon. Most of my food is dry.
>> No. 427476 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 7:25 pm
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>>427475
Milk, open jars of sauces/chutney, yoghurt, spread, cheese, cucumber, vegetables.
>> No. 427477 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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>>427475
Fridge photos should really be a thing.
>> No. 427478 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 8:00 pm
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>>427477

I took a photo of mine but I'm unexpectedly very self conscious about it. It's typically full of exciting middle class meats and foreign stuff but I've been away and it's shifted decidedly towards the missus and her diet of fruit and yoghurt.
>> No. 427479 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>427475

I keep Lego in mine.
>> No. 427480 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>427479
Commend you on your cleanliness but I fear for your cholesterol levels.
>> No. 427481 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 10:44 pm
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>>427479

>ASDA cheese

Living the dream.
>> No. 427482 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>427481
Nowt wrong with Asda cheese.
>> No. 427483 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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I had lamb for dinner tonight with a sauce made up of shedloads of onion and garlic, together with green beans and potatoes.

Fucking delicious, but I am right now producing some of the foulest smelling farts imaginable. I'm pretty sure I'm violating the Geneva Protocol here.

Amazing lamb though.
>> No. 427486 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 11:44 pm
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I had never before noticed that my fridge's salad bit is labelled the "Fruits and vegetables Zone"

We're getting a Big American Fridge soon, so I hope to get back to a fridge worthy of cheflad.
>> No. 427487 Anonymous
5th June 2019
Wednesday 11:53 pm
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>>427486
Shouldn't it say "Fruit and vegetable zone" or just "Fruits and vegetables"?
>> No. 427488 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 10:00 am
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>>427486
>Fruit in the fridge
>Potatoes in the fridge
>> No. 427489 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 10:07 am
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>>427488

Doesn't everyone keep fruit in the fridge? Why the fuck would you want a room temperature orange?

I'll concede on the potatoes. I didn't put them in there, though.
>> No. 427490 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 11:52 am
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>>427489

https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/9-fruits-and-vegetables-dont-fridge.html

>I always want to put potatoes in the refrigerator because it seems like it should stop them from becoming alien creatures before I am ready to use them. But scientists say to leave them out, because of all the surprising things: potential cancer risk! One study concludes: “Don’t keep raw potatoes in the fridge. At low temperatures, an enzyme called invertase breaks down the sugar sucrose into glucose and fructose, which can form acrylamide [a chemical linked to cancer] during cooking.” Into a dark and dry spot the potatoes go.
>> No. 427491 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 12:17 pm
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Kate Andrews is on Politics Live. I sort of hate her, but she really gives me the horn.
>> No. 427492 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 12:29 pm
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>>427488
My girlfriend insists on potatoes in the fridge. Same with ketchup. She's a wrong 'un.

The only fruit that belongs in a fridge is things like grapes and strawberries. Keeping oranges in the fridge is the height of poncery.
>> No. 427493 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 12:54 pm
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>>427490
I have never heard of people keeping potatoes in the fridge. I've recently had to start putting some fruit in the fridge but only because the kitchen gets like an oven in this heat and it all goes bad pretty quickly.
>> No. 427494 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 1:30 pm
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I put potatoes in the fridge, but then again they are the buttered ones they sell in Tesco and they'd go bad otherwise. Same with the crispy potato slices they sell.

That can't be wrong, can it? I wouldn't put a bag of Maris Pipers in there, but otherwise it seems fine; baby potatoes are surely the exception.
>> No. 427495 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 2:08 pm
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>>427494
If they're pre-cooked then I'd imagine the chemicals inside them will behave differently to those in raw potato.
>> No. 427496 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 2:09 pm
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>>427492
Ketchup is fine in the fridge, but potatoes and oranges going in is the sign of a supernatural being.
>> No. 427497 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 2:16 pm
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Friendly notice that putting tomatoes in the fridge saps their flavour.
>> No. 427498 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 3:18 pm
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>>427496 I put new potatoes in, if they're not going to be used in a couple of days. And I'll not stop unless there's some compelling evidence presented.
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6th June 2019
Thursday 3:29 pm
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>>427498
I just looked it up on my #litty amazon alexa and apparently putting potatoes in the fridge speeds up the breakdown of starch molecules into sugar. I didn't look for any figures/evidence so it might be bullshit but I dont care enough to turn on my #litty amazon alexa again.
>> No. 427500 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 3:53 pm
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>>427499 Odd, since potatoes live in cold stores from harvest until sale.
They're also humidity controlled with careful airflow, which probably doesn't apply in my fridge.
>> No. 427501 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 7:33 pm
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>>427497

Only if you eat them cold. Let them come up to room temp and they taste better again.

You're all mental for eating warm oranges though.
>> No. 427502 Anonymous
6th June 2019
Thursday 9:05 pm
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PUT NOTHING IN THE FRIDGE

LEAVE EVERYTHING OUT

DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES OF BIG FRIDGE
>> No. 427504 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 12:02 am
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>>427502
Honestly part of me was thinking this in a very earnest way earlier today, but dairy products and cooked meats still need a place to live. I guess once the climate's too far gone we'll have to stop eating those anyway in a futile effort to course correct after another forty years of ignoring the problem, so perhaps I could get ahead of the curve and just eat rice, veggies and get all my meat from road kill like George Monbiot.

Sorry, that's "like" as in "in the manner of" not "like" as in "George Monbiot is road kill", just so we're clear.
>> No. 427505 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 12:09 pm
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>>427501

I think you're not supposed to put tomatoes in the fridge because they release considerable amounts of a gas called ethene, which acts as a ripening hormone in many plants and fruits. Putting tomatoes in your fridge will therefore make other kinds of fruit in it spoil sooner.
>> No. 427506 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 6:50 pm
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>> No. 427507 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 6:58 pm
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>>427506

Told you.
>> No. 427508 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 8:08 pm
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>>427507
I know, but he was even odder than I'd expected.
>> No. 427509 Anonymous
7th June 2019
Friday 9:23 pm
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I'd like to hear more about the odd Nowegian, but I'd first like to state that the weather today has been so dark and gloomy that I've developed seasonal affective disorder since this morning.
>> No. 427514 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 9:11 am
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>>427509
>I'd like to hear more about the odd Nowegian

He looked like a cross between Limmy and Ole Gunnar Solskjær. He'd have made a very convincing Christmas elf.

It's really hard to describe him, so I'll just go over a few of the things he disclosed during the interview. I don't think he was on the spectrum but it was hard building up any form of rapport with him.

At his current job he'd get there an hour early to avoid traffic and would spend that hour asleep in his car. He'd also spend his lunch break asleep in his car. In his previous job he used to spend his lunch break asleep in the disabled toilet because he'd be up most of the night playing computer games, usually coming back to his desk with a mark on his forehead from the tiles on the wall.

He's interested in ancient history and owns a collection of swords. His neighbours called the police on him once because he was practicing with them in his back garden.

He is also strongly into the church and does church related things with children. He also mentioned that he watches children's cartoons, a lot.

His theoretical and high level knowledge was quite in depth so I'd have been tempted to take a punt on him if the last person we hired on the basis that they'd be quiet and just get on with their work didn't turn out to be a nightmare.
>> No. 427515 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 10:19 am
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>>427514

>He's interested in ancient history and owns a collection of swords. His neighbours called the police on him once because he was practicing with them in his back garden.
>> No. 427516 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 11:22 am
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>>427515
He wasn't even trying to make light of the situation. He still had a sense of burning injustice that the police were called, as it would never have happened in Norway.
>> No. 427519 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 12:23 pm
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>>427514
I have a bunch of historical reenactors down the street, or maybe they just like dressing up as Vikings. Only time I've seen them is in the Viking garb, never in modern day clothing.

They once had a minibus full of stuff back in the day, shields in the window and everything.
>> No. 427522 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 2:55 pm
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>>427519
Do they knit their own underpants?
>> No. 427523 Anonymous
8th June 2019
Saturday 5:32 pm
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>>427522
Probably, I've seen them once or twice with cans of beer though so they aren't fully embracing the 11th century lifestyle.
>> No. 427540 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 4:50 pm
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I used an umbrella today for the first time in years. The whole experience left me feeling like a massive ponce.
>> No. 427542 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 5:44 pm
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>>427540
I took an umbrella up the town with me a couple of years ago because it was warm and humid and I didn't want to sweat, but it was pissing down. Fella at the bus stop said something like "A brolly, ya poof?" and I just said "Well I am a poof, so I think I get away with it. A parka, ya poof? What's your excuse?" He asked me what was gay about that and I just said "Scared of a little rain?" and shook my head.

Point made, he just walked away, mumbling under his breath. He got on the same bus at the next bus stop and avoided all eye contact, but he had taken his coat off and had it in his hand.

Despite trying to make fun of me, I got under his skin instead and I only did it because he was insecure and vain. Ultimately, no one should really give a fuck if you prefer being dry.
>> No. 427543 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 5:49 pm
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>>427542

I don't think that actually happened did it mate.
>> No. 427544 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>427543
I doubt someone would lie and embellish an encounter when retelling it on the internet.
>> No. 427545 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 7:00 pm
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>>427543
No it did. That man, Albert Einstein.
>> No. 427546 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>427542

On the opposite end, people call me a weirdo for just going out in the rain without a coat etc. I'm bald so I don't need to worry about my hair and I just don't care if my clothes get wet. They'll dry off eventually. It doesn't really ever rain hard for more than a few minutes at a time anyway.
>> No. 427548 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 7:10 pm
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>>427543

>We are the truth masquerading as perversion. We are going to lie to you, make up incredible stories of prowess and power, and you will join in and love it. Taking the internet too seriously is entirely your problem. It isn't serious business unless we say. If it is, then expect us.

>Nothing you see is the truth.
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10th June 2019
Monday 9:22 pm
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>>427548
In that case I'm declaring this thread Serious Business™ until further notice.
>> No. 427550 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 10:54 pm
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What's a good drink to drink so as to not arouse suspicion over my crippling alcoholism? I am growing tired of drinking Redbull and vodka everyday.
>> No. 427551 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 11:03 pm
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I keep telling myself I want to get into 3D modelling, then I actually open up Blender and quickly realise I just can't get my head around it. It always starts out fine enough, making cuts on a simple shape and moving bits around but inevitably I'll realise I just can't get things to go where I want them to, or that despite doing what the tutorial says to do I'm getting different results.
Surely there's no need for things to be so difficult. All I really want to do is make cars that look like they're from a PS1 game, not get a job at Pixar.
>> No. 427552 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 11:26 pm
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>>427550
Depends who are you trying to fool - shopkeepers, landlords, friends or family? Because all those people know anyway, trust me. Employers are the last to figure it out though.
>> No. 427553 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 11:35 pm
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Weird day. I don't really think I had that much to eat overall, but I guess the orange Club Bar I had after dinner put me over the limit because my stomach feels awful. Earlier I just sort of lied down on my bedroom floor and went to sleep for a couple of hours too, so I'm up all night like BBC radio now.

Please don't call in with your problems though, I'm still haunted by that time I listened to Radio Stoke post-1AM. It's not that I don't care, I just don't have the emotional fortitude for it.
>> No. 427554 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 11:52 pm
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>>427552

>Employers are the last to figure it out though.

Nope, they just pretend not to notice until your job performance gets poor enough.
>> No. 427555 Anonymous
10th June 2019
Monday 11:55 pm
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I'm watching the AMD E3 conference and Randy Pitchford has shown his face. What a tremendous cunt that man is.
>> No. 427556 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 12:16 am
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>>427555

He truly is sickening isn't he.

I just watched the Devolver Digital stream and I feel uneasy. Everyone seems to like them for doing a satirical spin on it but I feel like it's just a doubly cynical grab for "people like me", the jaded ones who don't buy the hype. It's so earnestly consumerist. Wierd.
>> No. 427557 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 11:57 am
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Cleaned my mechanical keyboard for the first time since I got it around 5 years ago.
>> No. 427558 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 12:06 pm
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>>427557

My keyboard was the same, until I put a box of Kleenex next to my computer.
>> No. 427559 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 1:37 pm
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>>427557
Do you just sit over it trimming your nails and sneezing all day?
>> No. 427560 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 3:59 pm
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>>427557
What the fuck is all that shit? Do you have leprosy? Are you shedding your exoskeleton?
>> No. 427561 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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Any of you lot following the women's World Cup?

