My girlfriend is seriously considering entering one of those house raffle competitions. The location isn't actually listed on the entry page, but I'm fairly certain it's one of those new builds next to Dewsbury Rams stadium. For actual fuck's sake.

Perhaps a controversial opinion, but oven chips in a butty I feel are far superior to even the best chippy equivalent - I haven't had one for years (haven't had oven chips for years, actually) but I really, really want one now.

I also have no fucking idea what day it is. I think it might be tuesday?

>>441560
I'd say the issue with a chip butty from a chippy is the bread they use. Chippy chips on bread from my bread bin would be optimal for me.

It's Monday and 'editions' is an otherplace thing. This is madness.

>>441562

Welcome to the "new normal". It's all downhill from here.

>>441562
>'editions' is an otherplace thing

We've been doing it for years. From a quick look in the catalogue:

>>423374
>New weekend thread. First weekend of the year edition.

>>424669
>Weekend thread: bangers and mash edition.

>>428949
>New weekend thread: Highland Toffee edition

>>431786
>New midweek thread: Let's enter Robot Wars edition.

There's no need to be a poseur and hint we should stop using one of the commonly accepted formats for this kind of thread, that has been used for years, because you've suddenly decided if other places now use it we should stop.

>>441558
That is a tremendous looking chip butty. You've made me hungry and I'm supposed to be avoiding carbs. DAMN YOU.

>>441564

I propose that we merge all of the threads quoted in this post into one thread.

>>441564
I like how they're all over a period of several months in 2019 for slightly different topics.

>>441564

To be fair, all of the examples you've cited were from 2019. I do seem to remember it going back a bit longer than that but it was almost definitely an import from the other place that was just allowed to slide. Regardless, it's hardly the most offensive thing that could leak over from there.

On the other hand there are plenty of lads on here who would happily get rid of all the "mega-threads" altogether, not just the ones that are posted on the wrong day of the week or whatever.

Personally I think the board is slow enough to warrant their use - I mean I'd rather post about Disenchantment part three in a more recent "what are you watching now" mega-thread than dig up the long dead thread from 2018 when the first part was released.

>>441568

>it was almost definitely an import from the other place

You'd only know that if you went to the other place, and none of the rest of us do, so you're definitely imagining it, outlander.

>>441568
Last time we went properly meta (>>420448) the consensus seemed to be that general threads are a bit shit, but the major issue is that people don't tend to create new threads otherwise so there isn't much of an alternative; they're a necessary evil to keep activity going.

>>441570

Considering the fact that this place was originally built by britchan refugees I would wager that a fairly high percentage of the original users of this site have had exposure to the other place at some point or other.

I'd wager even higher than the majority of newer users (I do believe we get some, even if it's only very occasionally) would have found this place from there. There are the people who turn up from there other place and make a big song and dance about it but I suspect there is a small but non-zero number who find us through there, lurk for a bit, and decide they like it here and eventually more or less blend in, bringing with them things like "XYZ Edition" that eventually merge harmlessly enough with our existing board culture.

The primary crossover boards here used to be krautchan and ylilauta but I'm pretty sure we have more funchan users than you'd imagine. Do you really expect me to believe that all those Warhammerlads never ever take even a peek at /tg/?

>>441571
>the major issue is that people don't tend to create new threads otherwise so there isn't much of an alternative; they're a necessary evil to keep activity going

I've long suspected that the common denominator on here was a shyness.

>>441575

I think I lurked the board for about a year before I first posted because, due to the massive number of bans I saw handed out for things like minor spelling or grammar mistakes, I was convinced that I'd be permamegabanned if I ever tried to post here.

I probably didn't realise at the time that the majority were comedy or relatively short-term bans.

>>441572

I was only joking.

If you want to really despair, search for mentions of britfa.gs on twitter and/or redit.

>>441577
> If you want to really despair, search for mentions of britfa.gs on twitter and/or redit.

Thanks for the nightmare fuel. I'll save that for one of those days where you sit around listening to the Smiths and Leonard Cohen while stubbing out fags on your legs.

>>441575
I think you're right. A lot of the time there's quite a few of us lurking but waiting for someone else to make a post that we can then reply to. New general threads lead to an uptick in posts that, for whatever reason, people wouldn't have made to the previous general thread.

I've just heard that there's going to be another fucking hairdressers in the middle of Beeston so I'll cheer myself up by seeing what has been posted about here on Twatter.

First result is from a furry. That's enough of that.

>>441575

It might be just me, but there's a weird thing here where it's anonymous, which is why I like it, but it's also small and niche enough that people start picking things up about you, and there's no sense of blending into a heaving mass like you have on 4chan.

It's both good and bad, in that there's actually a sense of community, but it makes me a bit paranoid at times. If someone was so inclined to they could probably quite easily dox any one of the three of us from the breadcrumbs here.

>>441580
That is distressing.

YOU'RE ALL FUCKING WOMEN. I FEEL LIKE YOU'VE ALL BEEN PLAYING AN ELABORATE RUSE ON ME.

>>441581

>If someone was so inclined to they could probably quite easily dox any one of the three of us from the breadcrumbs here.

The trick is to make stuff up from time to time.

>>441584
True. Must go to bed now though, need to be up early to do my hair and talk to my workchums Matt and Chris about this jolly bad virus.

>>441580
>>441582

Well there's at least two furrylads here so you're outnumbered two to one ladm8.

>>441581
I'll give them a head start. I'm in a lodge just off the A167 south of Durham.

>>441589

>A167

I don't like it when people on here mention things like the road I take to work. Makes it all too real, like those tweets up there.

>>441590

How do you think I feel when all three of you live in Beeston.

>>441591
What's your view on the controversial 20mph zone from Flushdyke?

