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>> No. 443472 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 7:58 pm
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Alright lads, how's it going?
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>> No. 443473 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 8:06 pm
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Great! I built a new coldframe to put my agave in. I need to add another level to it in order to fit them all, potted up in, but I've reclaimed almost enough second-hand glass to do that with. How's yours?
>> No. 443474 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 8:14 pm
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Seriously I bought all this sim racing shit and I can't use it without getting really drowsy. I think it's sopite syndrome, fuck.
>> No. 443475 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 8:48 pm
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>>443474

Forgive me, but doesn't this apply only to actual motion? I know that you can't simulate vection in a static sim cockpit, but I suppose that is a very specific thing.
>> No. 443476 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 9:30 pm
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>>443475
I get the same thing on trains and buses, real ones. Less so in cars, but I don't actually drive because I'm a manchild. I remember falling asleep while riding a bike as a child too. I put the public transport down to being tired at the end of the day, but I get the feeling that my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier when I'm racing or watching footage in the first person. They can test for it virtually apprently so I think games could induce it. Regular motion sickness can affect people while they play games well.

Maybe it's all BS, but I was trying to drive at about noon today and after forty minutes I was ready for bed. I'm hoping it's an inner ear thing, because that's been an issue for some time, but I only thought about it in the sense of it being a minor irritation, not turning me into a hypnosis victim. If pharmacies are open on Sundays I'll buy some industrial strength ear wax dissolver and go from there.

I know this sounds silly, but it's like I've got an IV drip full of lager when I (pretend to) drive. Heaven for some, but I'd like a say in the matter.
>> No. 443477 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 9:51 pm
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I've asked my Dad want he wants for his birthday and all he wants is a bar of Dairy Milk. I can't just get him that but he's so difficult to buy for.
>> No. 443478 Anonymous
24th April 2021
Saturday 10:34 pm
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>>443476
I thought everyone gets this to an extent. This is most worrying as like you I'm also a manchild who was planning on learning before covid hit.

At least you've got something that'll stop you ever having insomnia again. Some people would pay good money for that kind of tool - and if it stops working due to tolerance then problem solved.

>>443477
Get him one of those gift boxes with foreign/retro sweets. Always a bit of a ripoff but he'll get some novelty out of it.
>> No. 443479 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 9:36 pm
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>>443477
Get him the biggest bar of Dairy Milk money can buy, then. It's apparently 850g at the time of writing but I'm sure I got bigger ones at Christmas when I was a kid.
>> No. 443480 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 10:02 pm
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>>443479
I reckon I could still end up accidentally eating one of them in one-sitting. You' know when you just have a nibble and then the next minute you're feeling very sorry indeed.

The chocolate that is. I'm not a pedo.
>> No. 443481 Anonymous
25th April 2021
Sunday 11:58 pm
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>>443477

He might have meant the original Dairy Milk, before they ruined the recipe to taste like solid brown rectangles of grease.
>> No. 443540 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 2:31 am
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>>443479
You almost certainly did, 1kg bars used to exist.
>> No. 443543 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 12:27 pm
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>>443472
I'd completely forgotten that Monday is a day off.
>> No. 443544 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 12:38 pm
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>>443543
Did you at least remember the exam revisits this morning? Can't fucking believe I had to get up at 0630 to do a fucking compulsory GCSE exam.
>> No. 443545 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 12:54 pm
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>>443544
The what now?

In other random news, I found this - the driver has nuts of steel.


>> No. 443547 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 2:27 pm
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I was having a strangely enjoyable dream about cheating on my ex but then the person I cheated with turning out to be shit in bed, then sharing a nice intimate moment with her afterwards where I realised how lucky I was.

Postman woke me up with a parcel for my real girlfriend, and I have a craving for jammy dodgers now.
>> No. 443548 Anonymous
1st May 2021
Saturday 3:23 pm
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>>443545

Just another day on the M1.
>> No. 443555 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 7:19 pm
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I am trying not to be excited about the Line of Duty finale this evening, but I am failing.
>> No. 443556 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 8:47 pm
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All good, drinking Bishops Finger and listening to my teenlad tunes.
>> No. 443557 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 9:58 pm
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Obviously I've not watched this, and yeah, yeah, he's probably a millionaire and he has steak for dinner every night and he eats it off the nude body of his solid gold girlfriend who has diamonds for tits, but is my gut reaction that a lad who looks like a grown man doing this is embarrassing bullshit or not? Is this actually somehow much worse than Dick 'n' Dom in da Bungalow? Or, again, am I just being a miserable, old, twenty-something and even having an opinion on what is clearly kids entertainment marks me out as an irredeemable shit?

It's the last bit, isn't it? Yeah, it is.
>> No. 443558 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 10:01 pm
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>>443557

God almighty
>> No. 443560 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 10:36 pm
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>>443557
No that's fair enough - his money came at the cost of his dignity and self-respect much like a whore. Youtube should never have allowed people to make a living off producing content and it's our moral duty at this point to show the next generation how to use adblockers and SponserBlock.

>twenty-something

For the love of God get off this website. Don't make the mistake we did.
>> No. 443561 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 10:39 pm
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Is it illegal to make threats, in the abstract? Like, can I threaten a policeman that if I don't get what I want, I'm going to stand on one leg for thirty seconds? Hypothetically speaking him not using his discretion to ignore me for being a waste of time but if he was feeling vindictive, could I be lawfully arrested for it?
>> No. 443562 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 10:53 pm
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>>443561
Only if the policeperson found you standing on one leg threatening.
>> No. 443563 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 11:16 pm
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>>443562
Anyone can find anything "threatening", that can't be illegal in itself. Actively making threats though?
>> No. 443564 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>>443561
No, you will even get off if there's no reason to suspect a threat of immediate harm and there's frequently cited precedent for this. So if you said "I'd kill you if it wasn't illegal" it wouldn't count. I'm sure they could still find reason to detain you for being a knobhead though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberville_v_Savage

I'd add that I fucking hated studying Criminal Law and this was many years ago so I wouldn't go out and actually do it.
>> No. 443565 Anonymous
2nd May 2021
Sunday 11:38 pm
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>>443564
No I wasn't really planning to but that does remind me that I was wondering a while ago if it would be illegal to go around with banners that say "Introduce capital punishment for Priti Patel". It's not a threat to do anything illegal, in fact it's paraphrasing her with a personalised twist.
>> No. 443566 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 12:23 am
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>>443565

I can't breathe ladm7
>> No. 443567 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 12:30 am
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>>443566
Do you need a tracheotomy?
>> No. 443568 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 12:46 am
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>>443565

Honestly I'm of the opinion that politicians should be an exception to the normal rules, and fair game for anyone.

In fact I think we should make a bit of a tradition of it. We could get kids in school to pick a politician and write them a death threat once a year, to get them engaged; like the book fair or sports day.
>> No. 443569 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:01 am
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>>443568
If you've posted that opinion here before in the past couple of weeks, then I saw it and the more I think about it, the more I agree. I'm sure it's only all fun and games till some deranged maniac goes and stabs Jo Cox, but the threat of such a thing makes a good release valve which can really help our public servants to understand what their electorate want from them.
>> No. 443571 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:30 am
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>>443565
I figure you'd be fine. So long as you're not actively harassing her and her family anyway. It's just a bit BRILLIANT like how "kill the bill" has a double meaning.

>>443568
Sounds cuntish. I'm not saying that politicians haven't been babies lately when it comes to abuse but I don't think it makes for a healthy society either.

If you don't care that a politician has to spend all day reading peoples' anger management issues then you should consider that they also have staff who need to spend all day reading it again and again. It might feel good to say but that's usually the sign that you shouldn't have said it.
>> No. 443572 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:32 am
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I'm just going to come out and say it.

Priti Patel is a fucking coconut.

There's a difference between BAME folk adapting to a white supremacist system and proudly embracing it.
>> No. 443573 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:37 am
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>>443569
Labour lost one last time, so it's only fair the next one is a Tory. The only problem is that there are so many deserving cunts in that party that it's hard to choose just one.
>> No. 443574 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 1:42 am
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>>443571
Yeah. I'm not fundamentally aiming to get her executed, even if it can be made legal. Realistic or no. It's just to make the point back at her that what she's angled for can be pointed right back at her, in a fair system.
>> No. 443575 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 2:11 am
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>>443572

You don't have to be white to be a supremacist. You just have to be one of the rich cunts sitting on enough power and privilege that its mechanisms don't affect you.
>> No. 443577 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 5:28 am
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>>443572
It always tickles me when idiots expect all non-white people to think and act within certain parameters, usually without realising how racist they're being.
>> No. 443578 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 9:53 am
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>>443572

I'm not sure "coconut" is the right term. It depends on whether she actually believes what she's saying, but I'm far more inclined to think that she's just another shrewd political opportunist who is good at playing the game.

It's inevitable that stuff like this happens in our system -- finding the right brown person to enact policies and say things that would be unacceptable coming from other people is a very predictable party tactic. Patel has very likely placed herself to become that person throughout her career, because ambitious people want to rise through the ranks. It's a perverse system of incentives to serve the powerful and punish dissenters.

I worry it'll still be true even if we attempt to pay attention to class again, because class can also be a part of identity politics. In the future I predict the politicians who are rewarded will be the ones who say, "I grew up on a council estate and I can assure you they're all scum and deserve to be shot", because it's okay when it comes from the right person.
>> No. 443579 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 10:40 am
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>>443572
This is so obviously bait from some /pol/fag wanker. And in the weekend thread of all places. Get a clue, lads.
>> No. 443580 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 11:30 am
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>>443578
>In the future I predict the politicians who are rewarded will be the ones who say, "I grew up on a council estate and I can assure you they're all scum and deserve to be shot", because it's okay when it comes from the right person.
THE FUTURE IS NOW
>> No. 443581 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 11:40 am
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>>443578

Loads of British Indian people are natural Thatcherites. Their families really did start a successful business from nothing and they don't see why everyone else can't. As a demographic their household income and share of wealth is well above average. Shamanismophobia is rife in the British Indian community for somewhat understandable historical reasons, which is often veiled in a more socially-acceptable "we need the right sort of immigration and immigrants need to integrate" sort of rhetoric.

Priti Patel genuinely represents the views of a large proportion of British Indians. British laplanderstanis and Bangladeshis overwhelmingly vote Labour, but a lot of people on the left seem unable to tell them apart.

With that said, Patel is clearly a bit psychopathic - before politics, she did PR for British American Tobacco.
>> No. 443586 Anonymous
3rd May 2021
Monday 9:10 pm
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>>443581

>Their families really did start a successful business from nothing

Not really, many of them were upper caste poshos by Indian standards. Coming to Britain that still puts you on the lower end of the scale, but it's not like they had nothing. That and it's easy to run a profitable shop when you don't follow any of the rules and you're using your twelve kids for unpaid labour.

But that's just like you say. Natural Thatcherites.
>> No. 443587 Anonymous
4th May 2021
Tuesday 9:55 am
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>>443580

You're right, I was being naive. Of course this tactic is occurring now and has probably already been done in the past.
>> No. 443588 Anonymous
4th May 2021
Tuesday 10:59 am
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>>443586

I would be interested to know in data whether the Indians who make a good living in the UK did so by accumulation of generational wealth, or whether they came here with a good amount of money, and to what degree established networks plays into it. But then, I'm >>/£$€¥/8631 lad and I seem to have a bloody hard time finding quantitative research on this stuff.
>> No. 443651 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 2:41 pm
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I might have a lass coming over this evening but I really need to clean my flat beforehand. When I was a teenager the place would already be gleaming but now that I'm in my early 30s with a full-time job more than ever I'd really rather sit in my own filth playing computer games at the weekend.

Youth is wasted on the young.
>> No. 443652 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 2:57 pm
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It's raining. I've just got a drain rod stuck, probably irretrievably and the drain's still not flowing. My hands smell, I'm cold and wet, and not entirely happy.
>> No. 443655 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 6:13 pm
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>>443652
If you want some inspiration:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXX4u-pH2uk
>> No. 443656 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 7:09 pm
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>>443655

That man is my hero, but I would not invite him round to dinner.
>> No. 443658 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 8:25 pm
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>>443655

That's so grimly fascinating. I secretly kind of like doing work like this, albeit on a far smaller and less dangerous scale. Everything is just so clean afterwards.
>> No. 443659 Anonymous
8th May 2021
Saturday 8:38 pm
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I can hear the neighbours arguing.
>> No. 443660 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 11:55 am
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A strategy game or a racing game? No, Sopranos clips.
>> No. 443661 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 1:46 pm
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I went for a walk along the canal this morning. There was a man, I guess he was in his mid-forties, who had what I can only describe as techno-panpipe music blasting out of his rucksack.
>> No. 443662 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 3:04 pm
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>>443661
Did you do the necessary? Did anyone see?
>> No. 443663 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 3:17 pm
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>>443661
Was it better or worse than techno bagpipes?

>> No. 443664 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 4:55 pm
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>>443662
The successful canal push requires darkness and either fast moving water or an inebriated victim. I had none of these.

>>443663
Probably better but still awful.
>> No. 443665 Anonymous
9th May 2021
Sunday 5:19 pm
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>>443661
Maybe so goa trance or some the like.
>> No. 443704 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 12:07 pm
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I need to get a tablet for work and I think I need to reign in what I'm looking to buy. At the minute I've got my eye on an iPad Pro for £600 from Costsco; as I'm self-employed I should be able to knock off at least 20% when I put it through my expenses. It's mainly going to be used for running a few apps and presentations during client meetings so all I really need is something that will have a decent screen, run smoothly and have quite a lot of longevity but now I've got it into my head if I spend a little more I'll be able to run things like Football Manager Touch to keep me entertained whilst I'm sat in my car in the middle of nowhere between meetings.

https://www.costco.co.uk/Apple/Apple-iPad-Pro-2nd-Gen-11-Inch-128GB-Wifi-MY252BA-in-Silver/p/328138
>> No. 443706 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 1:58 pm
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>>443704
Yes, driving and playing games is an excellent idea.
>> No. 443707 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 2:08 pm
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>>443706
I meant when I've parked up and have an hour or so to kill until my next appointment.
>> No. 443708 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 3:54 pm
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>>443707
Yeah I realised that was probably the case as soon as I'd posted.
>> No. 443709 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>443704
That's a surprisingly good price - I've seen all the Apple stuff in Costco obvs, but didn't know they actually discounted them.
>> No. 443710 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 5:24 pm
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>>443704

I'd say go for it. I'm definitely more of an android person but I've yet to find an android tablet as nicely built as an iPad. Personally I'd also look at a Surface of some description but I think that's just because a windows device would play better with my existing work stuff. At that Costco price you can't go wrong.
>> No. 443711 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 5:43 pm
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>>443709
The new iPad Pro launches later this month so you can get some older stock reduced. Currys and Amazon had the same model for about the same price but both sold out.
>> No. 443712 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 7:22 pm
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Who of you keeps crisps in the cupboard? I'm partial to Hot Dorritos, which I eat with chopsticks, but they're terribly greasy.
I am currently struck with nostalgia for Golden Wonder.
Holy shit I forgot about Tomato Sauce flavour.
>> No. 443714 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 8:15 pm
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>>443712

I'm far too much of a crisp fiend/greedy fat cunt to keep crisps in the cupboard. If I buy a multipack it's to eat all of them in a day or two while sat on my sofa watching worthless youtube videos about rebuilding engines I don't own.
>> No. 443715 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 8:41 pm
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>>443704
Why don't you just buy a work laptop? You can even get one with a touch-screen or one of those ones where you can close it and use at as a heavier tablet because it has a screen on the back.

>>443712
I used to have them in the beforetime because I'd usually make myself a packed lunch. People in the office probably laughed at me but I saved money and making sandwiches is cheap and easy so it reminded me a lot of your mum.

Anyway my favourite are Kettle lightly salted. I don't do 'owt weird with them other than occasionally scratch my mouth because they're like eating glass.
>> No. 443716 Anonymous
14th May 2021
Friday 10:51 pm
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>>443715
I like those crisps, particularly in sandwiches.
>> No. 443722 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 3:33 pm
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>>443715
rabble rabble, you lot with your fancy chips what's wrong with the chippy next door, support local workers yer get yer head kicked in.
>> No. 443723 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 3:34 pm
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>>443722
Don't worry lad, we'll be the ones drinking wine an' eatin kettles when this revolution is done.
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15th May 2021
Saturday 6:02 pm
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Today I have been to feed the ducks and there were a few little ducklings about. Then I went to the charity shop and I picked up Peter Crouch's bulk to bulk out what I'm getting my dad for his birthday. On the way home I went to Farmfoods and they had Linda McCartney mince for 99p so I bought shitloads of it.

I ruddy love ducklings.
>> No. 443725 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 7:59 pm
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I wish this winter would fucking end. It's hailing for the third time this week. What a piss take.
>> No. 443726 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 8:11 pm
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>>443724
Don't give them bread.
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15th May 2021
Saturday 8:20 pm
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>>443726
>The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said it was fine to feed small amounts of bread to ducks but people should also feed them sweetcorn, porridge oats, peas and bird seed.

>Swan Support, which rescues swans, ducks and geese, said many were starving because people had stopped feeding them bread in recent years. They blamed a campaign called Ban the Bread, which was started by a company selling bird food.

>"They wanted people to buy their food and that's where it all started," said Wendy Hermon from Swan Support. "We were picking them up dying everywhere."

>She said flocks of birds had become established in certain areas because of people feeding them and they had become reliant on this food supply. "It's absolutely fine to feed bread. Bread has been fed to swans, ducks and geese for hundreds of years," she said. However, she said people should only throw in as much as the birds ate, so there was no excess bread left behind to decay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50081386
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15th May 2021
Saturday 8:34 pm
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>>443726
Let them eat cake!
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15th May 2021
Saturday 9:06 pm
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>>443722
Pret is counter-revolutionary.

>>443727
>should also feed them sweetcorn, porridge oats, peas and bird seed.

They'll be wanting the quinoa next. Say no to duck pond gentrification.
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15th May 2021
Saturday 9:34 pm
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I made a wee salad using greens from my garden today and it was quite nice.
>> No. 443731 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 9:49 pm
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Went for a long trek this afternoon. Was going alright until we got piss wet through on the way back to the train station, and subsequently spent about the next two hours freezing and miserable. Didn't even get to have a pint because the walk was a lot longer than expected, and that was the whole point of going on the train instead of just driving.
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15th May 2021
Saturday 10:12 pm
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>>443731
I'm positive this time last year I'd spent weeks just sitting in the sun in the garden, doing what wfh I could but mostly enjoying the sunshine and watching the plants getting bigger. This year, whenever it stops pissing down for more than an hour I just find slugs have eaten more and more of my seedlings.
>> No. 443733 Anonymous
15th May 2021
Saturday 11:12 pm
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Violently frustrated, I hope everyone dies, everyone everyone everyone. Fuck everything.
>> No. 443734 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:51 am
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>>443733

What's up m8?
>> No. 443735 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 9:08 am
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>>443733

Then I have good news for you about the nature of human existence...
>> No. 443736 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 2:45 pm
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How much poo can your body hold?

I was quite constipated for a few days last week, because I'd been working lates and over doing it on the cheese and carbs. Looking in the mirror one evening I looked like I had a real beer gut, dad bod going on.

After remedying the situation with an over-compensatory amount of fibre for the last few days, I've been shitting like clockwork, and the bloat has gone down. So luckily I'm not getting fat, I was just full of shit. But that must been a hell of a lot of shit.
>> No. 443737 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 3:17 pm
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>>443736
I worked with a lass and she only pooed about once a week. I'm sure she said some of them were nearly the size of her forearm.
>> No. 443738 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 3:37 pm
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>>443737
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacolon

Poo capacity depends on the size of your colon and your diet. It's a good idea to keep a healthy flow as your body will stretch to accommodate.
>> No. 443739 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 3:38 pm
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>>443736
A friend once advised me to do a huge shit and look at how big it is, then to take pride in the fact that I can theoretically take that much dick without injury.
>> No. 443740 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 3:51 pm
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>>443737

Have you got her phone number?
>> No. 443741 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:36 pm
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>>443740
I don't think you lads would be able to handle her.
>> No. 443742 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:43 pm
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>>443741
Speak for yourself. After she's had my forearms she'll be calling me Popeye.
>> No. 443743 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:54 pm
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>>443727
I took a bag of frozen veg to the duckpond at britfa.gs recommendation. They all turned thier bills up to it. I felt like a nutter, litering the floor with diced carrots and what not.
>> No. 443744 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:58 pm
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>>443743
Lesson learned. Never take advice from this place.

What duck's really love is a crisp sandwich.
>> No. 443745 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 4:59 pm
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>>443743

They probably knew it wasn't organic. They've all been gentrified now, if it isn't ethically sourced from Waitrose they don't give a quack.
>> No. 443746 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 5:27 pm
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It turns out I'm out of suet, so I've had to make dumplings with butter and self raising flour. I have the feeling they'll be a bit shit.
>> No. 443748 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 7:31 pm
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Anywhere in particular you lads would recommend getting a kitchen utensil set from? Apparently it's really important there's a matching potato masher.
>> No. 443749 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>443748
procook have outlets in various places and aren't overpriced.

You can probably find a catering supply store somewhere near you where you can piece together a set that'll be matching.

I usually just mooch around TKmaxx and have a hodge podge of different things that suit me.
>> No. 443750 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 7:46 pm
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I thought I'd get a headstart on some work this afternoon so my Monday isn't such a joke. It hasn't gone well.
>> No. 443751 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 7:59 pm
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>>443748
Costco have the Joseph and Joseph ones in a set for 20 quid at the moment. They're good because they don't mark non-stick.
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16th May 2021
Sunday 10:59 pm
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>>443748

Procook is also my go to, their knives are just as good as my Wusthofs and have survived similar hell in professional kitchens - I don't think I have any of their utensils other than a whisk, but if they can make good knives, they make good anything.
>> No. 443753 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 11:05 pm
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>>443731
I now understand your pain. The weather waited until I was the optimum distance from home to start on something out of the bible. The worst part was how rain can give you an itchy cough so I'm walking along trying to suppress a cough so the people around me don't think I have the 'rona.

Complain ticked.
>> No. 443754 Anonymous
16th May 2021
Sunday 11:45 pm
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There are no good emotions it's all shit and I need to stop living.
>> No. 443755 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 1:27 am
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>>443754
No you don't. Stay alive. Ask a doctor if you continue feeling this way; they'll love to help you.
>> No. 443763 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 3:09 pm
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>>443755
Lol.
>> No. 443767 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 8:21 pm
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>>443763
Thank you. I'm here all week. You should be too. Stay here all week.
>> No. 443842 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 11:02 am
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I've got The Simpsons on in the background whilst I'm lazing around this morning. I'm not one of those purists but it's really, really bad. This episode is from the 22nd series.
>> No. 443843 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 12:51 pm
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>>443842
It makes me sad to watch it. It's like they literally forgot the point of a comedy is to write jokes, and seem to prefer picking an issue or fad of some kind and then doing a Simpsons™ take on it.
>> No. 443846 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 1:51 pm
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It's quite remarkable how sophomoric it is now. The earlier series have jokes on top of jokes to the point there are famous gags that overshadow other good lines seconds either side of them. Oh well, I suppose it's one of the less harmful ways people have become incredibly wealthy.

https://youtu.be/20aLCyE30wg
>> No. 443849 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 3:16 pm
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The other day I found a YouTube channel that for the past twelve years had just uploaded videos of Descent II in which the uploader had replaced textures on in game bosses with photos of people he knew from school and maybe girls he'd dated. He's still at it, and while I don't want to link to the channel because it seems like he's genuinely unwell I really feel the need to tell someone else it exists. It's very easy to get trapped by one's own history.
>> No. 443851 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 5:06 pm
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>>443849

Here's hoping that it's some sort of bizarre in-joke between friends, or an extreme childhood fondness for the Gameboy Camera, rather than genuine mental illness.
>> No. 443852 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>443849
I find it rude you haven't linked it.

There was some autistic guy who made hundreds of hours of really dull model train videos perhaps where he narrated some dull story over the top. It was very strange. Perhaps it was linked from here.
>> No. 443853 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 6:52 pm
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>>443852

TheNewStoryteller?
>> No. 443854 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 7:03 pm
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>>443853
Ah cheers that's the one.
>> No. 443856 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 10:27 pm
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Concerning levels of "I don't want to be awake anymore" going on.
>> No. 443857 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 11:16 pm
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>>443856
So go to bed it was a reasonable time to when you posted it.
>> No. 443858 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 11:16 pm
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>>443856
I'm off to bed now too.
>> No. 443859 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 11:29 pm
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Hang on when the fuck did Graham Norton become a grandad?
>> No. 443860 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 12:09 am
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Fucking hilarious nil pois. Poor bloke, he seemed like a nice chap as well in the pre-show documentary. Can't be helping his clinical anxiety.
>> No. 443862 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 12:11 pm
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The spastic 20 seconds in is quite fit, ngl. I think she was in Tracy Beaker.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQg-OXej1E
>> No. 443967 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 5:40 am
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I went out for a curry last night and then I had a shag when I got home. Now I have tummy ache.
>> No. 443968 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 12:14 pm
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I really thought those Wheatabix would change how I felt about killing myself, but it seems not.
>> No. 443969 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 1:12 pm
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>>443968
Try a yoghurt instead. And maybe a yakult.
>> No. 443970 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>443969

I've been trying Activia for the last couple of weeks, and I actually have noticed a lift in my mood. It's not an overnight change to everything being rainbows and unicorns, but certainly that constant sense of looming existential dread I've been too familiar with for the last few years seems to have eased off.

Like a lot of people I'm sure, I was deeply skeptical it would do anything, because frankly I just didn't like the idea that my mental health problems ultimately came down to my guts. But there's definitely something to it.
>> No. 443971 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 2:15 pm
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Fill your boot(s) with mannequin lads! £50, all you can take!

https://mannakin.com/p/drive-through-heist/
>> No. 443972 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 2:32 pm
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>>443971

>We often get asked about hands. You are welcome to hands but there is a limit of 5 pairs per customer along with other parts. Under no circumstances whatsoever will you be able to fill your car boot with hands. Please don’t ask.
>> No. 443973 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 2:45 pm
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>>443971
£50and you can't even climb on the mountain, they can fuck right off.
>> No. 443974 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 4:09 pm
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I've noticed that Foreign Affairs is £20 this weekend but I'm wondering if there's a better publication for this, ones that aren't tied to Washington DC thinking. Are there any British equivalents beyond picking up a newspaper subscription? Ones that don't cost hundreds of pounds a year?
>> No. 443975 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 6:05 pm
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>>443974
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists? Politico? The World Today?
>> No. 443976 Anonymous
29th May 2021
Saturday 6:06 pm
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Scratch Politico, sorry, I thought it was European.
>> No. 444000 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 10:30 pm
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Not trying to be a cunt, say you've been chatting up a lass but find out she's out of work at the moment. Is that a red-flag or is it still fair game in covid-land? Not furloughed but jobless.

Just thinking about the drawback and if the shoe were on the other foot.
>> No. 444001 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 10:39 pm
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My cold has gotten slightly better. The biggest problem is now a persistent dry cough that really saps my energy.

What's really annoying is that I keep having to tell people that no, in all likelihood, it isn't covid. I've had my first jab and a lateral flow test earlier this week when my throat was beginning to feel irritated came back negative. Everybody keeps saying "Make sure you keep an eye on it". It's like, thanks, I never would have figured out the moderate importance of that without you reminding me.
>> No. 444002 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 10:39 pm
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Here's some wild cows from the Calderdale moors today.
>> No. 444003 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 11:11 pm
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I think I've gotten much too attached to the wellbeing of Ross Scott's YouTube career.

>>444002
They look quite docile to me. Stop casting aspersions!
>> No. 444004 Anonymous
30th May 2021
Sunday 11:51 pm
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The Hobbit trilogy is shit.
>> No. 444005 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 12:04 am
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>>444000

Depends, long term or just out of luck right now?

I've had a few girlfriends who are an absolute liability in terms of employment, and couldn't keep a job for longer than a fortnight. It was alright in my early 20s when he quality of sex made up for it and the long term future didn't matter so much, but nowadays I wouldn't tolerate it for long.

In general, it invariably comes with a whole raft of other personality defects, in my experience.
>> No. 444006 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 12:26 am
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One set of parents have moved from suburban Swansea to Mumbles. There's precisely one road to/from the city, so naturally the combination of a bank holiday weekend and a real possibility of sunshine meant it's been rammed all day every day.

On the upside I discovered that the local millionaire has pissed off the plebs and they've decided to let him know how they feel through the medium of car horns:


Absolute legend at 2:30.
>> No. 444007 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 12:53 am
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>>444000
The stereotypical imageboard poster is a filthy NEET, so I say go for it. Even if she doesn't post here, or anywhere else, you'll almost certainly have other things in common. A century ago, almost all women were jobless. Your grandma was probably a scrounging layabout, and I assume you liked her.
>> No. 444008 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 1:00 am
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>>444007

My grandma was a manager at Marks and Spencer, fuck you.
>> No. 444009 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 1:18 am
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>>444008
Did you fancy her more than jobless girl?
>> No. 444010 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 2:11 am
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Not too sure, she said she didn't want to talk about it. From cyberstalking and general conversation it looks like she's an out of work early-years immigrant worker and hasn't had a decent education beyond learning English.

So yeah, I'm pretty much thinking with my dick here aren't I. Great conversation, lads. I'll try extricate myself before I knock up the fit and exotic maid who can't go halves on a mortgage.

>In general, it invariably comes with a whole raft of other personality defects, in my experience.

Pretty much yeah; I spent the vast majority of my 20s and late teens out of work, aside from uni. I assure you that while I'm now in an exciting career I'm also unhinged from the experience - though spending most of my life on the internet also made me brain good.

>>444007
Being a mum is a full-time job x
>> No. 444011 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 2:17 am
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Try to extricate myself that is. I have a history with ditzy Eastern European women and a cream pie fetish.
>> No. 444014 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 1:22 pm
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Went for a dip in the mixed ponds at Hampstead Heath yesterday. £4.05 for a quick jump in and then a dry off.