I keep thinking I should watch a few games, just to show my appreciation, but I really can't be arsed.
>> No. 427562 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 6:38 pm
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>>427557
Is this your bum keyboard?
>> No. 427563 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 6:49 pm
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>>427561
The standard of play is worse than U15s footy. I mean, good for them and all but I'm not taking 90 minutes+ out of my day to watch it. The media saturation does seem to be out of kilter with actual public interest, I don't know anyone IRL who gives a hoot about women's football.
>> No. 427564 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 7:14 pm
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>>427563

>I don't know anyone IRL who gives a hoot about women's football.

The lesbian couple next door here are active footballers. I'm not even joking. They seem to take a keen interest.
>> No. 427565 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 7:38 pm
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>>427564

In an ideal world you wouldn't have had to mention that they're lesbians, but at the same time, the fact they are lesbians is entirely unsurprising. In fact I'd be altogether perplexed to learn of a straight woman who gave a shit about women's football.
>> No. 427566 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 7:53 pm
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>>427565

In an even more ideal world, nobody would be taking offence at somebody stating the actual fact, however indeed insignificant, that they know a football playing lesbian couple. Me mentioning the fact they're lesbians just seemed to paint a more complete picture. And it may have prevented otherlad from asking gratuitous questions or making sweeping assumptions that two women living together and playing football surely must be lesbians.
>> No. 427567 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>427552
Unless everyone knows and nobody says anything, I'm sure I'm in the clear. Just an... avid drinker on occasions. I don't think I am bad at almost anything I do while drunk. Maybe I don't get so badly drunk that I blackout, but I have my shit together.

Let's call it micro-dosing with alcohol. It could become the next fad.

But yes, if you have any better hidden drinks other than vodka and Redbull, please share.
>> No. 427569 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 10:51 pm
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>>427567
Sadly, there's no substitute. The energy drink does double-duty by covering up some of the smell and is singularly good at it; doesn't have to be Red Bull. Whatever sugar free thing your local news agent stocks, if you're not drinking publicly it does not matter. Blue Bolt bottles are pretty sturdy for refills.

If you have peers at work, they will notice and not care as long as you deliver. Don't give them an excuse to complain and you're good.
>> No. 427570 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 10:53 pm
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>>427560
It was mostly pubes, dried beer and wine spills, and crumbs from snacks.
>> No. 427571 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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>>427567
>Let's call it micro-dosing with alcohol. It could become the next fad.
Isn't there a Mitchell & Webb sketch about this? There is, I just figure you'll remember it when I ask and it won't need linking.
>> No. 427572 Anonymous
11th June 2019
Tuesday 11:19 pm
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>>427571



Up your bum.
>> No. 427573 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 12:01 am
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>>427569
Shame. I wanted to try something new.

I go for Blue Bolt if I can find a Sainsbury's next to me. Good thing my workplace has one around the corner. Blue Spark from Tesco works too, although they never stock the sugar free ones.

I don't think anyone knows or cares, since I have been doing this for the best part of 2 years now.

>>427572
This is probably 80% true. I started a new job a few months ago, and I have already climbed up 3 positions and double my salary.
>> No. 427574 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 7:54 pm
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Seeing as the mods haven't unlocked the workplace annoyances thread yet...

Someone has got the Christmas party to be on a Saturday rather than the usual Friday, because it'd mean closing early so people have chance to get ready, and now she's turned around and said she can't make it as she has something else on the Saturday it has been booked for.

Fuck's sake.
>> No. 427577 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 10:38 pm
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Thinking about going to Gran Canaria again in a few weeks if the shit weather here doesn't let up. Already working the numbers on some special offers online.
>> No. 427578 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 10:56 pm
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>>427574
Who does anything work related on a Saturday when you aren't even paid for it?
>> No. 427579 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 11:04 pm
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>>427578
I do. I have no life, so sometimes I go into the office on Saturday or Sunday and do some work to relieve boredom.
>> No. 427580 Anonymous
12th June 2019
Wednesday 11:19 pm
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>>427574

I'm not sure I've ever worked somewhere where people felt the need to plan a Christmas party over six months in advance.
>> No. 427581 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:10 am
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>>427579
For human contact?
>> No. 427582 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:24 am
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>>427577
>if the shit weather here doesn't let up

I can't even remember what the sky looks like.
>> No. 427583 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 1:13 am
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>>427578

My misses, she is salaried in a 'flexy time' tech companies where flex time means unsociable hours and unpaid overtime, Also she has an academic background anyway so she wants to put in extra work because she thinks enjoying a task and self fullfilment is a good enough reason to do it.

I sometimes feel like her life manager when I have to explain to her work life balance, that she shouldn't just give companies something for free because they will come to expect it and are just taking advantage of her, and have to pull her away from her work.

Mind you, I haven't worked in years and I would be a hobo right now if she wasn't bank rolling me so it is a strange fight I fight.
>> No. 427584 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 5:32 am
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>>427578
All it will cost is my time (and a taxi) as the event is paid for and it's a free bar. It's a massive cunt move changing it from the Friday to the Saturday, though.

>>427580
They've had to book it this early due to the number of people who are going. They left it late last year and could only get somewhere shite.
>> No. 427586 Anonymous
13th June 2019
Thursday 12:32 pm
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>>427580

I understand why you'd think that, but if you'd ever tried to book somewhere for Christmas, you'd see why. Restaurants get bookings for Christmas in January.
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13th June 2019
Thursday 11:53 pm
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>>427586

Well on the other hand, I was never really involved in any Christmas party planning. My employers were either major corporations where they had other people in charge of the planning, or small companies with five or six people, where we'd usually just quite spontaneously reserve a table at a restaurant about a month in advance.
>> No. 427591 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 9:11 am
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>>427588

>where we'd usually just quite spontaneously reserve a table at a restaurant about a month in advance.

I can almost guarantee this isn't true. Even shite restaurants are fully booked for the entire month of December by around September.
>> No. 427592 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 10:27 am
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>>427591
It is usually possible, but there's not a lot of choice, and it depends where you are.
All the obvious places will be booked up but there's loads of gastropubs and little venues away from city centres that don't even think of opening their own bookings until later in the year.
>> No. 427593 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 11:32 am
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>>427592

Also, seating six to ten people even at Christmas isn't that big a deal for many restaurants. You're talking two tables pushed together. For bigger groups of people, it'll naturally be more difficult at Christmas to get something on relatively short notice.
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14th June 2019
Friday 9:06 pm
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>>427593

>Also, seating six to ten people even at Christmas isn't that big a deal for many restaurants

No restaurant I've ever worked at has been able to do something like this, certainly not after about the 10th of December.
>> No. 427598 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 9:31 pm
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>>427597

Does a table of 12 spend more than two tables of 6?
>> No. 427600 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 9:54 pm
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>>427598

It's not about the tables, it's about there literally being no space (both on the restaurant floor and in the kitchen's workload) to accommodate them.

Larger tables do tend to spend more though, if you were wondering. I think it's because they buy more booze, typically.
>> No. 427601 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 10:12 pm
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>>427600

I was wondering, you can tell because I asked. Thank you.
>> No. 427602 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 10:25 pm
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>>427601

I couldn't tell if you were >>427593 trying to make a weird point about pushing two tables together or not.

I'm not entirely sure why the spend per head goes up when there's more people on a table but it definitely does. I suppose it makes sense that a big table is a party or celebrating something and they're likely to push the boat out.
>> No. 427603 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 10:33 pm
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>>427602

I suppose they're more likely to do things like get a few bottles of wine to share rather than just a couple of glasses, they'll get sides to share they might not have done otherwise, and if they're splitting the bill there's always that one cunt who orders more than anyone else in the knowledge everyone else will be subsidising them. Also probably larger parties are more likely to be funded as a work do or business expenses and what have you, where people will push the boat out because it's not their money.

Never worked in a restaurant in my life but I can see a few reasons it might make sense.
>> No. 427604 Anonymous
14th June 2019
Friday 10:49 pm
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>>427602

I could have been clearer that I wasn't that poster but yes I was legitimately just curious about the spending.
>> No. 427608 Anonymous
15th June 2019
Saturday 12:54 am
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>>427603

>if they're splitting the bill there's always that one cunt who orders more than anyone else in the knowledge everyone else will be subsidising them

To some degree, everyone is that cunt. We intuitively understand that if we're splitting the bill four ways we pay for 1/4 of our order, but if we're splitting it 12 ways we only pay 1/12. If you're effectively getting a 91% discount on everything you order, it's hard to resist the temptation to have something that you wouldn't order if you were paying full price.

Someone wrote a paper about it.

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/splitting-bill.pdf
>> No. 427613 Anonymous
15th June 2019
Saturday 10:18 am
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>>427608

It's a bit like my old flat where I used to live, in a building from the 1930s. They only had one single water meter for 12 flats, as was not uncommon in buildings of that era, and your water bill as a tenant was calculated based on how many people lived in your flat, divided by the total number of permanent residents in the building. So whenever you ran yourself a bath, you effectively only paid about one-twentieth of the price for the 160 to 180 litres that fit in a standard bathtub. It meant that nobody had a real incentive to save water.
>> No. 427650 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 6:56 pm
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I reckon Mike Jeavons has an infeasibly large cock.
>> No. 427652 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 7:12 pm
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>>427613
I bet you didn't even have a water meter.
>> No. 427653 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>427650
Never knew the man before I saw your post, but I reckon you might be right. He's one of those dark horse cock types.
>> No. 427654 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 8:06 pm
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>>427652
Depends on where it is and what's happened to the freehold. In parts of the south and east water companies leant heavily on large users to get metered, and in some cases had powers to enforce it. My building is a new build and so has a meter, but the individual flats aren't metered. The management company pays the bill and recovers it through the service charge. If the freehold of an older building changes hands, the water company may have the right to insist on metering.
>> No. 427655 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 9:06 pm
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>>427650
>>427653

Is this what gay people talk about all the time?
>> No. 427656 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 9:08 pm
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>>427655

I'm straight, which is exactly why I spend so much time thinking about the size of other men's cocks. I don't want to see it, I just want to know if mine is bigger than a moderately successful YouTuber or not.
>> No. 427658 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 11:07 pm
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>>427656

Do I have to repost that reassuringly scientific survey about cock sizes? I can't be arsed finding it so I'll just give a TL;DR version.

A six incher is very generous in reality, and a seven is veritably horse like by human standards. Eight and above is so vanishingly rare that anyone claiming to have one, and especially birds claiming to have taken one, are almost certainly lying.

If you think you're above average but worry you're not comfortably large enough to feel secure about it, the chances are you're monstrously hung, and it's just porn and people's ill-informed expectations that have sewn the seeds of insecurity.
>> No. 427661 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 11:37 pm
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>>427658

I think I'm dead average length wise but quite impressively girthy - but I'm far too old to give a shit about that sort of thing, save for occasionally mentioning it on the internet. I'm old enough and rich enough to know it really doesn't matter, and a woman's idea of your sexual prowess and cock size is largely based on her impression of you as a person, unless she's in the habit of pulling out a ruler, which few of them are.

Nobody is particularly good at estimating knob lengths, either.
>> No. 427662 Anonymous
17th June 2019
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>427658
I think that Channel 4 show (Naked Attraction?) is actually very helpful in this regard. Shows a lot of very normal average willies.
>> No. 427665 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 12:09 pm
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>>427661

One of my mates in my younger days confessed to me after a few pints that he had a deep-set fear that his knob was too short. He said it measured only 14 centimetres when erect. And that when a woman pulled him closer during sex with her hands on his buttocks, he thought it was because he couldn't penetrate her deep enough with his 14 centimetres.

I told him not to worry. Myself, I've got around 18 centimetres, honestly measured, with a good bit of above average girth, and women have always done the same thing with me, i.e. when they were really getting into it, they wanted to feel me as deep inside them as possible, and gave my buttocks a push with their hands the same way.

I think my friend was genuinely relieved after our talk that day.
>> No. 427667 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 12:55 pm
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Every woman I've slept with has told me my penis was bigger than expected. I don't know if I project small dick energy or something.
>> No. 427669 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 2:04 pm
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>>427667

I'm not sure you can actually make a penis feel bigger than it is, but you can momentarily give it more girth and hardness by pressing your thumb down onto the vein on the top side of the penis's base. That way, blood cannot flow back from the penis into your body, and the result is a granite hard erection. Not all women know this trick, but those that I've used it on said it felt fucking amazing.