>>441592
Bonkers. They should widen it to a 4-lane dual carriageway and make it at least 50mph.

>>441591
How many time do I have to say there's more than one Beeston.

>>441577
RIP

Some of these are great.

>>441595
It's a shame kc died, it was an interesting space. I quite like ernstchan but it's even more autistic and geeky than here, kohlchan or whatever is just a shitshow.

>>441598
This is anti-bald discrimination.

We're namechecked by Guru Larry in a reply to Ashens, but the original tweet they were replying to is gone. Something about stealing a plate?

>>441597

>It's a shame kc died

Didn't some lad who Columbined his local school get his inspiration from krautchan?

And then there was that other Germanlad on 4chan who knifed his roommate to death or something.



One can only hope that .gs will never have that kind of effect on any of you lot.

>>441601
I think there's a lad here that wants Angela Eagle to bring us up in Parliament. I don't think his nefarious schemes have amounted to much as of yet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-C0UQDXb0

>>441572
Britfa.gs and britchan existed, albeit briefly, simultaneously and wasn't founded or built by britchan refugees. The reason /IQ/ exists was to give said refugees a place to post yubyub memes.

>>441601

I always assumed the Mail would be knocking on purps shed for a quote eventually. I think the embarrassing site name has prevented people becoming card-carrying members like the other places get. I bet we've had a few murderers and war criminals on here, they just never implicated us.

>>441602

>unregulated spaces

She has obviously never met the .gs mods.


On the subject itself, I'm not sure it's fair to lump 4chan together with ISIS. When was the last time chronic masturbators, or even just the average apathetic 4chan lurker took hostages or bombed public buildings.

>>441604
I think it's more the iron-fisted moderation that has prevented this place becoming another far-right outpost of madness, rather than the daft name. Eagle wasn't bringing up 4chan and 8chan because she thought You Laugh You Lose threads were played out or to complain about bait being posted on /mu/.

>>441606
Do we need iron-fisted moderation? It makes it seem a bit patronising, as if the rest of us cannot be trusted to deal with it. I mean, I know we cannot ignore the most obvious of bait as someone always bites but we can still call it out.

>>441607
Most bans still come from reports, so our response is almost entirely community led.

I also clear a lot of reports as not needing any action, so if anything you are the ones who are iron-fisted.

>>441607
Look, it's all well and good saying "ignore it" or "tell them to sod off" when some freak turns up touting some psychopathic neo-Nazi bollocks. But eventually another one turns up, and another, and so on and so on, until the freaks outnumber us three by a factor of 200% and the whole site's knackered. Not only that but as the amount of users on an imageboard gets more and more extreme some of them might end up on the moderation team and as the more extreme faction they're more than happy to sideline and undermine what used to be the norm in favour of batshit irrationality. You can have a neutral "anything goes so long as it's legal" style of imageboard moderation, but eventually those who shout loudest win the day, because unless you ban them for being so annoying and loud to begin with "anything goes" becomes "let's discuss the Jewish question".

>>441610
I should add that I'm not saying this as some kind of thought experiment, but as someone who has watched individual imageboards change in real time in this way, a way in which .gs has thankfully avoided changing.

>>441604
On that note, I think if I told any of my gay friends I browsed a site called britfags they'd probably stop speaking to me.

That or, out of context, assume I was closeted...

>>441610
>Not only that but as the amount of users on an imageboard gets more and more extreme some of them might end up on the moderation team

...you lot got asked if you wanted to be mods at some point?

>>441613
I was speaking more broadly about imageboards in general at that point, but I didn't make that explicitly clear. However, it was heavily implied.

>>441613
He can see you when you're wanking
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

You better watch out
You better not have a teary
You better not shitpost, I'll handle this query
Santa purps is hiring mods

>>441607
I reckon it's the grammar policing that does it combined with the lack of modern features.

Since the site was founded the rest of the internet has undergone a sustained decline in grammar which used to to quite rigidly enforced by communities. KC had specific bans to catch otherplacers such as using '>TFW' which seems like a shorthand only mobile posters would popularise. In recent years I've seen mobile posting manifest in gradually more heinous forms including a lack of capitalisation.

This isn't to say that posting from a phone is in itself the problem but people who have only used late Web 2.0 and don't lurk will have certain lazy habits. They will also universally have shit opinions but we were probably the same at their age. rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk I'm not too sure on but presume that the lack of ability to ban/doxx anyone who disagrees with you must be an unbearable loss of power.

Not sure if I'm only speaking for myself, but I think .gs is also a slightly older crowd, and that seems to have an effect on how crazy things can get on here.

>>441610
Just sounds like you're having a teary again m8. dolphin rape has never been explicitly controlled here but quality has which keeps out the foamy types.

>might end up on the moderation team

Outside of a few specific examples moderators seems to me more left-leaning than the userbase. In fact it's an accusation as old as the internet that moderation anywhere will be accused of a left-wing bias.

>>441618
I did a poll on this a number of years back. The average age is overwhelmingly around 21 so it's still safe to assume that any opinions you read here are worthless.

>>441618
That's not necessarily the case as seemingly every other over-40 in America went insane on contact with 4chan a few years ago.

>>441619

>The average age is overwhelmingly around 21

That should still be older than 4chan by a number of years.

>>441619
>The average age is overwhelmingly around 21

Sounds like bollocks.

>>441619
I've done a new poll so we can see if there's some demographic shift. Everyone please give up your age to the Big Data consortium of EasyPolls.net.

https://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5ffdcf25e4b01140b9f99683

>>441622
It is. It's the slippery slope into carpet-bagger-enabling.

>>441623
Currently the youngest non-illegal on there and I arrived in 2012; concerning. Hopefully the dadlads will let their kids take over their accounts when they pass on.