It wasn't even that cold, just I'd been lying around all day and wasn't warmed up. Sure I'll go for a proper swim next time. Thing is though, I felt like I'd both exerted myself and quite refreshed, just from a literal dip. Is this a sensation I can look up?
>> No. 444015 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 1:52 pm
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>>444014
Wim Hoff has a lot to teach you


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>> No. 444016 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 2:18 pm
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I see your wild cows, and raise you wild cows and horses, from the wild lands of Staines Moor. Not pictured: scenic views of the M25 and power lines.
>> No. 444017 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 2:29 pm
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I've not seen a thalidomide in years. Did they die out?
>> No. 444019 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 5:04 pm
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I went to the seaside today. It made me remember that I don't really like people. There are also a lot of overweight women in this country.
>> No. 444020 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 5:10 pm
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>>444019
Please don't start them going.
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31st May 2021
Monday 5:33 pm
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I popped out, and my neighbour's bins were out. My brain's initial reaction was to query whether I had possibly travelled forward in time a few days, but then quickly followed up with the more likely explanation that he's gone away for a few days.
>> No. 444023 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 5:45 pm
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Yeah, it's weird on days like today when the weekend thread is up on a Thursday.
>> No. 444026 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 6:53 pm
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I'm going to do a sensory deprivation tank later on today.
>> No. 444027 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 6:59 pm
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>>444026
Imagine if someone locked you in then started a fire under it.
>> No. 444028 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 7:15 pm
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I've been gone about a year from this place, what have I missed?
>> No. 444029 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>443472

Bezzie mate an heroed last week but I only found out over the weekend so called in sick to work. Just cba with anything anymore.
>> No. 444031 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>444019
They tend to be clustered in the north, at least.
>> No. 444032 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 8:45 pm
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It was a beach in Yorkshire. I did notice that a lot of obese women, proper proper fat ones, have tattoos of pin up models on the back of their calves. If that how they see themselves?
>> No. 444033 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 9:16 pm
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Yes, obese women think that the rockabilly style is sexy on them. Best not to question it.
>> No. 444035 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:17 pm
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About 20 years ago, you used to be able to get smart price/tesco value frosted flakes directly in a bag. No cardboard box, just a plastic bag. These particular flakes had a very distinctive construction -- they were more 'puffy' than frosties, and had what appeared to be considerably more sugar.

I want some, but I have no idea if that particular formulation still exists. I've tried asda's own (not smart price), and also aldi's, but both are too close to actual frosties, and not the type I remember.

Any ideas, lads? They apparently still do tesco value cereals in the Phillipines, but I wasn't able to find a picture of the bag as I remember from 1999/2000, surprisingly enough.
>> No. 444036 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:24 pm
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Those things in your picture look identical to the French cereal Chocapic, is that what you mean?
>> No. 444037 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:29 pm
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>>444036
Not chocolate, they were knock off frosties. The picture is for illustration purposes only. Though, they do seems to look a little bit like it if it wasn't chocolate.
>> No. 444038 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:32 pm
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>>444036
Chocapic used to be a staple in our cupboards whenever I would holiday abroad as a lad (spent most of the summers of my youth hopping around all of the various Spanish islands where you only encounter other working-class British people and maybe the odd German). I used to really look forward to having them. I'd put them in my mouth one or a few at a time and suck so that the shells would get stuck on my tongue.

Thanks for that nostalgia hit.
>> No. 444039 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:44 pm
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I don't want to jinx it but I've still yet to see a mozzie this year. The annoying thing is that my bug zapper has just arrived and was looking forward to hearing the little arseholes crackle by my bed all night.

Normally they start up in late April but I guess the backwards weather has killed them off. Hopefully permanently.
>> No. 444040 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 10:59 pm
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>I don't want to jinx it but I've still yet to see a mozzie this year

The mosquito horde need warm weather and stagnant water - we should not be unduly concerned with their threat this year. The ants on the other hand, have mobilised. Chaps, I fear for us - that at the start of July they will arrive, like a third reich/wave to forever emperil us, at our moment of weakness.
>> No. 444041 Anonymous
31st May 2021
Monday 11:16 pm
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Made some salad tonight with maple leaves, after reading that the Norway maple here in the back garden is actually edible and that in some vegan/alt food circles, people use maple leaves for anything from salad to wraps. Right now in spring is apparently a good time to consume them, while they're still fresh and tender.

I prepared it like a normal salad with cucumber and tomato, with the maple leaves chopped up to about the size of lamb's lettuce leaves.

I have to say the taste was a bit underwhelming. It wasn't unpleasant, just quite unremarkable. Somewhat neutral, with no particular distinctive flavour. I don't think I will have it again.
>> No. 444042 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 1:41 am
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>>444029
This feels like it shouldn't be allowed to just pass by unacknowledged. I doubt there is anything a handful of strangers can type to help you, but please let us know if there is.

>>444028
I started posting here a couple of months ago! So that's one change! There goes the neighbourhood. This site is shit now.
>> No. 444044 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 2:15 am
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>>444029

Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, my condolences lad. Post back here if you need someone to chat with, I'll set up a disposable contact on some app or other. If you don't want to talk about it that's fine too but do look after yourself m8.
>> No. 444045 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 8:54 am
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>>444041

It may be bland, but maybe there's something to them nutritionally?
>> No. 444046 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 9:59 am
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>>444029
Keep an eye out for uncleholiclad, he seems to be in a similar place. There's discord if you want to chat shit and emo if you want to bare your soul.

If you can't be bothered with owt then maybe go to the south pacific islands and do nothing there instead.

>>444042
As long as you're not the one who goes full Quiggins each time he's asked to make a solid point, you can fuck off less slowly than the others.
>> No. 444047 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 10:06 am
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>>444045
They, along with many other maple leaves and seeds, are somewhat toxic to horses, where IIRC they fuck up the haemoglobin somehow.
I wouldn't make a habit o eating loads of them unless you want to make it into an obscure medical journal.
Also, Norway Maples are cunts of trees.
>> No. 444048 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 11:36 am
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>>444047

> Also, Norway Maples are cunts of trees.

They do spread very profusely if you don't keep them in check. If you don't rake up the winged seeds together with the foliage every autumn, you'll have dozens and up to hundreds of little tree saplings near your tree the following spring that you have to pull out one by one.

The upside is that you have a decorative, fast-growing tree that provides dense shade on a hot day. They can grow up to 90 feet, but we've had ours here cut back a few times by a tree surgeon. Maple also makes good firewood, although it doesn't burn quite as long and with as much of a pleasant smell as beech.

We used to make bows and arrows out of Norway maple as kids, because its rods have just the right amount of bendiness for a good flexible bow, while they are at the same time straight and rigid enough to fashion arrows out of them.
>> No. 444051 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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I think I must concede a mea culpa regarding my flag-fanatic street neighbours. Months of Union Jacks, half-mast Union Jacks for Racist Phil and an Easter Flag (no, me neither) led me to assume they must be Borisites of the worst sort, but today they put up a massive great big LGBT Pride flag, the one that's, aesthetically at least, awful on account of the black, brown and trans pride coloured bit on the side, no less. Maybe they just lost a bet on their Flag Botherers UK Facebook page, though that seems unlikely.
>> No. 444052 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 8:09 pm
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>>444051
Or maybe your preconceived notions and stereotypes are blinkered and limited in terms of whom might decide to fly a flag for one reason or another.

You can be a brown gender fluid "patriot" who loves ARE BORIS and also absolutely love a big juicy cock like. And at the same time be an absolute twat.

Not trying to start a cunt off for the record.
>> No. 444053 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 9:05 pm
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>>444051

Some people just love flags.
>> No. 444054 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 9:06 pm
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>>444053

Honestly it's pretty fun having one you can run up a pole. Doesn't matter much what's on it.
>> No. 444055 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 9:17 pm
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>>444054

Tell that to the judge m8.
>> No. 444056 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 9:24 pm
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>>444055

Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
My parents treat me rough
With all their marijuana
They won't give me a puff
They didn't wanna have me
But somehow I was had
Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!
>> No. 444059 Anonymous
1st June 2021
Tuesday 11:16 pm
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>>444052

Maybe his neighbour is Julian Clary.
>> No. 444065 Anonymous
2nd June 2021
Wednesday 8:36 am
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>>444055

My mates neighbour did used to fly a Swastika now and again when we were younger. Odd guy, used to walk around in denim shorts and a big cowboy hat.
>> No. 444112 Anonymous
4th June 2021
Friday 7:08 pm
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A walk in the sun and some silly floppy hair has left me looking not unlike Harvey Dent.
>> No. 444125 Anonymous
5th June 2021
Saturday 8:14 am
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Woke up at 5, and couldn't get back to sleep. Not been out of the house in the morning for months. It is a strange feeling.
>> No. 444158 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 3:47 pm
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Today I've decided to have a sort through my DVD collection and have a bit of a clear out. Ummed and ahhed whether I should keep the likes of my Peep Show box set but they're available on All4 these days. I'll probably send it to a charity shop because Music Magie would give me a whopping £1.01 for it.
>> No. 444159 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 4:13 pm
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>they're available on All4 these days

This does not spark joy for me. The question you need to ask yourself is whether you will watch it again someday, it's naïve to assume All4 will have it indefinitely.
>> No. 444160 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 5:28 pm
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Today's solution is necking bourbon straight from the bottle and a 6 pack of Wagon Wheels.
>> No. 444161 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 5:31 pm
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>>444160
You're necking bourbon from a 6 pack of Wagon Wheels?
>> No. 444162 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 5:45 pm
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>>444161
It's called a 6:10 to Yuma and it's one of my favourite cocktails.
>> No. 444163 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 5:50 pm
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>>444162
I could get on board with that.
>> No. 444165 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 7:52 pm
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Would this make Mr Whippy style ice cream?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/ambiano-ice-cream-maker/p/711132479199000
>> No. 444166 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 8:08 pm
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>>444165

No.
>> No. 444167 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 8:09 pm
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Wait, maybe.
>> No. 444168 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 9:00 pm
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>>444165

Seems like it will, though I doubt it'll be exactly the same texture, it will be a little bit denser/thicker than a 'professional' soft serve. It'll be close though.
>> No. 444169 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 9:06 pm
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>whip up your favourite flavours in 15-25 minutes

This makes me think that you probably can't just make it for yourself and would need to do the whole batch in one sitting. Any idea on how much ice cream this would make? I can picture this being pretty nice to have in the office.
>> No. 444170 Anonymous
6th June 2021
Sunday 9:27 pm
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>>444169

It says it makes about a litre of ice cream. An average scoop of ice cream is about 60-80ml.

The thing with these little machines is you need to freeze the bowl for a considerable amount of time, usually overnight or longer - so you're making one batch a day at the most.

I'm sure you could use less mixture and make less ice cream just for yourself, but there's probably a minimum amount you have to do, or you'll end up with ice crystals. That's just a guess though.

It's thirty quid, it's probably worth a go.
>> No. 444175 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 12:08 am
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>> No. 444177 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 9:12 am
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I feel that, given the record of the media on treatment of gay people, if an LGBT+ organisation is pissing off all the newspapers, it's probably doing the right thing, yeah?
>> No. 444180 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 10:53 am
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>>444177
Stonewall's got a bit of a controversial reputation. I'm not aware of what's going on currently, but if they're pissing off all the papers, chances are they're just being cunts.

Rather than judge on who they're pissing off, what are they actually doing and why are the papers saying they're mad?
>> No. 444182 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 11:03 am
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>>444180
The word policing is that it is telling employers in its diversity training to use "parent who gave birth" instead of "mother."

The Guardian piece is about Stonewall advising universities on policies supporting transpeople which are deliberately misinterpreting the law as they would like it to be rather than what it actually is.

Sage because this should all be in the tranny thread rather than shitting up somewhere else.
>> No. 444185 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 11:20 am
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>>444180
>Rather than judge on who they're pissing off
No I think I'd rather do that. On one side you have LGBT+ people who actually support the charity, and on the other you have some newspaper columnist wastes of skin.
>> No. 444186 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 11:38 am
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>>444177
It's people, well, I say people, I mean "opinion writers", who are arch-conservatives with the sole caveat that they don't literally want to feed paupers in a machine that turns them into pig feed. Even that's up for debate in Tim Stanley's case. All three of those writers are Oxbridge educated, born-to-rule freaks, as are many others of their ilk, if we could exile them all the country would be a better place.
>> No. 444187 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 12:06 pm
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>>444185
>No I think I'd rather do that.
Well then, would you do it elsewhere? It sounds like you don't understand that the LGBT world is quite broad, and that simply being an LGBT charity does not mean you are universally supported, nor that your endeavours are necessarily good. It's perfectly possible for charities like Stonewall to be counter productive.

If you're the newlad, you're showing it quite clearly. It's frankly fucking retarded to shut down a request for more information by saying they're pissing off the right people and therefore must be doing something good.

Learn to respond more like >>444182, that kind of post grows the discussion rather than closing it down. Bad people bad, well done.
>> No. 444188 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 1:52 pm
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>>444185
>> No. 444189 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:11 pm
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>>444177

Sounds like a bit of that surf and turf you're always hearing about these days. Bunch of cranky old dykes getting bumsore whenever something reminds them PoV (people of vagina) aren't at the top of the equality tree any more. They just don't like not being the centre of attention.

The delightful meta-irony of fisherpersons constantly embodying the most cliché whale poacher tropes will never cease to amuse me.
>> No. 444190 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:11 pm
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>>444188
Chill out lads. Even if I wasn't being facetious, can you honestly not recognise a moral panic when you see one?
>> No. 444191 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:32 pm
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>>444187
>that kind of post grows the discussion rather than closing it down
Those articles are effectively arguing over the existence of trans people, which is something that is very much not up for discussion.
>> No. 444192 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:43 pm
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>>444191

Ah the state of Israel card.
>> No. 444193 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 2:52 pm
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>>444192
While we're at it, those brown-eyed people, eh?
>> No. 444194 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:06 pm
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You lads have gone all weird. Is it the heat making you cranky?
>> No. 444196 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:28 pm
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Making myself miserable by looking at the conditions for getting an Aus/NZ resident visa. Who'd've thought a skills based immigration system would be so cruel to those with a degree but no real skills?
>> No. 444198 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:44 pm
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>>444196

I don't really understand how my two friends, who are a teacher and a chef, managed to get into NZ. That seems like two job markets that are at capacity no matter where you are.
>> No. 444199 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:47 pm
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>>444198
Nobody wants to be a teacher unless you've ran out of options or are a carpet-bagger.
>> No. 444200 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:48 pm
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>>444196
It's odd when I see people who want to emigrate but only to countries that are as close as possible to being British. Is Hot-Britain and Britain-if-we-had-a-choice-on-where-it-would-be-in-relation-to-Europe really worth the hassle?

At least with Canada they seem to want immigrants and you can live in the central/west that are their own weird quasi-American thing.
>> No. 444201 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:49 pm
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>>444199

He claims he wanted to be a teacher all along, but I'm not sure. He has a physics degree, surely he could have found something better. Maybe he is just a carpet-bagger, his wife does look quite young.
>> No. 444202 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 3:53 pm
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>>444200

Australia isn't just hot Britain, it's hot Britain with less aggro and more space and nicer beaches. I think the people are nicer on average too, and the cars don't rust which is a big one for me. I'd move there if I had the opportunity and/or my parents were dead.

Even then, I'd contest that Britain but Sunny is a pretty fucking good reason to move across the planet. Don't you just feel so much better on our three days of sun?
>> No. 444203 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:15 pm
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>>444202
>less aggro

Shit and expensive internet. The worst part is the curtain twitching authoritarianism combined and how the economy is intertwined with resource extraction which creates the usual problems.

>Don't you just feel so much better on our three days of sun?

No.
>> No. 444206 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:20 pm
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>>444203

>The worst part is the curtain twitching authoritarianism

Good job we don't have any of that in britain
>> No. 444207 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:23 pm
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>>444194

I know someone here will have a go at me for saying it, but I strongly suspect we had a few new arrivals from the Rudgwick a few months back. Or maybe it's all the same lad, or one of the existing posters just got bored and decided to make a new OC.

Either way. There's a very tell-tale posting style that I never saw around here til recently.
>> No. 444208 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:25 pm
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>>444202
>and/or my parents were dead
Oddly grim.
>> No. 444209 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:43 pm
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>>444208

I mean yeah, but that's just the reality of having elderly parents. I wouldn't want to be too far away from them as they get less and less capable.
>> No. 444210 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 4:43 pm
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It'll be revengelad. He'll have given up trying to flood us with posters from 4chan and has decided to spread the word about us on Rudgwick instead.
>> No. 444212 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 5:23 pm
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>>444210
I just searched for the domain on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk, came up with a few results all older than 7 years.

I do wonder how this place is found nowadays. I was going to bring it up on /r/badunitedkingdom once, but now they're a wee bit racist so probably best not.

>>444207
Yeah, I know what you mean. That "Shouldn't we be better than this" poster who was 'reflecting' on how the users of this site are bad people and should be more like them because of us saying bad things, but then refused to go into any of it and posted sealion comics.

They echoed that rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk style, where discussions are approached as combative rather than cooperative, with the intention of tripping up rather than elucidating, and what seemed to be the underlying assumption that we're all nazis in denial.

It's just a bit boring. At least with search/storm, there was a concerted effort to troll. I also find myself taking things in bad faith here, which is usually reserved for rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk.
>> No. 444213 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:05 pm
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>>444212
This whole "Act like a total cunt then be surprised and go on about it for months" when people don't want to engage with you is a relatively new thing too.
>> No. 444218 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:19 pm
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>>444213
It most certainly is not.
>> No. 444221 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 6:49 pm
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>>444191
No they're not. Even otherlads summary should provide you with more depth than that.

>>444194
It comes up every time transgenderism is brought up amongst other topics. There's one poster who is very cross indeed and operates on a kind of right-on 'I've never kissed a tory' mindset.

I've been tempted to see just how angry I can make him, make every post in the cunt-off over trannies being mentally ill men have a picture of a woman with her new baby, but he's probably one of the mods.
>> No. 444231 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>444221
Well, let's break down otherlad's summary:

if you insist on calling all preggers people 'mums', you're explicitly denying the existence of preggers trans men and enbies.

And the advice given to Essex Uni was that the Equality Act protects "gender identity", which isn't technically the wording but it operates as such in case law, so the only reason you'd give two-tenths of a shit about the difference is if you were looking for a way to erase trans people.

I don't even care that much about trannies but these stories are patently the media class trying to manufacture an outrage to fuck them over.
>> No. 444232 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 8:48 pm
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>I do wonder how this place is found nowadays
Newlad here. The online search results for "list of imageboards" are much less fruitful than you might expect, but there is one giant list of hundreds of different imageboards, and you're on it. You also start with B, so you're quite near the start alphabetically. And I hate to admit to this, but you are a fairly good community in several respects. Many other online places are totally dead now, so it's almost certainly going to get worse if this place doesn't die too.

And being called britfa.gs, you really sound, to the uninitiated, like a site for /brit/fags. I don't ever post on 4chan's /brit/ because it truly is the rectum of the universe, but if people who like it discover this site by chance, I can assure you they will shit it up something awful.

>>444207
>There's a very tell-tale posting style
All my posts are written like this one is. I get the feeling several people here write in a very similar way to me, but if not, then yes, it's me. Sorry.
>> No. 444233 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 9:06 pm
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>>444232

Nah, if it's the style you wrote that post in, it's not you. What

>444212

describes is more what I was getting at. There's just this very abrupt, "Well, I'm right, I don't need to bother doing anything other than being a snide arsehole about it" tone that you often get on Rudgewick and the likes, because people will upvote a sassy put-down more than they will a rational and considered argument.

Now, that's fine an all, and I won't deny I engage in exactly that sort of behaviour myself when I want a less cerebral internet-faring experience. But I don't do it on .gs, on .gs the cunt-off is a gentlemanly sport. On here it is poor form to be a snide arsehole without first earning the right to be a snide arsehole by making an argument that stands up to at least fleeting scrutiny.
>> No. 444236 Anonymous
7th June 2021
Monday 11:20 pm
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>>444233
>less cerebral internet-faring experience
Not being funny but you sound like a right bumder m8.
>> No. 444237 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 6:49 am
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>>444236

So does your mum.
>> No. 444239 Anonymous
8th June 2021
Tuesday 9:25 am
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>>444232
You're right that it looks like some people are 'trawling for upvotes' with their posting style now. They're closer to a 'clapback' than a retort.

>>444232
It's probably not you, but as has been proven, you can be self-reflective and still be a cunt.
>> No. 444421 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 7:52 am
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It's been nice knowing you lads.
>> No. 444422 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 8:59 am
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>>444421
At least the few who do survive have a week of cool weather after. Good luck lads.
>> No. 444426 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 9:48 am
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>>444421
Why are you all such bitches about a bit of warm weather? It's not like it's cracking 33+, it's just a nice bit of sun.
>> No. 444427 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 9:55 am
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>>444426
I live in a greenhouse.
>> No. 444430 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 10:22 am
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>>444426

I was born in the North East. I'm not meant to live in climates higher than about 10 degrees.
>> No. 444434 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 11:59 am
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>>444430
I lived there for 10 years and tended to wear 2 hoodies most of the time. I could tell when Summer was kicking in because I could go down to 1 hoody.
>> No. 444437 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 12:47 pm
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>>444426
It wouldn't be so bad if it crept up a degree or 2 every week. Instead we tend to go from 12C to 24C in one week.
>> No. 444443 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 1:05 pm
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>>444437
I would bet my graphics card, current market value £72,000,000, that you'd still be complaining. No disrespect, but some people love to hate the heat. Well, you know what I say? Get out of the kitchen. What?
>> No. 444445 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 1:38 pm
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I love the agonising heat. It will never be worse than darkness at 4pm. Never. I know some people don't live in ground-floor flats, and moan that their palatial estates are too hot to sleep in, but I'll buy your house off you if you're too much of a pussy to live in one. Or were you not serious and just wanted to whine? I hope you enjoy my Seasonal Affective Disorder when late September comes around.
>> No. 444446 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 2:10 pm
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I don't mind the daytime temperatures, it's when it barely gets colder at night that gets me. 17º minimum is just not comfortable to sleep in.
>> No. 444447 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 2:35 pm
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>Why are you all such bitches about a bit of warm weather?

Because we like to spend time indoors at the computer. Why don't you just go to the park and sunbathe with your girlfriend you fucking normie. I'm sure you and the other busy bodies will whinge about the cold and rain in a few months.

I live in London ffs - it regularly breaks 30°C on summer nights.
>> No. 444448 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 2:43 pm
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>>444445

Darkness at 4pm ia great. Nice and cold. Get wrapped up. Proper cosy.
>> No. 444449 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 2:44 pm
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>it regularly breaks 30°C on summer nights.
And I fucking love it. Nowt like writhing in a pool of your own sweat even with the covers off. Not sure why I like it tbh.
>> No. 444469 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 8:50 pm
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Yeah, there's such an asymmetry. It's easy to bung some clothes on if it's cold, but no amount of nakedness makes this shitty heat tolerable.
Also, being a bumpkin, the hottest day of the year is when I make hay, by running around from dawn 'til gone dusk, jumping in and out of untouchably hot machinery and heaving 25kg bales around all fucking day. I then get to spend the night screaming as various muscles cramp up. With any luck, I then get to do it all again a couple of days later.
Fuck the summer, and fuck haymaking.
I accept that some of you lot love it, and it means that pasty legs in sundresses are a thing, so it's not all bad, just not for me.
>> No. 444474 Anonymous
11th June 2021
Friday 10:35 pm
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>>444447
> I'm sure you and the other busy bodies will whinge about the cold and rain in a few months.
I absolutely will. Because it's shit.

>>444448
That's like saying you love buses because you drive everywhere in a BMW, and the buses you don't take remind you how nice it is to not be a peasant. In warm weather, you can wear a T-shirt or a jumper and it's not that awful. In cold weather, if you don't wear a jumper, you're fucked. My fashion choices are being taken away from me and I have to do more washing, since I am forced against my will to wear an extra layer. And I don't know about you, but I enjoy freedom. You icy bastard.
>> No. 444478 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 4:38 am
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Diarrhoea at half past midnight. Diarrhoea again at half past four. What a treat I have in store for this weekend. Can't wait for more arse gravy later.
>> No. 444483 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 4:05 pm
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>>444478

What did you eat, lad? Is it all that veggie shite you post about?
>> No. 444486 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 5:26 pm
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>>444483
I think it was the takeaway I had last night, which was vegan shawarma kebab. I also tried vegan margherita pizza; the 'cheese' was like runny glue and clung over to my lips and teeth like a film.
>> No. 444495 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 8:11 pm
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I'm not sure if this is a cock-up or a droll intentional mistake.
>> No. 444499 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 9:40 pm
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>>444495

It was good actually.
>> No. 444502 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 9:52 pm
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>>444499

Look closer at the photo m8.
>> No. 444505 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 11:29 pm
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Just did a fat rock of parmesan before bed, lads. When I see God I'll tell you said "more fat chicks".
>> No. 444507 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 12:30 am
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>>444505
Make sure they're goth, and when they lose weight they fill out like Sophie Dee.
>> No. 444508 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 1:01 am
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In any normal amount I actually quite like coriander, but if I eat a lot of it in one go (e.g. a homemade salsa with a heavy amount of the 'erb) then it starts to taste like soap. Does that make me a Soap Coriander Person or what? Normally I'd class it in my top 3 herbs.
>> No. 444510 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 10:38 am
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>>444502

Whooosh

I have always wanted to do that.
>> No. 444511 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 10:56 am
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>>444508
I've spoken to people who found it tasted of soap when they were younger but it changed as they got older. I suspect the "soap gene" thing is bollocks.
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13th June 2021
Sunday 11:27 am
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Spotify is really trying to get me to listen to podcast of people playing Dungeons and Dragons, likely presented by people who would bully the kids playing it 15 years ago.

I really have zero interest in tabletop RPGs or high fantasy, so that's a good sign that The Algorithm™ doesn't know much about me, but it got me thinking -- it's just so strange that being a "nerd" (within a very specific, limited definition) is now such a mainstream thing. The stranger part is that this specific, limited definition is primarily centred around consumption of lowest-common-denominator media and buying of landfill-quality plastic shite -- I'm just unsure how D&D managed to sneak into the "it's cool now" club; it doesn't really fit with the "consume product then get excited for next product" ethos that the rest of it does.

That, and I don't really see the appeal of listening to others play D&D -- parasocial, maybe?
>> No. 444513 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 11:38 am
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>>444512

There's a blossoming market catering to "homebrewing" DnD. Mostly digital tools but room for disposable crap too - they'll let you design a character model (from pre-chosen parts) then 3D print it for you, or let you draw a map with preconfigured tools and charge you through the nose for a high resolution print of it, or charge you a tenner a month for the "premium" features (different images for the page backgrounds) of a wiki-clone. You can let your imagination run wild creating semi-professional looking gaming resources, so long as it all fits within the fairly narrow definitions of a generic High Fantasy setting.
>> No. 444514 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 11:48 am
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I could get this skeleton-elk-frog-aphant cast in bronze (unpainted) for only $99 (plus shipping).
>> No. 444515 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 12:34 pm
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>>444512
There's quite a variety of D&D podcasts and while some focus mostly on the mechanics of stats and and dice rolls the better ones in my opinion ditch or hide these and focus on the story telling aspect instead. They could be more accurately described as "Improv podcasts with a thin veneer of D&D to hide that they are improv podcasts" and are not much different from listening to a radio play.
>> No. 444516 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 2:06 pm
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>>444512
I think there's something quite comforting about listening/watching people engage in hobbies you're interested in. With D&D/RPGs in general, it's different every time, depending on how people roll, the characters they play, the setting they're in. You could have two different groups playing the same module, and they would likely be so distinct from each other that you won't be listening to the same shit twice. And as the other lad says, it's basically improv with a bit of number crunching. Additionally, a lot of people will have missed out on playing as many games over the last year, so I imagine listening to Will Wheaton and Felicia Day or whoever playing games would fill that RPG shaped hole in their life.
>> No. 444517 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 3:03 pm
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>>444512
>I really have zero interest in tabletop RPGs or high fantasy, so that's a good sign that The Algorithm™ doesn't know much about me

Maybe we've reached the point that it knows more about you than you know about yourself.

>it's just so strange that being a "nerd" (within a very specific, limited definition) is now such a mainstream thing.

Yeah I still don't understand this in general.
>> No. 444518 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 3:08 pm
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>Maybe we've reached the point that it knows more about you than you know about yourself.
I mean, I've:
- played DnD before -- sure it was mildly fun to play with friends but the setting just did not interest me at all, and all the paperwork wasn't particularly fun to me;

- Played Skyrim, and really couldn't get past the first few missions (even in VR - at least the menus in Fallout make sense with an in-world item, but Skyrim just has Menus);

- Sat through the Fellowship of the Ring, and was bored to tears.

It's not like I haven't given it a go, I just have no interest in it.

>>444516
I thought of this as a reply to myself - how is it different to streamers/let's players? But I don't really get that, either.
>> No. 444519 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 3:28 pm
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>how is it different to streamers/let's players?
It's the same thing, I think, just has more opportunity for uniqueness compared to a Dark Souls speedrunner for example. I watch a lot of Souls streamers, and at high levels or in challenge runs they're repeating the same few strategies which could become quite boring to a lot of people. At least with D&D/other RPGs you've got the imagination and improvisation. I find that sort of stuff quite cringey (can't stand people doing silly voices), but I can definitely see why they're so popular at the moment.
>> No. 444520 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 3:49 pm
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>>444518
The Algorithm™ has spoken, data point. Now put on the wizard hat and fill out the spreadsheets or we'll have to unperson you for account-sharing.
>> No. 444521 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 5:47 pm
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So much for the hottest day of the year. It's been miserable and overcast most of the day. Still cunting warm, like, but hardly the scorcher we'd been promised. I've got a twelve pack of Desperados and some limes in the fridge, I was hoping I'd be able to recreate a bit of Costa Del Sol vibe in my living room.