I believe there are also rubber rings that you can put around your penis for the same effect, but there is a slight danger of not being able to get them off again.
>> No. 427670 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 2:34 pm
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>>427669

>I believe there are also rubber rings that you can put around your penis for the same effect, but there is a slight danger of not being able to get them off again.

Rubber cock rings are fine; people get in trouble when they stick their cock in a metal napkin ring and realise that it's not going to come off without an angle grinder.
>> No. 427671 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 3:14 pm
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Caught a house centipede today. Here we go again.
About 6 years ago I'd see (and kill) one about every week, sometimes more.
I know that the thing is kind of useful, I just don't want them in and near my flat.
>> No. 427672 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 3:20 pm
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>>427671
nimby
>> No. 427673 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 3:23 pm
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>>427672
Nice, another thing I've learnt about here.
>> No. 427678 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 6:26 pm
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>>427665
>He said it measured only 14 centimetres when erect

If he really measured his cock in centimetres, I'm guessing he was a huge sperg anyway.
>> No. 427682 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 7:24 pm
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>>427670

>people get in trouble when they stick their cock in a metal napkin ring and realise that it's not going to come off without an angle grinder.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-gets-metal-ring-stuck-10037186
>> No. 427683 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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Just made myself the £1 Deep Pan Meat Feast pizza from Tesco's.

For £1, you really can't complain. It's probably made up of horribly unhealthy cheese and meat substitutes, but for a quid, it's a decent sized dinner for a person.
>> No. 427687 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 8:12 pm
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>>427683
Vile
>> No. 427688 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:02 pm
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>>427683

£1 pizzas represent a substantial proportion of my caloric intake. FWIW, I think Aldi's Carlos Stonebaked are the best of the bunch.
>> No. 427689 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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>>427688

I think £1 pizza is a very honest deal. Nobody in their right mind will expect a wholesome food product for that price, even considering that pizza isn't the healthiest food on a good day. You simply get to fill your stomach for a qiud, end of. And with none of the smoke and mirrors of overpriced health foods that aren't so healthy after all.
>> No. 427690 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>427689
Why not drink Huel at that point?
>> No. 427691 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:30 pm
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>>427690

I don't even need to look to tell you that Huel costs more than £1 per meal.
>> No. 427692 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:47 pm
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>>427690

A £1 pizza isn't a gourmet feast, but it's a pleasant meal that requires less effort than making toast. I think it's pretty much the sweet spot in terms of palatability vs effort. Huel looks and tastes like something from a dystopian science fiction film; the main competitor in the nutritional beige sludge market is literally named after something from a dystopian science fiction film.
>> No. 427693 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:48 pm
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>>427692
>a pleasant meal that requires less effort than making toast

I feel like you might be dissing toast here. Careful now.
>> No. 427694 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 9:59 pm
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>>427693

There's nowt wrong with toast, but it's definitely not a meal. Beans on toast is on the border between meal and snack, unless you add a fried egg and some grated cheese.
>> No. 427695 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 10:00 pm
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>>427694
>There's nowt wrong with toast, but it's definitely not a meal.

HERESY
>> No. 427697 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 11:11 pm
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>>427691
£1.05/400 calories. Probably much healthier than cardboard pizza.
>> No. 427698 Anonymous
18th June 2019
Tuesday 11:20 pm
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>>427692

It's hardly healthy though is it.

This is really one of those "choose two" situations. You can have fast, healthy food, but it won't be nice. You can have fast, nice food, but it won't be healthy. Or you can have nice, healthy food but it won't be fast.

Huel is for people who are willing to pick the healthy and fast options.
>> No. 427699 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 1:12 am
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I think I accidentally took a double dose of mirtazapine tomight. Kind of forgot that I had already taken a tablet earlier.

A double dose of mirtazapine isn't really dangerous to your health as such, but you spend the whole next day feeling a bit like a drugged down OAP in a care home. Everything feels slow and you've got zero energy, despite sleeping like a baby the night before.

I take mirtazapine off-label as an anti insomnia drug, and it really normally does its job well.
>> No. 427700 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 1:55 am
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>>427697

It's definitely healthy, physically at least. I'm not convinced it's mentally good for you to drink gruel.

Is it really that cheap now? It certainly was more expensive when I bought it. It is that price for a huge bulk buy?
>> No. 427701 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 2:07 am
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>>427699
Good luck, mate. I took it in the morning once after missing a dose the previous night and didn't feel alright until about 1PM the following day.

Try spicy food.
>> No. 427702 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 4:31 am
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>>427700

I assumed they called it Huel to imply fuel and implying gruel, with all of its negative connotations, was an accident.
>> No. 427703 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 4:33 am
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The only thing along those lines I've ever tried was a free sachet of slimfast shake in the 90s. It was truly disgusting.
>> No. 427704 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 6:11 am
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>>427703
I've had cup-a-soup before. Does that count?
>> No. 427705 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 7:00 am
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I just find they whole concept of huel depressing.

Here, have some nutritionally balanced slop in between your bouts of wage slavery as you'll be far too tired to actually cook a half decent meal.

Marketed as some sort of cool lifestyle alternative for the busy modern health conscious person. Nah mate, not for me.
>> No. 427707 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 7:11 am
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I read that Soylent etc can screw up your teeth since you're not really using them anymore.
>> No. 427713 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 12:46 pm
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If you're going for meal replacement shakes you might as well just buy complan, cheaper over all.
>> No. 427714 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 12:48 pm
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>>427707
So can sucking cock, but that hasn't stopped you.
>> No. 427715 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 12:56 pm
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>>427714

How does that make sense?
>> No. 427716 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>427714
This is the worst post I've ever seen.
>> No. 427717 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 1:32 pm
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It just clicked how weird it is that a German couple decided to name their newborn daughter "Sabine".
>> No. 427725 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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>>427717

The Germans just have a way with names.
>> No. 427734 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 8:35 pm
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I'm thinking of getting one of those evaporative air coolers, I don't fancy paying four hundred quid for an actual aircon unit, and I can't imagine the indoor units are very good or efficient anyway, considering they have to generate heat to work.

Whereas an evaporative cooler is obviously just a fan in which you can shove a bucket of ice water. It sounds lovely but I'm wondering if there's a catch.
>> No. 427735 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 9:00 pm
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>>427734
Evaporative coolers rely on the air not being humid to start with, and make it more humid by their action. Great in Arizona, more nuanced in blighty.

The indoor units do generate heat, but blow it out the window (or whatever hole you provide) along with the extracted heat. It's not as if they magically make heat go away, they need somewhere to put it. If you can organise that, they're pretty good.
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19th June 2019
Wednesday 9:25 pm
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>>427734

The indoor ones are alright, as long as you have somewhere for the exhaust pipe to chuck the hot air out without too much backflow. A catflap works wonders.
>> No. 427738 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 9:35 pm
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The portable aircon units which have just a single exhaust pipe are horrifically inefficient. The labelling on them may also be misleading about their cooling capacity (but UK laws might be a bit different to the example in the video below.)
The units with both and inlet and outlet duct to the outside are much more effective if you can find one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc
>> No. 427741 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 10:50 pm
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>>427738

Bit camp for a tech guy.
>> No. 427742 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 10:53 pm
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>>427738

You know I have been seeing that exact video floating around YouTube lately before you'd posted it, Funny, considering the time of year, that you'd want to discredit humble portable air cooler units...

Smells like a Big Aircon stitch up to me. How much are they paying you lad?
>> No. 427743 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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>>427742

To be honest though, his video seems like he's making a fair point that the hot side of your air conditioning unit should not be inside the same room that you are trying to cool.

Also though, who really needs air conditioning in Britain, for the handful of days in mid-summer that it gets above 28°C. I spent a holiday in Greece once where we thankfully had air conditioning inside our hotel room, but that was because it was still 32°C outside there at 2am.
>> No. 427744 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 11:06 pm
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Fucks sake lads, I already said I'm not spending the money for an aircon unit.

I just want a fan that blows ice air at me
>> No. 427745 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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>>427741

He's really good though. Watch his one on the old toaster.
>> No. 427749 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 11:27 pm
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>>427745

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=getting%20a%20toaster%20oven
>> No. 427750 Anonymous
19th June 2019
Wednesday 11:34 pm
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>>427744

You'll not pull your astroturfing off here, John Aircon.
>> No. 427751 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 12:03 am
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>>427750

Big Air is always lurking somewhere.
>> No. 427753 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 1:08 am
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>>427744
I feel like the air conditioning market would be a good thing to invest in now, might really take off in this country soon.
>> No. 427754 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 11:50 am
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>>427753

In a climatological sense, air conditioning machines are a perpetuum mobile. They contribute to global warming through their immense hunger for electricity, as 60 percent of the world's electricity is still generated from fossil fuels, and with yet more global warming, you will want more air conditioning.

Not a green investment, unless powered by renewable energy resources one day in the future, but certainly an investment that should have its merits.

It will be interesting to see CO2 as a refrigerant replace the much more harmful HFCs that are still used today. CO2 can simply be taken from the atmosphere or directly from industrial exhaust emissions, and a leaking air conditioning system will only emit carbon dioxide that was taken from the atmosphere to begin with, and not HFCs which are many times more potent as a greenhouse gas.

I understand one of the main problems with CO2 is still the very high operating pressure of around 1,300 psi. On the other hand, due to the thermodynamic properties of carbon dioxide, such an air conditioning system appears to need much less refrigerant by volume, and therefore the whole system can have much smaller dimensions.
>> No. 427762 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 1:21 pm
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Passive cooling is moving into the realms of witchcraft.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/cheap-plastic-film-cools-whatever-it-touches-10-c
The sooner I can have walls and rooves that reject solar heat, the happier I'll be. If it's potent enough witchcraft to allow me to chill water enough to have cool radiators in summer, for the cost of pumping it around, even better.
>> No. 427763 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 2:13 pm
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>>427762
Wearable tech to cool you down or heat you up is starting to rear its head also, there's a couple shirts out there already, as well as stuff like this https://www.dhamainnovations.com/
>> No. 427765 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 6:00 pm
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Is it worth putting a cheeky fiver on Boris?
It's a sorry state of affairs when it's more likely to see Boris get ice cream down his shirt than make a good decision for the country.
>> No. 427766 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 6:04 pm
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>>427765
For 40 pence profit? You're not going to recoup your Eurovision losses like this.
>> No. 427773 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>427766

I'm not no good at maths me. If I put a grand on Boris, how much will I make?
>> No. 427775 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 8:31 pm
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>>427773
About tree fiddy.
>> No. 427776 Anonymous
20th June 2019
Thursday 8:40 pm
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>>427773
£80.
>> No. 427949 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 4:20 pm
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I was going to make a new thread, but I don't have any images that would unite the board like the Honey Monster.

I like that the Beeb have dived right into the "lootboxes are gambling" camp, no wiggle room, very clear.
>> No. 427950 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 4:48 pm
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>>427949
>I like that the Beeb have dived right into the "lootboxes are gambling" camp, no wiggle room, very clear.
The BBC tend to be very clear when it comes to undisputable facts.
>> No. 427951 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 5:09 pm
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>>427950
Agreed. Obfuscated gambling is still gambling.
>> No. 427953 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 5:22 pm
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>>427951

Are Panini stickers or Pokemon cards gambling?
>> No. 427955 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>427953
No more so than the supposed "avocado lottery".
>> No. 427958 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 6:29 pm
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>>427955

If a Panini sticker pack isn't gambling, then why is a FIFA Ultimate Team pack gambling?
>> No. 427959 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 6:47 pm
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>>427951
Wot about when Walkers crisps had those blue packets that might have a fiver in 'em?

Actually, was that part of the reason why they stopped? Or were teenagers just legging it out of WH Smiths with as much crisps as they could carry?
>> No. 427961 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 7:03 pm
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It's so humid. I'm such a sticky mess.
>> No. 427962 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>427961
It's going to get hotter this week.
>> No. 427963 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>427961
I had a job interview today and getting there wasn't fun. At least the building was really well air-conditioned.
>> No. 427965 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 7:46 pm
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>>427959

Money crisps weren't gambling because of the three magic works "no purchase necessary" - you could write to them or some bollocks and have an equal chance of winning without buying the crisps.