>>441603

You mean that britfa wasn't built because britchan was dying a slow and obvious death? Didn't we also used to have an /i/ board back in 2009 when the whole mask of shame thing was still going on? Britchan and, to a an admittedly slightly lesser extent, britfa were still a part of that general "anonymous" scene that was kicking about after 4chan/chanology got popular.

>>441605
>She has obviously never met the .gs mods.
Reckon she's just mad about getting a comedy grammar ban.

>>441623
Something's wrong here. If the results of this poll are to be believed it would mean that more people post here than me, you and otherlad.

>>441628

> If the results of this poll are to be believed

I've just taken a closer look and it appears that the poll page is protected against poll spamming by means of cookies. Which is somewhat easy to circumvent, and then you can mark it any number of times.

>>441629
>you can mark it any number of times
It's not meant to be scientific, that's obviously impossible.

Turns out I actually quite like working nights. It seems my main issue with work is tolerating every other cunt, when it's just me and I can crack on at my own pace without anyone interfering I'm happy as the proverbial Larry.

We'll see if I think the same by the time the sun's coming up and I've still got another hour left, but there we are.

>>441631
What are you doing at this hour? If you're a hitman and you need a partner to get into a horror situation for a bad student film drop me line. I'm always getting attacked by vampires me.

>>441631
The trouble with staying awake through the night is the next morning takes on a strange colour; somehow dull but simultaneously brilliant. It must be the foggy brain.

>>441631
I worked nights every summer and christmas holiday of uni.
I liked the fact there were no customers in the shop and we were generally left to do our own thing. I liked the extra pay as well. I'm a night owl as it is, but there's something different about actually working through the night rather than being up playing games or watching YouTube.

It fucking gets to you after a while. Not just the fact that if you want to do anything administrative with your life you've either got to stay up or get up early, it's been shown that working nights decreases cognition and general health. I am generally a terrible sleeper, but my sleep problems got worse (and, coincidentally, my caffeine withdrawal symptoms were ten times worse for whatever reason whilst I was on nights). Everyone there on permanent nights chainsmoked, and I can sort of understand why.

In winter you never see the sun (though to be honest this winter who has?), and in summer it's a circadian mindfuck as you try and get to sleep in blazing morning sunshine. I'd highly recommend the thickest blackout curtains you can manage for those days. Also, if your neighbours decide to do a bit of DIY or have a domestic and it's keeping you awake, there's little recourse as it's 'normal' time for everyone else.

I have to go to live, in person training at work tomorrow, to be trained for something nobody on our team will ever have to do (and in fact will not be allowed to do, because of union rules involving a third party provider that are not going anywhere). It doesn't really feel very 'essential'. The trainer on site is fucking awful, and has demonstrated effectively over the last year that he knows less than even our most junior staff in operations, and his teaching method is to read verbatim off a powerpoint.

Anyway, I made a particularly beany chilli for dinner and I've had it quite late, and am planning a (hopefully gaseous only) dirty protest tomorrow. That room will be thick with the stench of five types of bean.

>>441634

>Also, if your neighbours decide to do a bit of DIY or have a domestic and it's keeping you awake, there's little recourse as it's 'normal' time for everyone else

This is the worst part, I think. You end up furious at someone for daring to drill holes at 11am on a Tuesday, but know deep down you're powerless to do anything about it and they're not actually doing anything wrong. My direct neighbours were very nice and would actually postpone DIY if they knew I had been on shift the night before, but the sound of construction travels so the bloke a street over getting his driveway done would still keep me up, and so on.

Earplugs and blackout curtains help, but I also don't think anyone should really do permanent nights, at least not for more than six months at a time.

>>441633

I've watched the sun come up many a time through all night sessions and psychedelic drug trips, so I'm used to the surreal state of a new day dawning when you have watched the transition in real time. I think it'll feel rather different driving down the motorway knowing I'd normally be one of the people heading the other way, though.

>>441634

Luckily it isn't permanent, it's a rotation between days and nights, and in theory it's only for three to six months anyway; but that's all up in the air with the current situation.

12 hour shifts though, so I'm living the 3-day week dream technically. Shame the woman in charge of the rotas is an incompetent alcoholic who couldn't make a sensible shift pattern even if you promised her a free bottle of Bombay Sapphire but you can't have everything can you.

>>441637

I think anything with variable shifts is just bound by some higher power to be shit. I worked in a reputable fast food establishment for some time but that didn't stop multiple managers timetabling people on overnight shifts, 1 day off then breakfast shifts where you come in at 6am. Wankers.

You pair are going to be green with envy, I just found a couple of loose Mint Imperials in my draw.

>>441639

Keep it in the food review thread lad.

>>441639
>draw
U wot? Back2Berwick. It's drawer, you fucking trog.

>>441641
Is that like a chester draws?

>>441641
You can cry foul at my typo all you want, I can feel the jealousy coming off your post.

>>441643
It's not a typo though, is it? You actually call it a draw. The mask had slipped, Northumberlad. I, for one, don't even like peppermints.

>>441644
That mask didn't slip, I left it in my trouser pocket when I put the washing on and now I can't go to the shops, idiot.

>>441646
Still banned from the chipshop?

Bit snowy out.

>>441662
Snowmageddon in Scotland, luckily I packed_my_neeps months ago.

Slippery out.

https://twitter.com/P_Andy_Lucas/status/1349688962579914753

It's been getting pretty warm in the south. I've barely had to use an extra blanket.

>>441670
My ABS kicked in when slowing to turn into my drive earlier, I fucking shit myself.

Not even any rain here today in central Manchester, though I hear from family it's fairly thick snow in the 01924 2 region. I love walking in the snow, so I hope it does fall.