Anyway I snapped this picture of the desperation of British holidaymakers as a souvenir for you lads. There might be a couple of saucy heifers in there to get excited over. Hornsea, if you're wondering.
>> No. 444522 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 6:39 pm
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>>444521
Never understood the point of beach tents. Do they have some special need for to do with those children you've been taking pictures of?
>> No. 444523 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 6:44 pm
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>>444521
If I was a gambling man I would say that's Hornsea, with Flamborough cliffs in the background.
>> No. 444524 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 6:59 pm
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I am going to buy a second monitor.
>> No. 444525 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 7:02 pm
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>>444523
Might be quite a safe bet, seeing as he said so in the post.
>> No. 444526 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 7:11 pm
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>>444521
Been sunny all day and I'm sweating my balls off, I'd glad trade weather with you.
>> No. 444527 Anonymous
13th June 2021
Sunday 7:16 pm
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>>444525
Fucking hell, I didn't even read that.
>> No. 444529 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 12:58 am
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It's too bloody hot, make it stop.
>> No. 444530 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 1:38 am
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>>444529
The human body needs some kind of energy reserve it can release when it's too hot to sleep to combat tiredness. Or I could get a hammock and sleep outside when it's like this, which would probably take less time and fewer forced mutations.
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14th June 2021
Monday 2:21 am
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>>444530
>I could get a hammock and sleep outside when it's like this

And since 2004 there's been no better way to smooth out those annoying wrinkles on your brain.
>> No. 444532 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 4:07 am
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>>444531

Most hammocks have mosquito nets.
>> No. 444533 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 7:30 am
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>>444530
Try taking Cetirizine for a week, then stopping. Unbounded energy!
Hayfever's been hell this year, so I thought I'd try some other drugs.
That one's now off the list. The combination of 10-pint-tiredness, constant heartburn and nausea, as well as feeling like I'd been hit across the nose with a bat and about to have a nosebleed, all added to a somewhat unsatisfying week.
Of course, I was so addled that I didn't figure out it was the Cetirizine for most of a week. I't good to be back to 'normal'.
Shame all hayfever meds seem to suck. The spreadsheet is updated and the search continues.
>> No. 444534 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 9:05 am
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>>444533

I've had hayfever most of my life, I take both the common over the counter varieties, sometimes I take both at once if it's a particularly bad day for pollen. It seems to be getting less of a hassle the older I get mind you, I definitely don't have those days where I literally can't go outside any more.

I've never had these side effects people talk about though. Is it possible to build up a tolerance when you've been chugging anti-histamines most of your adult life?
>> No. 444535 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 10:05 am
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>>444531
looking to see what you were referring to - distracted by this
https://www.mosquitobrainbrowser.org

So, what horrible mosquito-borne disease has come to the UK?
>> No. 444536 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 10:10 am
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>>444534
I've been knocking back Piriton forever, and it does some good. It's just that this year is killing me for hayfever - I'm typing this with stiff sausage fingers, weeping eyes and a sense of it never ending, so was looking to see if there was anything with more authority. To be fair to cetirizine, it did fix the swelling and weeping, but the cost was way too high. Reading the info sheet, the effects I got were in the 1% list, so I'm only moderately unlucky.
>> No. 444538 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 10:10 am
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>>444537
Fucking sausage fingers. Sorry.
>> No. 444539 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 12:40 pm
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>>444535
Asian-Tiger mosquitoes carry a fuck-ton of nasty including Zika, Chikungunya, West Nile and even the potential to give you heartworm. Kill every mosquito you see and check any pools of water and water butts for their young, show no mercy for you shall receive none.
>> No. 444541 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 3:20 pm
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Lads, first I was told that I should be wary about being so polite, as it's a tactic used by alt-right to appear presentable. Now someone on Rudgwick has told me "I'll pass on the classic rudgwick "lets send eachother essays forever" trope". Isn't that called a discussion?

Do I just need to remember that real people aren't like this? How long have you got before this seeps into IRL? Is rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk like twitter but with the idiocy spread out over more words?
>> No. 444542 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>444541
Have you been inviting people here? That must be against the rules.

In terms of online debate, there is the notorious "sealioning" which sounds like a ludicrous thing to be afraid of (people who politely ask for sources for everything). The left, meanwhile, is notorious for its lengthy essays in webcomics that are more focused on being right than funny. If you did invite people here, that might be what they are referring to.
>> No. 444543 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 3:37 pm
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No idea what your inane rablings are about, but I'd have you both killed for bumping the weekend thread on a Monday.
>> No. 444544 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 3:42 pm
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>>444543
Too late for the weekend thread, too early for the midweek thread. Monday on .gs is like the Christmas-New Year hangover confusion period.
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14th June 2021
Monday 3:57 pm
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>>444542
I outsourced that to revengelad.

Sealioning, to my understanding, is more obfuscatory in that it's not a sincere effort to actually get to the bottom of things, it's just a polite guise for cyclical questioning, evasion, and wearing someone down. Though the comic is pretty shit, if I was a sealion and someone said "I hate sealions" then they deserve an explanation.

And yeah, lengthy essays are pointless, but there's a big difference that and 2-3 sentence paragraphs. If you can't communicate with that basic level of nuance that an extra sentence allows, then surely you can't actually get anywhere. Is that meant to be the point?

>>444543
Do it, the canal is beckoning me.
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14th June 2021
Monday 4:41 pm
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>>444545

I don't think the motivation matters, whether you're cynically trying to wear someone down or just feel entitled to someone's time and energy. It's just a case of insisting they debate you.
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14th June 2021
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>444541
>Lads, first I was told that I should be wary about being so polite, as it's a tactic used by alt-right to appear presentable.

I saw a meme a few weeks back about this being something men do when we get into an argument - that we slip into a formal tone. It then went on to take the piss out of us for this like we pretend we're 17th century aristocrats.

I'm not sure if this is some PSYOP to make me become a violent reactionary but it's working. Stop posting on rubbish website populated by the nice-but-dim young people in the office.
>> No. 444548 Anonymous
14th June 2021
Monday 5:06 pm
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>>444545
>And yeah, lengthy essays are pointless, but there's a big difference that and 2-3 sentence paragraphs. If you can't communicate with that basic level of nuance that an extra sentence allows, then surely you can't actually get anywhere. Is that meant to be the point?

This fundamentally misunderstands what internet arguments provide imo. There's a time and a place for it but lengthy essays that confer information to the readers are valuable and its a sign of quality. I'm unsure if I've encountered a massive essay of text that wasn't at least somewhat informative without being immediately apparent as word soup.

I can see these technicalities start to pop up from people who think that you can 'win' internet arguments. Maybe on the same logic as using sassy one-liners.
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14th June 2021
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>444546
I'm not sure if 'entitlement' is the right word. There's an expectation that someone stating a position in this environment would address scrutiny, maybe because wasting someones time or mental energy is the essence of trolling.

>>444548
IMO lengthy essays written by people who aren't good at it are a waste of time, they're often just attempts to convert someone, or premised on the underlying assumption that the writer is correct, which defies the fundamental aspects of balanced writing that I've been taught. They can be great if written well, but relatively few are.

It's definitely linking in to the framing of 'winning' internet arguments. These engagements seem often adversarial or masturbatory, whereas if they were cooperative it would be, well, much nicer.
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14th June 2021
Monday 6:14 pm
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>There's an expectation that someone stating a position in this environment would address scrutiny
That's the thing though. You can just sense from the tone they're going to keep going as everything turns in to essay-like endless posts of >quoting each other. I'm positive that a lot of people genuinely believe they're "winning" internet debates on the basis of their intellectual arguments, not realising they're just brow-beating people into not bothering to respond.
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14th June 2021
Monday 6:15 pm
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>>444549
>It's definitely linking in to the framing of 'winning' internet arguments. These engagements seem often adversarial or masturbatory, whereas if they were cooperative it would be, well, much nicer.

I think there's a half-truth we have to accept somewhere along the lines here. Two people are going to feel an irresistible need to 'win' the internet argument which just isn't possible and they will both get into a cunt-off spiral as a result, that's just a fact of internet discussion. They should be mocked for breaking standards, inventing bullshit rules or in general trying to be in a position where they can win but the game doesn't have an end until you get tired.

The actual quality though is for the outside reader who is picking things up or at least being entertained. In a way purple is exploiting us, he's paying the server bill and running the site allegedly but he does so for his own twisted thrills.
>> No. 444554 Anonymous
15th June 2021
Tuesday 1:04 am
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There's a sub-rudgewick you might all enjoy called The Motte which is dedicated to cunting off debating without resorting to any cheap tactics, bad faith positions or logical fallacies.

It's hard to tell if there's any political bias at play there, which is a healthy sign in my opinion; but it might just be because when you actually debate sensibly nobody ever ends up winning and everyone just gets bored before anyone takes the prize. It's also filled with exactly the sort of people you'd expect on a sub with that concept, but on the other hand... I am one of them, and so are you lot.
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19th June 2021
Saturday 11:06 pm
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>> No. 444590 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 8:20 am
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My daughter's class made cards for Mother's Day but haven't done the same for Father's Day. Broken Britain.
>> No. 444598 Anonymous
20th June 2021
Sunday 5:12 pm
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I'll die if I eat that last bit of cheesecake. This is what I'm telling myself: I'll die.
>> No. 444599 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 12:50 am
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Today I got a £13 soldering set off Amazon, and set to work replacing the pickups in one of my guitars (a PRS SE) with a fancy set of "boutique" hot PAFs. Supposedly made to sound like the ones in Jimmy Page's Les Paul.

The wiring is a piece of piss, although admittedly it's 1950s electronics so it's hardly complicated, but I really wonder why some people are deathly afraid of this kind of work and pay out the arse taking their gear to technicians.

Sound wise? Eh, it's a bit nicer than before, not sure if it's £250 quid nicer though. Either the pickups it had in already were already pretty decent, or if it's just another one of those bits of music gear snake oil. I suspect there's a degree of the latter, but I had to try it for myself. I've never been much of a snob for "vintage" this and "period accurate" that, but I like to know what makes a difference and what doesn't.

In this case I feel inclined to say sure, paying for the high end stuff will get you a bit more of a refined sound, but a Chinese knock off will get you 95% of the way there if the design is correct and the right materials are used. There's really not much to these things, mechanically. The main thing affecting any of it is probably just the type of copper strand used and cheap ceramic magnets.
>> No. 444600 Anonymous
21st June 2021
Monday 1:32 am
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>but I really wonder why some people are deathly afraid of this kind of work and pay out the arse taking their gear to technicians.

The thing is that you still have to have a certain level of electronics knowledge to understand that a circuit is simple or not. On top of that soldering is simply something people aren't taught, so assume it is difficult and wouldn't even consider being able to try. Sure, all it takes is a curious mind to find out that it's all very easy, but not everyone has a curious mind.

I always think the same thing about car stuff, though the barrier to entry is a lot higher in terms of space and garage equipment, hearing my colleague tell me Porsche charged him £300 to change his spark plugs was pretty painful. I've just come to understand over the years that there's a certain type of person who will immediately google "how to x" or just stare at something until they work it out themselves, and then there's people who assume something hidden behind a panel or whatever is entirely off limits to them, and don't even consider that they could even try to do a thing themselves. I don't really understand why.

There's also people who just have enough money that not spending the time to learn/prepare/do a thing is simply not worth it, when you can pay someone to do it for you. I think I'm too far on the other end of the scale, where I don't trust any professionals, and assume anyone I'm paying to do a job will end up doing a worse job than me, because I can spend as much time as I like getting it 'perfect'. Though I suppose in our society when doing a job quickly and cheaply is favoured over doing it properly, I'm not often wrong.
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21st June 2021
Monday 7:55 am
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Not to get too psychological, as I'm sure most of it is down to what you're pointing to as issues of practicality and economics, but it may also be down to the kind of learning environment you were brought up in.

If you were someone that was taught that learning is more important than making mistakes, you're more likely to experiment and be willing to mess up. The more you mess up, the more careful you become each time you approach a sensitive task. If you were taught to avoid mistakes at all costs, though, £300 is nothing even for a simple job. You're not paying for the work done, you're just paying for someone else to take responsibility if something goes wrong.
>> No. 444647 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 9:37 am
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>> No. 444649 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 2:11 pm
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I occasionally spend time at the big Audi dealership near here to get parts for my old A4, and I often get a good look at the kind of clientele there that are the typical upmarket A4 or A6 buyer nowadays. Worth saying that cars are considerably more difficult to work on as a layperson than 20 years ago, but that's not my point. The point is that people who can afford to shell out the kind of money to buy a German luxury saloons or estates are commonly university-educated, prosperous upwardly mobile mid- to late 30s types, who have probably never picked up a wrench in their lives and look like they would be out of their depth swapping a toaster fuse.

Changing a spark plug would probably seem like black magic to them, and so they just feel more comfortable forking over 300 quid to have the dealership do it for them. Not least because they will probably have read a lot of stuff online about all the things that can go wrong in the process (there really aren't many; the most important thing being the golden rule of not screwing cold spark plugs into a hot cylinder head). And I guess that brings us back to the point that people like that weren't brought up to take chances on making mistakes. While I've had to have a car towed numerous times in the last 20 years because it died in mid-traffic after failed DIY repairs, but never thought much about it (RAC breakdown cover is worth every penny in that respect).
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25th June 2021
Friday 2:34 pm
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I just would feel so lost in the world if I didn't know how to do this sort of thing, it's incredibly comforting to know I can fix all but the most catastrophic car incidents with the small tool kit I keep in every car, and similarly I think I'd be stressed to bits if every time a light switch or water pipe misbehaved in my house I had to call someone out. I can afford all of this, but that's not the point. I suppose it's a class thing, as ever. Even though I basically fit your description of a 2021 Audi owner, I didn't grow up with money so DIY was the obvious path to everything.
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25th June 2021
Friday 5:15 pm
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I grew up upper middle class, we weren't filthy rich, but money was also never tight. But there were engineers and other technically inclined people on both sides of my family, and I got a good amount of their genes. Nobody ever taught me how to fix cars, or electric appliances around the house. I just took to it like a duck to water from my teenlad years, and just seemed to have a knack for figuring things out for myself. Besides cars, I've fixed anything from washing machines to space heaters and dishwashers. The only things I probably wouldn't do on a car would be replacing a head gasket, valves or pistons, or camshafts or the crankshaft. That's pretty hands-on stuff even on an old car. Very easy to get wrong without proper training or experience, let alone the proper tools, and could then cost you a whole new engine.
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25th June 2021
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>444651
Curious to hear what your definition of upper middle class is.
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25th June 2021
Friday 5:52 pm
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>cars are considerably more difficult to work on as a layperson than 20 years ago

True, but we've also got the internet. In my day, if you didn't know anyone who was handy with cars, you had to get the Haynes manual and figure it out yourself from a handful of blurry black-and-white photos. These days there's a YouTube tutorial for just about everything and plenty of forums to help you out if you get stuck. The actual job of fixing things has got harder, but I think that's balanced or even outweighed by the ease with which you can learn.

I think the biggest impediments are time and confidence. Sundays used to be interminably boring, so people were eager for little jobs around the house just to blot out the tedium. You'd have a go at servicing your own car or re-felting your shed roof simply because it was something to do. These days there are a million other things competing for your time and people tend to have a bit more money to spend, so the obvious answer is to just get a man in or buy a new one. If you're not in the habit of just having a go and figuring it out, it can seem totally daunting.
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25th June 2021
Friday 6:46 pm
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>>444653

While I agree with your sentiment, the reason modern cars are often particularly hard to work on isn't simply that they're complicated (though they are), it's that they're designed and built in a way that specialist tools are required, some of which you can't even buy. They are, I assume deliberately, now full of none user-serviceable parts, and often parts are hidden under things in such a way that you're talking about a couple of days work to get at them, which is prohibitive enough for the average home mechanic even if the car isn't likely their main or only form of transport, which is likely if it's a new, expensive car.

Deliberately done or not, engine bay design just keeps getting more efficient for the robots who assemble them, and more difficult for the humans who want to disassemble them.

All the older men I talk to always say they'd spend their weekends tinkering on the family Volvo or whatever - I don't know if I just happen to be associating with mechanically minded blokes, or if truly every dad in the 70s was handy with a wrench. It's certainly easy to imagine the past with those rose tinted glasses, but was that really the case, or were all those double glazing salesmen wankers just paying A Man to fix their BMWs all the time even back then?

I have been putting a new engine in my mate's MR2 this week. It's back breaking, frustrating work but we've learned a lot and had fun doing it. But perhaps if he relied on the car to get to work each day, or if we didn't have the ability to look up forums, repair manuals and car parts online instantly, or simply we didn't have the buffer of throwing another grand or whatever at it if we failed miserably, it might have been a lot less zen in the end.

On top of that, even his car, built in 1991, we're constantly finding weird little built in hurdles in the design of the thing. Toyota made about 5 revisions of the 3SGE engine (not even counting the BEAMS series that shares the same code), each with enough changes to mean that you can't simply swap one for the other without considerable rerouting. We have it running using a revision 3 engine with revision 1 electrics, but it's got fucky timing and a dodgy idle we still need to fix, and potentially the only way to run it right would be a cam swap and extensive loom surgery. We also found plenty of other weirdness, like the hybrid ignition system, an overcomplicated coolant system, and so on. But the saving grace of the whole project was toyota's insistence on using exactly three different bolt sizes, 10, 14, and 19mm. That was lovely.

The only cars I've worked on that were truly blissful were old land rovers, the most modern of which before they got bad again was the 300tdi. All mechanical, basically a tractor engine. The sweet spot is late 70s to late 80s, everything earlier and you're dealing with finicky carbs and all that - fun if you're a nerd like me, but hardly that ideal for people who just want their car to run by their own hands out of necessity.

I also have a love of old soviet style cars for that reason. A car built to be THE car you buy, potentially to outlive you, is truly special, even when built with an extreme poverty line in mind. A Lada may have a reputation for being unreliable or shite, but give me two spanners and a screwdriver and I can get her running again. I think the Fiat 126 Polski would be my favourite example of this sort of car, but old landys have a similar feeling.
>> No. 444656 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 7:36 pm
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A working theory I've had for many years now (and have probably posted on here already) is that of the Technological Threshold -- at some point within the last 40 years or so (maybe 50 now), we passed the point where the average layman could understand and service the technology he uses every day. Ironically enough, in many cases, the increase in complexity of these technologies has served to make them more reliable, efficient, and easy to use.

Cars are a really good example of that -- even your shitehouse cheapest Chinese, Indian or Romanian econobox can be expected to start first time every time, require little to no regular maintenance past the standard oil changes and keeping air in the tyres, and work for well over 100,000 miles, which is not something that could be said about a BL car in the 1970s. This is partly down to the fact that cars have had progressively smarter computers that know when something is not optimal for the engine and can adjust running parameters instantly and accordingly. Combine this with increased precision of manufacturing, and we get a situation where a layperson really can't be expected to work on it, because it's all Computers and Shit.

Obviously on top of that, and more generally with technology, you've got planned obsolesence and a pathological aversion to people repairing the devices they own. Even if phones weren't the absolute marvel of miniaturisation they are and require precision tools to work on, you simply can't buy replacement parts or the tools required to fix them, because that's not profitable for the manufacturer, and then you might not buy next year's model.

One thing I found out whilst teaching my peers at uni how to program was that it might seem obvious to us a-bit-autismal-lads how to think like a computer, but it really isn't to a lot of people. In the same vein, it doesn't occur to most people that plumbing is just water lego, init, or that if your vacuum cleaner stops sucking to start taking bits off it until you figure out the problem. Most people just aren't wired that way (pun intended). It simply doesn't occur to them that the the devices they use are anything more than black boxes of Parts and Electronics, and thoughts of ripping something apart to find out how it works simply do not interest them.
>> No. 444657 Anonymous
25th June 2021
Friday 8:20 pm
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>>444656
>A working theory I've had for many years now (and have probably posted on here already) is that of the Technological Threshold -- at some point within the last 40 years or so (maybe 50 now), we passed the point where the average layman could understand and service the technology he uses every day. Ironically enough, in many cases, the increase in complexity of these technologies has served to make them more reliable, efficient, and easy to use.

Then explain the Windows OS.
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25th June 2021
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25th June 2021
Friday 9:21 pm
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Swings and roundabouts innit. Mechanically-minded people can clean and jet a carb in their sleep, electronically-minded people intuitively know how to use an OBD scanner. Everyone feels a bit alienated by technology they didn't grow up with.

I'll grant you that engine bays are a lot more crowded and engines are a lot more complicated, but I think there's a bit of rose-tinted spectacles with regards to parts and tools. You do often need some weird specialist tool these days, but you can usually get one for buttons on eBay with free delivery; A Lucas distributor might be boneheadedly simple, but it's also terribly unreliable and you'd often ask for one at the Unipart counter only to be told "we've got none, the factory is on strike, I'd go round the scrappies if I were you mate".

>were all those double glazing salesmen wankers just paying A Man to fix their BMWs all the time even back then?

Undoubtedly, but a lot more people were doing their own work because a) cars were horribly unreliable and b) most people just didn't have a lot of spare cash. I get terribly nostalgic when I see an old Post Office van with rotten sills, a mismatched door and visible blobs of filler. Proper bangers are quite rare these days, but people used to keep any old shit on the road out of necessity.
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25th June 2021
Friday 11:13 pm
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There's an old anecdote I heard about the Soviet idea of reliablity. A western journalist moves to Leningrad and asks a Russian buddy of his to recommend him a good washing machine. He buys what his friend suggests and it breaks down two weeks later. He calls him up and is absolutely livid that his friend recommended such an unreliable piece of shit, but his friend is profoundly confused and says "what do you mean 'unreliable?' machine is easy to fix yourself!"
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25th June 2021
Friday 11:29 pm
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>>444657

>Then explain the Windows OS.

Windows, or most other rivalling computer OS, are a good example of technology having come a long way to now be accessible even to the least savvy user, like office secretaries or indeed your nan. And that was also the success of Windows 95. In the days of Windows 3.x or before, the target group was really still more the computer enthusiast. Installing the operating system or software or adding a hardware card could require a good bit of computer knowledge and skill, whereas from Windows 95 onward and nowadays when you buy a new PC, all you have to do is click your way through a fully automatic setup routine that's near enough idiot proof. People take it for granted and don't realise that installing substantial hard- or software could be a whole evening affair thirty years ago, involving the tinkering with loads of software or driver settings and/or DIP switches before everything was fully operational.


>>444659

>but a lot more people were doing their own work because a) cars were horribly unreliable and b) most people just didn't have a lot of spare cash

This was true especially in the 70s and into the early 80s, while the economy as a whole was in a precarious state. And if you owned a BL car in particular, it tended to be a complete and utter piece of rubbish. My dad bought a late Rover SD1 at some point, a car that was as coveted for its bold design as it was feared for its shoddy mechanics and electrics, and my childhood memories of it are that the car broke down on a few occasions while we were going somewhere, and my dad spending a good number of weekends fixing all kinds of things on it.


I think what has been killing DIY culture in recent years isn't just that cars are black-box computers on wheels, but also that consumer electronics and household appliances are no longer user serviceable in a meaningful way. Loads of goods like that are designed to a price point, and if a rivet or plastic weld costs 2p less than a metal screw, then that's what you get.
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25th June 2021
Friday 11:42 pm
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Tornado in Barking. Flooding in Romford.
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26th June 2021
Saturday 12:13 am
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Just had the worst poo of my life -- the best way I can describe it was ringpiece cramps. I'm in actual pain.
>> No. 444664 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 12:41 am
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I wish I capable of experiencing emotions other than anger.
>> No. 444665 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 9:36 am
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>>444664

You can. you're just only capable of expressing them as anger.

I've come to realise this about myself, the difficult part is getting anyone to empathise and understand that's it's not something you can exactly just change at the snap of a finger.

When I'm angry about something, more often than not what it really is, is that little ten year old version of yourself crying and sulking about their broken action man; only you've been conditioned not to show that level of vulnerability because as an adult, there is quite simply nobody there to cuddle you and tell you it's okay like your mam did, and there never will be.

I have tried to express my emotions in other ways but it's impossible, it's like someone telling you to punch yourself in the face or smash your own living room window. Even if you try, there's some visceral reptilian failsafe function in your brain that prevents the signal getting through to your limbs.
>> No. 444666 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 12:31 pm
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I tried out the notification settings in discord. Beep beep beep, chat chat chat. Fuck that, mute it down. Then I wonder why i'm lonely and have no social contact.
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26th June 2021
Saturday 1:32 pm
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A number of XR members were arrested while/for painting banners yesterday, today the MET have said they won't investigate Hancock because what he's done is "retrospective". This is a joke.

>>444666

You're not alone.
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26th June 2021
Saturday 1:45 pm
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>>444667
I wouldn't worry, many of those XR folks will flip before they get prosecuted.
>> No. 444669 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 3:20 pm
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>>444668

Who gives a shit about that? You're too busy being bitter.
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26th June 2021
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YOU SAID I MUST EAT SO MANY LEMONS, BECAUSE I AM SO BITTER
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26th June 2021
Saturday 3:52 pm
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>>444670
Oh my days. She's fantastic in GLOW. Regional accents seem accentuated when surrounded by yanks, absolutely love it.
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26th June 2021
Saturday 4:27 pm
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>>444671

Plus she gets her tits out.
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26th June 2021
Saturday 5:05 pm
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>>444669
What? Who gives a shit about the basic ability of the climate change protest group XR not to fall to bits in the face of unavoidable police crackdowns? Yeah, I do.
>> No. 444674 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 5:17 pm
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>>444672
Citation fucking needed.
>> No. 444675 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 5:35 pm
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>>444671
She's anorexic though. Even in my fantasies, I can't deal with anorexia.
>> No. 444676 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 5:49 pm
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>>444673

I don't give a shit about arguing the point whether someone's going to "flip" over being charged with painting a banner, after some snide comment that makes out like we're living in The Sweeny or some nonsense.
>> No. 444678 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>444673>>444676
Just fuck off. You have the same cunt off about XR almost every fucking week.
>> No. 444679 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 6:49 pm
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>>444678
We were agreeing with each other, genius.
>> No. 444680 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 6:54 pm
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>>444679
Agreeing with another poster and having a cunt off aren't mutually exclusive here.
>> No. 444682 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 7:21 pm
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>>444680
That's true.
My intial point wasn't meant to be outrage on XR's behalf, just about the blatant double-standards in the Met's policing. This instance with XR's just the most recent example, the Daniel Morgan case or Cummings eye-test or a whole host of other things are just as relevant.
>> No. 444683 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 8:05 pm
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>>444682
I still don't understand what this has to do with your weekend?
>> No. 444684 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 8:11 pm
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>>444683
More than the car industry of the 70s does.
>> No. 444685 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 8:19 pm
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>>444684
True. This weekend I have been working on 1980s automotive electrical systems. 1970s stuf is completely irrelevant.
Also, maybe more a /101/, but I can't shift the hub nut on my trailer, even when twatting a 3ft breaker bar with a club hammer.
>> No. 444686 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 8:49 pm
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>>444684
If you don't think 1970s manufacturing philosophy has relevance to our weekends then frankly I don't know what you're doing here.
>> No. 444687 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 8:56 pm
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>>444685
Does heating things up like you might with a tricky jamjar lid work?
>> No. 444688 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 9:16 pm
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>>444687
Hm, might give that a go tomorrow.
Failing that, next door has a monstrous impact gun, but he's out 'til Monday, so I'll definitely give fire a go.
>> No. 444689 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 9:42 pm
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The US has released its official report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. I'm giving it a read now, and it's all in nauseatingly military language - they rightly suggest that a plastic bag would fall under the category of "aerial clutter", but then feel the need to go on and say that it would inhibit a pilot's ability to see enemy targets.

As a career scientist, it's frustrating to see them list a huge catch-all category of "other explanations", only to say that major improvements in "scientific knowledge" would be required to practically observe and explain them - this sort of wording just seems like fuel to the conspiracy theory community to me.

At the end of the day, it's someone begging for some federal funding to buy some new computers and hire some scientists to sit in a room and pretend to think about how they can tell a plastic bag from a Martian communist, but ultimately it's about the money. They make a big fuss about, whatever it is, it could very well be a threat to US national security, which is a surefire way to get someone to fling you a few million dollars. They threw a claim in there that they're going to use machine learning to help them on their way, which is another way to get someone to throw you funds.

Overall, it's a whinge from me.
>> No. 444690 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 9:48 pm
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I have some idea where the 159 Miami missing are located.
>> No. 444691 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 11:04 pm
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>>444689

I don't think anybody seriously could have expected them to confirm that aliens have visited us.

There is probably life elsewhere in the Universe, but unless the aliens know a couple of tricks about interstellar or intergalactic travel that we've missed so far, I don't think they would actually want to visit us here.
>> No. 444692 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 11:05 pm
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>>444690
I'll go out on a limb and suggest they're in Miami.
>> No. 444693 Anonymous
26th June 2021
Saturday 11:21 pm
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>>444692
Well I'm afraid you're overlooking the possibility that a intergalactic portal opened up and they have been transported elsewhere.
>> No. 444694 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:00 am
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>>444693
It was a sinkhole. They all fell through to China.

Unrelated, but do any of you know if there are any issues with buying a house that someone died in? I saw a list of questions to ask when looking at houses, and one was, "Has anyone ever died here?" That seemed like an irrelevant question to me when I saw it, unless you're worried about vengeful ghosts calling you a filthy homosexual for installing double-glazing. Anyway, the house I looked at today, that I could theoretically afford, is in a rancid state and it's being sold after the death of its previous owner. Based on the walls being stained from years of cigarette smoke, and the stairlift, and the bath with a door in it, I get the feeling Mr Previous Owner didn't go outside much and almost certainly carked it in my potential new living room. Why should I have asked whether he died at home or in hospital? Does it matter at all?
>> No. 444695 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:11 am
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>>444694
>Why should I have asked whether he died at home or in hospital?
If nothing else, the price may be lower because people are superstitious. Sounds awful enough as it is though.
>> No. 444696 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:16 am
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>>444695
Interesting. Yes, I recommend deducting five grand from your offer to cover the costs of full top-to-bottom exorcism.
>> No. 444697 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:29 am
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>>444695
It's pretty grim, certainly, but very handy for local amenities and I'm not afraid of replacing a carpet and some wallpaper. It needs central heating adding, and apparently it needs completely rewiring as well, neither of which I am willing to watch a YouTube tutorial for. It's around 15 grand cheaper than the average house price for the area (£165,000, while most houses cost £180,000, but the average was £160,000 a year ago so obviously I'm raging), and the estate agent said it would cost £15-20,000 to make it nice, so I do suspect they're trying their luck a little bit. I'm looking at a livable, but smaller, house on Monday for £170,000, which is getting close to the maximum of what I can afford. That has two bedrooms instead of three, but I suspect the house is the same size and just has fewer walls upstairs. I can always pay 20 grand to add an extension to that one in a few years if I'm that desperate for two empty bedrooms.
>> No. 444698 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:54 am
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>>444685

Invest in a Really Long Heavy Pipe. That on the end of a breaker bar, with you standing on it, will shift just about anything.

Saying that trying to get the hub nut off of an '89 BMW E30 was a fucking travesty even with the RLHP. Ever seen a half inch thick breaker bar bend? It's terrifying.
>> No. 444699 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:58 am
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Bird on the shipping forecast just said "eathd" instead of east. Bet she feels like topping herself now, can you imagine.
>> No. 444700 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 1:05 am
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>>444691
>There is probably life elsewhere in the Universe, but unless the aliens know a couple of tricks about interstellar or intergalactic travel that we've missed so far, I don't think they would actually want to visit us here.