I never collected panini stickers myself (more of a baguette man - I'm here all week) but I'm quite sure you could either swap or request stickers from the company directly too?
>> No. 427969 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>427965

I think in the case of the stickers, and Magic/Pokemon cards etc, it was always more of a Kinder Surprise kind of deal. No matter what you get, you're getting something physical and tangibly valuable. You always got those power cards and what have you, even if you didn't get a fancy shiny one. It's a lot more easily understood.

With online lootboxes, you're just getting worthless data. You can't even trade them with other users, a bad draw is just money down the drain for nothing.
>> No. 427971 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 10:17 pm
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is looking increasingly similar to Harry Enfield, which is fitting really.
>> No. 427972 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 10:46 pm
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>>427971
I don't think Harry Enfield has a thing for wrapping the hair of a sleeping woman around his cock when he masturbates, though.
>> No. 427973 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 10:47 pm
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>>427969

I'd still argue TCG, stickers and booster packs are gambling. Yes, you still get something out of each pack, but you get exactly the same sort of thing in your FIFA pack or whathaveyou, you get the equivalent of energy cards and so on to use in your game. The analog/digital distinction I think doesn't change the fundamentals, that you're paying for a chance to win an exceptionally valuable card or digital item. Apparently the Wizards of The Coast have never once acknowledged that there's a secondary market in buying and selling Magic cards, as doing so would be admitting that some cards are inherently more valuable than others, by design.
>> No. 427975 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 10:55 pm
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>>427972
He might do for all I know, I don't tend to read that sort of news.
>> No. 427976 Anonymous
24th June 2019
Monday 11:05 pm
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>>427973

Yeah, I'm just saying that while it is still fairly shady, that's what kept them acceptable all this time, whereas lootboxes in games have barely lasted three or four years before people have started calling their bullshit out.

I agree with Jim Sterling's angle in that a lot of it's probably inherent to the games industry itself. When TCG and sticker collection companies did it, they knew how far they could push it and where the line was that they'd start to look unscrupulous. The games industry on the other hand doesn't give a single solitary shit, they'd be selling heroin to toddlers if it was legal.
>> No. 427983 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 3:33 am
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>>427973
For the whole CCG and sticker thing, if you're cracking packs you know what you're getting in for, but there are other ways to get what you're looking for. If you want a particular card for your deck, there's almost certainly a way of getting it. If you're missing stickers from your Panini collection, you can buy them directly from Panini. For the most part, there's a healthy social element to those hobbies. Who among us doesn't recall ad hoc swap meets on the playground with calls of "got, got, got, need"?

The loot box mechanic, being controlled entirely by the house, is less like a CCG and more like a claw machine.
>> No. 427984 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 5:02 am
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I know it's an act of profoundly tragic naval gazing, but I woke up at midnight and didn't want to watch a film, so I started reading three year old comments I'd posted on The Guardian. I can't tell if I was more intelligent back then or if the world around me was. I'm actually thinking it's the latter and that the news being a mixture of Trump and Brexit just doesn't interest me. After all there are only so many ways you can say "he's stupid" and "it's been handled badly", aren't there? Of course the world at large and myself might be getting dummer in tadem, so I will take some of the blaime.
>> No. 427987 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 6:19 am
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>>427984
The Graun seems to have spent at least the past three years trying to turn its comment section into the Two Minutes Hate, where they try to keep their readers in a constant state of rage so they'll keep posting "fuck Trump" or "fuck the Tories" every single day. At least they seem to have stopped doing that thing where they'd shoehorn Brexit completely unnecessarily into an article and give it a clickbait headline so they'd end up with thousands of foaming at the mouth "fuck Brexit" comments.

Internet debate has also got worse due to the increasing frequency of people trying to paint those who disagree with them as The Other. According to Daily Mail readers Sky News is far left because it doesn't blindly support Brexit.
>> No. 427991 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 10:27 am
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Recession, soon.
>> No. 427993 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 10:52 am
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>>427987
>The Graun seems to have spent at least the past three years trying to turn its comment section into the Two Minutes Hate
I don't agree with this and I don't even understand how you could do that with the comments section as its obviously the bit of the site where they have the least editorial control. The worst genre of comments on the Guardian are invariably the ones in the football section and they're likely the least political too.
>> No. 427994 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 11:14 am
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>>427993

>I don't even understand how you could do that with the comments section

Worse headlines, worse articles, looser moderation. The Guardian have turned around their disastrous financial situation, but they're relying far more heavily on opinion pieces and borderline clickbait. They've made a number of senior journalists redundant, cut their freelance rates, increased the number of part-time correspondents and cut their investigative budget to almost nothing.

Brexit certainly hasn't helped, but The Guardian simply contains far less news than it did five years ago. You can't start good debates with stories rewritten from Reuters or press releases, you can't start good debates with hastily-written opinion pieces by trust-fund rent-a-gobs.
>> No. 428007 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 4:17 pm
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>>427994

>but they're relying far more heavily on opinion pieces and borderline clickbait.

It's been a problem for some time now that many traditional news outlets have switched their content publication strategy from being purveyors of well-researched articles, essays and opinion pieces to simply being clickbait curators.

The press media have never fully recovered from the fact that their centuries-old business model of news distribution was thrown into upheaval with the arrival of the Internet. Even the big trusted names like the Guardian and others can no longer survive solely on the revenue generated by the work of staff writers, and of course advertising. So they have to turn to clickbait, both for the revenue and to keep up appearances that they're comprehensive news portals that serve to keep the public informed. But if you took away all the clickbait, most news sites would probably shrink in size instantly by about 50 to 60 percent.

Another problem is that many major companies with well-paid public relations departments now write entire articles for these news sites, which the news sites gladly accept with few alterations because somebody else has done all the work for them at no extra cost. This kind of covert public relations can be difficult to detect, because those affiliations are often kept a secret for the very reason that news outlets must keep up the appearance of being impartial and unbiased.
>> No. 428009 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 4:41 pm
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>>427994
I don't massively object to the Guardian doing that sort of thing since it's the trend in all journalism, and sadly one way or the other they have to keep their flagships afloat.

What I really can't stand is how this 'clickbaity' news trend has spread to the BBC news website which should have no concerns about its profitability. I used to read it religiously because it was dry, impartial, had excellent world news and world economic coverage and wasn't editorialised. It devastates me how far it's sunk due to some presumably managerial concerns about staying relevant and 'woke'. Half of its headlines are either out-of-context quotes designed to suck you into reading, or the kind of open-ended questions that are the usual fodder of tabloids. It has articles about Love Island and 4chan /pol/ memes and now considers a small handful of Twitter users complaining about something to be worthy of an entire article. The actual world news section, along with the lower-league football section, has been gutted. I imagine their analytics weren't good enough to them to justify their expense.

But the BBC shouldn't think this way. It doesn't have to fight for revenue in a crowded marketplace and so it shouldn't patronise millenials (not to mention the rest of us) by churning out a constant stream of lifestyle and popular culture articles in lieu of genuine news. Christ, looking at the front page now:

'I had no idea I was a YouTube star'
The eight hygiene hotspots in the home
Five ways women's football beats men's
'We're using a male contraceptive gel'
'I want to ban detox teas'
'What's divorce like in your twenties?'
>> No. 428010 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 5:27 pm
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>>428009

This perplexes me too.

I think the answer will be something about how it still has to keep up the appearance of competition, to justify its funding against a government that would probably rather privatise it.

I'd always thought that being a state broadcaster and mouthpiece, I can't imagine any government wanting to let go of the BBC. But we are under the same government that privatised fucking stamps, after all.
>> No. 428013 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 6:18 pm
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>>428009
The problem with the BBC is that it basically has to demonstrate value for money, meaning it finds itself following other channels and news networks by proxy despite not having a direct financial incentive to do so. What it really needs is an explicit mandate to provide the quality content and journalism that nobody wants, but everybody ought to have. Unfortunately as a society we've kind of lost this subjective sense of a sensible outsider (perhaps best realised in practice as historians looking back on the present) who could serve as the recipient of this content even if nobody actually wanted it there and then.
>> No. 428019 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 7:08 pm
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>>428013

I think that's really made difficult by people's attention span nowadays. An in-depth article that analyses a subject matter from all sides to the best of a seasoned journalist's ability needs to have readers that are prepared to follow the author's train of thought for more than just a few seconds. And then when you've scrolled halfway down and there's a clickbait article link promising "Ten ways scientists say you shouldn't clean under your foreskin", what do you expect people to do.

It's called the "F reading scheme", because the way you read a long online article resembles a capital letter F. The first few lines, you will read attentively from beginning to end, and then after a few paragraphs, you will only read half a line, and before long, you will just be scrolling down hoping to glimpse single keywords that interest you.
>> No. 428021 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 8:52 pm
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I had some black medick tonight.

Interesting taste, a bit bitter with hints of sweetness and reminiscient of green beans or raw peas.

Its edibility is debated on the Internet, but at least it appears to be non-toxic.
>> No. 428023 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 10:28 pm
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>>427577
I hope you are happy...
>> No. 428024 Anonymous
25th June 2019
Tuesday 10:29 pm
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>>428009
Added bbc.co.uk to my hosts file as 0.0.0.0 to ween myself off of it, as I'd be checking it throughout the day otherwise just out of habit. No regrets.
>> No. 428038 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 6:41 am
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>>428019
I think my solution to the low attention span of readers is to just disregard readership as a metric of success. A quality article with 5 readers who deeply appreciate and cannot substitute it is much, much more important than a poor quality one with millions of readers who could find a substitute elsewhere. It's hard to think of a specific rational defence of this inefficient practice, but to live in a world without it seems miserable. If people read the quality article F-style, so much the better - the metrics will show some engagement and more attentive people can stick to it properly.

I suppose the problem is once you start paying people to make content nobody actually reads, at some point writers might realise they don't have to make sincere effort. The mere appearance of an article that took effort might suffice since nobody will realise it's actually just long-form nonsense.
>> No. 428058 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 2:30 pm
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>>428023

I'm still looking for offers for Scunthorpe . It appears that airfares have really gone up this year. A good deal on a return flight from London to Las Palmas Airport last year including hold luggage, without seat reservations, was around £250, or even £180 if you were lucky and/or didn't go during peak season. But this year somehow, it's almost impossible to get that kind of package for under about £350.

On the upside, prices seem to go down about two weeks before a scheduled flight. So if I still want to go this summer, it is going to have to be on somewhat short notice.
>> No. 428060 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 2:46 pm
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>>428058

Blimey. Scunthorpe as a word filter for that certain island in the Canaries?

That's doing neither Scunthorpe nor that island justice.

While you're at it, just filter Las Palmas as Gibraltar.

And maybe Playa del Inglés as Hampstead Heath, because in all fairness, parts of Playa del Inglés are the biggest bumder cruising ground south of the English Channel.
>> No. 428061 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 3:38 pm
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Why are you even going to that sodding island? There are a dozen more interesting places in Spain alone.
>> No. 428062 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 4:39 pm
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>>428061

Spectacular scenery, year-round balmy temperatures (the coldest temperature ever recorded in Las Palmas was +11 degrees celsius), and it's not quite as overrun with budget package holiday tourists as some places in Majorca or the Iberic Peninsula where I have also been on holiday. Also, the natives are much more laid back than in Majorca. Which I guess isn't the Macorcans' fault, as they are outnumbered by about four to one by poorly behaved uneducated underclass tourists during peak season.

I went to Playa del Inglés for the first time ten years ago on a lads holiday and just completely fell in love with the island. I've been there about ten times since, and I seem to show no signs of getting tired of it. It's my own little paradise island.

Of course you also have your share of package holiday tourists. Like that young family from Southend one time, where the dad told me they had already spent six days in our hotel and the only time they had ventured past the hotel's entrance was to get fags and sunscreen from the Spar down the street.

Still my little paradise island.
>> No. 428063 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 4:41 pm
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>>428061

This lad goes there every year I think. On his own by the sounds. It's a bit wierd.