My friend's dad has offered to pay her university tuition fees, going as a mature student. This would wipe out his life savings and he'll never have that kind of money again. Is this a poor person thing? I've seen it quite a few times now where people who've barely got a pot to piss in want to pay their child's uni fees, doing something daft like cashing in their pension or equity release, because they don't want them to be in debt and don't really understand how student loans work.

>>441677

How dare the paupers try to give their offspring the kind of leg up in life wealthy kids had access to? They should know their place.

>>441678
It's pissing their money away. The student loan won't ever be fully repaid and if her dad really wanted to give her a leg up he'd give her the money for a house deposit.

>>441679
That might be something worth suggesting to her.

>>441678

It's not a leg up. Student loan is there for the taking, and it's the best loan she'll ever have, and there's multiple ways to avoid paying it, not least dumping future earnings over the payback threshold into her pension, while her dad makes up for that shortfall in salary by way of either an allowance, a trust fund, or a deposit on a house.

>>441681
>not least dumping future earnings over the payback threshold into her pension,

Care to elaborate on that a bit mate? How do you do that if you're on PAYE and the money is just getting taken out automatically?

I'm a thicko with this stuff so please explain like I'm a simpleton (which I am).

>>441682
Not him, but it's only really an option if your employer's pension scheme uses salary sacrifice.

>>441677

>Is this a poor person thing?

Not exclusively - for the genuinely wealthy, £27k is a sufficiently piffling sum that it's easier to just pay up front than piss about with the Student Loans Company.

>>441682

Most companies offer a salary sacrifice pension scheme. Rather than you paying into a pension out of your salary, they reduce your salary and pay the difference into a pension on your behalf. Doing it this way means you don't have to pay national insurance on your pension contributions.

The Student Loans Company calculate your repayments based on your income, but salary sacrifice pension contributions are classed as "unearned income" and are only counted if they're more than £2000 per year.

>>441681

In what universe can you possibly say giving someone near thirty grand is not a leg up, you bloody carpet-bagger. I don't care how good of a loan the student loan is, not having to bother with it is an advantage.

>>441690

>In what universe can you possibly say giving someone near thirty grand is not a leg up

It's a meaningless waste of money. A student loan isn't really a loan in the conventional sense, it's effectively a graduate tax. You only have to make repayments if you're earning over £25k and the repayments are automatically taken from your salary via PAYE. The repayments are piffling and the loan is automatically forgiven after 30 years, so most people never have to repay the full amount.

If you've got £27k to give to your kids, you'd have to be absolutely mental to pay their tuition fees. Give them fifty quid a week for housekeeping so they don't have to top up their maintenance loan with a part-time job and put the rest in a Lifetime ISA for a deposit on their first house. That is a real leg up.

>>441690

You're not giving them 30 grand, you're giving the university 30 grand to avoid the softest loan you'll ever find. 10k in an ISA would be so much more of a leg up than paying three times that for tuition fees.

>>441693

Why call it a loan at all, or set it up as such, rather than a graduate tax? It seems almost designed to be misunderstood, or maybe to open the idea of student loans up to a public for whom university education was tuition free until a generation or two ago.

I also wonder if it's also American influence adding to that misunderstanding, where their student debts are truly punitive.

>>441695

>It seems almost designed to be misunderstood, or maybe to open the idea of student loans up to a public for whom university education was tuition free until a generation or two ago

Literally yes. "loan" sounds a lot better than "tax", and that's all that's needed. I'm honestly surprised they didn't call it an Educational Advance to further obfuscate.

It is literally a loan though, the way it's set up. The SLC is a company that exists and is the debtee.

>>441696

>"loan" sounds a lot better than "tax"

This.

In the minds of most people, "loan" means you get money, "tax" means money is taken from you.

The fact that they're given money with a loan which will never be theirs is something they conveniently tend to forget.

It's the same with your mortgage. Your house isn*t really your house until the day that you've fully paid it back.

>>441693

>it's effectively a graduate tax

A tax she'll never have to pay,.

I'm not saying he wouldn't be better off putting it into am ISA for her, he would, but it's absurd to say it's not an advantage all the same.

I wouldn't be surprised if she suggested something better to him and he, being old and afflicted with daft backward old people ideals, went "No, bugger off, I'll pay your tuition but I'm not just giving you a hand out, that'd be spoiling you."

>>441696>>441698
This sort of branding why they came up with the name Lifetime ISA. One of the main uses for it is for your retirement, but if they put pension in the name it carries a lot of stigma with it that they were worried would switch people off it.

I think you lads are missing the point - yes it is in practice a graduate tax, but it's technically not a graduate tax, and as long as it is considered debt rather than tax, the government can do bad stuff like sell it off to private interests.

https://weownit.org.uk/public-ownership/student-loans

>>441705
In fairness it would be misleading to call it a pension ISA because they're also intended to be used for first home purchases. Help to Buy having had the opposite problem. I'd argue it should go further for 'lifetime' so you can withdraw X amount when you have a child or for upskilling but that would probably be too complicated.

I suppose telling the truth with a 'put yer tokens in this bastard and we'll 'ave ya propping up the UK housing market and (maybe) let you work part-time at 60' ISA would be less appealing. People might look at the price of homes before they open one for instance and instead simply decide to set fire to a landlord.

Cabin fever is definitely setting in. I've just had a Teams call with someone I work with, who is unattractive by just about every objective metric there is but because she's obese she also has massive tits. I think it must have been the camera angle accentuating them, but I could feel a stirring in my loins. I don't think I've ever even checked out her tits before because she's a gargoyle.

>>441712

Our Teams calls are usually with about six other people, and one of them also has pretty big boobs, but she's really fit too. I sometimes just catch myself staring at her for minutes, safe in the knowledge that she'll have no idea that I am, but hoping that I won't be doing it when all this corona nonsense is over and we go back to our usual day to day office jobs.