Awfully antisocial of them. I'm glad they're not visiting us as they sound like a bunch of judgemental pricks.
>> No. 444701 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 2:40 am
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>>444700
To be fair, I imagine they'd want to visit a planet with intelligent life rather than the awful lifeforms dominant on this one.
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27th June 2021
Sunday 2:52 am
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>>444694
That's weird, that's crossed my mind today too. I was looking up one of my in-laws' properties to see if I could grab the floorplan online, and one of the first sites to come up when I searched the address was "diedinhouse.com".
>> No. 444703 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:07 am
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>>444701

One question would be how they first learned about the existence of our planet. To be able to direct-image a planet outside their home planetary system, there are limits as to how far away it can be. The farthest direct-imaged planet we've observed is 1200 light years away. If they spot our planet using the transit/radial velocity method, maybe a few hundred light years more. In any case, at least using our technological level of astronomy, they will detect no sign of an advanced civilisation on Earth, because the electromagnetic and radio waves we've emitted in the last 100 years will not have reached them yet. Only aliens in our relative vicinity would be able to pick up our radio waves, but in that case, we should have been able to pick up theirs too. After decades of listening, SETI still hasn't found anything of that sort.

If the aliens somehow have the technology to spot planets that are hundreds of millions of light years away or even zoom in on them in a meaningful way, they'd still only see dinosaurs on Earth.

So then why take on a journey of thousands of light years which could take millions of years, on the off chance that a planet that's hospitable to life at the time you are observing it will have developed an advanced civilisation by the time you get there.

But if the aliens have figured out some sort of teleportation method or if they know how to use wormholes in a way that we just don't have the physics knowledge for yet, then it could be that they'll just happen upon our planet while they're passing through our stellar neighbourhood. And in that case, even the scenario laid out in Independence Day would seem feasible, in that an alien race would colonise planets and extract natural resources from them. On the other hand, many raw materials like metal ores or even hydrogen or water are so abundant in the Universe that you'd hardly have to go to a distant small rocky planet like ours to get them. Not even our fossil fuels would be appealing to them, because a civilisation capable of sending manned spaceships to distant planets in other planetary systems will surely have moved far beyond any need for them.

All that still doesn't mean we'll never be contacted or visited by aliens. But the obstacles probably make it less likely than some people think it is.
>> No. 444704 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:45 am
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>>444703

They know we're here because they are sufficiently advanced beings to have developed and built a quantum computer which simulates the universe with near perfect accuracy, and therefore have no need of direct light observations and all the troublesome relatavistic limitations and implications that come with it.

Also we're living in that simulation, the real earth died millions of years ago. According to the simulation it was inside.
>> No. 444705 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:59 am
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>>444703
>So then why take on a journey of thousands of light years which could take millions of years, on the off chance that a planet that's hospitable to life at the time you are observing it will have developed an advanced civilisation by the time you get there.
Because they're aliens. You can't presume to understand the motives of aliens, especially ones that much more technologically advanced than us.
>> No. 444706 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:22 pm
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>>444704

The problem with physics is that at least our human scholars of it here on Earth maintain that a) the same laws of physics apply everywhere in the Universe, and b) that all physics is consistent.

It means that while an inhabited extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star may look completely different, concepts like Newton's gravitation and thermodynamics, Planck's Law and Einstein's relativity will still apply to it.

Also, it means that while areas like nuclear physics as we know it today may be centuries more advanced than anything Newton occupied himself with in his day, it is still perfectly reconcilable with his findings.

And therefore, any alien species will face the same fundamental problems in figuring out how to traverse large distances in space to explore other worlds. They can't just suddenly invent teleportation or wormhole travel without solving some ground-level problems that near enough deny the possibility in the first place.

They'd also have the same problems as us in creating a quantum computer capable of simulating the entire Universe with such information density and believability that no sentient species in it will be the wiser. Which kind of seems at least as improbable as aliens suddenly doing wormhole travel.
>> No. 444707 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:33 pm
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>>444706

You could be right, but these people were very confident they were right too.
>> No. 444708 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 12:39 pm
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>>444706

You're still looking at it from the frame of reference of our civilisation, which isn't ideal as we don't even know how people built stuff a few hundred years ago with any accuracy, so guessing what aliens (who may be millenia older than us) can or can't figure out is hardly going to be accurate.

Moreover, wormholes are (or could be) entirely compatible with our understanding of physics, right?
>> No. 444709 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 1:02 pm
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>>444703
>If the aliens somehow have the technology to spot planets that are hundreds of millions of light years away or even zoom in on them in a meaningful way, they'd still only see dinosaurs on Earth.
Imagine their disappointment when they get here and realise that idiot humans have taken over.
>> No. 444710 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 1:35 pm
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>>444703
>So then why take on a journey of thousands of light years which could take millions of years, on the off chance that a planet that's hospitable to life at the time you are observing it will have developed an advanced civilisation by the time you get there.

If there's an alien race out there with the ability to travel thousands of light years, then there's also a logical implication that those sorts of timescales are essentially meaningless to them. So if such an alien race is interested enough in us to visit Earth, then it would seem likely that they've already been here thousands or millions of years just content to watch life evolve.

What's incredibly unlikely is that they would just happen to turn up at this point in our history.


>Only aliens in our relative vicinity would be able to pick up our radio waves, but in that case, we should have been able to pick up theirs too. After decades of listening, SETI still hasn't found anything of that sort.
If there are aliens that were at a similar technological level to ours within a few hundred light years at just the right time we would have picked them up. But an intersteller alien race probably has no practical use to be using the sorts of radio transmissions we can detect.
>> No. 444711 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 1:42 pm
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This discussion just reminds me of thinking about how mad it must've been to be a pacific islander when Europeans showed up. I mean for any culture it would be a shock, but it hits harder when you've got a culture who's whole thing is the sea and then strangers shows up, completely unpredictably, completely out of the blue. Imagine you're sitting one day in some tropical paradise and then out of nowhere comes the largest and most bizarre looking ship you've ever seen in your life. So you go out to it and there are these ghostly looking weirdos in outrageous outfits, and you swap some fish with them or something and then after a day or two they clear off again. How does one even process something like that, something completely outside your civilisational sphere of reference?

(I'm not sure there's much of an answer left, since those first contacts tended to be followed up by something awful like the flu killing 90% of the people, or a civil war breaking out after you were traded guns and alcohol, or a gang of Europeans just deciding that what's yours is theirs now even if they previously made a treaty saying otherwise, or an escaped Irishman appointing himself dictator, which tends to make it look like the best thing to have happened would've been for a storm to sink the big bizarre ship before anyone had seen it.)
>> No. 444712 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 2:05 pm
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>>444711

There are quite a few renowned physicists who think that contact with an alien civilisation milleniae ahead of us in its technological development would not end well for us, precisely because the way we've seen such contacts play out here on Earth between civilisation doesn't tend to leave much hope for the inferior race.

Then there's the argument that aliens wouldn't travel all this way with hostile intentions, e.g. to exploit our resources, when those resources are probably available closer to home and without having to go through the fuss of killing off a planet's inhabitants to obtain them. On the other hand, we might have something on our planet which they really want, and are prepared to fight and subdue the natives for.

The Spanish colonised Central and South America because their king had been playing silly buggers with the court's finances and needed the Inca gold to keep from going broke. Not saying there's an alien overlord out there who is shit with his finances, but it's a possibility that aliens will come here not because they're naturally inquisitive and want to get to know other civilisations out of benign motives, but that there's a specific rare resource that they need to sustain their civilisation, at the cost of whoever isn't going to part with that resource.
>> No. 444713 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 2:16 pm
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I have to say, all this chat about aliens discovering us is a lot more exciting than the usual discussions about us discovering aliens. I have decided that us discovering aliens would actually be really depressing, because if they're nearby, like on Mars, they're probably just moss or fungus, or flies in the absolute best-case scenario. So kind of disappointing. Even if there are little green men on a moon of Uranus or wherever, that's great, but how would we get there? They'd be out there but they'd take 15 years to visit, probably. And that's still incredibly unlikely; any aliens we discover are most likely to be one of those Dyson spheres 50 light years away. That would be the most fascinating thing ever, and we would never be able to speak to them, even knowing that they're out there, because we'd all be dead before we got a reply. How awful.
>> No. 444714 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 3:09 pm
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>>444713

>because if they're nearby, like on Mars, they're probably just moss or fungus, or flies in the absolute best-case scenario

Any proof of life, however basic, anywhere outside Earth would still be one of the most significant discoveries in all of human history. Perhaps THE most significant, because it would fundamentally alter what we assume to know about our place in the Universe. Even if it's just some fossilised single-cell green slime that lived a billion years ago and gets picked up by a Mars rover. Because if a planet is or was able to sustain simple life forms, even for a few million years, then it means that elsewhere in an extraterrestrial habitat where life has more time, like on our planet, on a long enough timescale more complex life could have evolved numerous times.

It's then really just a game of large numbers and probabilities. If our own galaxy contains roughly 100 billion stars and there are up to a few trillion other galaxies in the Universe, then all it takes is a minute fraction of life-sustaining planets orbiting sunlike stars where conditions are right for a long enough time, for there to be a substantial number of alien civilisations, both past and present.

I think the Fermi Paradox really only exists because the Universe is so incomprehensibly vast and we've only been looking for alien life for an infinitely short timespan compared to the Universe's entire age. There probably wasn't any life soon after the Big Bang, as complex life as we understand it tends to rely on heavier elements far beyond hydrogen and helium which needed time to form through various cycles of star formation and supernovae. But these heavy elements have probably existed in most galaxies for a few billion years now, in any case long enough for the possibility that there were alien, space-travelling civilisations one or two billion years even before our time. And even if they very prolifically sent out radio communication, it could be that their radio waves reached us at the time of the Dinosaurs, or will only reach us in ten or twenty million years.

The Fermi Paradox, then, isn't proof that aliens don't exist. It's just an indication that they're much harder to find than anybody originally assumed.
>> No. 444715 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 3:51 pm
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>>444703
It would be relatively simple once you get up to using the resources of a solar system to send a probe out to every other system in the galaxy. Wouldn't even need the tiny amount that would require if you just used Von Neumann probes - and even then our sun is pretty rare and stable so worth a look in its own right.

To be honest though if there's enough of them and they stick around you'd think they would establish a presence everywhere just because of the odd 1 in a trillion who decides to wander around space or make a space Milton Keynes. Plus someone would put on a lightshow.

>>444705
Would it matter if there's enough of them? Assuming they're not by-and-large curious about the universe you would still get the odd weirdo wanting to Netflix and chill with our species.

>>444711
>>444712
I'm sceptical of how it would work even for us today. We still have tribes in remote regions doing their own thing and aside from criminal miscreants the policy is one of open door if they want to cross the river or whatever. There's choice for them and thousands of anthropologists who will pop 'round for a cuppa and arranged marriage if they're willing to host them.

This has also led to us having accounts in living memory of contact and the problems it presents. Which, despite the problems of poverty and drug use, seem mostly to concern the social breakdown of the young leaving for a better life and the effective end of the culture. I'm not sure you could call it so much of a problem for us, if some aliens turn up with luxury space communism and billions of years of culture then I'm sure our civilisation would quickly be blobbed and we'd become space-weeaboos but would that be such a bad thing? Even if they're illegal miners we could just trade Uranus for a boat and a promise not to grass them up to the feds.
>> No. 444716 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 4:01 pm
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>> No. 444717 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 4:31 pm
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>>444715
Luxury space communism would be appealing yes but space-weeaboos? Outside of academia it's unlikely their culture would appeal to us. Teenagers aren't going to appreciate a story told via the medium of the scent-sac poison gases about slice-of-life egg-to-larvae years in the total blackness of L'M'natx IV's darkside asteroid fields. It lacks human interest.
>> No. 444718 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:21 pm
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Lidl had cantaloupes on sale this weekend for 99p. But when I cut it open just now, it had an overpowering smell and taste of acetone. I could barely eat one piece of it. Acetone smell in cantaloupes is apparently somewhat common, and it's either a sign of excessive fertiliser use or of the cantaloupe being overrripe. In both cases, if the Interwebs are right, it's not fit for consumption. And Lidl were cheeky bastards for still wanting 99p for it.
>> No. 444719 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:28 pm
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>>444717
>a story told via the medium of the scent-sac poison gases about slice-of-life egg-to-larvae years in the total blackness of L'M'natx IV's darkside asteroid fields
Isn't that what half of furaffinity's commissioning these days?
>> No. 444720 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:41 pm
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I made cheese scones this morning. Shame I didn't have any chives but still lovely.

>>444718
Lidl is extremely hit and miss when it comes to fresh produce. It's only really their bakery that stops them from being shite.
>> No. 444721 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:46 pm
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>>444717

>Luxury space communism

It's intriguing to speculate what kind of economic and political system aliens would have. If they're smart enough to build interstellar spaceships, then they will probably also have felt the need to come up with a way to organise their society.

It's not really a given that their system of choice would be one resembling our capitalist democracies. In essence, modern humans are the only known species who have a concept of personal property. Not even chimpanzees seem to have an instinct for it. You could say that territoriality is a precursor to personal property, but it's still not the same. Is property unique to us, or is the desire for it an inevitable side effect once a species becomes intellectually capable enough to build insterstellar spaceships?

Or the aliens could be more like an ant colony. Or like the bugs in Starship Troopers, where the individual counts nothing and also isn't particularly intellectual or smart, and just serves as a brainless grunt for the space domination plans of a higher being or some other kind of self-appointed sentient elite. In that sense then, that alien society would actually be more similar to communism or even national socialism.

Probably can't hurt to prepare for alien space Nazis.
>> No. 444722 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:53 pm
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>>444720

>Lidl is extremely hit and miss when it comes to fresh produce

I might tell them the next time I go there that their cantaloupe was shite. Then again, for 99p, it's not really worth the fuss. And it's not like their shelf stackers have any say in what Lidl does with their overripe or overfertilised produce.

Mangoes are also really hit and miss at Lidl. It's rare that they have soft ones that aren't hard as bricks and which then also taste as sweet and juicy as a good mango should.
>> No. 444723 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>>444721 modern humans are the only known species who have a concept of personal property.

My dog knows what's his, and what isn't, and takes great joy in stealing other dogs' stuff.

I recently saw a bag of frozen prawns that said they were 'easy peelers'. I look forward to our alien overlords ranking earth species by their / our ease of peeling.
>> No. 444724 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 5:56 pm
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>Lidl is extremely hit and miss when it comes to fresh produce.
I agree with this too. Often it's fine, but sometimes I go in and find stuff like spring onion that's already wilted and floppy.

>>444721
>Probably can't hurt to prepare for alien space Nazis.
HEINLEIN WOZ RIGHT!!11!1
>> No. 444725 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 6:33 pm
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>>444723

I think a lot of birds think of their nest material as personal property too. Penguins take pebbles from each other's nest displays and the thief/victim behaviour is pretty consistent with humans in similar situations.
>> No. 444726 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 6:41 pm
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I've just heard quacking outside. I think there's a duck in one of my neighbour's gardens. What the fuck is a duck doing around here?
>> No. 444727 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 6:52 pm
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>>444726

Probably casing your house for a rob.
>> No. 444728 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 7:01 pm
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>>444717
Oh I don't know, there's probably some similarities if they have teenage brood larvae go off and do their brooding with other hip young larvae. Presumably we will have things in common with aliens just because you either need it to do civilisation or other things to do with the nature of reality etc.

Printers probably jam in any space fearing civilisation.

>>444721
>Probably can't hurt to prepare for alien space Nazis.

It could well be that we're the alien space Nazis and we've been no-platformed because we eat animals, plants and fungus. It would probably be pretty horrifying if your species has long since evolved beyond the need for food as we know it to see someone making a salad.
>> No. 444729 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 7:09 pm
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>>444728
>It would probably be pretty horrifying if your species has long since evolved beyond the need for food as we know it to see someone making a salad.

Surely, if their flora and fauna still exist, they'll be familiar with them doing exactly that despite not being a part of the food chain themselves?
>> No. 444730 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 7:26 pm
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>>444729
Won't they just be AIs/canned minds sent out, rather than squishy beings. Much removed from the food chain, and may regard such things as an abomination to be purged from the universe?
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27th June 2021
Sunday 7:30 pm
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>>444730
Seems a bit counter-intuitive, to consider lifeforms that consume other lifeforms as abominations in need of purging. It's not as though we'll eat the canned minds.
>> No. 444732 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 7:31 pm
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>>444728

>It could well be that we're the alien space Nazis and we've been no-platformed


So... the Universe is woke?
>> No. 444733 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 7:44 pm
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>>444731
most people are bloody odd, and they're quite like us.
I'm not sure that there's much merit in predicting what aliens would do, except over a beer for fun.
>> No. 444734 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 8:41 pm
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Of course the aliens haven't made contact with us. They respect the Prime Directive.
>> No. 444735 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:18 pm
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>>444734

I actually had to google that.
>> No. 444736 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:42 pm
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>>444735
Get on the Star Trek lad.
>> No. 444737 Anonymous
27th June 2021
Sunday 11:54 pm
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>>444736

Never been my thing. I like a good sci fi movie, but both Star Trek and Star Wars have never done anything for me.
>> No. 444738 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 9:40 am
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>>444737

Star Trek: TNG is a classic series. Utopian, problem-solving, explorative, humanist, lovely sci-fi. I would highly recommend it. Start from season 2 if you want all the hidden gems, or 3 onwards if you have a very low tolerance for the "finding its feet" phase.
>> No. 444739 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 11:19 am
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>>444738

I guess what I don't like is franchised sci fi. Probably with the exception of the Alien movies, I am more into one-offs, where you don't feel like somebody is milking it for the last drop.

One of my friends has a husband who, as a grown man of 40, still has a Star Trek uniform which he wears to conventions. That's a level of commitment to a work of fiction which seems a bit daft to me. In middle age, anyway.
>> No. 444740 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 11:36 am
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Morrisons have refunded me items from my home shopping that didn't need refunding and I still have.
Should I report this or just ignore it and take the free £10 in the hopes they don't come for my kneecaps later?
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28th June 2021
Monday 12:25 pm
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>>444740
Morrisons via Amazon? Yeah they're a little careless at times, but always to my benefit. The cynical part of me is that packers deliberately do such things to ensure a good packer rating to stop Bezo's all-knowing machines from firing them.
>> No. 444742 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 12:27 pm
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>>444741
And as soon as I posted I realised that all-knowing machines would know they have done such a thing. So maybe they aren't fully all-knowing when it comes to stock control. At least until they turn Morrison's into grocery fulfillment centres.
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28th June 2021
Monday 12:31 pm
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>>444739
>I am more into one-offs, where you don't feel like somebody is milking it for the last drop.
It's worth watching the first season or two of Star Trek TNG, it won't feel like that and you'll get some context for a surprising amount of things people regularly reference.
>> No. 444744 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 12:34 pm
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>>444741
Nah, the regular Morrisons home delivery.
I actually worked as a picker for Amazon in a Morrisons a few years ago. Dreadful job, if something was out of stock we were told just to shove in a bigger pack of a product for example. If the thing couldn't be switched for another on the sly then it came down to a shitty alternatives system where you have to wait for a customers response for 5 minutes while a shift leader tries to dig around in the warehouse or most of the time do fuck all and moan.
The all knowing computer assumes you can phase through walls and automatically locate stock in the warehouse so I was always under the target for picking.
Fucking hated that job, and fuck those wankers who ordered 20 bottles of coke to be delivered within the next 2 hours. To this day I'm still angry.
>> No. 444751 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 2:37 pm
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>>444743

I'll add that the best of the episodes really do feel like self-contained stories in their own right, as well.

The Measure of a Man is a futuristic courtroom drama that touches on themes of consciousness and the value of (possible) life.

Tapestry is a retrospective of the captain's life, about the folly of regret.

The Best of Both Worlds is basically a feature length sci-fi thriller about the Borg.

The Inner Light is about a whole civilisation, condensed quite cleverly into about 50 minutes.

>>444739
>One of my friends has a husband who, as a grown man of 40, still has a Star Trek uniform which he wears to conventions. That's a level of commitment to a work of fiction which seems a bit daft to me. In middle age, anyway.

I think it's because the world presented is so pleasant and idealistic that many people really would want to live there, or at least find it inspiring enough to emulate. I probably wouldn't attend a convention because there's also a lot about the series I dislike (Klingons bore me to tears), but I have become a lot more sympathetic since actually watching TNG. It was maybe the first sci-fi I'd ever watched that presented a world I'd want to live in.
>> No. 444754 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 4:13 pm
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I reckon the convention scene is just an excuse to make and party with friends. You hear nothing but good things about the Star Trek community which is what drove the franchise after the cancellation of TOS and made fan conventions a thing.

Should go myself once we're allowed to have hotel orgies again, what's stopped me is how expensive the uniforms are.

>>444751
I think Darmok might be the best intro episode just because by the end of it you can speak a new language. Green during the bank holiday sale!

>> No. 444755 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 7:17 pm
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>>444754

Darmok's taken on new relevance now that memes have been invented. Philip Fry, his eyes narrowed and so on.
>> No. 444756 Anonymous
28th June 2021
Monday 7:45 pm
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>>444755

Smokester, with his layer transparent.
>> No. 444842 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 9:14 pm
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Today I handed in my notice at work, as I've been lining up something else for myself elsewhere. Having the conversation with my supervisors about it had been playing on my mind for several months, and now I'm just exhausted.

Anyway, it's 4th July weekend over here so I get Monday off. Gonna watch my neighbours almost set themselves on fire for a few underwhelming fireworks.
>> No. 444844 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 9:25 pm
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>>444842
Enjoy the weekend yankm8.
>> No. 444847 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 9:46 pm
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>>444844
Cheers. Currently trying to find a pub to watch the footy, not a "sports bar".
>> No. 444848 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 11:05 pm
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>> No. 444849 Anonymous
2nd July 2021
Friday 11:11 pm
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I'll be at the Fambula Gardens in Hampstead, but I won't acknowledge you in any way and will mostly be staring at the TV. Feel free to join.
>> No. 444855 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 1:21 pm
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Just had a new dishwasher delivered. All is well. BUT WHY DOIES IT NEED WIFI FFS WHY
>> No. 444856 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 2:49 pm
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>>444855
So the security department can be notified if you break the TOS by using off-brand washing powder, of course. Nullifying your right to use the device and increasing the cost of your medical insurance for using potentially dangerous chemicals.
>> No. 444857 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 2:58 pm
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>>444855
You will live in the pod, you will eat the bugs etc.

It's probably to enable features like remote activation and energy use monitoring.
>> No. 444858 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 3:01 pm
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Apparently I should be experiences rain, thunder and lightning right now but all I see is blue skies to the horizon. I'm very much looking forward to a very dramatic change in weather.
>> No. 444859 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 3:03 pm
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Very gay of the Free Masons to not let women join.
>> No. 444860 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 3:07 pm
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>>444857
>remote activation

Yes - it apparently has this feature. BUT WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT? There is absolutely no functional need to kick-off a dishwashing cycle from my phone, as opposed to the buttons on the front. Who has a functional requirement for that? I remember to empty and then repack the dishwasher, add all the detergent and shit but somehow get on the train and forget to switch it on?

I already know I need to MITM the traffic to see what else it is doing.

I am definitely becoming more Ted Kaczynski as I get older.
>> No. 444861 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 4:42 pm
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>>444860

The only use I can think of is if you'd loaded it up, went off to do the school run and realised somewhere on the road that you'd forgotten to turn it on. I suspect it's something to do with gathering metrics for the company. As a professional Data carpet-bagger, you've no idea how many managers with no real requirement for fine-tuned data analysis have been bitten by the bug regardless.
>> No. 444862 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 5:12 pm
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Found the uncropped version of that Boris photo-op.

Nationwide branding on our national flag though, what the fuck.
>> No. 444863 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 5:49 pm
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>>444862

The cross making a red carpet coming right out of No. 10 is a gross touch.
>> No. 444864 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 6:02 pm
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>>444860

Obviously so you can turn it off while you're not at home to save energy.
>> No. 444865 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 7:30 pm
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>>444860

It costs about a quid to add wifi to something electrical and Darren will be well impressed innit.
>> No. 444866 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 7:31 pm
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The 'rona lockdown has been really bad on me. I have gained 3.5 stones and most of my clothes don't fit me. I bought a few polo shirts that arrived today, but since I am a short lad, they reach my knees.

Where can I get polo shirts that would fit a short, wide lad? I searched everywhere, but the only solutions seems to be buying loads of XXL polo shirts and get it shortened at the tailors. Christ.
>> No. 444867 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 8:25 pm
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>>444866
Tuck them in.
>> No. 444868 Anonymous
3rd July 2021
Saturday 10:20 pm
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>>444866

Maybe try to shed some of that weight again?

Easier said than done, I know. I'm trying to get rid of the corona flab with cycling and frequent strenuous gardening, but it's not been easy. I've also cut back my sweets and unhealthy foods as much as possible, but I haven't really made a big dent in the 2 st. I''ve gained since about March of 2020.
>> No. 444869 Anonymous
4th July 2021
Sunday 12:35 pm
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When YouTube video makers tell me they "understand" if I can't donate to their Patreon I wonder who's telling them I'm a "tight bastard".
>> No. 444899 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 8:36 pm
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Bought all the ingredients for a homemade mango pineapple chicken curry today. Really looking forward to it tomorrow.
>> No. 444900 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 8:40 pm
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>>444899
Can you try coating the chicken in bicarb of soda then rinsing it off after 20 minutes, before you cook with it, then let us know how it is?
>> No. 444901 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 9:28 pm
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>>444900

> coating the chicken in bicarb of soda then rinsing it off after 20 minutes

To what end? How does it improve the chicken?
>> No. 444902 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 9:29 pm
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>>444901

Supposedly it makes it really soft and tender the way some Chinese restaurants do it.
>> No. 444903 Anonymous
9th July 2021
Friday 9:40 pm
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I relapsed and had three Thornton's chocolates. However, I think this is a good thing in a way, as I feel like a total mug and all for a minute, if I'm being generous, of sweet nonsense.
>> No. 444908 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:13 am
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>>444902
Please enjoy this hilariously poorly-written article on the process: https://kitchenwarerater.com/how-to-tenderize-chicken-breast-with-baking-soda/
>> No. 444909 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:39 am
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>>444908

>Pound your meat

Right. Perfectly reasonable to have a wank before you start cooking.


I always use white wine to marinade and tenderise meat. What also works well when you cook chop suey-type Chinese stir fry is to leave your cut up chicken pieces in a mixture of light soy sauce and rice cooking wine for about two hours. I also add sesame oil and sweet chili sauce, but mainly for flavour.
>> No. 444910 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 12:52 am
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>>444909

That sounds great but would be a bit strange in anything other than Chinese-inspired meals.
>> No. 444912 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 1:53 am
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>>444909
My favourite was
>Scientifically, sodium bicarbonate is an element
>> No. 444915 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 11:49 am
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>>444910

I did say I only do that with Chinese stir fry.

On pretty much everything else, white wine is a great tenderiser. The acid and the alcohol break down proteins in the meat, and also make your meat take up the flavour of herbs and spices better.
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10th July 2021
Saturday 3:03 pm
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Well chuffed with myself. Made the curry for lunch today.

The picture doesn't quite do it justice, it looked even better IRL.

The purple bits are saturn peach. There was also some fresh orange in it if you look closely.
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10th July 2021
Saturday 8:06 pm
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I've bought a pouch of chestnut puree. Erm, what should I do with it?
>> No. 444923 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 10:39 pm
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My partner has just called me crying, stressed out her friend's wedding and all the associated gubbins - she's the maid of honour at this friend's wedding, and the friend in question is probably top three worst people I've met in my entire life. This isn't the first time she's been reduced to tears by the whole thing, either, and every time it's the bride herself that's caused it.

As I mentioned, the bride is a cunt. She relocated a few years ago, so she simply must have an engagement party in both her hometown and her current town, as well as a bridal shower in both locations. Everyone must attend, the bridal party must be following the dress code that she dictates to match the decorations for the event (which the bridal party are also expected to chip in for). The hen do is a fucking five-night stay in Puerto Vallarta, so all fucking twenty-two of the bridal party have had to take three days off work in order to attend, book expensive international flights, and coordinate crossing borders during a fucking pandemic. Of course, when they're there, outfits simply must be coordinated, there's a day with black swimsuits, a day with pink swimsuits, a little-black-dress night, a custom-made "OMG it's so-and-so's hen do" pyjama night at the Airbnb, and she even wanted to hire a fucking photographer to follow them around for one of the days.

The incident today was that the bride had recently demanded custom temporary tattoos with the groom's face on them, even picked out the exact ones and provided the photo, and then got angry when she was told they had been delivered and looked good because "it's meant to be a surprise".

The whole year of planning this shit has really pushed our lass over the edge. The two of them are chalk and cheese, I've never understood why they're friends in the first place. This obnoxious, selfish, Instagram model cunt is somehow a mainstay in the life of my sweet, jeans-and-tee-shirt-and-a-spliff-in-her-mouth gentle soul.

I'm trying to be supportive as much as I can, but honestly there has to come a point where you realise your "best" friend is a complete cunt and call it quits. She even divulged today that the majority of her weekly therapy sessions are spent talking about how stressful planning someone else's hen do has been for her.
>> No. 444924 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 11:30 pm
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>>444923

Some people just stick to their mates a lot more strongly than others, I think, with the understanding (or maybe more like a naive hope) that it's worth it in the end. You get something out of a bond that endures through thick and thin like that.

Myself, I split up with my best mate about ten years ago. Never had and never will have a mate as close as I was with him, we were verging upon gay couple, but my God he was a complete and utter fucking tosser. Selfish, arrogant, conceited, as well as sensitive and childish in the worst of ways. Truly just a repulsive combination of personality elements. And yet I was dependent on him, for quite a long time, as was he to me- Because we were mates, you know.

It's a strange thing, friendship. I think that's why I don't really do it so much these days. It's a very difficult thing to navigate emotionally, whereas I at least understand the relationship of love and sex you can have with your missus.
>> No. 444925 Anonymous
10th July 2021
Saturday 11:43 pm
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>>444923
>the bride had recently demanded custom temporary tattoos with the groom's face on them
I have little to add beyond that being very, very odd. To the point of it being comedic but also slightly sinister.
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10th July 2021
Saturday 11:57 pm
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>>444925

It strikes me as standard hen do shite. If anything, slightly less intrusive and annoying than the more common one of them all carrying around masks of his face.
>> No. 444927 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 12:15 am
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>>444923
>The two of them are chalk and cheese, I've never understood why they're friends in the first place. This obnoxious, selfish, Instagram model cunt is somehow a mainstay in the life of my sweet, jeans-and-tee-shirt-and-a-spliff-in-her-mouth gentle soul.