I remember when he first wen and made this long poverty tourism post about how the working classes act when abroad. I suspect he deeply yearns to fit in with them, and his greatest dream is to watch England play in the world cup at an English pub called the Red Lion just off the beach.
>> No. 428064 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 5:03 pm
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>>428063

Not always on my own. With one of my exes two times, then with my parents once, and that first time as I said on a lads holiday.

Also, there were years when I went two times. And other years that I didnt go at all.

And what's so bad about travelling on your own. In its own way, it can be quite fun. Between travelling alone and staying home for the simple reason that you've got nobody to travel with, the choice seems quite easy. And I'm long past the stage where I'd personally feel weird about it. Of course, if you spend every day sitting at the hotel pool feeling weird and at the same time desperate to talk to people, then yes, your holiday will be "weird" and you'll be the awkward loner.

Travelling on my own now and then has made me a more open person in actual fact. Because unlike when you're with friends or family, when you go on your own, you need to come out of your shell and talk to other people if you want to make something happen. That in itself can be a profound experience and it has also made me a more open person here at home.

So who's weird now.
>> No. 428065 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 5:21 pm
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Travelling with other people stresses me out. What if we miss the train, run out of money or something? On my own it's fine, I can hop turnstiles, sleep rough, beg or spend all day with low blood sugar. With someone else in tow it's a whole other thing.
>> No. 428066 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 5:28 pm
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>>428065

Weird - not where I was expecting this to go after the first sentence but I also get stressed with other people, not for this reason.

If it's up to me (especially thinking about flying on a plane), I'd be there earlier than needed so I can relax, account for errors and have a nice green tea and some snacks before going anywhere, but others like to turn up on the minutes for no real reason, have a whole load of stress and seem to think it has to be synchronised with downing pints.

I don't know why you'd make life more stressful than it needs to be.
>> No. 428067 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 5:31 pm
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>>428066
That too. I can catch a flight at silly o'clock in the morning if I'm on my own, just go to the airport and stay the night there. If I'm with someone then they'll get grumpy doing that, or want to stay home and leave really early, also cause for fights or at least feeling really awful doing it.
Everyone has their own preferred way to travel with the least stress and if it conflicts with that of the people you're travelling with it's a pain in the arse.
>> No. 428068 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 5:39 pm
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>>428066

Other people simply add unknowns to your schedule. If I have to leave home at 7 am to catch a flight three hours later, I know that I am personally capable of being out the door before 7:10 at the very latest even if unforeseen problems arise. But add to the mix people like one of my exes who would have realised at 6:58 that her 15 kg suitcase was too heavy and that fate-altering choices had to be made which pair of shoes to leave at home, then it can really mess up your timeline that day.
>> No. 428069 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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>>428068

I can feel the anxiety rising already.

'I just need to do my make up, I know we're just boarding a flight, I'll be 20 minutes, what's another 20 minutes?'

'My passport isn't where I left it even though you said make sure you can leave it on top of your bag so it's there'
>> No. 428070 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 7:48 pm
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>>428066

I have a weird reactive thing where the more stressed someone else is, the less stressed I become. Watching someone else panic about wanting to get to the gate an hour before the plane leaves puts it into perspective that it's not actually a big deal. When I'm alone I'm far more likely to be constantly checking, but with others I seem to want to be as nonchalant as possible - I don't really know why I do this, and it must be fucking infuriating for certain types of people.

Anyway I never travel with checked bags and I also know you can wander up to your plane at T minus 15 and waltz on with no worries so airports are the least stressful place I end up in.
>> No. 428071 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>428062
But what about Valencia or Cadiz or Cordoba or Santiago?

WHY DO YOU GET NICE THINGS AND I DON'T!?
>> No. 428072 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:10 pm
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>>428062

Who do you typically fly with?
>> No. 428073 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>428072
A pilot. How else would I get there?
>> No. 428074 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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>>428073

You need two pilots for a plane to fly, actually
>> No. 428075 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:19 pm
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>>428074
Right. Me and the other pilot makes two.
>> No. 428076 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:33 pm
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>>428075

What's the DOI of a 737-800?
>> No. 428078 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 8:49 pm
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>>428076
£2.50
>> No. 428081 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 9:04 pm
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>>428078

Oh, my apologies, Captain.
>> No. 428085 Anonymous
26th June 2019
Wednesday 10:35 pm
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I am watching Rocky III. Sylvester Stallone really can't act.
>> No. 428089 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 1:14 am
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>>428085
Works surprisingly well when the character is someone who gets hit in the head for a living.
>> No. 428091 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 1:55 am
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>>428069

>'My passport isn't where I left it even though you said make sure you can leave it on top of your bag so it's there'

I had a chat with a taxi driver a while ago and he said that in the days before paperless check in, he had countless people going to the airport where they would argue with each other, "Do you have the flight tickets? No, I don't have them. What do you mean you thought I had them?". He said sometimes he had to turn around halfway to the airport because there were misunderstandings as to who was supposed to be carrying which documents.


>But what about Valencia or Cadiz or Cordoba or Santiago?

All of them nice, but not quite Las Palmas.
>> No. 428124 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 8:52 pm
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If a fisherman's breakfast is a valid and definitely real food item that's the seafaring equivalent of a full English, would two chopped up fish fingers in mushy peas be the valid and potentially real seafaring equivalent of those tins of beans with little sausages in? Because I'm thinking of doing that for my packed lunch when I do a big walk tomorrow.
>> No. 428125 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 9:15 pm
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I'm giving the women's football a try. Why the fuck do the England band have to be there? Nobody likes them.
>> No. 428127 Anonymous
27th June 2019
Thursday 10:14 pm
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>>428125
I don't think they're even human anymore, they just magically possess a number of fans at any given England game. Technically I think this counts as a victory for equality.
>> No. 428152 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 9:24 pm
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My daughter's school have sent out a letter today saying it is going to be compulsory from September for all children to wear a school branded hoody (£16.50), shirt (£12.50) and shorts (£12.50) for PE. The kids will no longer be able to bring in their own rucksacks and must instead purchase a school branded book bag, which will probably be another tenner. It's fucking outrageous. No wonder there's parents in poverty when schools are bleeding them dry.
>> No. 428153 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 9:44 pm
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>>428124
Why just two fish fingers? You can get 8 at Iceland right now.
2 is a wastemans lunch, real mans want 8

Don't be a batty chief, shove 8 in dem peas, bruv
>> No. 428154 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 9:44 pm
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>>428153
8 FISH FINGERS AT ICELAND FOR 75P
>> No. 428155 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:11 pm
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>>428153
I just thought it would be a sensible ratio. I had three in the end anyway.

>>428152
Once a teacher took me aside to explain that uniforms were a great leveler that at least made inroads at attempting to stop income based poverty, rather than the usual spiel about work uniforms and such like, but if you can't even afford the uniforms what's the fucking point? That's honestly disgusting, or rather the system that both allows and motivates the schools to do that is disgusting.
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28th June 2019
Friday 10:13 pm
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>>428155

>Once a teacher took me aside to explain that uniforms were a great leveler that at least made inroads at attempting to stop income based poverty

That's only true if they offer it for free to anyone who can't afford it. I don't have kids so don't know if this is a thing. My school had a logo'd uniform and there's no way my mam could have afforded it so I assume it is, or was.
>> No. 428157 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:14 pm
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>>428155
Well 3 doesn't divide neatly into 8 does it now. You've forced yourself into having 5 next time, or 3, but then just a measly 2 the time after.
>> No. 428158 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:33 pm
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>>428157

You act like he's never going to buy another box of them.
>> No. 428159 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:37 pm
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>>428156
I don't disagree. You'd have to take it up with my year nine form tutor, but her reasoning was better anyone else's I'd heard up until then. It certainly doesn't hold up when the PE kit alone is costing half a week's wages, not including trainers and footy boots, and you can't shop around for a rucksack.

>>428157
I've got a box of fifteen, your four times table paradigm means nothing to me, matey.
>> No. 428160 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:49 pm
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>>428159
>It certainly doesn't hold up when the PE kit alone is costing half a week's wages, not including trainers and footy boots, and you can't shop around for a rucksack.

This is primary school and it's certainly not a well-off area; at the rate kids grow you'll be forking out at over £40 at least every two years rather than being able to get a plain white t-shirt and shorts from a supermarket for next to nothing. I don't even know how much of a cut the school gets of it.
>> No. 428161 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 10:55 pm
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>>428160

>I don't even know how much of a cut the school gets of it.

Probably almost none. Custom printed clothes aren't cheap to order, even in bulk. It's posturing or school pride or brand awareness or whatever the fuck, but they're letting the parents pay for it.

Sort of horrible, really. I bet it's not even a good logo. They never are.
>> No. 428162 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 11:09 pm
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>>428161
>I bet it's not even a good logo. They never are.

It's the Sun with another star in the middle of it.
>> No. 428163 Anonymous
28th June 2019
Friday 11:53 pm
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Good luck for tomorrow lads.
>> No. 428174 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 9:07 am
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>>428163

My missus recently rented a new office, it's above a chinese supermarket, so quite often you can smell wafts of durian. But it also has air conditioning, so I'm trying to decide if that's a risk I'm willing to take.
>> No. 428176 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 11:56 am
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It's cloudy and it's not even that hot.

Fucking bullshit
>> No. 428177 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 12:18 pm
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>>428176

It'll be chucking it down in a few hours here, massive fuck off storm most likely.
>> No. 428178 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 12:36 pm
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>>428177
I see the Irish border is already in effect.
>> No. 428179 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 12:56 pm
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>>428177

That's how it drops ten degrees overnight. It seems to happen every year.
>> No. 428213 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 10:05 pm
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>>428177
Ta for that, gonna bring my washing in
>> No. 428215 Anonymous
29th June 2019
Saturday 11:07 pm
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>>428213
I think mine smells of next door's barbecue.
>> No. 428225 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:59 am
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If you want to know when to take your washing in, keep your eye on this weather radar. It's pretty good.

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar
>> No. 428237 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 2:59 pm
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Because it was hotter than jet fuel on 9/11 yesterday there were multiple signal failures along all London routes and I got trapped on a non-moving train for an hour. Then, when we finally did get moving, someone collapsed from the heat and some moron pulled the emergency cord which grinds the train to a halt - meaning the driver had to come to the middle of the train and reset it.

Utter chaos and once I finally got off I noticed people were collapsed all over the platform. Getting the train a few hours ago there's still stopping and starting going on so good luck to anyone commuting tomorrow.
>> No. 428248 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 6:32 pm
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>>428237

Is this serious? Was it fat people or oldies or what? I know it was a bit warm but it wasn't THAT bad.
>> No. 428254 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 7:11 pm
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>>428237
Thank fuck I got myself a motorbike and only have to deal with the horrors of public transport when it's snowing.
>> No. 428261 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:05 pm
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>>428248
Saw a couple of fit lasses who couldn't have been older than mid-20s actually. As I got off in Croydon I ended up having this discussion with a black transsexual escort while having a ciggie outside (she had thought I was her client). We agreed that the problem is idiots, regardless of condition, forgetting that when it gets hot you need to take precautions - I think she is an authority on this matter given she knocks arses in for a living.

I'm mostly annoyed that someone pulled the emergency cord over someone collapsing. What did they think was going to happen?
>> No. 428262 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:22 pm
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>>428261
>Saw a couple of fit lasses who couldn't have been older than mid-20s actually.
Should have offered them something salty to drink, to replenish their electrolytes.
>> No. 428263 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:51 pm
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>>428261

>I'm mostly annoyed that someone pulled the emergency cord over someone collapsing. What did they think was going to happen?

In hot weather, they have announcements on the tube telling people not to pull the emergency brake between stations. I imagine that they don't think about it at all, they just grab the red lever and assume that someone will come and fix everything.

In fairness to people flaking out on trains, there are a lot of hidden medical issues that can make it hard for people to regulate their body temperature. I'm sure there are plenty of daft bastards who are just hungover and dehydrated, but it's probably best to extend the benefit of the doubt.
>> No. 428264 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:52 pm
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>>428261

I was a train once and there was an announcement saying for anyone who knew first aid to go to carriage B. I had an emergency first aid certificate so went and prayed I wouldn't have to do anything. It was this girl who was walking along the aisle and her legs gave way and then she couldn't speak. She was looking around and looked young and healthy. I don't know what the heck that was. She walked onto the ambulance at the next station with a paramedic holding an arm each.