>>441712
Ah mate, Teams has a new set-up screen where you can see yourself and check sound when you click join. You have to click join again to get into the call.

I just had a fuck off greasy chowmein with oovercooked crispy chicken balls. Full of salt, fuckers forgot the sweet and sour sauce, now i feel sick as a pig. My pores seep oil.

>>441715
You're making me hungry.

I've decided to start dieting from today.

Did my weekly shop this afternoon and avoided all sweets, sugary snacks, and processed foods. Just chicken, fish, lean meat, and plenty of veg. Okay, also some cheese and salami.

I'm edging ever closer to 2 st. gained since the March lockdown, and if (!) there is going to be a summer holiday season this year, then I want to be at least a little bit in shape for it.

>>441716

Same, but if I ate it I'd also take a shower shortly afterwards.

>>441717
It would be nice if there was an Air Show this year, as last years was cancelled.

Do you lads reckon there's fewer woodlice about?

>>441720
Yes all the insects are dying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

>>441721
Woodlice aren't insects.

>>441722
Well we're eating the crustaceans to death too but if the woodlice are dying off it's probably more to do with the former than the latter.

I just shat myself a bit on the way to drop my bike off at the shop. This is one reason to wear briefs instead of boxers. This happened once at uni but I'm a fully sober 30 year old now. I think it was down to gorging on fruit pastilles and mini rolls last night.

Simply feeling a bit squiffy, meandering down the road, and I step onto the pavement and suddenly it's there, in my underwear, from the simple swing of a leg about 15 minutes out the door. I don't want to be late, so I can't go back. After 10 minutes I felt I was adjusting to the sensation, and could no longer feel the 'shape'. I took a chance and hopped back on my bike to glide me downhill, but came down slightly on the seat and the shape felt like it squashed a bit inside my cheeks.

Thankfully the gent just took my bike at the shop door and I got to leave quickly. I told him I'd fitted the new derailleur but couldn't figure out the gears, and he said "Yes, because you've done it all wrong". Another few minutes and it began to sting, but I still had about a half hour walk left to get home. I happen to have quite a thin stride, so I assume my waddle made me look simply somewhat frail, rather than betraying the presence of my watery brown passenger.

I just got out of the shower. Somehow it didn't even get any on my jeans, it looked like it was just a bit of sludge but felt like a lot more. I should be ashamed for even considering not washing them, and I've just sniffed and the perineum smelled like creamed shit.

Would you guys have taken the bus or been worried you would have smelled like shit? Would you have persisted with finding a public building? Tried the YMCA but the toilets were 'closed'. I'm well spoken but you could be forgiven for thinking I look like a smackhead. I was going to pop in Tesco and get wipes and soap then find somewhere to surreptitiously cleanse, but it seemed like I was so close to the bike shop by then. Do you think the bike man appreciated my efforts or did it make me look more of a twat? He's just rang back and said he's replaced the rear cassette and fixed the rear derailleur for £40. Is that a fair price? I feel like that's actually decent for including a new part.

>>441724
I was told that churches are always open and a good place to go if you get caught short.

>>441724

A cheap cassette is about £20 retail, so £40 for the whole job is very fair.

>Do you think the bike man appreciated my efforts or did it make me look more of a twat?

You looked like a twat, but everyone looks like a twat in those circumstances. Bike shop staff are usually grumpy pricks, so don't take it to heart. You can't learn without making mistakes.

>>441725

My local churches are only open for services - there just aren't enough churchgoers to justify full-time staffing. IIRC the local Catholic priest does five masses every Sunday, like some kind of peripatetic carpet-bagger.

>>441724

It took me a remarkably long time to figure out that you weren't being figurative in that first sentence. I kept waiting for the moment something would scare you during your story.

My condolences to your pants, anyway. I hope you're feeling better ladm8.

>>441724
>I don't want to be late, so I can't go back

Why? Sharting is 'taking a personal day' material.

I keep expecting I'm going to die. I'm not suicidal so I'm not going to off myself. I don't have hypochondria so I'm not convinced I have a brain tumour. I've just got a weary acceptance that I'm not going to be on this planet for much longer.

>>441731
Least you didn't shit yourself today lad, chin up. Go watch some Final Destination and maybe look to a head doctor. Are you in generally good health?

>>441725
>>441726
The only comparable structure on the walk is this little colourful eastern temple, not sure if it's Sri Lankan or Vietcong or some such. I don't think I'd have the stones to ask to use their toilet, and I don't like God watching me do business.

The grumpy Eastern European man there sounded authoritative, said Shimano chains were 'cheap shit' and referred to the gent behind mes bike as a 'custom piece of crap' when greeting him. MOT bikes in Walthamstow, 2 thumbs up.

>>441728
Thanks, it still burns a bit but I feel clean now.

>>441729
I figured he might be inclined to charge me extra if I wasn't amenable, and since I was 'just around the corner' I thought it would be fine.

>>441732

>Shimano chains were 'cheap shit'

That's mental talk and I assume he got his hands on a wholesale box of KMC or something. I'm not convinced a 'bad' bike chain exists today.

>>441731
Seems like as good an excuse as any to live everyday like it's your last.

>>441732
So do we call you Shitmanolad now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2JbRLG1gc

why wont they put Dotcomedy on 4od? And other assorted 4later programming.

I've got to come up with a bio to go on the company website this week. I don't think I have anything socially acceptable to put as a hobby or interest, but I need to put something about myself.

It's been raining all day here, now it's gone absolutely ape with snow. There wasn't any forecast around here so it's quite the suprise. I'd say there's a good 6cm amassed atop the wheelie bin alreadt and it doesn't look like stopping any time soon.

>>441740
Mention that you enjoys cunt-offslively discussions on obscure internet forums.