You should know full well by now that for every good-lass there is an equal and opposite mentalist-lass who causes no end of trouble. It's like Star Wars.
>> No. 444928 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 9:07 am
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>>444923
Fuck being "friends" with anyone like that, jesus wept.
>> No. 444929 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 10:26 am
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>>444926
I don't know, there's something different about a tattoo. Temporary or otherwise, there's a history there.
>> No. 444930 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 4:45 pm
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So Branson just became the first virgin in space or something.
>> No. 444931 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 6:38 pm
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It's been 11 years yesterday since Gazza turned up for Moaty. Fucking hell.
>> No. 444932 Anonymous
11th July 2021
Sunday 8:23 pm
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>> No. 444933 Anonymous
12th July 2021
Monday 12:44 am
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No work till noon tomorrow. Watching another Bond movie now. I've never actually seen Moonraker, so I'm curious to see if it's really as outrageously daft as everybody says.
>> No. 444971 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:47 am
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>>444933
>> No. 444972 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 10:49 am
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>>444933
Did Jaws' girlfriend have braces for you?
>> No. 444989 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 6:18 pm
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>>444972

It really was outrageously daft, and sums up everything that was wrong with the Roger Moore Bond movies. They were taking the piss out of themselves in a way that made them painful to watch.

The Craig David Daniel Craig ones are only marginally better IMO. The whole franchise has largely been a disappointment ever since Connery hung up his hat. Of all the other Bonds, I think Pierce Brosnan was my favourite. But one or two of his outings were also less than mediocre. I remember that Die Another Day had some piss poor CGI effects even for its time.
>> No. 444990 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 8:35 pm
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>>444989
Answer the question, Nelson Mandela.
>> No. 444991 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 8:45 pm
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>>444989
Please don't slag of the Dalton films again, even by implication.
>> No. 444993 Anonymous
15th July 2021
Thursday 9:22 pm
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>>444991

Dalton was alright, but the two films he did weren't enough for him to come into his own. It's difficult to judge him, almost for the same reason that it was difficult to judge George Lazenby.

Brosnan had just the right kind of understated upper class flair about him that suited the role. Worth remembering that Ian Fleming's original characterisation of Bond included him being an Etonian. You kind of would have believed that of Roger Moore as well, but again, his movies were a complete piss take. They were second-rate spy comedies, kind of a poshed-up Get Smart, but gone horribly wrong.
>> No. 444999 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 9:42 am
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I bought a promotional chicken sandwich from a popular seppo franchise last night and thought that it had overstated how spicy it was, but in the cold light of day my nippy bumhole has a difference of opinion.
>> No. 445000 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 11:15 am
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>>444999

Your nippy bumhole? How many bumholes do you have?
>> No. 445001 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 11:35 am
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>>445000
One for the money and the free rides,
It's two for the lie that you denied,
Three for the calls you've been making,
It's four all the times you've been faking.
>> No. 445002 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 11:44 am
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>>445000

Just the one, and it is nippy as it is singular.
>> No. 445003 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 1:59 pm
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>>444999

I had one too, and was pleasantly surprised at the heat. It's nothing ridiculous, but enough for me to feel it, and I have a relatively high heat tolerance for an english bloke.

Considering their "spicy" nuggets from a while ago had zero heat, this was a welcome surprise.
>> No. 445013 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 11:08 am
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I am sweating like a black man on a rape charge. I had a cold shower earlier for some relief from the heat but the effects have already worn off.
>> No. 445014 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:00 pm
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>>445013
Did it feel like a... water cannon on Martin Luther King?
>> No. 445015 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:34 pm
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>You can't spell advertisement without semen between the tits

I don't know about these woman on tinder. I just don't know.
>> No. 445016 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:54 pm
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>>445015

I swear half of them just put this kind of shit as bait so they can tear you down for "benevolent actual maritime issues" or whatever made up shite it is this week when you crack a cheeky joke back. Fuck the lot of 'em frankly, they can stay single.
>> No. 445023 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 4:59 pm
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I went speed dating today. Maybe I'm just a cunt but I didn't meet a single woman I'd like to see again which is different from the beforetime.

>>445016
The banter ones are the worst for me. And all the Thai/Mexicans on passport mode plus those that are obviously Chinese scammers using the VPN.
>> No. 445026 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 8:09 pm
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>>445023
What didn't you like about them?
>> No. 445027 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 8:36 pm
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One of the neighbours is blasting out Fatman Scoop. It's always those with the worst taste in music who choose to do this on sunny days.
>> No. 445029 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 9:24 pm
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>>445027
Does he have more than one song?
>> No. 445030 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 10:01 pm
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>>445026
>What didn't you like about them?

Why are you phrasing it as if I have to actively dislike someone to have no interest in seeing them again. Do I sound like one of those 'good-time girls' to you?
>> No. 445033 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 10:30 pm
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>>445029
None that I'm familiar with. They've been playing songs from ~15 years ago all day, the classics like Low by Flo Rida.
>> No. 445035 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 12:01 am
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I was listening to something on YouTube while doing the washing up. It was on my phone so no ad blocking and I would swear, under oath, in front of a judge and a court full of witnesses that the ad that played after the video finished was for a "man scaping" kit and it recommended it as a gift for, amongst other male loved ones, "your son". I wasn't actually looking at the phone so I didn't see it, but by Jove, I heard it.
>> No. 445036 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 12:51 am
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>>445035
Yeah, I seem to recall similar stuff being advertised on the "Modern Wisdom" podcast a while back.
>> No. 445037 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 12:54 am
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My occasional urges to read a book have got the better of me, and I was so temporarily gay for books that I have started reading the most unreadable monstrosity I own, which has been on the unread-book shelf since 2013 according to the receipt inside it. That's how brave I was feeling, and how eager to read a book I was.

I am currently on page 31 out of 745 of The Complete Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, in proper ye-olde-Englissche, and it can go fuck itself. I always feel this way when I start reading a book, but I get the feeling I won't get into the flow of this one.
>> No. 445038 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 2:00 am
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>>445035

I know the one you mean. It's a good job you were listening and not just watching.
>> No. 445039 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 2:10 am
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>> No. 445041 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 8:16 am
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And it's only going to get hotter. So yeah, it's haymaking weekend. Time to spend the day sitting in a mobile greenhouse on top of a big diesel engine trying to drink enough not to die.
Still, £4 a bale, lads. This year, might get near min wage if it all goes well.
>> No. 445042 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 8:52 am
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>>445041

If you put a couple of weed plants in each field you could probably triple that while still having plausible deniability if anyone reported them
>> No. 445043 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 9:34 am
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>>445038

They also refer to it as "a gift to yourself, really". I know incest porn is popular now, but you can't go making ads about cleaning your sons acorn bush up for your own pleasure.
>> No. 445044 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 1:15 pm
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Bit of a scorcher.
>> No. 445046 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 2:03 pm
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What's worrying me is that we have forecasts for rain next week but with no difference made to the heat. That better not mean hot-rain that only raises the humidity.
>> No. 445047 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 2:32 pm
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Lass and I got invited to a closed down LGBT bar by a friend of a friend for a party. The first woman we started speaking to was talking about swinging, told us both we were fit, and in 10 minutes she was telling my girlfriend how hot it was watching her lad fuck someone else. But soon the shoe was on the other foot as she told me how much I'd enjoy watching my lass get rammed. Then everyone took their bras off and I was down to my boxers along with the other gentlemen in the room. After a while you stop noticing the tits everywhere.

First time I've kissed someone in front of the partner; it's a strange experience and I couldn't relax because I was too focused on not doing anything wrong or looking like I was enjoying it too much. One guy spent a good ten minutes rigorously describing the process of urethral sounding. He really liked it. It's not my cup of tea.

I can't wait to see how I fuck this up and alienate all involved. They were all quite nice people.
>> No. 445048 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 3:09 pm
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>>445047

That's nice. I've done the laundry today.
>> No. 445049 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 3:23 pm
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>>445047
You know, I really, really don't want to see my girlfriend have sex with someone else. Fortunately, there's a 0% chance of that happening.

>>445048
Me too, mate.
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18th July 2021
Sunday 3:57 pm
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>>445049
Not him but I don't really get this admittedly rather common mentality. I think one is in denial if one thinks their partner only fancies them. For me sex is sex. Sure it would be a little annoying knowing she can be satisfied better by another bloke, but as long as the relationship has love, trust, and emotional connection, who cares if we like to bang other people sometimes? We're all just animals in clothes.
>> No. 445053 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 4:26 pm
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>>445051 We're all just animals in clothes.
Not me, m8. Stark bollock naked. 's hot, innit.
No urge here to shag other people or in front of other people. It's a private thing that me & the mrs do, with each other. We're probably boring in this respect, but hey ho.
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18th July 2021
Sunday 5:22 pm
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>>445049
Me three. I wish I'd done it yesterday as I know that now I'm going to have to do it Monday morning.

>>445051
I literally can't understand how you can think of your lass getting ploughed by another bloke as normal. Your appeal to nature in this context is especially questionable as a bloke grabbing your partners bum will make anyone very cross as a point of fact.

Different tastes for different tongues but don't come crying to me when you feel lost.
>> No. 445056 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 6:01 pm
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>>445049
Me neither. I'm not sure if I'd be better off if I didn't care though, the lad whose girlfriend was trying to poach us seemed to be genuinely at one with the world. Either that or in complete denial. I'm going for the angle of trying to be a fantastic boyfriend so I can have my cake and eat it too, which looks like a realistic possibility at the moment.

Either way, I'm fascinated that I got to see one of those weird spontaneously sexy parties unfold. There was no specific trigger, just a couple of girls covered their top halves in glitter and then bras started coming off.

>>445051
I've had it before where I've just stopped finding other women attractive, so presumably some people experience that for a while at least. Personally I see no problem with acknowledging someone else as attractive, as long as you're not banging on about the same person repeatedly. If you trust your partner wouldn't cheat on you, then you shouldn't be bothered about them acknowledging someone as being fit, and if you are then you'd benefit from working on that. And conversely, if you know your partner has an issue with hearing things about other people, you should be able to refrain from commenting.

That said, everyone's different. If you're able to smile and put a cuppa on while she's on all fours getting it airtight from the lads down the pub, more power to you. But that's not really something the vast majority of people want.

>>445055
>I literally can't understand how you can think of your lass getting ploughed by another bloke as normal.
I can get how certain individuals can think that, but they're a fraction of a percent of the population and I find it kind of weird when they go "Well why can't you just enjoy it".
>> No. 445057 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 6:40 pm
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Wait, why is someone going to a gay bar in order to get off with another lass whilst your girlfriend gets off with another lad? That's like going to a curry house to order steak and chips. If you to to a gay bar for a bit of sexy time the very least you can do is touch a cock or two.
>> No. 445059 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 7:31 pm
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>>445057
He said it's a 'closed down' LGBT bar. I can only presume he's from the 2030/40s when the west is due another religious revival.
>> No. 445060 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>445059

Can't think of any reasons in the recent past or the present that might cause a public venue to be shut down.
>> No. 445061 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 8:13 pm
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>>445060
It was actually closed almost a decade ago, they want to put up a block of flats on the location. Absolutely beautiful place, roof terrace with trellis and vines leading down to an underground bar.

>>445057
Now I'm wondering if the average person would feel more, equally, or less annoyed if their lass got with a gay guy instead of a straight one. And if you're less annoyed if they're gay, would that mean that part of your annoyance stems from the idea of someone else getting gratification out of it.
>> No. 445062 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 8:17 pm
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>>445061
>if their lass got with a gay guy instead of a straight one

Do you understand what being gay is?
>> No. 445063 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 8:59 pm
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>>445062
Does your definition of 'gay' preclude getting with people of the opposite gender but not particularly enjoying it?
>> No. 445064 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 9:00 pm
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Did some of that "hard work" today. It's not quite sex with fifteen people, but I am very tired.
>> No. 445068 Anonymous
18th July 2021
Sunday 11:20 pm
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Was it .gs laundry day today or are we all using some sort of euphemism? Because I've definitely done mine, iykwim.

>>445063

Seems like a bit of a faff, it's like the sexual equivalent of getting the wrong order at the drive through then just stomaching it anyway because you're hungry and don't want to make a scene.

With the swinging thing I think the problematic aspect is the blatant imbalance of desirability and accessibility for men and women. It's not a just world we live in when a 19 stone munter in her 40s can get gang-banged by six guys at three hour's notice, but a fit, athletic bloke with a big cock and everything in his favour still has to go through the two week vetting process before he even gets a sniff of the fanny someone else has already spunked in first.

I was quite into the kink scene as a younglad but I grew tired of it.
>> No. 445071 Anonymous
19th July 2021
Monday 9:26 am
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>>445064

This reminds me of possibly the funniest porn scene I ever witnessed. There's a genre out there where bisexual couples will take on a third. In one there was a beautiful petite brunette girl who had been paired with two athletic young guys, all of them bisexual. They all seemed to be having a good time, but they were also totally mismatched in their physicality. The result was essentially the two guys going at it like it was their last chance at sex, gymnastically jumping and switching, with this poor girl taking up some awkward position sandwiched between them.

In a sweet little post-scene interview, they asked everyone how they felt after the novel experience and the girl simply says, "exhausted".
>> No. 445208 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 8:39 pm
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The sensors on the USS Enterprise (Star Trek TNG, not the Second World War) are useless. Every time Picard asks Data for a readout on something that isn't a decloaked Romulan Bird-of-Prey he comes back with "sensors are not detecting any... blah, blah, blah" and they have to muddle on through regardless.

Anyway, my weekend's off to a great start, as you can see.
>> No. 445209 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 9:09 pm
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Some total nonsense I submitted to IMDb, about an actress shaving off her eyebrows for a role in 2017, is not only still there but some fan sites and at least one semi-official commenter have repeated it as truth so I guess that's canon now.
>> No. 445210 Anonymous
23rd July 2021
Friday 9:16 pm
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>>445208
Despite being a flagship of the Federation, comprising the best of the best, Troi and Worf in particular stand out as quite inept. At least with the sensors I can pretend it's some unknown particle defenerizer that's transmodulating the warp frequency.



Obligatory "Shut up, Wesley."
>> No. 445215 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 1:43 am
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>>445209
During the Olympics opening ceremony earlier, I wondered if it was too late to make up random facts and add them to the Wikipedia pages for each country. The commentators were clearly reading random trivia facts about each country; I'm sure I could have got someone to proudly announce that the Marshall Islands glow in the dark, or the people of Burkina Faso have the largest average shoe size in the world.
>> No. 445220 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 8:58 am
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>>445215
If you did then you could use a clip of them saying it as the citation on the page itself. It's always worth trying.
>> No. 445224 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 11:44 am
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>>445215
I only watched the first hour of the opening ceremony but fuck me were the BBC commentators annoying. They never shut up for one but they were pretty condescending and disrespectful on top.
>> No. 445231 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 3:35 pm
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>>445224
This annoyed me as well, it's like they were being paid by the word with the bloke being especially grating as he was sat too close to the microphone. I can understand why you might need an explanation for certain parts of the performance but I'd much prefer to have the option for subtitles like Top of the Pops 2.

I don't know if it was especially bad this time or if it was just more noticeable because of the underwhelming performance until the carpenters showed up.
>> No. 445236 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 4:38 pm
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What is it when you drink tea then your mouth gets all salivery and you feel like being sick? I actually threw up my tea last night within 30 seconds of drinking it - strangely enough only the tea came up, without the mince, potato and various other things i'd eaten moments before.

The mug smelled a bit weird afterwards - perhpas i didn't wash it thoroughly enough or left it with dirty water to dry. Either way i haven't been able to face drinking today.
>> No. 445237 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 4:40 pm
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I don't know if it's broken, but I've just smashed my little toe directly into the bath as I stepped out of the shower and it really aches. A hundred-quadrillion times I've stepped out of showers and that's never happened, so I suppose it was due. I think it might be broken though, it's gone all tingly.

>>445210
The problem with the both of them is that they have abilities that could immediately solve or prevent quite a few of the problems the Enterprise finds itself in. If Worf was just allowed to pull the heads off Borg and Troi immediately pointed out whenever someone was completely full of it and trying to trick the crew, you'd lose about 10% of the entire show. I'm sure they do good work off camera. Look what happened to O'Brien's mental health when he left for DS9, Troi's counseling was the only thing holding him together.
>> No. 445238 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 5:54 pm
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I saw raccoons today, probably the first time in my life. Fuck me, they stink.
>> No. 445240 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 9:29 pm
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There's either fireworks or gunshots outside. They're so rapid fire that it actually does sound more like an assault rifle gunfight.

I think it's more likely to be fireworks from the horse racing thing that's happening, but either way, if I die (either of gunshots or an anger related stroke) then you lads can have my stuff.
>> No. 445241 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 10:04 pm
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>>445240
Given my familiarity with horses, fireworks seem like an inappropriate choice of celebration.
>> No. 445242 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 10:21 pm
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>>445241

I thought that too, but I assume the horses aren't invited to the evening events.
>> No. 445243 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 10:45 pm
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I don't know what I ate yesterday, but whatever it was has decided to take on a whole new life in my stomach and I don't think I've two minutes all day without farting. I'm working the whole weekend as well and the constant wandering off to not subject my colleagues to the noxious fumes is getting tiring and awkward.
>> No. 445244 Anonymous
24th July 2021
Saturday 11:22 pm
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>>445243
Take a laxative? Obviously make sure you shit before you go into work if you know what's good for you.
>> No. 445245 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 2:31 am
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>>445003
Having had the afore mentioned promotional chicken sandwich for lunch and had the need to sit on the lav every time I have had a piss all evening. I have finally evacuated whatever was in it that has given me gut issues for the past 8 hours.
>> No. 445246 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 3:14 am
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I had donner meat nachos from the takeaway earlier. I don't know why it isn't more widespread and I've never had it sooner, that was a fantastic idea.

It's taken me a good year or so of trial and error to find the good takeaways around here, but now I finally have done, I think I might be putting on a bit of weight over the coming months.
>> No. 445247 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 2:23 pm
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You lads probably didn't need to be told this, but Peter Rabbit 2 is very bad. It's possibly the worst film I've ever seen.
>> No. 445249 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 4:35 pm
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I've been seeing an uptick in nighttime intrusive thoughts about killing myself recently. I don't have a plan, so I'm not exactly concerned that I'm going to kill myself, but I do spend a worrying amount of time fantasising about it, and rationalising it.
>> No. 445252 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 9:49 pm
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Quite fucking surreal seeing footage of floods in the same city you're in while everyone around you just carries on as usual.

>> No. 445253 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 10:14 pm
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>>445252
Here in Birmingham we haven't seen rain in a few weeks.
Birmingham could do with a good flood.
>> No. 445255 Anonymous
25th July 2021
Sunday 11:11 pm
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>>445252
Blew my mind as well, I went to the shops this afternoon and while it was pissing it down it didn't look like any flood risk. There's still rain coming for the rest of the week so hopefully it will distract my boss enough that I can get away with doing fuck all.

Don't know why you have people driving through flood water. It doesn't matter how far you have to go for a hotel, surely it's still better than risking your car being trapped.
>> No. 445257 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 4:05 am
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>>445252

Ahhh fuck yas. It's not like anyone down there cares when it's Hebden Bridge or wherever flooding like clockwork year after year. You lot need another Grenfell.
>> No. 445259 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 11:07 am
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>>445257
What is it about ethnic minorities burning to death that you enjoy the most?
>> No. 445260 Anonymous
26th July 2021
Monday 11:11 am
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>>445259

Don't start.
>> No. 445380 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 11:32 pm
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Thinking about going the Minoxidil route with my onset hair loss for the time being. Hair follicle transplants with a qualified specialist would be upwards of 2,000 quid in my case. As hair transplants go, that isn't even a lot of money. But it's not an amount I can afford to just spend on something like that at the moment.
>> No. 445381 Anonymous
30th July 2021
Friday 11:40 pm
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>>445380
Just embrace your inner Larry David.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/specials/20000319fas-david1.html
>> No. 445382 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 12:20 am
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>>445381

>Get over your bald self

A complete baldie would say that.
>> No. 445383 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 12:59 am
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>>445380

How come pointless shite like hair transplants is more affordable than decent dentistry?
>> No. 445385 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 1:44 am
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>>445383
They can't strip a new set of teeth off your arse cheeks. Well, I hope they can't.
>> No. 445388 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 11:32 am
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>>445385

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfE8CA8EJWA
>> No. 445390 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 6:53 pm
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Chris-chan was trending on Twitter yesterday for reasons that I make me wish I hadn't clicked.
>> No. 445391 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 7:52 pm
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>>445390
>"Has anyone pointed out that the incest statute doesn't apply to mother and daughter incest so that will cause the legal question of gender vs sex to be resolved in VA?"
Thank you so much for guiding me toward such a hearty laugh, i was in dire need. Ho-li-fuck :D
>> No. 445392 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 10:03 pm
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>>445391
>i
>:D
Christ, they let anyone in here these days.
>> No. 445393 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 10:10 pm
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I'd heard the word "internecine" about three times in my entire life at the start of the week. Now I've heard it that many times in as many days in completely different contexts; the simulation is faltering, I will escape.
>> No. 445394 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 10:40 pm
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>>445390
The only consolation that might come out of this is Chris being institutionalised and Barb might become a ward of the state of California and actually get treatment and care for her dementia. Chris has been having what appears to be a schizophrenic break for about 5 years, while "looking after" an elderly woman with dementia who is beginning to regress to childhood.

Hindsight being 20/20, it seems like it was inevitable that Chris would end up raping someone, they are a colossal sex pest. If Chris is even fit to stand trail, I think the sentence for the Mother/Son incest alone is up to 10 years. I don't think Chris claiming to be trans, I don't know if they actually are or not, will save them.

Lads if you don't know who Chris-chan is, don't look into this. It's fucking horrifying.
>> No. 445395 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 10:59 pm
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I'm going to sound like an old fogey here, but what is the musical appeal of Billie Eilish? It just doesn't sound... good. I mean, I can appreciate music that I don't like but hers just seems like a bit of a non-event. Is it a bunch of teenagers thinking they've discovered something deep and BRILLIANT?

>>445390
I think I could happily live my life never reading his name again.
>> No. 445396 Anonymous
31st July 2021
Saturday 11:26 pm
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>>445395

Bad Guy is a perfectly serviceable pop record and when the party's over is genuinely excellent.



Also BIG MILKERS.


>> No. 445397 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 2:20 am
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>>445395
Fire up Capital Radio. That's the charts these days. It really, really, really all sounds the same. There are people out there still making music that doesn't sound like Joel Corry, but you never hear it. Except for Billie Eilish, who was born in December 2001 and has managed to storm the charts while completely subverting them in the process. She's great, even if most of her songs do sound like Brian Eno or Laurie Anderson. Her entire career is like a repeat of that time O Superman nearly topped the charts.
>> No. 445399 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 4:46 am
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>>445396

Bad Guy has a really, really good hook.

But that's it. It's completely disposable. The kind of music that's made with the express purpose of being recycled ilas a fifteen second snippet in Curry's adverts for the next decade, to tug at your primordial recognition neurons and compel you to consume.

Pop music isn't shit because of the music, frankly. Just everything else about it.
>> No. 445400 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 7:56 am
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I rimmed my girlfriend last night and I feel like I've got one of her arse hairs stuck at the top of my throat, just out of reach to be able to scrape it out. I'm going to spend this morning like a cat trying to cough up a hairball.
>> No. 445401 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 9:46 am
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Modern pop music all sounds the same because it demonstrably IS.

Around the mid-noughties, computer technology with autotune at the pinnacle completely transformed the way in which you could make music, and simultaneously music downloads were reducing the record labels income.
What this led to was the industry moved away from having bands and groups that by and large had a lot of input into their writing and had to be REALLY good singers, towards having a single figure as a personality with the music essentially mass produced in a factory.
A lot of people criticise the music industry now for having a lack of information and just copying what other people have done, but the reality is worse, they're intentionally making things that sound similar because the record labels now employ teams of psychologists to tell them what makes people like music.
The problem with using autotune to fix the vocals now is that every singer is now so heavily tuned that it erases all the character from their voices, everyone sounds like a robot.
Listen to a few songs in the chart, and try and spot the way everyone sings with a very slight pause between notes, that isn't a style, they pause when they're singing to make it easier for the technicians to tune and quantise later.

Billie Eilish came out of nowhere and did a lot of hard work herself to become popular, but her work is still heavily loaded with imitation and refinement of the techniques and tricks that the big record labels have already been using on pop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXg5dIVC1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks4c_A0Ach8
>> No. 445402 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 10:04 am
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>>445390
The CWCwiki has no mentioned at all of the word "Stonecutter". Am I completely misremembering or wasn't that a ring of people who tried to insulate Chris from the internet, way back when? The Stonecutters? There are entries for "The Watchmen" and "Guard Dogs" who have recently done the same thing but this thing I distinctly remember has been excised from their records. Maybe I've been Mandela-effected.
>> No. 445403 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 11:23 am
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The sink is fucked I'm going to kill myself.
>> No. 445404 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 12:09 pm
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>>445403
You're not meant to put your willy in it.
>> No. 445405 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 1:22 pm
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>>445404
Shut the fuck up. There aren't enough rubber fucking seals to stop it from fucking leaking, it doesn't make any fucking sense, it's fucking nonsesnse fu /,uy;ljó
>> No. 445406 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 1:25 pm
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There's no reason to be alive, there isn't.
>> No. 445407 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 1:45 pm
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>>445406
Well you could help otherlad fix his sink. He sounds like he's quite upset about it.
>> No. 445408 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 2:51 pm
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If you had the choice between staying at a high-prestige job where you make an important contribution to the office or moving to a new area where you will potentially do more of what interests you (with more authority but also have slightly more bureaucracy nonsense) what would you pick?

I'm torn because there's definite drawbacks to a move and when you get down to it, uncertainty. It doesn't help that they both have regional offices on opposite ends of the country where I would look to buy a home so it would become a career marriage given all the pain that would come with moving house. In terms of the office locations it's Newcastle or Somerset but I'd be moderately happy with either despite them being fairly opposite.

>>445403
Post some pictures of your sink on /uhu/ and we'll get to gluing.

>>445406
Spite.
>> No. 445409 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 2:51 pm
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>>445401

Rick Beeto (and it IS pronounced Beeto) talks a lot of shit, honestly. He knows his stuff on theory, but he's an unashamed massive boomer in music taste. I find myself agreeing more often than not, but I have to keep in mind it is all subjective and we're both just grumpy bastards who want classic rock back.

>Billie Eilish came out of nowhere and did a lot of hard work herself to become popular

I would contest that statement, her brother does all the heavy lifting in terms of the actual music, and coming from a loaded family with plenty of industry connections in the first place can hardly be called hard work. Billie Eilish herself is just the face and a pair of tits. She's the brand.

Again though that's just a pop music convention, it's only boomers like me who get annoyed that the "artist" is really just a glorified karaoke act.
>> No. 445410 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 3:53 pm
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>Again though that's just a pop music convention, it's only boomers like me who get annoyed that the "artist" is really just a glorified karaoke act.
I'm only in my early 30s, I look back at the music from the first half of my life and it's subjectively "bad" in a lot of ways, and I look at the past decades worth of music and it does so much better in so many ways but it's all just so depressingly soulless and empty. Yeah the spice girls were cheesy and over the top but they were good singers and the music was fun.
I feel sorry for todays kids, they have access to all the music in the world without even having to wait for it to download, but the whole system is built to feed them more and more of the same unless they actively go out looking for it and there's just no reason for anyone to invest their time in seeking out things they might not like. Years ago you'd see a review in a mag that said an album was good, or your mates would copy a CD for you, or a song would come on the radio, and you might not think it's great but you'd listen to it the whole way through because there was nothing else to do. What happens now with kids is that they're hearing the first 10 seconds of a song then saying "this is shit, alexa skip"
>> No. 445411 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 4:13 pm
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>>445410
>the spice girls were cheesy and over the top but they were good singers

Let's not make shit up now. The Spice Girls were fun but Mel C was the only one who could actually sing.
>> No. 445412 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 4:18 pm
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Some music experts somewhere did some fancy analysis of music over time, and apparently music was at its most homogenous in the 1980s.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63897/80s-music-boring-according-science
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150081

In my opinion, the 2000s were the absolute nadir of musical quality. Music really got a lot better after 2010. I guess it was never going to be my favourite time when I hate posturing rappers and shouty indie poseurs, but I can name at least one new genre that was invented in every single decade, apart from the 2000s which invented nothing. It was like a decade of '90s B-sides. 2pac had good songs even if he also had bad songs; Ja Rule never did anything good. Oasis were loud abrasive wankers performing for football hooligans and NPCs, but their songs had far more variety than the Arctic Monkeys. Compare 2 Unlimited to Fedde Le Grand; there's no contest there at all.

So I tend not to agree with the claim that modern music is entirely the same. Unless I listen to Capital Radio, where it absolutely is the same song over and over again with very slight variations.
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1st August 2021
Sunday 5:11 pm
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I guess 80s synthpop and 90s/00s indie rock does 'all sound the same' but fuck me do I hate what all sounds the same in the charts these days. I don't know what you call the style but it's like a minimalist, 80s-homage sound. Dua Lipa is probably the only one who can pull it off and not make me want to pull my eardrums out.
>> No. 445414 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 5:37 pm
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>>445410
>What happens now with kids is that they're hearing the first 10 seconds of a song then saying "this is shit, alexa skip"

They go on discussion boards, get music from that weird friend (us), go for recommendations from the modern equivalent of the music mag. Remember that even as kids we listened to a lot of shit and even enjoyed it which introduced us to other stuff.

This whole discussion reminds me of a video I got linked to recently where a young youtuber talks about the world being so bad these days. It was very rage inducing in the sense that it reminded me of something I might think when I was a kid:

>> No. 445415 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 5:47 pm
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>>445413

>I guess 80s synthpop and 90s/00s indie rock does 'all sound the same'

I think that is in no small part because of the 80s soundscape clichés that have survived into present times, e.g. a particular kind of synth bass arpeggio or certain synth stabs and harmony pads. They have been quite overused in retro, 80s-inspired music in the last few years, to the point that a lot of people's collective memory has been overwritten so that they now assume that the entire decade sounded like that. It didn't.