I just thought of it because surely it's standard practice to meet the ambulance at the next station. I don't think the ambulance would prefer to meet the train in the middle of a tunnel or on some wasteland or wherever the cord was pulled.
>> No. 428265 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:53 pm
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I was on a train once and someone pulled it because they realised they'd forgotten their bag on the platform.
>> No. 428266 Anonymous
30th June 2019
Sunday 11:56 pm
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>>428265

In the early 2000s I was delayed at a station because they were waiting for the police to come for two lads who didn't fancy paying. They looked Japanese and were dressed sort of Manga-ish.
>> No. 428275 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 2:02 pm
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Still not sure if dogs get pointing.
>> No. 428276 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 2:19 pm
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>>428275
I certainly wouldn't let one anywhere near my brickwork.
>> No. 428277 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 2:41 pm
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>>428275

They certainly understand the concept of tracking a line from it's source- That's why you can pretend to throw a ball, and they will still bolt off in the direction you aimed.

What they don't understand is the body language inference that holding your finger out means that's where they should look. I'm pretty confident you could teach one to understand it but I'm not sure how, exactly.
>> No. 428280 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 3:10 pm
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>>428277
They certainly understand tapping something with a finger or toe to get them to pay attention to it. Some way between that and pretending to lob a ball for a far point must surely be possible. Not managed it yet with mine, but he's still a bit daft, being only 1yr old. I have hopes.
Also, dog grumble. We run a rural b&b, advertised as pet friendly.
Customer currently booked in has brought a pair of bitches, one of which is in season. It's driving my boy batty. Nothing to be done about it, really, but fuck me, I feel for the boy. He's a wreck.
>> No. 428281 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 3:42 pm
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>>428275

They don't. I'm pretty sure some dogs will look in the direction you want them to if you face your entire body towards that direction, but if you point they're just going to stare at your arm.

Aren't there those dogs that are trained to stop and face in the direction of the bird you just shot or whatever? Surely they should get it.
>> No. 428284 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 4:20 pm
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>>428281 trained to stop and face in the direction of the bird you just shot

Yeah, mine should be able to do that. The training seems to be that you progressively throw dummies further, until he trusts that you're pointing where a dummy will be, even if he can't see it. Hit rate of about 30% so far, mostly he just jumps up and dicks around, playing. But he's still only little, I reckon we'll get there. Not that either of us have any great need for it, I don't shoot and he doesn't want to do much except play. Still, it's fun.
(when I say pointing, it's my body direction, not a stretched out arm - that bit really hasn't sunk in at all). It's a bit odd, as he does go into full point mode himself when he's found stuff. Clearly doesn't associate the two).
>> No. 428312 Anonymous
1st July 2019
Monday 11:57 pm
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How much is too much drinking? The 14 units rubbish is just straight bollocks. Why can't it be more reasonable? How can you just have a pint? Who does that? I am trying to cut down from 90 units a day, and telling me that what I have in a single evening is what I should be having for the whole week is just nonsense.
>> No. 428314 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 12:05 am
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>>428312
This should probably be in the resting actor's thread.

I don't know how some of you keep it up or even keep upping your tolerance. Used to be I could put away 12+ decent strength cans and some spirits in a night then go to work the next day, lately four krobergs and I want to go to sleep then I'm feeling shit well into the next evening.
>> No. 428315 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 12:15 am
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>>428312
Apologies, that should read 90 units a week.

>>428314
4 is alright. Instead of a pint a day nonsense, I could get behind 4 strong cans per day.
>> No. 428332 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 6:15 pm
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I'm way too excited about growing entirely non-psychoactive mushrooms. They're not even going to be evident for at least six months.
>> No. 428333 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 7:19 pm
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My boss who complained at me and the team today because everybody was gone by 4.30 yesterday.

4pm is the end of core hours and my boss conveniently forgot that everybody else arrives for 8am and she arrives for 9am, so of course people are going to be leaving about an hour earlier than she is.

I will now arrive at 9am and leave at 4.30pm and do less work if we are going to have that attitude, congratulations boss, you played yourself.
>> No. 428337 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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I'm watching the lady football again. I don't know what's worse, the England brass band or the Seppos chanting 'USA! USA!'
>> No. 428338 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 8:20 pm
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I want Karen Bardsley to hold me in her strong, infeasibly long arms.
>> No. 428339 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 8:26 pm
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>>428338
I just want the Americans to lose. They're just so insufferably... American.
>> No. 428340 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 8:36 pm
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>>428339

I'm just enjoying the world-class level of arse on display. Lucy Bronze's hind parts look like two watermelons stuffed in a pillowcase.
>> No. 428341 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 9:18 pm
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>>428337
Brass band, at least the American's are doing it surreptitiously, they didn't go to the match just to do that.

>>428339
I actually quite like it, if there's a place for Americanness it's competitive sports, but you don't really see it because they usually only play their American only games against one another, or they're shite like their men's footy team. Also I want to marry Rapinoe.

I'll stop being nice to Americans before I get myself shitcanned now.
>> No. 428343 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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Why don't they get the woman who scores all the goals to take the penalties?
>> No. 428344 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 9:54 pm
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>>428343
It's against the rules to have a player from the opposing side take your penalty.
>> No. 428345 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 9:57 pm
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Fuck sake. Just score some fucking goals, it's not hard.
>> No. 428346 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 9:59 pm
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What's the equivalent word of bloke but for women? Is it bird?
>> No. 428347 Anonymous
2nd July 2019
Tuesday 10:03 pm
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>>428345
It's the sloppy passing and decision-making that gets me. It's as infuriating as watching an under-12 boy's game.
>> No. 428355 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 11:58 am
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>>428347

> It's as infuriating as watching an under-12 boy's game

Michael Jackson would have called that a fun day out.

Can't believe it's been ten years since he got recycled passed away.
>> No. 428366 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 3:00 pm
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>>428347
Go bum Ronaldo and the rest of the Champions League then, fair-weather cunt.
>> No. 428369 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 4:23 pm
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I used the Amazon subscribe and save option for a discount when I bought a thing of Bacon Fries last month, but forgot to cancel the subscription afterwards. I'm sure this is exactly how they want it to work, and now I'm getting another thing of Bacon Fries sometime today, and I'll probably have eaten half of them by the end of the week.

This modern world is scary and confusing.
>> No. 428370 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 4:50 pm
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>>428366
>fair-weather cunt

What? The English team were frequently passing it to the opposition, losing control of the ball under no pressure whatsoever, scuffing the ball, making the wrong decisions and either ball watching or being out of position in defence. Millie Bright was by far the worst offender and it's a wonder she appeared in so many matches.

I've seen enough Evo-Stik football to know that they would get absolutely mullered by Ossett United.
>> No. 428372 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 5:24 pm
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I find it interesting that the whole "girl power, they should send the lionesses to the men's world cup!" attitude has vanished overnight since they lost to the Yanks, of all teams.
>> No. 428373 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 5:43 pm
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>>428366
England did better than expected really, you've got your insults mixed up. It's not his fault women's football just isn't very good.
>> No. 428374 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 5:44 pm
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>>428372
Has anyone ever actually said this? The only silliness I've heard is the claim that they should be paid equally despite the mens game making exponentially more revenue.
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3rd July 2019
Wednesday 5:50 pm
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>>428374

There have been a few posts along those lines on the usual social networking sites, yes.

I do half suspect it was a viral marketing effort rather than an opinion anyone has seriously held, though. I noticed a few people who usually don't give a shit about football at all going on about it too, which I found rather telling.

Sage before we end up in one of those threads.
>> No. 428377 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 6:11 pm
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>>428374
It's the usual knobheads on Twitter. People who are essentially willing it to be true; they want to believe it rather than actually believing it.

I think field hockey is the only game where I find it truly enjoyable to watch female competitors and not just for the fantastic thighs on display. It's played with an actual intensity whereas last night England were minutes away from going out of a World Cup semi-final and still daren't throw players forward in chase of an equaliser.
>> No. 428378 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 8:46 pm
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Oh Hoog, the girls aren't half as cute (or as willing to get their kit off) these days
>> No. 428379 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 9:31 pm
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I just walked past a slightly older-model New Beetle on my way home with a sticker on the bootlid that read "Smash Capitalism".

You're not even having a laugh, Newbeetlelad.
>> No. 428381 Anonymous
3rd July 2019
Wednesday 9:56 pm
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>>428377

I think I've said before on here that I think women's cycling is much better to watch than the men's, particularly track and criterium racing - they seem to be faster paced, more aggressive racers. It stands to reason as both the racers and their bikes are smaller and lighter, meaning they have better, faster cornering and potentially punchier sprints.



I'll say nothing of the thighs.
>> No. 428386 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 12:06 am
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>>428381

The women's world record for the 4000m team pursuit is slower than the men's world record for the 4000m individual pursuit. Four women sharing the pacemaking are slower than one bloke with a preposterous moustache.
>> No. 428387 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 12:12 am
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>>428386

And I have faster segments than my literal professional cyclist girlfriend, but that's besides the point I was making about crit cornering and short sprinting, innit.

Also, it's been proven that facial hair gives an aero advantage, so it's to be expected.
>> No. 428399 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 8:33 am
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>>428386
Do you really watch competitive cycling for the total time elapsed? You might as well hold a stop watch in each hand and see which one you press stop on first. The same goes for anyone watching football for the pass completion ratio or the expected goals stat.
>> No. 428400 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 8:37 am
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>>428399
>The same goes for anyone watching football for the pass completion ratio or the expected goals stat.

It's wrong to expect to see quality when you watch football?
>> No. 428407 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 12:01 pm
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>>428386

I think in pretty much every sport or competitive pursuit, they had to lower the bar for women.

Just look at chess tournaments.
>> No. 428414 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 1:22 pm
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>>428407
Why can't women compete at chess? It's not like they're at a physical disadvantage to men.
>> No. 428417 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 2:05 pm
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>>428414

https://new.uschess.org/news/should-womens-chess-titles-be-eliminated/

>“Physical strength and therefore the ability to concentrate and thus not to make mistakes is higher in men’s chess and that’s also another reason why, in the long term, men are showing greater results.”


These words, from a women's chess grandmaster, must have fisherpersons frothing.

Why not just give them pink board pieces as well.
>> No. 428418 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 2:19 pm
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I keep seeing headlines talking about how "horny" the new series of Stranger Things is and I just can't explain how little I want to watch pretend 80's fourteen year olds flirt, not with words at least, perhaps with dance, but .gs doesn't accommodate the uploading of emotions as a physical motion of the body so it's a moot point.
>> No. 428419 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 2:20 pm
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>>428418
Fingers crossed it just means they've made the upside down things sexy
>> No. 428420 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 2:26 pm
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>>428418
Check this out (NSFW)
https://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/2048633
https://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/2392061
>> No. 428431 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 4:00 pm
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>>428414
As I recall, women were given the option of simply joining mens chess but declined infavour of their own tournaments/rankings. Better to be a big fish in a small pond I guess.

I hate to generalise but there's clearly something more than nurture which explains the overrepresentation of men in fields like programming, mathematics and chess. I think men have a greater capacity to become blindly obsessed with systems and I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that men are more likely to lie on the autistic spectrum.
>> No. 428435 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 4:04 pm
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>>428431
>I hate to generalise but there's clearly something more than nurture which explains the overrepresentation of men in fields like programming, mathematics and chess.
Paedocrabs, m7.
>> No. 428438 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 4:27 pm
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>>428431

>As I recall, women were given the option of simply joining mens chess but declined infavour of their own tournaments/rankings. Better to be a big fish in a small pond I guess.

There is no "men's chess" - there are women-only tournaments and titles, but women are free to compete in all tournaments and receive non-gendered titles. There is currently one woman in the overall top 100, Hou Yifan.