Today I spent 40 quid to order some Japanese Pot Noodles because a VTuber did an ad for the company.

I need to have a word with myself.

>>441748
I don't respect you.

>>441748
I was feeling a bit down today but thank you it could be worse.

>>441749
That's okay. I also don't respect myself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXwtHDze88

>>441751
It's not even funk, man, what are you doing?

My sphincter is on fire, but I can't say if it's because I've cooked and eaten very spicy and salty dishes two dinners in a row, or because when I was preparing the salt and chili chicken on the 19th I mistakenly used the knife I had cut the previously raw chicken with to taste the cooked chicken. I think a few years ago I would have had a meltdown at that and assumed my death was imminent, but Patrice Evra licked a whole chicken like it was the most beauitful woman he'd ever made love to and as far as I know he's still alive, so I took solace in that.

>>441748
Right, I've seen the Hololive cult on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk. It wouldn't be obnoxious if it wasn't for the community desperately trying to pretend that it's normal, do you find that? I got slammed simply for calling it niche. Had people come back with "It's super popular in Japan!" and "1 million subs on YT so it's obviously not niche". Like is the community that filled with otakus who find love and warmth in high-pitched broken English, spoken by animated avatars of women who will never, ever care about you in any significant way

It's not that it's anime based or what have you that makes me dislike it, although I do hate anime, it's more how manufactured and phony it is. I suppose you could say that of any podcast or stream, but the vTuber phenominon seems especially egregious in this regard.

I don't even know what a vTuber is.

>>441760

>>441760
>rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk
Is that a wordfilter? because it's a good one if it is.

I got sucked into it pretty gradually and can't really defend it's appeal. I used to think it was weird that people watched twitch streams at all, this is like a mix between that, Idol fandom, and anime.

I also quite like Pikamee

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

There's something comforting in watching hours of a person play old video games. I guess it's especially comforting given the effects of this year's lockdown on socializing. Even before COVID though, there has been increasing popularity of these mediums which foster parasocial relationships like podcasts and vloggers.
https://wilwilliams.reviews/2019/01/04/podcasters-are-people-the-intimacy-of-medium-vs-parasocial-relationships/
The causes for the increase in the presence of these online parasocial relationships also line up pretty well with what that 'Shutting out the Sun' book said about Hikkikomori.

Millenials are becoming increasingly alienated from society due to the casualization of labour, increasing cost of living, increasing precarity, and the result is a kind of arrested development.

People are more and more retreating into an imaginal entertainment matrix to escape the banality of the real world.

Weeaboos are no worse than Star Wars/Marvel fandom, people who buy funko pops, women that still like Disney movies, or dudes that get super into history books.

Anime is the opiate of the masses.

>>441763

I struggle to sympathise with these various people complaining that their fans are over-familiar. What exactly do they think is the appeal of what they're doing? Do they not realise what they're selling? It's predictably what happens to all public figures on the internet. This is the definition of doing something over and over expecting a different result.

>>441764

I agree, and believe this extends to most kinds of "fame". Actors and comedians are performing in public as emotionally compelling or friendly figures. It would be naïve to expect everyone you reach to understand the artifice of what they're watching, and show appropriate restraint in light of this at all times (especially when the very construction of a film, piece of theatre, or act is designed to foster a sense of intimacy).

I'm a fairly private person and understand the "meta" aspect of fiction. I'm acutely aware than when I watch a television series that a team of writers, editors, actors, etc. have worked toward creating a certain atmosphere. The rational bit of my brain is aware I'm not really having social interactions, but I'd be lying if I said I never felt like I was living among the crew of the Enterprise D or that I didn't relate to Tim's despair in The Office.

Maybe the new aspect here is in sheer exposure. Television series can certainly last a long time, but a YouTuber can stream multiple hours, every single day, for many years. That would unavoidably create a sense of familiarity, no matter how false.

This post also made me realise I have a similar thing going with RedLetterMedia. They spend hours chatting with eachother, watching bad films, making jokes. The videos are meant to simulate being with a group of friends. Maybe their audience is a bit more self-aware, as a recurring comment/joke on their videos is "I watch this to pretend I have friends".

If you're deliberately aiming at a younger audience, though, using cartoon avatars, playing Super Mario, etc., then you have to expect this kind of thing.

Sage because I have gone off on a proper drunken ramble.

>>441764

The trouble with Youtubers/streamers/content creators etc is that the successful ones invariably reach levels of fame that end up going to their heads and turning them into insufferable egotists. For example I used to like watching NerdCubed's content until he ended up changing his focus to streaming, which really didn't suit his narration style.

His fans' criticism of his streaming content caused him to throw a massive teary and abandon rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk and retreat into his Twitter echo-chamber with his missus ( a far-left "gender non-binary" nutcase who once told a critical fan to "fuck off") and inner-circle clique of mates who produced the videos with him, while completely ignoring the fans who had enjoyed his older stuff and were abandoning him in droves. It's been a shame to see his decline, as unlike Youtubers like PewDiePie who were always insufferable wankers to begin with, in his early days he genuinely seemed like a nice bloke, until Youtube fame went to his head.

Even A-list celebrities complain about being harassed by Paparazzi.

I guess the social wiring of the human brain didn't evolve to deal with the level of recognition and fame that celebs have. ecelebs don't have the same support infrastructure and entourage around them to insulate them from the more insidious aspects of celebrity. Also, the eceleb fame is a lot more capricious and prone to dissapate.

Fredrik Knudsen has some good videos about the early streamers who became victims of their own success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7wLuuDiHA
Unrelated, but the video about the Final Fantasy House is so good

Chris-Chan is maybe the most horrifying tale of what can go wrong if you blow up online.