On the other hand, there is a grain of truth to it, in that a lot of 80s sound was shaped by a mere handful of different synthesizer and keyboard models, and some of the more budget ones gave you somewhat limited options to create your own sounds or alter the factory sounds that they shipped with, especially if you were a young, up and coming band that wasn't yet minted like some other acts.

Another problem was that especially from the mid-80s onward, some very popular and affordable synths became so advanced and thus difficult to program that a lot of musicians just stuck with the factory patches, e.g. the Yamaha DX-7. Which was THE instrument that shaped mid-80s mid-budget synth productions as we remember them today.

In essence, it took more than a Linn drum and a DX7 or an E-Mu in the 80s to become a successful music act, but you can't deny that that's what 35 to 40 percent of all the inconic 80s synth tracks were made on. Or a Fairlight, if you were either absolutely loaded or had access to a good studio.
>> No. 445416 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 6:54 pm
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>>445414

I can't think of many things I'd want to watch less than some American teenager musing on the state of the world. With emojis. A live action 120 days of Sodom would almost be preferable. Why did you even click on it?
>> No. 445417 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 7:04 pm
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>>445396
>BIG MILKERS
>>445409
>face and a pair of tits
What's interesting (take that with a grain of salt) is that since deciding not to look like a member of Korn twenty years ago, she's been subject to so much more public smearing. There's been headlines about how she's queerbaiting because she posted "I love girls" on her social media, and then there's this whole thing about her being mildly racially insensitive years ago when she was barely a teenager. It's like now that she's decided she is, in fact, a woman, it's open season for the celebrity journalists to drag her through the mud every day.

>>445412
>Oasis ... had far more variety than the Arctic Monkeys
As an "NPC" in your own vernacular, I disagree. Oasis feign variety by having two completely different characters sharing the spotlight, but really they have twangy songs with Liam singing about how he's the best person ever, and bland acoustic numbers with Noel crooning about things being shit. If you listen to Arctic Monkeys' back catalogue in choronological order, there's a real sense of maturation and experiment, and the artistry of the entire band is substantially better, particularly the rhythm section. Whatever People Say I Am and Humbug, despite being released only three years apart, sound like completely different bands. The latter gets absolutely panned to this day, but I personally think it's some of Alex Turner's better songwriting, save the soundtrack he did for Richard Ayoade's Submarine.

One similarity between Oasis and Arctic Monkeys is a tendency to put absolute belters on B-sides, almost as a little treat. Half the World Away is almost unanimously in Oasis' top three tracks.

Fun fact, a friend of mine did her MA in linguistics and, during a deep dive, discovered that the word "owt" had never been used in popular music before Arctic Monkeys.

Happy Yorkshire day.
>> No. 445418 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 8:06 pm
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>>445412

The 2000s aren't a complete write-off. No decade is really.
The only real crime is that the absolute saturation of indie bands and shite emo isn't really any fun to go back and listen to. Plenty of good outside that range however.

And fuck off the Arctic Monkeys are actually one of the good ones.
>> No. 445419 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 8:15 pm
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>>445417

>It's like now that she's decided she is, in fact, a woman, it's open season for the celebrity journalists to drag her through the mud every day.

I would say it's more like "now that she's decided she is, in fact, a normal woman". The gender aspect isn't the key part, it's the confirmation of normality brings all the usual expectations of that gender along with it. Nobody thought she wasn't woman before, it's just that when someone dresses like a grebo, the normal standards don't apply. You're one of them lot, you're in some rebellious tribe civilised society doesn't comprehend, so there's no point applying judgement.

This is probably why I've stayed a tattooed greasy longhair all my life, I've no interest in the kind of tedious shite people have to deal with when they're any old normal cunt in a shirt and tie. People take one look at me and just know that's not my style. It's almost like people don't take me seriously as an adult sometimes, and I used to have a real chip on my shoulder about it, but as I actually get older, the more I realise it's a blessing rather than a curse.

>>445415

It is strange to think, though, that we had two decades of music dominated by the combination of electric guitars and a set of drums in a relatively unchanged format, and nobody says that all sounded the same. You can get a wide range of different sounds out of a guitar and amp, from mellow Beatles strumming to brutal Carcass death riffs, but is that really wider than the range of sounds people have used synths to create? Or is the problem actually that they were using those sounds to create unimaginative, bland compositions?

I dunno, I just think the whole music industry needs a shake up. My band's swansong album was half a decade ago now, but in this Spotify world of today I don't think I have the stomach for the classic album format anymore. Going forward I have decided to release all my work in the form of Doom wads.
>> No. 445421 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 8:54 pm
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>>445419
>You can get a wide range of different sounds out of a guitar and amp, from mellow Beatles strumming to brutal Carcass death riffs, but is that really wider than the range of sounds people have used synths to create?

Sounds aren't the problem. It's chord progression, melody, and layers of multiple instruments.
Nothing wrong with a synth and drumtrack, but the synth is playing the same C or E major chord progression that everything else is and the drumtrack is still using 30/40 year old samples for the hi-hat and snare.

Guitar music had problems too, multiple generations of musicians copied the same chord progressions that had been in use for years, but it didn't matter as much because it got buried under different tones, and more complex soundscapes of drums, bass, and melodies.
>> No. 445422 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 9:02 pm
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>>445418
>absolute saturation of indie bands
There was a real self-awareness of it by the end of the noughties, as well. Johnny Borrell of Razorlight, arguably the pillock that signified that particular NME subculture jumping the shark, has done a few good guest spots with magazines and telly reflecting on "landfill indie", without taking himself seriously at all. It's quite commendable that he's an adult now and looks back at his younger self and realises what a twat he looked, as we all should.

>>445419
>normal woman
That's what I was getting at, sorry if it got lost in translation. I'm predicting we'll be having a similar conversation about Billie Eilish in 5-10 years as we have been having about Ke$ha a few years ago, or the tragic situation surrounding Britney Spears.

>Doom wads
You wouldn't happen to be one of the lads re-composing the Doom 2016 soundtrack as an album, would you?
>> No. 445423 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 10:04 pm
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>>445412

>the 2000s were the absolute nadir of musical quality

The 2000s might have been shit if you were listening to Radio 1, but they were fantastic if you were listening to Rinse and Deja Vu.


>> No. 445425 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 11:32 pm
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The same number that called me at half-one in the afternoon on Monday just called me again. I don't need this shit.
>> No. 445426 Anonymous
1st August 2021
Sunday 11:59 pm
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>>445425
There are ways you can set your phone to only ring for certain contacts. Or in my case I just leave my phone on silent because I'm not from that generation that still does voice calls.

Unfortunately I've yet to have my mother understand that nobody leaves voicemails anymore and that they're frankly a nuisance. It's the oddest thing, it reminds me of a girlfriend who came from the third world where her aunties were illiterate and so would left spoken messages over a Whatsapp group.
>> No. 445427 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 12:55 am
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>>445402
Recently (2018) Kiwifarms's Null saved him from an attempt to extort him from some people calling themselves the "idea guys" and Null has been helping Chris with his finances ever since then, but I've never heard of a group who tried to insulate him from the web.

Speaking of which, Chris has been arrested and someone filmed the whole thing. He breached the Elderly Protection Order and took money out of his Mum's bank account, so it's probably for that, but it could equally be that the results of the rape kit came back and he is being charged with incest and rape.

We wont know till the mugshot appears.
>> No. 445428 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 1:44 am
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>>445422

>You wouldn't happen to be one of the lads re-composing the Doom 2016 soundtrack as an album, would you?

No, I'm one of the lads who always goes on about how shite that soundtrack is. It's the kind of metal for meat-heads and nerds who wish they were meat-heads, who have a farcically exaggerated idea of what masculinity means.

I could write a book on this, one day I might, but I'm of the opinion that what distinguished good metal is that it's usually self aware enough to know it's daft. That's the difference between the top and bottom picture here. The guys on the bottom think they're dead 'ard, the guys on the top know they're only a step away from DnD nerds.

The guys on the bottom got into playing music because they thought they'd get loads of pussy, the guys on the top knew not to bother, because your average metal crowd is the biggest sausage fest you'll find outside an actual gay sauna. Rob Halford knew exactly what he was up to mind you.
>> No. 445437 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 8:17 pm
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>>445428
>I could write a book on this, one day I might, but I'm of the opinion that what distinguished good metal is that it's usually self aware enough to know it's daft. That's the difference between the top and bottom picture here. The guys on the bottom think they're dead 'ard, the guys on the top know they're only a step away from DnD nerds.

Heavy Metal has always been the domain of nerds. Led Zeppelin were the epitome of hard living party animals. Yet they wrote songs about Lord of the Rings and created fantasy names and accompanying symbols for themselves.
>> No. 445439 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 9:35 pm
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>>445428
> No, I'm one of the lads who always goes on about how shite that soundtrack is

If you listen to it like an album, I'd agree, but you referenced it as the soundtrack and there I couldn't disagree more. As a sound track for the game it does a really good job of evoking a mood without being so engaging that it distracts from the game itself. It's window dressing for a meat-head fanatasy and not the focus of the experience, mixed in and out as needed to enhance the ambience of the setting. Looking at it as stand-alone music is missing the point of what it was written for.
>> No. 445446 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 10:21 pm
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>>445439

That's true enough in a way I suppose, but I would still have preferred something in keeping with the spirit of the originals. The game does a fantastic job of updating old-school mechanics to modern sensibilities, and the aesthetics are all on point too, but the soundtrack really drops the ball in that regard. It evokes a mood, but I'm not convinced it's the right one.

That's the elephant in the room that my earlier post alludes to- The old school Doom had old school heavy metal for the soundtrack, which is in a totally different spirit. It would have been totally possible to update that sound for the modern ear, making it into the type of nu-core steroid djent you can tab out in binary was a cop out.

It's as though the soundtrack still comes from the bad timeline version of Doom 4 we thankfully never got, where it would have had aim-down-sights and regenerating health.
>> No. 445449 Anonymous
2nd August 2021
Monday 10:53 pm
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>>445428
>I could write a book on this, one day I might, but I'm of the opinion that what distinguished good metal is that it's usually self aware enough to know it's daft. That's the difference between the top and bottom picture here. The guys on the bottom think they're dead 'ard, the guys on the top know they're only a step away from DnD nerds.

>The guys on the bottom got into playing music because they thought they'd get loads of pussy, the guys on the top knew not to bother, because your average metal crowd is the biggest sausage fest you'll find outside an actual gay sauna. Rob Halford knew exactly what he was up to mind you.

I see what you're getting at, but it's way more complex than that/
A lot of good metal is born out people using music to express their own problems and problems with the world at large. Metal was born in the 70s after the high-water mark of the 60s appeared and peoples perspectives changed faced with the reality of the way society was changing. Black Sabbath drew a lot from the growing tension of the threat of nuclear war and the growing interest in the occult in young people, Judas Priest was partly a response to the return to conservativism following the hippy era. Over the years a lot of bands used metal to simply express their teenage angst in a world that didn't take them seriously. K0rn was born out of childhood abuse and neglect and bullying. SOAD songs are silly as fuck on a superficial level but deal very very seriously with social and political issues. Machine Head wrote some of their most beautiful and powerful songs in response to Dimebag Darrells shooting.

There's two types of shit metal. There's kids who think they're dead cool pussy magnets but they have no passion or fire to make meaningful music. And then there's bands who head into their middle ages who fail to adapt the style of their music as their mentality evolves. Of course there's plenty of metal too that's very much about celebrating the good things in life, but they're still passionate about it which is the important thing.

>Looking at it as stand-alone music is missing the point of what it was written for.
This. It's amazing music in the place it was designed to be heard, but games publishers selling soundtracks is just another way of squeezing money out of people and the people who do buy it are morons.
>> No. 445450 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 1:33 am
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>>445449

>Black Sabbath drew a lot from the growing tension of the threat of nuclear war and the growing interest in the occult in young people, Judas Priest was partly a response to the return to conservativism following the hippy era. Over the years a lot of bands used metal to simply express their teenage angst in a world that didn't take them seriously. K0rn was born out of childhood abuse and neglect and bullying. SOAD songs are silly as fuck on a superficial level but deal very very seriously with social and political issues. Machine Head wrote some of their most beautiful and powerful songs in response to Dimebag Darrells shooting.

We don't entirely disagree here, mainly my perspective is that there's a big difference in how (and why) they pull it off. I've a bit of a soft spot for bands like Korn because I was a wee lad in those days and obviously thought Limp Bizkit and Slipknot were the heaviest thing on earth, but looking back at it, I can see that they were quite dire, musically. The kind of act a band like Judas Priest put on, wearing the leather and spikes and so on despite how monumentally silly it was, was a different and much more deliberate affectation to the way angsty mosher kids would sulk about in their Jncos thinking they were the first people on earth to feel misunderstood. SOAD I would actually put into the "good" category, though not exactly musically revolutionary- Like you say they were silly superficially but serious underneath, that demonstrates the kind of self awareness that contemporaries in their genre at the time lacked.

Incidentally, Machine Head are amongst the worst of the worst in my book, they (or rather, Rob Flynn) have been shameless trend-hoppers their entire career. From the early Vio-Lence days because thrash was still big, into Pantera-esque groove through the 90s, into nu-metal for the early 00's, and back to "revival" thrash of the brand Trivium and A7X briefly band-waggoned for that weird period in 2007-08 because less mainstream acts like Evile and Municipal Waste et al were gaining traction and names like Exodus were making a comeback, on into whatever they do nowadays, which I haven't heard but I am willing to bet there was a bit where they copied Mastodon.
>> No. 445462 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 10:17 pm
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>>445449

>And then there's bands who head into their middle ages who fail to adapt the style of their music as their mentality evolves.

Or they just start to sell out and become greedy. Metallica's Black Album was one of the biggest commercial successes of any metal band up to that point, and it received heaps of praise from music critics, but I know some Metallica fans who still to this day haven't forgiven the band for going mainstream like that.

And it also didn't help Metallica's popularity among new, younger fans that the band were at the forefront of anti-Napster filesharing litigation. There were loads of pimply 20-year-old misfits who had gotten acquainted with Metallica's back catalogue by downloading their songs off Napster. Metallica, on the other hand, had made absolute shedloads of money with the Black Album and subsequent works, but still felt the need to go after filesharing portals. While their newer material was beginning to sound more bland and just not worth the money with every new release.
>> No. 445467 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 10:41 pm
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>>445462

To be fair with Metallica, I think the black album was just a case of running out of ideas. By the end of the 80s they were already outclassed as a thrash metal band; for all their influence and pioneering songwriting (really, nobody can deny that Ride through Justice are incredible records), I could list you about a dozen bands who did it faster and harder than they did. Besides that they had lost the bloke who was responsible for the most creative aspects of their sound.

The fans may have preferred it if they carried on doing the same thing, but they would have stagnated, or faded into obscurity. I can't think of a single 80s thrash act who survived the 90s without diverging into a different sound. Most of the American ones went grungy and groovy, Sodom went punk, Kreator went industrial/goth; but of course most of them just broke up entirely, and didn't make comebacks until the internet era started fuelling interest in older bands thanks to good old fashioned metalhead elitism.

Instead, Metallica are still pretty much the biggest metal band on earth despite having been shite for thirty years.

(Funnily enough though the 90s were a very good time for the best metal subgenre sandwhich, black-thrash.)
>> No. 445468 Anonymous
3rd August 2021
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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>>445467

The 90s were a difficult time for metal as a whole. In essence, heavy metal's appeal had been waning since the second half of the 80s, when the whole thing with hair metal and corporate rock started. Bands like Bon Jovi and Europe, while only very loosely to do with true metal in the first place, were emblematic of a time when hard rock and metal were increasingly being streamlined and made palatable to the masses who wanted something BRILLIANT, but nothing too weird and inaccessible.

The emergence of grunge in the 90s was then to some extent a direct reaction to rock and metal selling out in the 80s. It was a return to no-frills guitar and indie rock. Kurt Cobain in particular hated commercial 80s rock with passion. Except grunge then also became quite commercialised, especially after he offed himself.
>> No. 445471 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 3:30 am
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>>445468

I only very vaguely remember what it was like at the time, but it was astonishing the impact grunge had. It must have been overnight everything was suddenly plaid and torn jeans, and having fun was uncool.

What I find ironic about it is that mainstream 90s music has aged terribly, in retrospect. At the time it dominated everything with the compulsion to stop being silly and start writing more grounded music about heroin and existential angst, but looking back we can see it was often a lot of pretentious self-indulgent wank from empty souled suburban Americans.

You can look at something like Billy Idol's bafflingly anachronistic 1993 opus Cyberpunk to see what I mean. Idol had to be the epitome of glam cheese, and the album was a massive flop, but it has stood the test of time much better- You can take it as what it is, unlike Nirvana, which will eternally be teenager music.

The thing is all of this only applies to the mainstream. There was still an abundance of very good metal in the 90s. Mayhem, Burzum, Emperor, Diossection and all that lot in the frozen north, the whole Gothenburg death metal scene in Sweden, and then all the stuff that somehow grew out of crust punk over here like Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Benediction etc, even a couple of decent somewhat commercially successful bands like Type O in the States.
>> No. 445474 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 1:24 pm
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>>445471

>What I find ironic about it is that mainstream 90s music has aged terribly, in retrospect.

That is true, especially of early 90s pop music, and I've asked myself that, too. I guess part of it is that a lot of it had a particular kind of polished, MIDI-sample, programmed and quantised sound which people accepted at the time, but which now just sounds sterile and soulless. And then there was also Eurodance, mainstream pop's more trashy cousin, which at some point bled into and affected mainstream pop as well. I can't imagine many occasions today, besides 90s revival parties or 2am at your uncle's wedding, where you'll get away with unironically playing songs like Mr. Vain by Culture Beat. Even "Be My Lover" by La Bouche or "Rhythm Is a Dancer" by Snap would be pushing it.


>You can look at something like Billy Idol's bafflingly anachronistic 1993 opus Cyberpunk to see what I mean.

Billy Idol was one of those acts who did very well in the 80s but never quite found their place in the 90s. "Charmed Life" went platinum, and deservedly, but it was kind of his last hurrah, and it was all downhill from there. I guess his particular rocky-pop sound of "Flesh for Fantasy" or "Eyes Without a Face" and "Rebel Yell", which had served him well throughout the 80s, got lumped in with sellout corporate rock, and just became unfashionable.


>The thing is all of this only applies to the mainstream. There was still an abundance of very good metal in the 90s.

I think what happened was that honest, back-to-the-roots metal went back into the underground a bit, and in a way came full circle. In that it once again became niche music for a particular kind of audience, consciously avoiding mass appeal.
>> No. 445485 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 6:53 pm
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>Or they just start to sell out and become greedy.
>I think the black album was just a case of running out of ideas.
On the black album at least, I can give metallica the benefit of the doubt.
I think it was less about them actively deciding to go mainstream or running out of ideas, and more about the record label seeing potential in them and engineering them into that position.
If at that point in their career they were simply left to their own devices I'm sure they could have put out another album similar to their early work, but the label pushed them into accepting Bob Rock as their producer, who forced them through multiple rewrites and changing their styles very very reluctantly.

It's only after the success of the black album that they really sold out.


I've been looking through spotify recently trying to see just what "new" metal I'm really listening to, and there's not much.
I listen to a really wide range of music, but with stuff released in the past ten years the only music I'm really passionate enough about to listen to twice is mostly prog metal or avant garde stuff. Most other new metal seems to be bland repetitive djent, pointless attempts at trying to appeal to the mainstream, or heavier metal sub-genres that's more or less just noise with the way its mixed.
Might make it a project over the next few weeks to ban myself from listening to anything I already know and just see where it takes me.
>> No. 445488 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 9:07 pm
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>>445485

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62RmIsx6MA

HBO Max released a documentary about Woodstock '99 this week that you might be interested in.
>> No. 445490 Anonymous
4th August 2021
Wednesday 9:23 pm
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>>445485

>It's only after the success of the black album that they really sold out.

I have to admit, I still liked their songs "Until It Sleeps" and "The Memory Remains". But the Load/ReLoad albums were really a middle finger to their old fans. After that, it's safe to say that they completely slid into irrelevance.
>> No. 445502 Anonymous
5th August 2021
Thursday 5:21 pm
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>>445474
Cyberpunk is best viewed through the lens of Billy Idol having recently been housebound due to a horrific motorcycle accident, and dabbling with computers and the early internet to keep himself entertained. Blindboy did a great podcast on it.
>> No. 445503 Anonymous
5th August 2021
Thursday 10:42 pm
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>>445502

Fun fact: Billy Idol was actually supposed to play the T-1000 in Terminator 2 at the time, so much so that the script was by and large written with him in mind. It was only when Idol had his accident and wouldn't have recovered in time to start shooting that they auditioned other actors, and Robert Patrick then won the role.

Not saying the movie wouldn't have been a success with Idol, but he probably would have given the T-1000 a completely different direction.

But yeah, I think Cyberpunk didn't just flop because Billy Idol was unsuccessfully channelling his solitary confinement experience, but because as an aging musician (he was 37 at the time), he was just getting out of step with the younger generation. He had some sort of inkling that computers, and that, were probably the next big thing, so he made a concept album attempting to cash in on that kind of emerging zeitgeist, but in truth, he was unable to really put his finger on it, and even Sigue Sigue Sputnik seemed more adept at it on their album Flaunt It, and that was all the way back in 1986.

Flaunt It was actually kind of a fun ride, for what it was (that last bit is important). If you keep in mind that it came out around the same time as the Aliens sequel movie and the Max Headroom TV series, it's a very enjoyable, at times deliciously daft piece of mid-80s, pre-Internet-age cyberpunk culture, back when the Atari ST was the shit.
>> No. 445511 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 12:40 am
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Watching A Fish Called Wanda. Sort of.

More tedious and unfunny than the worst of Monty Python. Not even John Cleese himself makes any kind of difference.

Unbelievable that this film got three Oscar nominatioms in its day.
>> No. 445512 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 1:29 am
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I can't tell if I have rubbish headphones or a lot of songs I've been listening to have the vocals slightly buried behind the instrumentals. Maybe it's a personal taste thing and no one else hears an issue and it's not something I'm mega annoyed by, just a little thing I've noticed. The pic's the only thing I have music related at short notice.

>>445511
I found out Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland won an Academy Award for "Best Art Direction" yesterday and I was, frankly, livid. I thought Suicide Squad getting one was laughable when I heard about it, but Burton's Wonderland looks like Fallout 3 for Christ's sake.
>> No. 445514 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:00 am
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>>445512
Not necessarily rubbish per se, but a lot of headphones are designed to have the "scooped mids" sound which can lead to the vocals disappearing a bit on a lot of tracks.

Fiddling with the EQ would help.

Right now I'm super happy with my setup, except the fact that there's no built in EQ in spotify, and I've been hunting around a bit for a plugin or something.
>> No. 445515 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:03 am
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Is losing weight really as simple as eating under my TDEE? I worked mine out as 2100. If I eat under 2100 calories, have I really 'lost' on that day?
>> No. 445516 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:06 am
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>>445515
As long as energy in < energy out, you'll lose weight. Remember that you're 75% water, though, and so looking at day-to-day variations isn't particularly helpful as you can vary by a few kgs of water weight. Also remember that your body can adjust its energy needs, so you might not always need 2100, and of course this will drop as you lose weight.
>> No. 445517 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:21 am
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>>445515
A lot of people say yes a lot of people say no.

There's an argument that calorie restriction is bad as your body is good at conserving energy when food is scarce.
Calories from sugar or refined carbs are worse than other calories, as these cause your insulin levels to rise, and insulin slows your metabolism and signals your body to store store fat.

Keto isn't for everyone, but there is a lot to be said for aiming for a diet which has more lean meat and leafy vegetables and less refined carbs and worrying less about calories than WHAT you eat.
>> No. 445518 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:21 am
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>>445516
I'm just amazed its, well, that easy. How do fatlads even have an excuse?
>> No. 445519 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 11:29 am
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>>445518

Because calorie dense foods are incredibly easy to come by, and our bodies give us dopamine hits when we eat them.
>> No. 445520 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 12:04 pm
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The fencing in the modern pentathlon should be king of the hill style. Everyone in a massive arena, last man or woman standing wins.
>> No. 445521 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 1:21 pm
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>>445518

I'm not even fat, in fact quite the opposite, but I can understand how they get on the pipeline. Most days what I eat is a matter of whatever is most convenient, and that's literally the only decision making factor. It's only because I routinely skip meals out of extreme laziness or fits of depression that I'm not fat too. I have less sympathy with complete whale monsters who carried on well past the point that it was obviously getting out of hand, but I suspect for most of those people it's a different matter.

The thing is there are lot of factors in a person;s life that can affect their diet. One thing I never considered until I was in the situation is the people you live with- When I lived alone I cooked whenever I wanted and whatever I wanted, and probably ate far more healthily as a result. Ever since I moved in with my partner I'm far less likely to cook, because she always leaves the kitchen in a state and I'm not fucking cleaning up after her am I.
>> No. 445522 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>445521

You're uneven fat?
>> No. 445523 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 2:21 pm
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>>445520
I think we're long overdue a postmodern pentathlon.
>> No. 445524 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 2:40 pm
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>>445523

Replace the show jumping with a moped race, do the fencing with kitchen knives, put a load of garden fences and wheelie bins on the cross-country course, forget about the swimming and do the shooting from the passenger seat of a stolen Corsa. The winner gets a gold medal, a feature on the next Skepta album and six months probation.
>> No. 445525 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 3:10 pm
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>>445520
I thought the karate was going to be like that. It was split into kata (doing the poses and shouting "Hi-ya!") and kumite, which in fighting games is the one where one guy stands there and sees how many people he can beat in a row as they take turns to run at him. When it was just a regular fighting tournament, I was disappointed.
>> No. 445526 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 6:35 pm
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I absolutely cannot stop pissing my money up the wall.
>> No. 445528 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 10:41 am
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>>445525
Apparently Japan only sent their second best man for the kata because there's this one guy that has basically dominated the discipline for decades.
>> No. 445529 Anonymous
9th August 2021
Monday 12:53 pm
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>>445526
I've heard that buying me a flat can help with that.
>> No. 445656 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 7:31 pm
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I got some Hairbo Tangfastics when I went to the shop earlier and I carried them home in the same bag as some frozen chips. They were considerably nicer than room temperature Haribo, I think I'll have to chill my sweets more often.
>> No. 445659 Anonymous
14th August 2021
Saturday 8:49 pm
445659 I'M SERIOUS
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AND READ THIS POST

>>445656 is not the messiah, but he is a prophet who has heard the word.


Chill your soft sweets and chocolate. Unless you are a wrong'un, you will enjoy them a lot more. Soft sweets become slightly tougher and more flavourful. You can savour it longer, and consume less. You can enjoy the chocolate in your mouth as it won't instantly start losing structure.

Buy a crunchie as soon as you can, and leave it in the fridge. It is transcendental. This will improve your life.
>> No. 445674 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 8:22 am
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>>445659
Fridge chocolate is a little too hard for my liking.
>> No. 445675 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 8:38 am
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>>445674
Then you can be cleansed with the rest of your heretical kind.
>> No. 445691 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 1:25 pm
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I've got a new phone arriving today but I'm really not excited in the slightest. It was a matter of choosing the least shit option because I didn't really want to upgrade, but somehow paradoxically get a better deal by upgrading than trying to keep my old handset and stay on a sim-only tarriff.

Instead of excitement I only have a mild annoyance that I'll have to spend all afternoon fucking around transferring my data over, while internally wondering why there's even a new model at all when the specs have barely changed. Why must the parasitic shareholder spoil my enjoyment of everything that was once pure and wholesome?

Ten years ago I'd have been secretly beside myself in excitement, sat by the window listening for the delivery guy to open the gate. But the persistence of time has crushed every last small joy from my stony, jet black heart. Utter cunts.
>> No. 445692 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 1:26 pm
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>>445691
You could stick with your old phone and sell the new one.
>> No. 445696 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 3:14 pm
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>>445692

I suppose, but in fairness this phone is nearing the five year mark now, I doubt it has long left in it. It has dodgy speakers and the battery is getting a bit crap. The time was coming up soon, I just wanted to wait until it was properly knackered.
>> No. 445698 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 3:50 pm
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>>445675
Some of us would rather have silky smooth texture than the risk of cracking our teeth on your funky frozen chocolate. If you want to have cold chocolate you go the Mcflurry route and break it into ice cream, if you want peak decadence then you dip a mars bar into a cup of tea.

The correct option is to have no chocolate bars at all. Far too much sugar.
>> No. 445705 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 4:30 pm
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>>445675
I'm with you - a Crunchie thats been in the fridge is a thing of beauty. A Yorkie bar, even more so; it is literally their raison d'etre.
>> No. 445713 Anonymous
15th August 2021
Sunday 10:28 pm
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Got my car ready for MOT this weekend. Still not sure about the rear brakes, the pads are at a point where they're about ready to be replaced, but pn the other hand don't look like they need changing urgently. We'll have to see how they perform during testing.

My weekend car is an S-reg MGF. So it's basically a glorified Austin Allegro which shares a few genes with the MkI Lotus Elise. It's honestly the most fun car I've ever owned. In terms of bang-for-your-buck, there aren't many other cars out there that give you the same kind of driving experience for under £2,000.

They're now gradually getting past the point where they were cheap as chips, and are slowly but surely on their way to becoming classics. Probably not in the same way as a classic MkI MGB, but £5,000-£8,000 for a well-kept car in original condition should be entirely reasonable in a few years.
>> No. 445857 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:40 am
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I've lived in my house for over six years and I'm still getting post for the old owners. Thought it would have stopped by now but apparently not.
>> No. 445858 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:59 am
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>>445857
Are you putting them back in the post marked NATA/RTS; Not At This Address, Return To Sender?
>> No. 445860 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 11:02 am
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>>445858
Yeah. It seems to make no difference, particularly with Scottish Widows.
>> No. 445863 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 5:06 pm
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I'm sure there are advantages to having siblings, but if I had ones who treated me like my parents treat there's I'd be living in Antartica by now. Or in prison.
>> No. 445868 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:13 pm
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My washing machines fucked. Door locks broke so I can't get the washing out, and to make it a few pennies cheaper the manufacturers haven't bothered putting a manual override inside like they did on older/better machines.

To make it even better, there is an override in the handle, but there is no hole on the inside of the door, or on the inner frame to be able to access it when the doors closed.
>> No. 445869 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 9:51 pm
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>>445868

There WILL be some sort of internal method of getting the door open, you just need to be prepared to trawl many Youtube vids and have a lot of patience and a decent toolkit.