Prior to her retirement, Judit Polgár refused to play in women-only events and achieved a peak ranking of 8th in the world; the Polgár sisters are, to put it mildly, a bit odd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
>> No. 428442 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 4:58 pm
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>>428438
Bear in mind that the rating system favours a larger player pool, and so the women's ranking is not directly comparable to the general ranking.
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4th July 2019
Thursday 5:09 pm
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Hmm, this made me wonder how a chap I went to school with was getting on. He was quite good at chess.
Top 100, peak rating of 2693 , now just plays as a hobby, does IT for a living, says stalkopedia.
Good lad, nice to see he stayed relatively sane.
>> No. 428472 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 9:26 pm
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>>428442
I believe that was her overall ranking. She was the best rated female player for years.
>> No. 428475 Anonymous
4th July 2019
Thursday 9:46 pm
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>>428472
The ratings are a bit funny like that. If you have women currently competing in women's tournaments, you can't really compare their ratings to those competing in open tournaments. For example, a current female player competing mainly in women-only tournaments and having a 2500 is not really comparable to a current male player competing mainly in open tournaments with a 2500, and neither are really comparable to a player years in the past who may have had a 2500. IIRC, Carlsen's current rating is higher than Kasparov's ever was, but I don't think you could legitimately say that Carlsen is the better of the two given that they were up against entirely different fields.
>> No. 428628 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 4:50 pm
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Settle an argument, /b/. If someone told you that they had been kicked in the bollocks by the Dalai Lama, would you sympathise, or assume that they had done something to deserve it?
>> No. 428629 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>428628
I'd tell them to stop making shit up.
>> No. 428630 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 6:15 pm
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At Wimbledon today Coco Gauff has admitted she wasn't at 100% due to period pains. Is that why women's tennis is so inconsistent? I suppose if a Grand Slam lasts for two weeks then a not inconsiderate number of competitors will be on the blob at some point during it.
>> No. 428634 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>428630

There must have been the same problem at the women's World Cup.
>> No. 428635 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 7:25 pm
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>>428634
Tampon stops play.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ji2PQBonaA
>> No. 428637 Anonymous
8th July 2019
Monday 9:46 pm
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>>428628
Dalai Lama always seemed a bit of a twat to me, but not the kick you in the balls kind.
>> No. 428643 Anonymous
9th July 2019
Tuesday 2:41 am
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>>428630
To be fair, she's only 15 and it's known to be worse in the first few years. If true, she was effectively playing the whole match with a cramp.
>> No. 428644 Anonymous
9th July 2019
Tuesday 2:56 am
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>>428634

11 Girls No Cup
>> No. 428645 Anonymous
9th July 2019
Tuesday 4:06 am
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>>428644
... And One Semi.
>> No. 428664 Anonymous
9th July 2019
Tuesday 11:09 pm
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>>428635

wasnt even a used one.

Tampons don't just pop out of a lass's minge like a champagne cork when she gets a blow in the guts. Or like one of those push rockets with an air pillow that you had as a child.

What was the point of being fussy with it and using a plastic bag as a glove to pick it up. It was probably still in cellophane. Unless my small smartphone screen is deceiving me.
>> No. 428819 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 4:33 pm
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Just finished repainting the radiator in the bathroom. It's right next to and in the splash zone of the toilet bowl, so it develops a certain amount of surface rust now and then. But it also means that I can't have a wee in the toilet bowl for as long as it takes the paint to dry, so I will probably have to go in the shower.

Being a bachelor isn't the worst thing in the world.
>> No. 428820 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 4:57 pm
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>>428819
Put up a temporary piss shield.
>> No. 428822 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 5:05 pm
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>>428819

Just sit down on the loo for a piss, mate. Treat yourself.
>> No. 428825 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 5:55 pm
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>>428819
You could just sit down. It doesn't drop off and become a fanny if you do.
>> No. 428826 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 5:58 pm
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>>428822


>> No. 428827 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 5:58 pm
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I'd piss in the sink if it was me.
>> No. 428828 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 6:26 pm
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>>428827

I piss in the sink all the time because it saves me about three feet on a round trip. I'm always doing what I can to save energy- Less water waste from flushing too. I just have to run the tap for a quick rinse.

Luckily I'm a bachelor too, so my girlfriend can't tell me off. If she tried, I'd tell her to fuck off, because it's my sink and I'll piss in it if I bloody well want. Being a bachelor is great.
>> No. 428830 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 6:42 pm
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>>428825

That's one of the luxuries of living alone. Nobody gets to tell me to sit down for a wee, and I can rightfully say that I clean up my own piss.

Didn't fly when I still lived with one of my exes. She spent a year in Germany during uni, and since then swore by what's apparently the norm there, expecting men to wee sitting down.

For the record, I did do a lot of the cleaning between us. And never really complained much when I had to take out the little feminine hygiene products bin.

How can you say no when someone says to you, "Oh well, your knob doesn't seem to mind a bit of blood now and then".
>> No. 428833 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 6:48 pm
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>>428830

I don't know why you're treating standing up to piss as a great point of pride. Sitting down is easier and more luxurious. I doubt I'll ever break the habit of standing for a piss, but if my radiator needed to be piss free for a day or two I'd manage to sit down for one and enjoy it. I'd probably post here while I was there.
>> No. 428834 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 6:54 pm
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>>428833

all I can say is, it was actually an oddly fun thing to do ten minutes ago to piss in my shower/bathtub combo. Just something I never thought I'd do. Almost made me feel like a rebel.

Drying progress on the radiator is as expected, the instructions on the tin say more or less to turn the radiator up all the way for an hour or two as soon as touching the paint no longer leaves fingerprints, and that's what I will do in a few minutes.
>> No. 428835 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 7:03 pm
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If I had my own radio show I'd call it "Crackers & Cheese." I'd play some absolute crackers and a little slice of cheese.
>> No. 428837 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 7:09 pm
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>>428835

That just sounds like Radio 2 with extra steps.
>> No. 428838 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>428835
When I volunteered for my uni's student radio station, we had 3 seperate show applications with the title "Bangers and Mash".
>> No. 428839 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>428837
>That just sounds like Radio 2 with fewer sex offenders.

FTFY.
>> No. 428840 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 7:16 pm
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>> No. 428844 Anonymous
15th July 2019
Monday 9:10 pm
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>>428840
I quote this all the time to my m8s, but I've never made the connection until now. Fuck, I could have made some right jingles for them.
>> No. 428872 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 12:40 pm
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I'm happy Khan, not that one, stopped the construction of "The Tulip". It looks like a sex toy and not a very aesthetically pleasing one; it had little beads on it and everything.
>> No. 428877 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 1:25 pm
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>>428872

Right. We can't have buildings looking like a sex toy.
>> No. 428880 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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>>428877
It's bullet shaped, so it's general enough to get by. If it had a pair of bunny years sticking out a quarter of the way up, I'd give you that, but it doesn't. Maybe they could install some as viewing decks. Imagine the view.
>> No. 428883 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>428880
>imagine the view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsJAXtrUWLs
>> No. 428884 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 7:10 pm
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>>428883
I was envisaging it going into a massive fanny, but yeah, that too.
>> No. 428885 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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>>428880

It'd probably be enough to paint the tip pink. And then a dark line running down one side of the tip.
>> No. 428886 Anonymous
16th July 2019
Tuesday 10:51 pm
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I was happy too. I do think the design is pretty ugly. Though I do think all skyscrapers are phallic.

Besides, the tulip feels woefully European. Shouldn't we be going for something more Brexit inclined? The Patriot's Tower? The Beans on Toast Building? 69 saville Street?
>> No. 428887 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 12:33 am
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>>428886
V for Victory.
>> No. 428893 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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I got complimented today for my framed Matrix movie poster in my livingroom by a 20something British Gas hipsterlad who was here to have a look at my boiler to get it repaired. He said, "Oh, you like vintage sci fi?"

I bought that poster and the frame as a younglad pretty much around the time part 1 came out, and it has been a constant in every one of my livingrooms ever since. And there was actually a time when friends asked me if I didn't want to take down that tacky poster, seeing as the sequels were such a disappointment and the movie was generally dated.

Kind of a strange feeling when somebody like 20something boilerlad who could barely have a poo on his own in 1999 now considers it a "vintage movie" and thinks it's a cool thing to have in your livingroom.
>> No. 428894 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 3:14 pm
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>>428893

I was 9 when it came out and I certainly wouldn't call it vintage. He must have been barely scraping into his 20s or just not know what vintage means.

I'd say you've got to go back at least as far as the 70s before you can start to call it vintage. I'm going to say Alien will have to be the cut-off point.
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17th July 2019
Wednesday 3:46 pm
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>>428894

I didn't ask him his age, but my guess was that boilerlad was in his early to mid 20s. Seemed about right, from his appearance.


> I'm going to say Alien will have to be the cut-off point

I would go as far as counting in part 2. 1986 was 33 years ago, mind.

But yeah, I would call the first Matrix movie a classic at best. Vintage doesn't feel right for it yet as a description. But I guess in your early 20s, you're not fully clued into those finer points yet.
>> No. 428896 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 3:58 pm
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I remember the Turner Classic Movies channel playing Nightmare on Elm Street in the early 2000s and I disapproved because it was only from the 80s.
>> No. 428897 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 3:58 pm
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>>428894

For every generation, "vintage" means "before I was born" and "classic" means "the stuff I grew up with".
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17th July 2019
Wednesday 4:35 pm
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>>428897

I wasn't alive when the original star wars movies came out, I wouldn't have thought about them as vintage, but recently I have started to.

I think the key detail is how things have changes around them in comparison and varies from medium to medium.

Music (back when I listened to the radio at least), had a shelf life of about 2 years before it was considered old. A house can go passed 60 years before we consider it so, a pub better have been built in at least the 19th century.


What dates sci-fi more than other things is the world within them, and how that technology matches up with the modern world (we can no longer relate to the idea of being stuck in the year 1999 and that automatically dates it). I will grant you it is a little weird to hear it from an adult the matrix, but something like back to the future HAS to be vintage now given it settings.


I think the other details are more subtler, stories are told differently now by Hollywood. something like the matrix probably looks like a quaint character piece to a generation that grew up watching the Michael Bay transformers, with it's gaudy visuals that over ride all other aspects of the film. I certainly know when I re-watched the terminator the other day it felt strangely quaint and understated.
>> No. 428899 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 5:04 pm
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>>428898

I think the big watershed for sci fi was the Digital Revolution from the mid-90s, both in the way it influenced sci-fi storylines and in terms of special effects. One of the earliest examples was The Lawnmower Man from 1992, as well as to a lesser extent the Terminator 2 movie. The Lawnmower Man was lauded for its computer graphics, although they look very pedestrian now even compared to Terminator 2 (I think The Lawnmower Man was done on a humble Amiga 3000 workstation).

Both films feature some concept of global computer networks, but it wasn't until the mid-90s with movies like The Net starring Sandra Bullock that the newly emerged world wide web was enough of a common-knowledge concept to carry a whole movie premise from beginning to end.

The Matrix wasn't really groundbreaking in that respect, and other than giving us Bullet Time, all the Wachowski brothersisters did was that they latched onto a whole smorgasboard of ideas that were floating about in popular culture at the time and cooked them down into something that appeared like a whole new idea.

Even the idea of Skynet changed over the course of the Terminator installments. In part 1, it was more an abstract concept. In part 2, Skynet was a military computer network that became self aware, and by part 3, Skynet had infiltrated the open Internet as we knew it by then.

So yeah, I think vintage sci fi is really more films that came out before the Digital Revolution.
>> No. 428902 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 8:49 pm
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>>428893

>the sequels were such a disappointment and the movie was generally dated

The sequels I can understand, but I calling it dated feels weird. That's like saying Terminator 2 or Aliens felt dated by the end of the 90s, when they're both still classic action films. Your pals are rubbish.
>> No. 428904 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 8:56 pm
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>>428902
There are no Matrix sequels. There is only one Matrix film.
>> No. 428905 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 9:45 pm
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>>428904

No, there's three, but the last two aren't very good.
>> No. 428909 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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>>428902

I think it's dated in that it's no longer as culturally relevant as it was for a number of years. The whole kind of Matrix chique, certain styles of clothing and sunglasses in particular as well as general aesthetics, that was something that was hot shit when it happened, but then the whole visual media imitated and emulated it, and kind of rode the Matrix's idiosyncratic tropes to death.