An advantage of having the Vtuber avatar gives the performer an extra layer of privacy. Some of the girls have spoken about almost getting busted in public by people who recognized their voice.

>>441765
>but a YouTuber can stream multiple hours, every single day, for many years. That would unavoidably create a sense of familiarity, no matter how false.

Online it's also much easier to contact celebs than ever before. It used to be the case that the most interaction anyone could every expect to have with your idol is getting their autograph and a "Hi nice to meet you fuck off bye"
Now with twitter/youtube and everything a celeb can now interact much more personally with a huge number of people and it goes two ways, you end up with thousands of people clamouring for attention trying to get a like or comment off someone, and people who do get spoke to suddenly think they're best mates with them

>>441763
I find that video horrifying, it makes me feel dread and I don't think I can articulate quite why.

We're completely fucked as a species aren't we?

>>441766

>The trouble with Youtubers/streamers/content creators etc is that the successful ones invariably reach levels of fame that end up going to their heads and turning them into insufferable egotists.


I still quite enjoy Colin Furze. He's got a huge following by now, but he's still the same guy.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqm4RQ_1P4

>>441771
>We're completely fucked as a species aren't we?

If you didn't realize that before watching this video you've not been paying attention ladmate.

>>441773
Fair point. Sometimes it still smacks you in the chops though. Humans are fucking demented.

>>441769

>Chris-Chan is maybe the most horrifying tale of what can go wrong if you blow up online.

I find Chris Chan interesting not for them but for the complete and deeply uncomfortable obsession of those interested in him. They are profoundly fucked in the head and have driven an already troubled person to the edge (to the point I don't blame them if they never trust another stranger again), I wonder why they are so obsessed.

It seems like a freak show thing but also significantly move invasive to the level they robbed them of any dignity, maybe they don’t consider them human enough to be worthy of it. Maybe it is a deflection from their own flaws, maybe they remind them of their own worse qualities and they hate them for that. Maybe all of the above

I had a friend developed that level of obsession with someone who they considered a celebrity and worthy of exposure for what they had done and was sharing it all over social media, I stopped talking to them because I didn't want anything to do with that kind of shit or people who do, it is only one level above fevered mobs burning witches in my mind.

>>441790

From what I've seen of them on sites like Kiwifarms, the type of people who obsess over Chris-Chan are mostly shut-ins who are on the spectrum themselves, they mock them because it gives them a tiny ego-boost of "At least I'm not THAT bad!" while they obsessively catalogue every single thing they have ever done or said, laughing at "autists" without the slightest hint of irony or self-awareness. It's classic projection, similar to the way the alcoholic who drinks ten pints of cider a day will rationalise it by thinking "At least I don't drink spirits like those ALCOHOLICS".

>>441795

Not necessarily on the spectrum, there are a wide variety of severely mentally ill people involved. Anyone with such chronically low self-worth they can only feel better by "punching down". The rest of what you said still applies.

>>441790

What exactly did the mob do, in this case?

>>441797

It is far too detailed and numerous for me to list off, but essentially think of every dick move someone could do to betray your trust and repeat it ad nausea, and you basically get an idea of it. Essentially imagine if gang stalking was real and focused on him, but also much more proactively cruel, it is that kind of level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPtLvxO8hs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxj_0xPleg

There's an 80 part long documentary about him which is an interesting anthropological study of how the internet will inevitably lead to the downfall of humanity

I still don't know what the fuck I'm doing, but I'm glad I asked you lads for share tips.

>>441813
Well done lad.

>>441813

Today has been a bit mental at the markets.

I live in a particularly grim part of the North, but you know, coming down the M62 this morning with the sun just coming up, frost on the hills and a pale pink mist towards the horizon, the scenery had a serene kind of beauty to it. It was as though the cooling towers at Ferrybridge had been lifted right off the canvas of a Bob Ross painting.

>>441824

> a Bob Ross painting.

"Painting" is a strong word when it comes to Bob Ross. All he did was develop a handful of techniques and clichéd depictions of mountains, rivers and trees that he recycled over and over in his 30-minute paintings.

In that sense, he was kind of a one-trick pony, because by and large, nearly every picture he created on-screen looked about the same. He democratised a very specific niche of painting and gave people the impression that anybody could do it, but he probably would have been out of his depth painting anything else besides the Alaskan countryside. And if you actually followed his approach, that did not make you an artist. Just somebody dabbling in some cookie-cutter everyman art.

>>441833

Go for a walk.

>>441833

Why does Bob Ross threaten you? Did you fail to get recognition in your dream of being an artist and he makes a mockery of that? Is he Mozart to your Salieri. Does the impression of his method violate your perfectionism and the hours you have spent on your craft.

I've painted along with him a few times. And one of the most facilitating parts to me is how much it is like a magic trick. If the wrong thickness of paint goes on to the wrong part you've fucked it. If you attempt to pallet scrape a mountain differently you've fucked it. It might have changed painting from something that takes weeks to something you can crack out in an afternoon but don't make the mistake of devaluing that. Not having to have perfection in vision to be happy with what you have done and trusting your judgement first time round is a life skill many could do with learning. Including yourself. If your expectation is to be as good as an expert first time out and nothing else will do, you've failed yourself before you have started any task and Bob Ross can teach you that.

>>441835
Impression = imperfection. Auto correct got me.

>>441835

Facilitating and fascinating too. Please fix the mobile interface lad mates in a way I can read what I have written.

>>441837

No. It gives me plausible deniability when I make mistakes to claim it's the website interface that's at fault and not my brain.

At least he doesn't paint by spraypainting space-scapes then selling them for far more than they're worth on the street.

>>441837
Just use Luddite mode?