I've kept a Miele W460 running for 20 years in this way. And my Mum's Samsung pieceoshit after accidentally snapping the door handle off with my gorilla hands.
>> No. 445870 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 10:26 pm
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>>445869
I can see the catch mechanism stuck in the closed position but I can't prise it open. There's only an inch clearance between the concrete counterweight and the doorcatch itself and I've skinned my knuckles already, but there's definitely no access point anywhere.
Fuck it, I've ordered a new one and I'll get it open with a drill. Getting someone in to repair it would be easily £100 parts and labour which is halfway towards a new one already.
>> No. 445872 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 10:18 am
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>>445870
Got it open, drilled some holes in the front of the machine and into the lock. Turns out the handle was broken so it wasn't pulling on the catch, the interlock was working right it seems.
I can see now it would technically have been possible to push the interlock the right way to open it without breaking it, but there was just so little space to do so, having to push a tiny piece of metal with no leverage against the powerful spring in the catch.
>> No. 445873 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 3:53 pm
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I went to McDonald's earlier and it was absolutely rammed. About a quarter of the floorspace was taken up by Deliveroo/Uber Eats drivers and they had filled up most of the pavement space outside too.
>> No. 445874 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 5:26 pm
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>>445873
Same with Greggs too - a quarter of the people in line for sausage rolls are deliveroo/uber deliveries.
>> No. 445875 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 6:36 pm
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>>445874
ALRIGHT FINE! I'll have a takeaway tonight if you lads are so insistent. Honestly all I needed to do was peel some potatoes but here I am waiting for Jollibee to arrive.
>> No. 445877 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 8:54 pm
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>>445875
I had some boiled potatoes. Didn't peel them.
>> No. 445878 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 9:09 pm
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>>445877
Do people peel boiled potatoes?
>> No. 445879 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 9:27 pm
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The bigger question is "why boil potatoes"? Rubbish vegetable. Not like the onion, the champion of veg.
>> No. 445880 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 9:31 pm
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>>445878
It depends how thick the skin is.
New potatoes just need a scrub, bigger ones you probably want to at least scrape the skin off a bit.
>> No. 445881 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>>445878
I certainly do. I know there are some where you don't need to, but if they're anything like those genetically modified carrots that allegedly don't need peeling, they absolutely bloody well need peeling anyway.
>> No. 445938 Anonymous
28th August 2021
Saturday 8:14 pm
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Went mushroom foraging in the woods nearby today, but there were almost literally no mushrooms at all in the entire section of forest which I spent over an hour walking through. There was some perfect terrain where you should normally find absolute loads, but there just weren't any.

It can happen that you find no edible ones, as they may have been picked off by somebody before you, but there weren't even any poisonous ones, so I guess it just isn't the season yet. Normally, the main mushroom season tends to begin around late August.
>> No. 445939 Anonymous
28th August 2021
Saturday 8:34 pm
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>>445938

Don't know where you are, but it has been pretty dry in recent weeks.
>> No. 445940 Anonymous
28th August 2021
Saturday 9:11 pm
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>>445939

I live in South London. There are woodlands dotted along the M25 here which I frequent during mushroom season every year. Whenever conditions are right, you can go home with a whole basket full of mushrooms without a problem.

Maybe we'll get some rain the next few weeks. I think 2019 was also a year where there were also almost no mushrooms at all until about late September.
>> No. 445941 Anonymous
28th August 2021
Saturday 10:55 pm
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I went to Tesco for the first time in years and they've got this weird two-tier pricing system where a lot of products are a fair bit cheaper if you have a clubcard, with many of them not even clearly saying what the non-clubcard price is.
>> No. 445942 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 12:53 am
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>>445879
Potato is a starch, Mumsnet. They might have a good nutritional profile, especially the skin, but chips aren't a vegetable portion.

>champion of veg

My arse. That's baked beans or broccoli. I ought to congratulate you on managing to be so wrong in such a short post.
>> No. 445943 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 1:12 pm
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>>445941
I'm pretty sure there is another thread somewhere round here that discusses that. It's clearly evil, and yet at the same time, it's the only time where you actually get a financial reward for selling all your data to The Man, so maybe it's not as bad as it initially sounds.
>> No. 445944 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 6:53 pm
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>>445943
My work has a scheme called "Virgin Pulse" where you can sign up to collect points, and if you collect enough points then you get $50/month off your insurance premium. Points are awarded for sharing your steps and stats through a smartwatch with Virgin. The whole thing makes me gag.
>> No. 445945 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 7:58 pm
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>>445944
I think that's becoming increasingly common. Life insurance giving you bonuses for burning enough calories. I'm WITH NOTHING TO SAY BECAUSE I AM A CUNT as to why people sign up to this shit.
>> No. 445946 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 8:47 pm
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>>445945
Vitality have been doing that for about 15 years now, rating people as gold, silver and bronze depending on how active you are and then either increasing or reducing your premiums to reflect this. They also offer discounts on the likes of gym memberships and fitbits so if you're reasonably healthy it can work out quite a lot cheaper than regular life cover.
>> No. 445947 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 11:06 pm
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>>445944

>a scheme called "Virgin Pulse"

That almost vaguely sounds like some early-2000s American Evangelical abstinence programme.

Self sage.
>> No. 445948 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 11:20 pm
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Do USB thumb drives have a habit of just suddenly dying without warning? I just plugged a thumb drive that I have been using for years into my desktop computer, and it was completely dead, it wasn't recognised by Windows as a storage device, and the same thing happened on my laptop and my TV. The thumb drive's status LED also doesn't come on. It was fine just this afternoon.

There was nothing of any importance on the drive, but it's still annoying.
>> No. 445949 Anonymous
29th August 2021
Sunday 11:49 pm
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Every time I see my mother she asks me if I've met anyone to settle down with yet, or asks when I'm going to give her grandchildren. I don't like this one bit, how can I get her off my case? Can I call the NSPCC on her?
>> No. 445950 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 12:03 am
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>>445948

A lot of thumb drives have a standard PCB soldered directly to the back of a standard USB connector. If the body of the drive is longer than 10mm or so, the solder joints will experience excessive stress through normal use. Thumb drives where the outside of the USB plug forms part of the body and very short "flush-fit" drives will be much more durable.

Electrically, any half-decent thumb drive should be very reliable. Static electricity might cause problems if there's inadequate ESD protection, but flash memory almost always fails into a read-only mode rather than failing completely.
>> No. 445951 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 9:36 am
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I’ve woken up to one very bloodshot eye, a dry throat and bouts of dizziness so I think I’m on the way out. People don’t come back from this.

>>445949
You can and they will have her taken away.
>> No. 445961 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 8:37 pm
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I don't get people who bid early on something on eBay. Say something is listed for a week, there's no point in inflating the price with several days to go when someone else is just going to snipe their highest bid in the last 10 seconds anyway.
>> No. 445962 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 9:15 pm
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>>445961
It can stop anyone else hitting Buy It Now, and it can encourage the seller not to yank the auction.
But yes, it's a daft move most of the time. I have a Gixen account, can't be arsed to bid in person any more. Not that I buy a lot there any more, it's no longer the happy hunting ground it was back in the early 00s, but there's still some decent test equipment in among the dross.
>> No. 445965 Anonymous
30th August 2021
Monday 10:08 pm
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>>445961

I've made "sniping" an auction at the last few seconds kind of a sport for myself. I also don't get why people bid early.

A lot of times, you don't necessarily get an item at a bargain price that way, but it can be a good way to make sure no other bidder has time to react and up their maximum bid because you've just outbid them. I'd say the approach works - and wins you an auction - three out of five times, as long as you're not too stingy with your bid.
>> No. 445985 Anonymous
1st September 2021
Wednesday 1:07 pm
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>>445965

Are you the one that outbid me on that Coogi jumper you absolute shit?
>> No. 446016 Anonymous
3rd September 2021
Friday 12:53 am
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>>445985

>outbid me on that Coogi jumper

Blipsterlad, is that you?
>> No. 446017 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 1:18 pm
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Christ, Bolton is grim.
>> No. 446018 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 3:23 pm
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>>446017
Then this happened on the way home.
>> No. 446019 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 3:40 pm
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>>446018
It'll polish out.
>> No. 446020 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 4:28 pm
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>>446019
He was doing doughnuts on the wrong side of the road then eventually got over to his own side.
>> No. 446021 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 5:14 pm
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Fuck me I knew that Asparagus was meant to make your piss smell a bit weird but I never thought it was THAT effective/strong.
>> No. 446022 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 5:22 pm
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>>446021
It's a quite incredible phenomenon.
>> No. 446023 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 10:34 pm
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Apparently kids playing knock off ginger warrants being posted on the local Facey group.
>> No. 446024 Anonymous
4th September 2021
Saturday 11:28 pm
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>>446021
That's no way to talk about them autistics, m7.
>> No. 446025 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 12:30 am
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>>446023

The single most anal, curtain twitching, nosey parker, gossip stirring menopausal busybody cow I know lives in Beeston, and come to think of it the previous holder of that title before I knew this one lived in Beeston too.

I don't think it's a coincidence.
>> No. 446026 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 3:15 am
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>>446023
Perhaps a fair point that those little shits should've been brought up with some manners.
>> No. 446027 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 4:40 am
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>>446026
Oh come on. Knock and run is part of growing up.
>> No. 446028 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 9:35 am
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>>446026
The person who posted it has a picture of her husband stood on a wall outside an old people's home with his pants round his thighs as her profile picture.
>> No. 446029 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 5:20 pm
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>>446027
I love the regional variations in what people call this game. I personally always called it knock off ginger.
>> No. 446032 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 6:51 pm
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>>446029
Knock a door run down sawf iirc.
>> No. 446033 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 6:59 pm
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>>446032
"Knock a door run" was also the popular term in Bradford.
>> No. 446034 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 7:12 pm
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>>446033
It's "ding dong ditch" in most of America, which is kind of nice.
>> No. 446035 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 7:21 pm
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>>446034
>America, which is kind of nice.
Vile.
>> No. 446036 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 7:41 pm
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>>446029
You mean knicky knocky nine doors?
>> No. 446037 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 8:01 pm
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I'm fro Beeston and I'd call it knock-a-door-run. I've never heard knock down ginger before.
>> No. 446038 Anonymous
5th September 2021
Sunday 11:30 pm
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It's obviously called 'cherry door knocking'.
>> No. 446041 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 7:31 pm
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We always called it "knock along fiddle".
>> No. 446042 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 7:34 pm
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>>446041
Exactly.
>> No. 446043 Anonymous
6th September 2021
Monday 8:08 pm
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At Eton we called it knockyknockynihilipilification
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6th September 2021
Monday 8:35 pm
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We called it Knocky Door Danger.

I'm not sure what the danger was, even in the North East, most adults were not beating up children they didn't know for knocking on their doors.
>> No. 446059 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 8:17 pm
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>> No. 446060 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 8:34 pm
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>>446059
That amount of shouting can't possibly be Covid-safe.
>> No. 446061 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 10:42 pm
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I just cut out a tick on my lower leg with the tip of a Stanley knife and plenty of IPA alcohol. It's probably far from recommended to do it that way, but I couldn't be arsed to go out and get one of those tick removal kits. And I did make sure I got out all of it. There wasn't even a lot of bleeding.
>> No. 446062 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 10:44 pm
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There's a lot of cheap flights at the moment and I imagine places that aren't just dickheads staying in the hotel will be quiet. Is there anywhere for a guy to go alone? Getting my leg over would be great but not essential.
>> No. 446063 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 11:12 pm
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>>446062
I had a good solo holiday in Düsseldorf, quaint little town. Down the road is Köln where they have the biggest brothel in Germany, so getting your leg over shouldn't be particularly difficult.
>> No. 446064 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 11:20 pm
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>>446063

Just don't tell anybody in Cologne that you enjoyed Dusseldorf. The two cities are Germany's Liverpool and Manchester.
>> No. 446065 Anonymous
10th September 2021
Friday 11:43 pm
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>>446063
> where they have the biggest brothel in Germany
Had. The "Pascha" shut down thanks to 'rona restrictions.
>> No. 446066 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 12:13 am
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>>446061
Please make sure you got it out ladm8 - if you see a bullseye rash in the next few days, you must go to a doctor. Lyme Disease or Crohns isn't great.
>> No. 446067 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 12:40 am
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>>446064
I actually enjoyed altbier much more than kölsch, but not enough to buy the "Altbier > kölsch" tourist t-shirt that was being sold all over Düsseldorf. The two cities really do play off that rivalry well, it's a fun part of the experience of visiting either or both.

>>446065
Broken Deutschland.
>> No. 446068 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 5:56 am
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It's six in the morning, I can't sleep and I can't get Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo by Bloodhound Gang out of my head.
>> No. 446069 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 10:51 am
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>>446067

I had the chance to drink some Kolsch on a trip to Aachen once. I think it was called Gaffel. It was nice, a top-fermented pale ale with kind of a rich taste. All I was able to gather about Alt was that it's darker and maltier. And because Aachen is firmly in the Cologne camp on the Cologne-Dusseldorf rivalry, I was assured that I wasn't missing anything by not trying Alt. Oh well.
>> No. 446070 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 11:35 am
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I had my haircut this morning and they asked if I wanted them to neaten up my eyebrows. I guess this means I'm old. I could understand it if I'd went to a Turkish barbers.
>> No. 446071 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 11:53 am
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>>446070
There's a bit of an Iannuci sketch about that but I can't find the specific clip.

>> No. 446072 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 11:56 am
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>>446070
Now I cut my own hair due to coronavirus opening my eyes to how foolish I was as a severely balding person to pay others for half a job, I trim my own eyebrows every time. It's great and makes me look even sexier than a 33-year-old who looks 50 normally looks. Maybe everybody started trimming their own eyebrows, and now it has to be part of the service. Although, I don't know how old you are. Have they ever trimmed your ear hair?

>>446068
Personally, I preferred Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss:

>> No. 446073 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 7:43 pm
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Do you ever set a wake-up alarm on normal weekends? I'm thinking about doing it lately, today I only really got up at 1pm and even then it was to make breakfast and sit in bed with the laptop. ​It feels like I've wasted most of the weekend already.

There's arguments against of course, your body getting all the sleep it wants being the biggest.
>> No. 446074 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 8:05 pm
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>>446073
Never on a Saturday; it's my sleep catchup day. I don't like waking up at 1pm truth be told, but 12:15 somehow feels righteous.
>> No. 446075 Anonymous
11th September 2021
Saturday 10:56 pm
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>>446073

I have alarms that go off every day regardless, because if not I'll forget. Better to stay in the routine.

I used to love a lay in too, but as I get older and time seems to get ever faster, I try get up as soon as possible to get in as much "active" leisure as possible, as opposed to just laying in bed scrolling on my phone.

Seriously though the time acceleration thing is getting scary. I do twelve hour shifts these days and it still goes by in the blink of an eye, I reckon I could handle eighteen. Get my full work week out of the way in two goes.
>> No. 446076 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 12:51 am
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>>446073

Absolutely not, though I do go to sleep with the blinds open - so if I'm really ready to be woken up, the sun will do it, if not I'll sleep through.

I only really work three days a week now anyway though, so I don't feel the need to maximise my off time that much.
>> No. 446077 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 10:26 am
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>>446073
When I am on call for work, needing to provide IT support from home if anything breaks, I have to start my Saturdays and Sundays at 09:00. I normally leave it till around 09:25 before I actually get up, but I nevertheless consider these weekends an unspeakable imposition on my personal wellbeing.
>> No. 446078 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 11:13 am
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Is this going to be the last good gardening weekend of the year?

Think I need to mow the lawn.
>> No. 446079 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:41 pm
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Just finished de-dusting the computer and reapplying thermal paste. Only two heart attacks and one restart loop, but now processor's down from 60 to 40 idling and life can move on again.

I can't quite express the intensity of relief when things are back up and running. Wearing nothing but a pair of rubber soled trainers, with the tower on the back of an upturned drawer in a hungover attempt to prevent static from the carpet, giving up on wiping things down and resorting to fingering and blowing the fans like a proper professional. I put the fan/heatsink back on the processor the wrong way around and the first time I put things back upright it fell off.

Can I confirm that this is similar to how the rest of you conduct minor repairs on your machine?
>> No. 446080 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:49 pm
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>Can I confirm that this is similar to how the rest of you conduct minor repairs on your machine?

I had to swap out a couple of hard drives, put a pci card in and reseat the cpu heatsink last week, and I just crawled under my desk and lay on the floor with the side of the case off to do it. You are in good company.
>> No. 446081 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:55 pm
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>>446079
I almost never do this work; I just leave it. It started making a noise last weekend, though, so I unplugged it completely, got out my specialist antistatic mat that I bought specifically and have never used, and lay the decade-old tower on its side on the mat. I couldn't remember whether I need to clip the mat to something earthed, or to the computer itself, so I swapped halfway through. Also, I have no idea if a radiator is earthed; I just guessed.

I also have a little case of computer repair tools, and a can of compressed air which was surprisingly expensive considering it's literally an empty can. I dug clumps of dust out with my finger, then removed smaller clumps of dust using a tiny gripping thing called a haemostat. I was largely doing this recreationally; I had no idea if it would work and I certainly wasn't expecting any performance increases. I do not own thermal paste.

My can of air blew dust all over my bedroom wall and all over the possessions I had carefully moved clear of the computer. That was nasty. Anyway, I switched my computer back on afterwards, and it started up as normal, all nice and silent now. But honestly, it probably would have started up silently if I'd just switched it off and on again without spending an hour playing Operation for pubes and dust.
>> No. 446082 Anonymous
12th September 2021
Sunday 1:56 pm
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>>446079
>two heart attacks
>intensity of relief when things are back up and running
>hungover
>processor the wrong way around

Can confirm. You should consider a career in IT.
>> No. 446211 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 1:36 pm
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I don't know what I did with the manual to the new boiler and thermostat and I have no idea how they work. It just keeps turning the heating on at random times. Please send help I'm so afraid.
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17th September 2021
Friday 1:37 pm
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>>446211

Google it ladm8.
>> No. 446213 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 1:42 pm
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>>446211
Probably need to enable bluetooth and get the app for your phone....
>> No. 446220 Anonymous
17th September 2021
Friday 5:05 pm
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>>446211
It probably has more than one schedule, so you might go through the menus and find the "switch the heating on at the weekend" settings and think those are the only settings. In reality, there will also be weekday settings that need to be configured separately.
>> No. 446243 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 10:57 am
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Did an oil change on my Passat 1.8T this morning. Fucking oil filter was really stuck on. I went to Halford's to get an oil filter wrench for under ten quid, but it was really flimsy and pretty much disintegrated in the process of attempting to remove the filter with it. So I resorted to the brutal method, which is to drive a large flathead screwdriver into the side of the filter with a 35-oz hammer and then you can just turn it. It makes short work of even the most baked-on oil filter. Pretty messy though. Not recommended as standard procedure.
>> No. 446244 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 11:24 am
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>>446243

I'd never thought of that before, that's a good one.

The filter wrenches that are made with lengths of bike chain seem to be much better than the strap type ones, for future reference.

I never quite understood how something that's soaked in oil for the entire length of its service can end up so glued on. I suppose it's something to do with heating and cooling.
>> No. 446246 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 1:09 pm
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Got laughed at by a real filmhead earlier for mixing up Jack Palance and Jack Torrance. There's no mercy, no peace, left on this damned rock of ours.
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18th September 2021
Saturday 1:34 pm
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>>446244

>I never quite understood how something that's soaked in oil for the entire length of its service can end up so glued on

The mistake many people make is to screw the filter on too tight. It really doesn't need much torque. The filter I bought has instructions on its side to use as little as 15 ft lbs/20 Nm. And then if the filter socket is warm and the filter is cold, it adds to the problem, and you'll end up having to use brute force on the next oil change.

Bit like when you screw cold spark plugs into a warm cylinder head.
>> No. 446248 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 2:20 pm
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>>446247
>ft lbs
It's happening.
>> No. 446249 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 2:23 pm
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>>446248
I want torque expressed in kilopondmetres or get the fuck out.
>> No. 446250 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 2:51 pm
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Tinder was exclusively showing me Gemma from HR types who were all far out of my league anyway, so I gave Hinge a go and it's just more of the same. Like even if I wasn't a fucking chubster uggo I'd have literally nothing to talk to these lasses about.
>> No. 446251 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 3:57 pm
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>>446250
>who were all far out of my league anyway

Come on, lad. The way it works is we all think we're shooting for the stars when forced to actively chase but then you get a streak of luck and a couple women in the chat who quickly get into you. Then you realise they're barely literate, full of red-flags and worst of all boring. The difference is that Tinder is more actively focused on the photos\Instagram-spam which changes the demographics slightly.

People = shit.
>> No. 446252 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 4:21 pm
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>>446250

If you're into dirty single mums, get on Plentyoffish. If you're into women with blue hair and self-harm scars, get on OKCupid. Failing that, try this new app called Real Life.
>> No. 446254 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 4:29 pm
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>>446248

Recently a good third of our aircraft were grounded because the head of engineering updated a spec sheet and got confused between ft lbs and NM, meaning that portion of the fleet ended up with hilariously incorrectly torqued nosewheels.

The bit that worried me, and everyone seems to be ignoring so they can just blame one bloke, is that it took an entire day, maybe hundreds of engineers across the country to question whether it was right that the spec had suddenly dropped from 750+ nm to 500 and something overnight.

We work hard to give an impression of absolute safety in modern flight, but it's mostly dumb luck that more people don't die horribly.
>> No. 446256 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 4:32 pm
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>>446252
>try this new app called Real Life.

Fuck that shitty corporation. I once bought some Real Life coins and they slowly lost value the whole time!
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18th September 2021
Saturday 6:18 pm
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>>446256

Real pay to win mechanics too. Nobody told me you fuck up your build if you don't choose the right skill tree at the "higher education" quest, when everything before it had been meaningless; and there's no ability to re-roll without significant griding.

3/10, at least the combat was immersive.
>> No. 446260 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 6:21 pm
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How much bread can one man eat in a day? On weekends I have 3 extra-large eggs with 4 slices of brown toast for breakfast. Then I want a light dinner.
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18th September 2021
Saturday 6:27 pm
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>>446260
I once set myself the challenge to eat an entire loaf of bread in one day, and managed it effortlessly. If you want a real challenge, do a full pack of Ryvita in one day. It's smaller, but it cuts your mouth open, like eating scissors.
>> No. 446262 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 6:44 pm
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>>446261
This is what I was thinking, people in the middle ages had bread at every meal. They obviously had their health problems but they ate a lot of bread and lived to tell the tale. Some, I'm told, even managed to reached adulthood.

I looked up the bread quota online and it seem about 6 is the maximum with 4 ideal given its caloric density. That doesn't seem like much even if it's shitty supermarket bread. If anything that might balance our the comparatively low-level of activity we do in our daily lives.
>> No. 446263 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 6:58 pm
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>>446262
One of my favourite pubs serves a curry in a loaf like that - I'm now dreaming of it.
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18th September 2021
Saturday 7:25 pm
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I went to my local Co-Op, which I go to every day to buy beer. There's a new guy, who tried to ID me. But then a long serving employee said "we don't ID him, we know him", then it made me ponder if it's a good thing or a bad thing that the staff just automatically approve me for alcohol because I buy so much of it.
>> No. 446265 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:04 pm
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>>446264
I have also been strangely offended when a shop remembers my cigarette order. On the one hand I suppose I am grateful for their attention, but like you I couldn't but help think it's a bad thing.
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18th September 2021
Saturday 8:20 pm
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>>446262
The activity was one thing that helped yes. But the bread has changed too.

Modern wheat varieties have a higher calorie/fibre ratio even before comparing wholegrain to white.
There's the argument that slow traditional fermentation of bread is healthier than the very fast production processes and yeasts used today.
But one of the most worry things about modern bread is that almost all wheat gets sprayed with glyphosate just before harvest to kill the plant and start the drying process. Research on glyphosate has shown that it interferes with your bodies ability to properly turn calories into energy. It's debatable whether people typically consume enough of it to have much of an impact on your health, but still it's not particularly great to be eating that on top of an already incredibly calorific diet.
>> No. 446267 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:30 pm
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>interferes with your bodies ability to properly turn calories into energy
This doesn't make sense, the calorie is just a unit of energy. I did a quick Google and it looks like glyphosate maybe upsets our gut microbiota, in particular the flora that help digest food, effectively slowing down our metabolism.
>> No. 446268 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:49 pm
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Today I met up with my school friends for drinks, I reckon almost a year to the day since I last saw them. I think this year and last year were the first times in a while that I haven't regretted going to some extent afterwards, which is in part because they have a habit of being overly nostalgic for things that happened ~15 years ago but mainly because last year one of them didn't turn up and this year she was only there in part; I've never entirely worked out why we're still in contact with her other than out of habit because none of them appear to like her and they spent the first half an hour or so after meeting up just slagging her off.

What I was surprised to learn is that one of them recently cheated on her boyfriend. They've been together for well over a decade, during which time he has been very manipulative and emotionally abusive to her. He's cheated on her many, many times. I've always known she would never leave him to be single, only to be with someone else, so I hope this is her finally growing a backbone.

They gave me some funny looks at one of the bars because I wasn't charged for a drink and I didn't fess up to it, but if they're charging almost a fiver for a 330ml bottle of Peroni they can bollocks.
>> No. 446269 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 8:56 pm
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Missus is off staying with her family and I'm fully living the bachelor dream again for the weekend. Had a good tidy up this morning, and it'll actually STAY tidy for once. Had a big wank in the living room to reward myself. Leftover chinese from last night for tea.

The dream.

If it wasn't for the financial security I think I'd move out. I bloody love being on my own. It's like constantly living with loud music blaring out in the background, and then someone turns it off, and you have blissful silence.
>> No. 446270 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:00 pm
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>>446269
>Had a big wank in the living room
Why is this the ultimate bachelor move? I don't find my living room to be an erotic place at all, but as soon as our lass goes out, I'm casting porn from my phone to the living room telly and enjoying the microfibre settee on my gooch.
>> No. 446271 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:21 pm
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>>446270

Marking your territory innit.
>> No. 446272 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:30 pm
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>>446246
I went on a wiki-walk just now, learning about various films, and I picked up lots of facts I didn't know already. Among them, apparently Busby Berkeley was only one person. I always thought it was Mr Busby and Mr Berkeley.

If you're wondering what I also wondered: no, the legendary choreographer from the golden age of musicals was not gay. He was married six times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley
>> No. 446273 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 9:51 pm
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>>446267
>This doesn't make sense, the calorie is just a unit of energy.
* It interferes with the mitochondria in our cells, reducing the amount of raw fuel (fat and sugar) which they can convert into ATP (which is the main source of energy that our body functions with).
>> No. 446274 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 10:35 pm
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Jenas and that Cro-Magnon prick on Match of the Day. It's actually ruined my weekend.
>> No. 446275 Anonymous
18th September 2021
Saturday 11:52 pm
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>>446272
I am also on a wiki-walk, and it just reminded me that Vikki Blows exists, which I am thankful for.
>> No. 446276 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:14 am
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>>446252
>POF
I honestly had no idea how to navigate the site. It was like a Web 1.0 fever dream.

>OKCupid
Been on there for nearly 10 years. It's just a shit Tinder knockoff these days anyway.

>Real life
I had my shot at that at uni and fucked it up. Now I'm a Working Adult there's not really much I can do IRL. I've done a few open mics, play on and off in a band, etc. I'm a cripple so sports aren't an option.
>> No. 446277 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:21 am
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I don't believe anybody who says real life is coming back in as some kind of backlash against the prevalence of online dating.

It really isn't, not unless you're some kind of wanker student, or you live in central London, where there are all these fancy board game clubs and hipster cunts playing DnD as though it's somehow actually cool now and not something you would have been mercilessly bullied for when I were a lad.

Anywhere in the real world it's still POF, Tinder, or your hand. Pubs and bars are on their arse and most normal people only have boring hobbies like going to the gym and taking pictures of their meals to put on instagram. It's a non-starter.
>> No. 446278 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:30 am
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Simon Whistler has done a youtube video on just about every topic imaginable. No matter what I type in, somewhere a bit down the page, there's always a video from one of his dozens of channels. He must be making absolute shedloads of money.
>> No. 446279 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 1:53 am
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>>446278
The absolutely over the top accent he does hurts my soul. Either that or he speaks like that normally in which case, Jesus Christ.
>> No. 446280 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:17 am
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>>446277
>you live in central London, where there are all these fancy board game clubs and hipster cunts playing DnD as though it's somehow actually cool now and not something you would have been mercilessly bullied for when I were a lad.

I assure you it's not. Although don't know about the board games because I can't stand playing them. What 'real world' means is you meet women through friends or at an absolute push go speed dating.

No, nobody pulls at the pub anymore unless you're looking to catch something.
>> No. 446281 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:27 am
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>>446280

Yes, but the point is nobody has friends any more in today's atomised, post apocalyptic hellscape. You have work, and you have people you used to know but now only send memes at each other and then click the laughing emoji out of tired obligation to respond.

And honestly, speed dating? Same thing as Tinder but a lot less convenient. Really, lad.
>> No. 446282 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 4:57 am
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>>446280
> Although don't know about the board games because I can't stand playing them.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but maybe I can change your mind. Don't think of board games as a sport or contest, they are socialising with training wheels. Some of the more "crunchy" competitive games don't work so well for that but even the crunchiest co-op game (e.g. "Spirit Island" or "Eldritch Horror") is just a good excuse to spend a few hours together. It's like going bowling or playing darts. Sure, some people get competitive about it, but for the most part it's about having an excuse to spend time together.
>> No. 446283 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 5:03 am
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>>446280
Is speed dating even still a thing?
>> No. 446284 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 8:01 am
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My girlfriend wanked me off last night and she's still asleep so I've had a wank after waking up this morning. I have a really buzzy contentment at the moment. Wanking is good for the soul.
>> No. 446285 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:08 am
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I'd probably lose my nut if someone walked away from paying me ninety-billion-dollars, but the French really need to, well, do like >>446284 and calm down.
>> No. 446286 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:34 am
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>>446285
They missed a trick - could have been called FAUKUS.
>> No. 446287 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 12:14 pm
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If people used to take their surnames from their occupation how come I've never met anyone called Rag-and-Bonesman? And that fat lad doesn't count, he's a singer.
>> No. 446288 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 12:30 pm
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>>446287
From what I can remember, surnames in this country didn't take really off for commoners until after the Black Death as the large fall in the population meant that many now had the opportunity to move elsewhere in search of better paid work. This meant to identify themselves they'd be known as "John the Cartwright" or "William from Nuneaton" and this stuck. I don't think rag and bone men existed until around the Victoria age.
>> No. 446289 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 12:45 pm
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>>446281
Sounds like a you problem. If you don't have friends then you have more pressing issue than a lack of a girlfriend.