It did define the late nineties and early noughties, but it just really feels like that moment in time has passed. Pop culture has moved on, as has most of sci fi.
>> No. 428913 Anonymous
17th July 2019
Wednesday 11:35 pm
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I had to venture outside London for a couple of days and I've had to book an emergency session with my psychiatrist for the PTSD I now have from being exposed to so many friendly and open English people.
>> No. 428914 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 12:11 am
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Films like The Matrix and Fight Club really fuck me up to watch nowadays, not only because I grew up with them, but because I now realise how influential stuff like that was on who I am and how I see the world. That and a steady diet of Command and Conquer and X Files. Men in black, UFOs, cryptids and shady government dealings. Don't trust the man. That's just my entire personality in a nutshell and it stings to confront it.

I just feel deeply mournful, somehow, when I consider that so did plenty of other lads from my generation. Look how it turned out. Look what the "red pill" means in a modern cultural context. Look what Anonymous has done with itself. Look where our conspiracy theories got us. I'm equally as proud that whole mindset has permeated the mainstream, as I am disappointed and aggrieved.
>> No. 428918 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 1:07 am
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>>428902

Aliens wasn't expressly set in the year 1999

And T2 was only 9 years old at that point as opposed to the 20 Matrix is now. If you asked me if T2 felt dated in 2009, in a lot of ways yes but the characters in it are a shit load more stronger than the matrix, matrix hit on some sort of zeitgeist perfectly but now with the eyes of an older man I see that underneath it is a story of very silly broody superstitious 2D characters.

Where as when you strip down Aliens and T2 with the eyes of an older soul you find a huge amount of character depth, they are both weirdly films about family, one about being a mother suffering loss, and one about absent fathers and lonely damaged characters regaining a family connection if only for a while. I know that seems stupid thing to take away from high action kill fests with a long list of quotable one liners but it is the kind of notes that make it stick with you once the adrenaline rush wares off and you are bein snobbish about these things in later life.


>>428914
> Look where our conspiracy theories got us. I'm equally as proud that whole mindset has permeated the mainstream, as I am disappointed and aggrieved.


I don't know how to tell you this but everything you named was rather mainstream. If anything they got less mainstream for a while post 9/11 when people realized that pretending the government was in total control and omnipotent was toxic for handling the truth of the situation. Area 51 seems to be back in the public consciousness maybe we finally stopped having the 80s revival and moved into the 90s one.
>> No. 428919 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 1:13 am
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>>428918

>I don't know how to tell you this but everything you named was rather mainstream.

Well, yes, but I was more referring to the weird online counter-culture that came out of that era. The whole hackers on steroids thing. Going from something most people couldn't comprehend, to a daily aspect of almost everyone's lives, without anyone ever noticing where it had changed. I didn't articulate it very well.

That's just the way of pop culture though innit.
>> No. 428920 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 6:15 am
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>>428913

Did you go to the costa del sol or something?
>> No. 428923 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 10:32 am
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>>428920
Large Canary Island.
>> No. 428924 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 10:54 am
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>>428923

What a genuinely hilarious joke.
>> No. 428927 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 11:11 am
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>>428914

The Red Pill movement is just emblematic of a segment of the population that existed long before The Matrix came out. You had an undercurrent of these conpiracy theorist types for a long time who thought everyone else around them was crazy for not growing wise to the fact that the whole world around you is a scam.

And then The Matrix with its poorly thrown together New Age philosophy came along, and they thought finally somebody was popularising that general idea. When in reality, those thoughts expressed in The Matrix were not really much more than throwaway regurgitated pop culture statements. Everyone of us has in some form or another always suspected that governments can't be trusted, and it's no coincidence that the Agents in the Matrix look like the kind of secret agents that you see protecting high-value targets like top politicians at public functions.

So the thing isn't that these ideas don't exist in the public's minds. Or that maybe they've even got a point. It's just that a particular segment of the general population has hijacked the idea of the red pill for its own screwy world view.

As a slightly olderlad, all I can say is, it's not always a good idea to join or associate yourself with a movement whose two main kinds of ideological fuel are a general, unchannelled anger at the world and the idea that everyone else must be forced to accept the secret knowledge that that group believes it is in possession of.
>> No. 428928 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 12:44 pm
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>>428914
> Look what the "red pill" means in a modern cultural context.
Pretty much the same thing it used to mean, besides also being a name for a MRA+PUA off-shot.
>> No. 428932 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 8:19 pm
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I need to buy a new jacket, but I feel strangely out of the loop about it. Everything seems like chav brands aimed at teenagers or brands aimed at middle aged men, with very little in between.
>> No. 428936 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 11:53 pm
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>>428932
Buying a new jacket is daunting. I've been putting it off for years. It feels like such a defining item.
>> No. 428937 Anonymous
18th July 2019
Thursday 11:57 pm
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>>428936

What an odd metrosexual crisis. Just buy the one that is most practical that doesn't make you look like a hobo.
>> No. 428938 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 6:51 am
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>>428937

>Just buy the one that is most practical that doesn't make you look like a hobo.

Sorry, could you repeat that? I can't hear you over all the pockets on your cargo shorts.
>> No. 428939 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 10:36 am
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>>428938

It must be tragic to go through life so concerned about what others think of you.
>> No. 428941 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 11:25 am
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>>428939

Agreed.

Just buy what you feel comfortable wearing, and which doesn't make you stick out too much like a sore thumb. There's no point dressing in the height of fashion, when it's something that you don't feel comfortable in. If you care about how you appear towards others and about self projection, then you're far better off buying a bland looking jacket that you enjoy wearing, than something that's this season's hot item but you just keep asking yourself what you were thinking when you bought it.

I bought an American-style varsity jacket once as a teenlad, there was a time in the early 90s when they were the must-have item here in Britain. I felt proud as punch on the way home from the shop, but then after a few days of looking at myself in the mirror while wearing it, I just thought, God, I look so fucking stupid, this is so not my style". My parents weren't pleased that I was just tossing a £50 jacket to the side like that after barely a week of wearing it. 50 quid was a whole lot of money back then for a coat, for a teenlad anyway. Adjusted for inflation, it'd be around £110 today according to the Internet. My parents then ended up selling it to the neighbour's kid for 40. He looked just as stupid in it to me, but he seemed to like it. The shop wouldn't take it back, because they said I started wearing it right when I left there.
>> No. 428945 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 1:03 pm
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One of the managers running another department at work is quite weird.

She refuses to train her team properly because she's too busy and never communicates changes or anything important to them, so they're in a continuous state of crossed wires. They're all shit scared of getting a bollocking from her so they rigidly stick to checklists even when it makes no real sense from a logical or commercial perspective.

When something goes wrong she makes a point of dealing with it all herself and refuses to let anyone help her; she makes a point of saying things like if she wants something done properly she'll have to do it herself. She complains about how much she has to do and makes herself a complete martyr by doing things like only taking a third of her annual leave entitlement (it is not paid in lieu).

To too it all off she lives with her sister. I don't get it. Unlock the fucking workplace annoyances thread.
>> No. 428947 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>428945
> Unlock the fucking workplace annoyances thread.
Amen to that.
>> No. 428948 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 1:49 pm
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>>428945

>She refuses to train her team properly because she's too busy and never communicates changes or anything important to them

That is litterally her fucking job. She should be fired, and the person who put her in that postition should be fired, that's how ill suited I think she is at her job, based on what you said.

she is a manager, she manages, the clue is in the title and it is only one word.


>>428947

GENTLEMEN, THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
>> No. 428950 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 5:29 pm
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>>428947
Wait, unlock the thread with 3500 posts? Were you not here when threads had a hard limit in the hundreds?

Consider yourself lucky and stop complaining like some hoes.


>> No. 428951 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 5:32 pm
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>>428947
Just start a new one.
>> No. 428952 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 5:35 pm
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>>428950
>Were you not here when threads had a hard limit in the hundreds?

When was that? I've been here since 2010 and can't recall that. Then again, we didn't really have megathreads outside of the likes of Moaty and the London riots.
>> No. 428956 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 5:58 pm
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>>428952
The Moaty thread has 801 replies. The last but one is from marple refusing to extend the post limit any further.
>> No. 428960 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 8:26 pm
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>>428956
Longer threads on gs is his legacy.
>> No. 428962 Anonymous
19th July 2019
Friday 9:06 pm
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>>428956
>The last but one is from marple refusing to extend the post limit any further.

By the end it was just flogging a dead roid raging police hating ginger tree surgeon horse.
>> No. 428990 Anonymous
20th July 2019
Saturday 11:12 pm
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>>426568

They have https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ now.
>> No. 428991 Anonymous
20th July 2019
Saturday 11:14 pm
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I guess the impressive headwear isn't limited to thispersondoesnotexist.com.
>> No. 428995 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 1:39 am
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>>428991
I think Gordon Freeman fights that at the end of Half-Life.
>> No. 429005 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 11:46 am
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>>428995

I dont remember him, I remember me fighting my way through xen. And a bunch of so called scientists who couldn't get my bloody name right.
>> No. 429006 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 11:47 am
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>>429005
How many of them did you know by name?
>> No. 429009 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 12:04 pm
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>>429006
I didn't think to ask, I was getting shot at most of the time.
>> No. 429014 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 12:12 pm
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>>429009
So were they but at least they made the effort.
>> No. 429021 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 4:32 pm
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>>429014
They didn't save the world though did they, or whatever the hell the plot is.
>> No. 429022 Anonymous
21st July 2019
Sunday 6:18 pm
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One of my friends is going to NZ with another friend and has invited me to come but given me a short deadline to decide.

I'd love to go and it's once in a life kind of thing but it's like 1500 for flights and probably another 1500 all included really for everything else.

I am planning to quit my job and travel in maybe a year so I'm not sure whether or not to drop the 3k and YOLO or save it in case I go travel so I've got a substantial amount more.
>> No. 429070 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 9:23 pm
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It is too cunting hot.
>> No. 429072 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 10:38 pm
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How do you ask a sexually active woman if she's clean without sounding rude?
>> No. 429074 Anonymous
22nd July 2019
Monday 10:53 pm
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>>429022
Realistically you could buy much more fun with that 3k than New Zealand. Depends on how decent a time the two others are but I'd read you travel diary across the Middle East.

Be sure to buy yourself an acoustic guitar and sing Wonderwall at any hostels you stay in. The other guests will love it.
>> No. 429077 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 12:08 am
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>>429072

You can't. The closest you can get is something along the lines of "I really respect you and I'd be mortified if you caught anything from me, so before we take the rubber off let's both get tested". It has to be a mutual better-safe-than-sorry thing, but even then you're treading on thin ice.

>>429074

>Be sure to buy yourself an acoustic guitar and sing Wonderwall at any hostels you stay in. The other guests will love it.

And people wonder why backpackers get murdered.
>> No. 429091 Anonymous
23rd July 2019
Tuesday 6:37 am
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>>429077
>murdered

The correct term is mercy killing.
>> No. 453072 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 1:32 am
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>>429077
> before we take the rubber off
And there's your first mistake. It's not just there to prevent STDs, it also prevents pregnancy. Unless you are committed enough to want a child together, you'd better wrap your Johnson. What you indicate by taking the Johnny off, is: it's up to you, you take all the responsibility, and I don't care what it does to you. Unless you had the snip, it behooves you to wear a rain coat on your member.
>> No. 453087 Anonymous
7th August 2022
Sunday 11:28 am
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>>453072
This is a very old thread you've bumped. I thought I recognised the Honey Monster.
>> No. 453415 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 5:31 pm
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>>453072
Your mistake is to assume I'd have any qualms or difficulty disappearing into the night if she so chose to inflict that on herself.
>> No. 453421 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 8:52 pm
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The lass I'm shagging is hesitant to use any form of contraception, and while she insists she doesn't want kids, it is beginning to become concerning.

I'm going to have to start just spaffing in her gob.
>> No. 453422 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 9:47 pm
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>>453421
Not only is this a mid-week thread, but it pre-dates COVID, you daft sod.
>> No. 453423 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 10:51 pm
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>>453422

So why the fuck are you having a go at me and not the last five posters who bumped it, you short bald foreign retard.
>> No. 453424 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 11:24 pm
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>>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.
>> No. 453425 Anonymous
20th August 2022
Saturday 11:41 pm
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>>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?
>> No. 453426 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 12:33 am
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>>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.
>> No. 453427 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 12:55 am
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>>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.
>> No. 453435 Anonymous
21st August 2022
Sunday 5:39 pm
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>>453422
Tbf, it's nice to do a bit of time travel to the world before. Look how care free most of this was.

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