>>441835

>If your expectation is to be as good as an expert first time out and nothing else will do


No, it isn't. You can have fun expressing yourself artistically without ever having to have the ambition to become an actual artist. And whatever painting you create doesn't have to rival a Monet.

And I'm not saying you can't enjoy painting along with Bob Ross on TV. If you get something out of it, more power to you. I just think that for what he does did, he is overrated.

>>441841
What are your views on Tony Hart and Morph?

>>441840

I am in luddite mode. That isn't designed for purpose though.

>>441841

And I am saying I wonder why you think he is overrated and why that matters.

Americans meme about him being perfect too much because they all have a Madonna Whore complex. But I don't think you can blame him for that. And otherwise over rated would imply he is somehow over represented in the art world, and he isn't represented at all.

>>441842
I am almost certain that they were shagging.

Of all the jars I could drop on the floor, it has to be fucking Marmite.

>>441846

I just burned my hand on a hot oven tray while getting my pizza out. Got some painful blisters on my right index and middle finger now. Should I pop them?

>>441847
No. You would risk infection and in truth the satisfaction of watching them swell and recede over time as they heal is way better than the momentary pleasure of popping them.

>>441847

No. The blister is there to protect your damaged skin while it heals. A thin layer of vaseline and covering it with a non-sticky gauze bandage is what you're supposed to do, even if it's just to protect it from popping if you hit it on something. If you only briefly touched the tray, I would assume the blisters will be gone in a day or two, and they probably won't remain painful for more than a couple of hours. If you had prolonged contact with the tray it may be longer, and beware any signs of shock.

>>441849

I kind of just grazed the tray with my fingers near my knuckles, but it was hot enough to really hurt. The blisters appear to be somewhat superficial.

>>441850

They may look superficial, but if you've got blisters then you've got second degree burns, so you still don't want to pop them. They'll probably clear up overnight if they're small.

I've had a lot of burns, any amount of infection on one is awful and turns a two day ordeal into a week or even month long one.

>>441851

>any amount of infection on one is awful and turns a two day ordeal into a week or even month long one.

I always use IPA to prevent or treat skin infections. It even once cleared up a stubborn nailbed infection on my big toe in less than 48 hours, after unsuccessfully applying a topical cream specifically made for that purpose for almost a week.

My GP has told me that ethanol is generally better for the skin and less irritant, but that IPA is a more or less acceptable second choice whenever you don't have any ethanol handy.

>>441852
U wot m8?

>>441853

Isopropyl alcohol, the second most useful solvent.

>>441854
I thought you used that to clean circuit boards.

>>441855
Some things have more than one use.

>>441855

99% IPA is suitable for cleaning technical equipment.

Concentrations of around 70-75% are a very good disinfectant. It's mostly used for surface disinfection, but you can use it to disinfect skin as well. Ethanol, which is found in most hand sanitisers, is just more gentle on your skin.

>>441856
Very true. For instance, your mouth has threefold uses of eating, breathing, and keeping it otherwise shut.

>>441858
Yours has four.

>>441858
>>441859

>>441860

>>441858
> breathing
That's what the nose is for.

>>441858

You can still type on here with your mouth closed.

>>441863
That's uncanny. You should post this in /boo/.

For the second bin day in a row I've had to take in someone else's bin because someone else has taken mine. I'd have thought the giant number of the front was a clue but apparently not.

I washed every pair of trousers I owned at once so now I can't leave the house.

>>441869
Genuinely WITH NOTHING TO SAY BECAUSE I AM A CUNT by people who care about this, it's a bin. A bin!

>>441870
Yes but it's MY Bin.

>>441871
Not it isn't, it's the council's.

>>441872
They're yours. That's why most people take their wheelie bins with them then they move house.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5588949/wheelie-bins-council-or-house-property

>>441873

You didn't read past the first reply, did you?

>>441874
Most people saying they own their bins but it depends on the council?

>>441875
Yes, "it depends on the council" being a contradiction to "They're yours".

>>441872>>441873

Different councils have different ways of doing things. My bin says property of <local council> right on the lid.

Did you buy you bin? Y/N

if Yes:
Then of course it is yours, don't be thick.

if No:
Then of course it isn't yours, don't be thick.

/thread

>>441871

>>441873
But then you'd need to find a new property with the same number as the one on your existing bin. Pretty foolish to limit your options like that.

My shower and bathroom radiator fucked themselves about 3 months ago. I'm desperate for a hot cleansing shower. My facial skin is almost a sickly yellow green from the buildup of oil under it. Thankfully the blackheads aren't horrific, but if i don't do something about it soon they surely will be.

>>441879
Balls of Steel was shit. I never really understood why Alex Zane had a TV career.

>>441882
Yeah it was dire, though Zane's bits always tended to be the best of the worst. He was basically copying Quizzlestick.

>>441882
He's actually really, really good at hosting naff TV shows that go out at or after 11pm.

>>441878

I pay council tax, ergo I bought and can therefore jump in that WDH van outside and take it for a drive if I bloody well like.

>>441881

Do you not own a flannel m8?

>>441881
You can get yourself one of these electronic camping showers for 25 squid and combine it with a 25 litre brewing bucket for a decent 10 minute shower.

I got one when my boiler was on the fritz and I'd happily use it long-term if ITZ hit the fan and I had to live off-grid.

Is this place getting busier or is it just me?

>>441902

It's just you, me and the other lad.

>>441902

I'm basically blogging in a couple threads at this point lol.

My ear's doing the thing where I can hear wax or some other detritus being moved slightly by my pulse. It's really annoying, but it's been about six years now and I still haven't gone to the doctor about it. Not that I could do that right now, but moreover they weren't that arsed when I said I wanted to top myself.

>>441902
It's been kind of busy, but mostly it seems like the same few lads going at in the Capitol thread. Not complaining, merely noticing, before anyone has a go.