>>446282
I'd sooner sit in the pub and talk to someone. Really you might as well do a sport or take up an allotment in that situation so you're at least getting fit. I know some people are super into boardgames but I find the whole process gets in the way, especially when playing with people into it.

>>446287
>>446288
English surnames emerged from identifying people when there was another village idiot with the same name. There's a whole administrative process that kicks it off but you can look at surnames as evolved nicknames and thereby a window into how unoriginal people used to be:

Greenhill = lived on a Greenhill
Brown = wore brown (or had brown hair)

You'd therefore get professional names when there was only one or two in the area and that's why the names are things like Smith, Potter etc. but not Mr Turnips. Otherlad is right that you didn't get such people back then but the closest would be Tinker. I say 'English' because you obviously have things like Scottish clans.
>> No. 446291 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:04 pm
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>>446287

How come you've never met anyone called Steve Techsupport?
>> No. 446292 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:09 pm
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This burgeoning 'real life' cunt-off sort of misses the point, I think. It's just that lasses who really would have no trouble finding a lad in real life are on Tinder, and it's all very photogenic. That's fine, everyone said Hinge is a bit different, maybe there're some weirdos on there I could actually have a conversation with. But, I try Hinge and it's just more of the same. Conventionally attractive girls with absolutely zero personality.
>> No. 446293 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 2:59 pm
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>>446292
So just don't message cardboard women, the system will recycle your deck anyway.

>maybe there're some weirdos on there

A genuinely weird girl in the way your imagining her doesn't need to use dating apps. She's probably already happily married to that bloke she met in her abstract pottery class.
>> No. 446294 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 3:32 pm
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Well, just logged in to OKC to see what was going on, and now you have to pay to not get people 100 miles away. Right then.

>>446293
Sure, but so far I've only been shown cardboard girls. Also, what about my imagining her?
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19th September 2021
Sunday 3:41 pm
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https://www.ravelry.com
>> No. 446296 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 3:58 pm
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>>446294
Well there's a lot of cardboard people. You might well be a cardboard man for all we know, trying to find the last hidden remnants of true humanity.

>what about my imagining her?

Misaki is never going to knock on your door.

>>446295
'Fiber artist' sounds like a fun euphemism for a corporate conman or grifter.
>> No. 446300 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 7:25 pm
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>>446292

Unfortunately there are dating/dating app realities we all know about and yet another app won’t change that. Generally it’s a numbers game so the more established an app or site is the more members it will have and more chances if meeting people, niche apps and sites tend to be too underpopulated to provide anything other than increased frustration and fantasies of genocide.

Not going to complain as I met my current woman on Tinder.
>> No. 446303 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:27 pm
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I just pissed away my weekend pretending to drive old race cars. I may as well have gone and got my old Hotwheels out of the cupboard at my dad's and pushed them around on my bed, at least then I'd have had to walk somewhere and talk to someone.
>> No. 446304 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:34 pm
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>>446303
iracing?
>> No. 446305 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:42 pm
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>>446303
I said to myself after a busy Friday that I would spend some of my weekend catching up on my work. Making sure I do what I can so I have chance to argue with an idiot come Monday and not have other deadlines to worry about.

So I spent all weekend procrastinating and not having a good time to do about an hours work. I hate my job.
>> No. 446306 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 10:59 pm
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>>446304
No, Mr Richton of Rich-upon-Cash, Assetto Corsa. I was driving some of the GT Legends mod cars, the Group 4 stuff. I kept trying to make multiclass work, but by God the AI in that game is as dim as a cheap bulb falling into a black hole sometimes.

>>446305
Yeah, everything's shit. I'm going to get a shower so I can get out bright and early to see if they still sell Angel Delight.
>> No. 446309 Anonymous
19th September 2021
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>446306
They do still sell Angel Delight. My other half badgered me into getting some a few weeks back and I fully expected it to be vile, my childhood memories forever tainted as a result.

It's absolutely fucking delicious m8. Bound to cheer you up.
>> No. 446311 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 12:17 am
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>>446309
Thanks, mate, I could just make it through the night.
>> No. 446312 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 1:09 am
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>>446306
> Mr Richton of Rich-upon-Cash
Not me. A colleague of mine is quite into it.
>> No. 446315 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 12:55 pm
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Oh, I see. Silly gibes aside it's fine if sim racing is your only thing, but next weekend I'll probably be wasting time on entirely new thing.
>> No. 446320 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 1:22 pm
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>>446315
Ah he's full on - racing twice a week in leagues or championships or what have you.
>> No. 446323 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 3:05 pm
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I caught some of the Emmys last night. Surely nominating The Mandalorian for an award for "outstanding casting" is just trolling? Disney spent the entirety of the airing period of the last season publicly distancing themselves from Gina Carano for being a Trump loonie, but pretending it was for anything other than her being a Trump loonie.
>> No. 446324 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 3:12 pm
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>>446323
Why would that be relevant?
>> No. 446326 Anonymous
20th September 2021
Monday 6:22 pm
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>>446323
Space Bostonian was great, Boba Fett was good and Meth Chicken has good pathos.

>Disney spent the entirety of the airing period of the last season publicly distancing themselves from Gina Carano for being a Trump loonie, but pretending it was for anything other than her being a Trump loonie.

I know it's the Emmys but there's no reason to be a faggot about it.
>> No. 446643 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 7:17 pm
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Has something happened to cheese? In the past month or so all the cheddar cheese I've bought, which has been from different brands for research purposes, has tasted different to usual.
>> No. 446645 Anonymous
1st October 2021
Friday 9:09 pm
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I just went to the shops with a jumper on. It's official for me, we're in the colder months again. I'd resisted for this precise reason but now it's happened.

Oh well, this is actually my favourite time of year. Jumpers are comfortable, hearty meals are perfect, soon I won't be noticeably paler than everyone around me. I really should go out and get a girlfriend because it's the time of year for it but I have to spend all weekend chasing a promotion with endless forms.
>> No. 446647 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 3:58 pm
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>>446645
I thought about a jumper myself, but it was raining and a jumper and a raincoat would have been excessive. So I'm still rocking the just-a-T-shirt style. How I will feel on Monday is another matter.
>> No. 446648 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 6:37 pm
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I discovered that I've got 3 50% off vouchers with UberEats because I just left the app installed on my phone. Used one on pizza last night but I've now discovered I can get half off at Sainsbury's and there's a store promotion where if I spend £20 I get £5 off. Currently chuckling to myself as I wait for a driver to be in range who is going to go out of his mind trying to load my shopping for a 75p delivery fee.

Might top this night off by using the £10 voucher the daft gits at Sarah Millican's Squelchy Fanny Custard send you when you don't order for a couple months because you're not eating it every meal.
>> No. 446649 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 6:38 pm
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>>446648
I would assume for a big order they'd get a driver with a car rather than have some poor bastard ferry about tons of food on the back of a bicycle.
>> No. 446650 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 8:40 pm
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Sarah Z has become too hot for me to watch. It just makes me feel bad/horny/bad.
>> No. 446651 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 9:04 pm
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>>446649
You're overestimating Über, a bike arrived but as it turns out they have a good deal of storage space. Now comes the problem that my last voucher expires on Thursday so I need to up my consumption otherwise it'll feel like a waste.

Maybe I'll just buy £50 worth of toilet paper and see what happens.
>> No. 446652 Anonymous
2nd October 2021
Saturday 9:34 pm
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>>446650

She's just talked about The Hunger Games for what feels like an hour and a half, you're not missing much.
>> No. 446776 Anonymous
6th October 2021
Wednesday 9:02 pm
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You' know what, even at 50% I don't feel like I saved any money. All the 'supermarket' deliveries are those bullshit local/express/littles where products are more expensive and they only carry brand items in smaller sizes. Then there's the issue of items being unavailable that they only discover after taking my money despite this being a basic inventory job. And then there's the fact that the steak I got is not the one I'd choose myself.

Which brings me onto my next point that I had to do it three times to have the discount applied today. If I didn't have my spending pop up on my phone I wouldn't have known to cancel. Shan't be food shopping online again.
>> No. 446942 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 3:02 pm
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For the first time in my life I was asked out on a date by an attractive woman today. She's organising a trip to a karaoke place followed by food and drinks and she promises to hold me close. Another woman came back to me today to talk about a log-cabin and I've been getting all sorts of likes.

I'm not boasting so much as curious what is happening. Do you think she wants to ram a big fat willy into my balloon knot? Are women just in the mood to have a good seeing to over Halloween, possibly because of some restrictions being eased?
>> No. 446943 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 3:06 pm
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>>446942
I, for one, am interested in hearing how this proceeds.
>> No. 446984 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 10:20 pm
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>>446943
Well she's paid for a room, organised dinner and given me plenty of time to look pretty. I need to behave like a normal human being until at least Saturday morning but being on this side of things has knocked me off balance. Organising an evening is a nuisance but the element of control is at least helpful.

What are some good karaoke songs I can learn by next Friday? I need to survive 45 minutes so that's 25 minutes minimum including a duet or two.
>> No. 446985 Anonymous
15th October 2021
Friday 10:42 pm
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>>446984

How about some AC/DC, Queen and Mika? Whole Lotta Rosie, Fat Bottomed Girls, Big Girl (You Are Beautiful), all classic karaoke tunes.
>> No. 446996 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 9:04 am
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>>446984
You need to find something everyone (girls) will join in on.
>> No. 446997 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 9:21 am
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>>446996
Journey is my karaoke go-to there.
>> No. 446998 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 10:22 am
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Do you lads know anyone that's trying to get internet famous? Someone I went to school with started imitating Arron Crascall a few years back but that petered out, but I know someone else who is trying to get Tiktok famous and she's constantly promoting her children streaming games on Twitch when they're about 6 and 8 years old.
>> No. 446999 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 10:36 am
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>>446998
Yes. A female acquaintance, who I still have on Facebook, became a Twitch partner this year, and is trying to become a well known streamer. However, she is utterly charmless, and the games she plays are boring to watch. She's gone to a lot of effort, making loads of channel artwork, she even made a 2 highlights/intro video for when her channel gets raided, so she can show what top banter she can do. I've never seen her with more than 10 viewers at a time.
I have another friend who is also a Twitch partner, who doesn't get a lot of viewers, but she's charismatic enough to get a fair amount of donations and gift subs due to her small following of people parasocially attracted to her.
>> No. 447000 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 10:48 am
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>>446998
I just started my twitch channel for speedrunning a 25 year old game which takes 9-10 hours for a full run. Obviously I can't tell anyone I know that I'm this autistic, but my girlfriend is oddly supportive about it and chose the twitch name 'anonwilkes' as a reference to Misery. On my first stream I got followed by the leader of the translation project, the creator of the fan forums, the current record holder, and a guy who's porting the game to unity and remaking it on PC. And my brother but that doesn't count. It feels quite nice, I get nerdy conversation in chat and I know one or two people are going to watch every stream, plus a few more when I get the record.

Girlfriend's mate recently started streaming LoL, and she's mega fit and charming in her colloquial northern way, so she's obviously smashing the subs and moved on to doing it full time after a few months. I have no expectation of such a meteoric rise.
>> No. 447001 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 11:36 am
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>>446999
I'm not sure it still qualifies as parasocial if it's a small enough community that she's actually interacting with them.
>> No. 447004 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 1:05 pm
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I don't know what thread this goes in.
>> No. 447005 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 1:23 pm
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>>447004
It would take a heart of stone not to feel sorry for him on that, though.
>> No. 447006 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 1:29 pm
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>>446998
A friend of mine's younger brother is in Tana Mongeau / Jake Paul's entourage, and is at the point where he's making money somehow just from being a minor Instagram celebrity. I'm not sure how he's making money, he mostly just posts stories of them all being smashed and spending a normal person's salary in one night.

We were all in the same place for a wedding last weekend and I ended up going out to dinner with Mongeau and a few other YouTube/Instagram celebrities. She was quite nice, but we did have that mutual friend connection. The other's spent the whole night on their phones, using flash in a dark restaurant to take pictures of their food, and generally looking miserable whenever they weren't posing for a picture.

Sage because I'm 31 but know who these people are.
>> No. 447008 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 1:57 pm
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>>446999
Are you sure she's partnered? It wouldn't be typical for a 10-viewer streamer to get partnered these days. If you're basing it only on her having a sub button, she's probably just an affiliate.
>> No. 447009 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 2:37 pm
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>>447008
Ah that makes sense. I wondered why these people with 10 or so viewers were being made partners. I just assumed if you could subscribe to them with real money, they must be partners.
>> No. 447010 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 2:44 pm
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>>447006
>generally looking miserable whenever they weren't posing for a picture

I think being desperate for "content" all day must do that to people.
>> No. 447011 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 3:10 pm
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>>447010
I think I've posted this on here before, but about 3 years ago LadBaby came into the venue I worked in. He literally spent several minutes trying to get the perfect selfie in front of a mural on the wall. I didn't know who he was at the time, so I just assumed it was some vain twat trying to get a good Facebook profile pic.
>> No. 447012 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 3:49 pm
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>>447011
>LadBaby
I remember that story, vaguely. I'm so disconnected from all the crap UK pop culture I think that anecdote of yours is the only way I knew he existed. Even his name bothers me for reasons I can't immediately explain.
>On 13 December 2020, the couple announced their new Christmas single entitled "Don't Stop Me Eatin"... It was also up against 'Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt' by Kunt and the Gang, which was backed in the race by Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker
See, now I'm thinking "Brooker must post here" because I don't know what's going on outside, but for all I know Kunt got so big during lockdown he's got an arena tour booked for 2022 and he's going to contest Amess' seat in a byelection.
>> No. 447013 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 4:15 pm
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>>447010
The lads were the SoundCloud rapper type, 'n'all. Barely out of their teens, with faces covered in shit little tattoos.
>> No. 447014 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 5:08 pm
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>>447012
>for all I know Kunt got so big during lockdown he's got an arena tour booked for 2022 and he's going to contest Amess' seat in a byelection.

I think the Boris Johnson song, which was utter wank by the way, was the first time I'd heard of Kunt releasing new material since about 2014.
>> No. 447016 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 6:42 pm
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I need clean but I can't be bothered. How much do clearers usually cost?
>> No. 447017 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 7:03 pm
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>>447016
Do you want them to clan your house or clean your cock?
>> No. 447019 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 7:33 pm
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Marriedlads, any tips on dealing with the anxiety that one of your dickhead mates is going to ruin your wedding somehow?
>> No. 447020 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 7:34 pm
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>>447019
I've told you, I put the real doll in the bin I'm not bringing her, honest.
>> No. 447021 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 7:51 pm
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>>447019
Don't invite them. Failing that, have a word with them beforehand.
>> No. 447022 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 8:22 pm
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>>447019

Man-marking. Ring around your non-dickhead mates and assign them someone to keep an eye on.

If people are hitting the bar hard at the reception and you get the feeling that things are about to get messy, take your Mrs aside and suggest that you both quietly slip out and go for a romantic evening in the honeymoon suite.
>> No. 447024 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 8:52 pm
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Just spent an hour trying to remember the word "conducive". Boy, do I love weekends!
>> No. 447026 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 9:10 pm
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Bradley Walsh is hosting programmes on BBC One (Blankety Blank) and ITV (Beat the Chasers) at the same time.
>> No. 447027 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 9:21 pm
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>>447026
My only opinion relating to Saturday night television is that I wish to have a large breasted, South African, dancer and MILF for a wife.
>> No. 447028 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 9:23 pm
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>>447022
The problem is less that my mates are dickheads, and more that my side and her side will not have met before the wedding. My mates are all loveable working class northern lads, hers are all Americans and some of them are the new money sort. I'm not worried about my lot making a scene, but some of her friends take themselves much too seriously and that makes you a target when it comes to group banter.

I'm sure it'll be fine. The bigger concern is my mam's disdain for Americans, and my future mother-in-law being a cartoon of all the reasons my mam dislikes Americans.

Best case scenario, nobody understands a word of what anyone else is saying.
>> No. 447031 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 10:05 pm
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>>447028
>Best case scenario, nobody understands a word of what anyone else is saying.

That sounds like a great plan for a wedding.
>> No. 447033 Anonymous
16th October 2021
Saturday 10:45 pm
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>>446292
Just realised that I've never done 'Pizza & Prosecco'. Am I missing out?

>>447017
I looked it up and it's only about £16 an hour. I'm not booking them every week mind but seasonal cleans are a nuisance and I'm a single bloke so I always live in the home maintained by a single bloke.

I'll let you know how much the cock part costs but it might just be the tip.

>>447028
Oh you big fanny. Americans love the English working class and everyone obviously knows to behave when it's a wedding.
>> No. 447034 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 12:06 am
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How the sodding hell do you flip a tank over?
>> No. 447036 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 2:10 am
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>>447034

Bad breakover angle on a sufficiently steep incline, or incompetently driving onto a transporter trailer, or maybe just steering too sharply at speed.


>> No. 447038 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 2:36 am
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>>447034
With a swinging 70s soundtrack, rugged terrain and the Swiss infantry.

>> No. 447043 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 4:06 am
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>>447033

>Americans love the English working class

Exactly this. Your mates could be Jeremy Kyle level scum and the Yanks will still be charmed by them.

>>447034

Kinetic energy = 1/2 mass x velocity squared. I'm not sure which vehicle was involved in this accident, but a Challenger 2 travelling at 25mph has the same kinetic energy as a Volkswagen Golf travelling at 180mph. When things go wrong in a heavy vehicle, they go wrong slowly but spectacularly.
>> No. 447045 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 9:11 am
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My local Reel cinema have increased their ticket prices from £2.50 to £3.50. Broken Britain.
>> No. 447046 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 9:32 am
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Went to see the newest Halloween film last night.

God, it was a load of shite, in just the kind of way a trashy horror flick should be. I love when a film strikes just the right balance of self-consciously daft but stays just earnest enough, so you can laugh both with it and at it. The silly gory horror movie bits were great and the bits with a level of intentional humour all hit just the right notes, but for some reason there was a load of forced sentimentality in places, and some truly awful, [i]awful[/] dialogue.

What was weird was that a lot of people (and this was a packed showing) didn't seem to get it, they weren't laughing. I think they were expecting something that takes itself entirely seriously, which is weird, because I can't think of a single slasher flick that ever has done. It even starts off with a character in drag, which should be a hint I'd have thought.

Is it just because I'm a weird grebo nerd who watches b-movies by choice, or is everyone else just a bit docile?
>> No. 447047 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 10:05 am
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>>447046
Slasher films have fallen out of fashion. There's always been the likes of Freddy and Jason films, but if you go back c. 20 years ago there was a surge in popularity thanks to the likes of Scream, Jeepers Creepers and I Know What You Did Last Summer, plus ones that tried to follow this formula like the remake of House of Wax. You could even argue that the Final Destination films were in a similar spirit because they had the same campy gore humour about them. That's without mentioning the less mainstream entries, like when Jack Frost used his carrot nose to rape someone to death.

Modern horror films, particularly the mainstream ones, are now largely super serious and are overly reliant on jump scares.
>> No. 447048 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 12:14 pm
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>>447046
Difficult middle movie syndrome.
Halloween : Ends is out next year.
>> No. 447049 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 12:15 pm
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>>447047
What masterpiece is this?
>> No. 447050 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 12:39 pm
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>>447049
>like when Jack Frost used his carrot nose to rape someone to death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Frost_(1997_film)
>> No. 447051 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 9:28 pm
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I have the Sunday evening of dread. I don't have any homework to do, so I'm not sure what's causing it.
>> No. 447052 Anonymous
17th October 2021
Sunday 10:05 pm
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I've had a couple of glasses of wine and discovered I can do a pitch perfect King Diamond impersonation. I'm really quite impressed with myself. Neighbours probably aren't mind.

Are there any Mercyful Fate tribute acts in need of a singer?
>> No. 447053 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 8:39 am
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>>447052
I am sure your neighbours were loving you squeal grandma in a falsetto of a Sunday evening.
>> No. 447054 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 9:05 am
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>>447050

Isn't it Angelina Jolie?
>> No. 447055 Anonymous
18th October 2021
Monday 9:06 am
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>>447054

Shannon Elizabeth even.
>> No. 447266 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 1:49 pm
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>>446943
It went alright I guess, jumping into karaoke on a first date is a terrible idea but we did it. She's living with her parents in her 30s, has never been in a relationship and doesn't kiss on the first date so I guess rather than having a tremendous amount of bottle she's just a bit spergy.

Still, I said to myself that I'd try and make a relationship work so there we go.
>> No. 447269 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 3:57 pm
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I have to pretend to enjoy a moussaka later.
>> No. 447273 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 5:20 pm
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>>447269
Have you ever tried moussaka? It's the tits. Are you going over to someone's house who is a famously terrible cook?
>> No. 447275 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:15 pm
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>>447273

Aubergines are bullshit.
>> No. 447276 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:20 pm
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>>447273

Moussaka is terrible. There's no texture, and when they try to make it have some texture, that thin crust just highlights what you're missing.
>> No. 447278 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:46 pm
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>>447273
>It's the tits
Perhaps the genuine article is, but the lamb, aubergine and bechamel trifle I'll soon be contending with isn't. It's like lasagna, but worse, somehow.
>> No. 447280 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 6:59 pm
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>>447269
Mousaka is great, lasagne but with delicious aubergine instead of bland pasta. I don't even like vegetables but love a good mousaka.
>> No. 447284 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 7:28 pm
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>>447280
Aubergine is shit. Proper shit.
>> No. 447286 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 7:56 pm
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I couldn't get a pointy red pepper for my grisly homecooked lunches that I eat at work last week, and in the end I was forced to settle for an aubergine. They're not as bad as a food I would genuinely refuse to eat, of which there are many, but I don't feel any desire to eat more aubergines now. They change completely when you cook them, which I guess is a good thing and certainly implies that a skilled chef could make them nice, but when you cut open your first aubergine since 2003 and it's bloody green inside, that certainly put me off anyway.
>> No. 447288 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 8:01 pm
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In other news, why are city-dwellers all so young suddenly? Absolutely nobody, not a single person, in Manchester city centre today was over 25, except for me. I guess travelling by tram exposed me to ghastly yuppies, and shopping for clothes exposed me to fashionistas, but the whole city centre was nothing but zoomers, like I had mistakenly gone out during some sort of Logan's Run purge and was going to be executed.
>> No. 447289 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 8:07 pm
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>>447280
>I don't like vegetables
I've never understood this in some people, practically all vegetables are just begging to be eaten in whatever way you want. It's up there with people who whinge about how they don't like "the texture" of foods.

Not taking a stab at you in particular, just your kind.
>> No. 447293 Anonymous
23rd October 2021
Saturday 9:45 pm
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>>447286

I'm a skilled chef. Aubergines are shit.

I think it's telling that one of the most popular ways to cook them is to slice them and chuck them on a grill and basically forget about them for half an hour. Not even people paid to cook them want to actually cook them.
>> No. 447300 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 12:33 am
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>>447293

There really is no appealing way to prepare them.

My mum dabbled in aubergine stir fry now and then when we were kids, but it's not a fond childhood memory.
>> No. 447301 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 12:34 am
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>>447300
Baba ganoush?
>> No. 447307 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 1:08 am
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>>447288

It has always been the case that people tend to move out of city centres when they start a family, but the move to home working during the pandemic has greatly emphasised the demographic difference.

People who are established in their careers have less need to show their face in the office every day and more reasons to want to be at home, while younger workers are going into the office because they want to make an impression on their bosses and don't want to be working from their shared house or tiny bedsit.

People who used to go into town for a bit of shopping have now realised that out-of-town shopping centres are far less hassle if you're in a hurry or have kids in tow. Shopping online becomes much more appealing if you're working from home at least some of the time and can wait in for parcels.

Crowded city centre venues declined during the pandemic in favour of local venues with more space; popping around the corner to your local restaurant rather than going into town is a sticky habit.

Things might eventually return to normal, but I doubt it. I don't think that boomers and gen xers will return to city centres in any appreciable numbers.
>> No. 447315 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 11:52 am
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My granddad is losing his marbles. He was diagnosed with dementia-related paranoia this week.

And I mean, he's fucking losing it. The other day, he taped old newspapers over his bathroom window because apparently the frosted glass "isn't enough to keep the aliens out". I kid you not. And a while ago, he called BT and told them he would sue them if they didn't stop collaborating with ISIS. You see, BT are recording all his phone calls and forwarding them to daft militant wog organisations so they can work out a way to steal his money and fund their daft militant wog activities with it.

They did a risk assessment with him and he isn't considered likely to harm himself or others, so there isn't much you can do. He is supposed to go on antipsychotic drugs now to help him settle down, but even in his lucid moments, he's not fully convinced that it isn't another ISIS conspiracy.
>> No. 447322 Anonymous
24th October 2021
Sunday 6:28 pm
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>>447315

You have my full sympathies mate. Dementia is a bastard. My nan went doolally in the last years of her life and it was both heartbreaking and infuriating. It obviously wasn't her fault that she acted like a total arsehole, but that didn't make it any easier to deal with.
>> No. 447327 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 2:14 am
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On the off chance my fat fuckery doesn't kill me with a heart attack at 55, I'd like to hope we as a society have got over this fear of euthanasia and I can sign a DNR-style document to just give me a bye bye pill if I lose my faculties.
>> No. 447333 Anonymous
25th October 2021
Monday 2:04 pm
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>>447322

My grandad said last night that Boris Johnson himself rang him up to talk about the aliens situation, and that they need my grandad to testify in court.

I knew it was bollocks, but I checked the logfiles of his phone router. Apparently he himself called a phone number connected to GCHQ (if google is right) three times one afternoon, all of them brief calls lasting less than a minute. I don't even want to know what he told them. The psychiatrist said it might be a good idea to block all outgoing calls except for emergency service numbers, but with the state of mind my grandad is in right now, he'd only see that as proof that somebody is after him. He's not generally aggressive, but he gets verbally abusive when you tell him he's deluded.

It's all pretty fucked up.
>> No. 447468 Anonymous
30th October 2021
Saturday 10:34 pm
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I made the move to Windows 11. As someone who only ever uses Windows key + 1, 2, 3, or E, I feel like the supposedly massive aesthetic changes are lost on me.
>> No. 447469 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 2:27 pm
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Do you ever get a text from your parents and you can't decipher what it is they're actually on about?
>> No. 447470 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 4:20 pm
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No my mother just calls me out the blue and leaves passive-aggressive voicemails. No wonder old people don't have any friends if every time they pick up the phone it's to cause a minor cunt-off.
>> No. 447471 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 4:41 pm
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Had two groups of trick-or-treaters already, thought it was a bit early for that.
>> No. 447472 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 8:15 pm
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gaylads, how do I go about sucking my first dick without getting love and cherished? I tried grindr but it felt like a minefield.
>> No. 447473 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 8:26 pm
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>>447472

Attend a furry con, it should progress pretty naturally from there.
>> No. 447474 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 8:33 pm
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>>447473
He said without getting love and cherished.
>> No. 447475 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 8:48 pm
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>>447472

You could try your local gay sauna. It's luck of the draw as to whether you'll hit it off with anyone you like, but it's a safe, supervised environment for anonymous sex.
>> No. 447477 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 9:50 pm
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Think I've finally found the good takeaway in this town. Delivered in under ten minutes, which was impressive- They're only around the corner really but even so.

But what has me shocked is that the burger isn't even one of those weird burger van burgers, and don't get me wrong I love a dirty burger van burger; but this tasted like a proper burger, the type you get from the butcher's that taste fresh and beefy and delicious, as opposed to an amorphous vaguely meat-tasting disc. This shouldn't happen.

They also let you put cheese on the chips that come with your burger, which saves you ordering separate cheesy chips, and makes it worthwhile actually having chips. This should be standard practice in the take-away industry. Are you listening cheflad?

The pizza isn't stellar but a lot can be forgiven by the fact it turned up hot. It can't have been longer than two or three minutes between this thing coming out of the oven and arriving at my door, so the cheese is nice and gooey, and the dough is still soft and pleasant.

I didn't order a dessert, I'm already being fat enough having a pizza and a burger to myself, but if they stock the good kind of diabetes inducing Costco fudge cake, they've got all my boxes ticked.
>> No. 447478 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 10:02 pm
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>>447475
To be honest that sounds incredibly nerve wracking, but thank you.
>> No. 447479 Anonymous
31st October 2021
Sunday 11:39 pm
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>>447477

I think I've officially become a snob because it wouldn't occur to me to buy pizza or burgers from a place that sells both pizza and burgers.
>> No. 447480 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 12:04 am
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>>447478

I think there's an old thread on /y/ about saunas. They're surprisingly laid back, because the guys who just want a quick fuck are all on the apps.
>> No. 447481 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 2:51 am
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I keep looking up girls I used to have sex with on Instagram.
>> No. 447482 Anonymous
1st November 2021
Monday 1:08 pm
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>>447479

Where I'm from it's rare to see a takeaway that specialises in just burgers, just pizza, etc. Most will do one thing and offer a rudimentary selection of other stuff.

This one is what I think of as a generic "coming back from a night out" takeaway- It just does burgers, pizzas, kebabs, and a bunch of random sides like garlic mushrooms or whatever. You can't really go wrongwhen the only things they sell are dead easy to make, I reckon.

The ones you want to stay away from are usually the ones that primarily do Indian, but have everything else on there just to broaden their market. Usually they're masters of none, but even then there's an exception to every rule- The best pizza I've ever eaten in my life came from an Indian; they must have used some additional spices in the sauce or something like that. It wasn't your proper Italian pizza pizza, but it was bloody good.
>> No. 447625 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 7:14 pm
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Went to Stoke-on-Trent today. I don't want to blow anyone's mind, but it's quite shit. All I wanted was some boots and they couldn't even manage that.
>> No. 447627 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 8:35 pm
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I've got back from a long day at work on VAT deadline day, I've been drinking coffee most of the day until about 6, and now I can't seem to relax for my night out tonight. I've had a couple of joints, I've got a beer on, some wine ready to go, dinner's going, I just can't get into the 'going out' mood or out of the "I should be doing more work" mode.

I suppose having a shower and putting on some drum and bass would help. Is there anything else that can help you transition from the working day? I got all my work done but I still don't feel like I have, and now I just feel on edge. I've got a pill but I want to save it for the middle of the night.

Just have to wait to snap out of it I guess.
>> No. 447628 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 9:27 pm
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>>447627
Just ignore it and go out. You'll be fine once you're out in a different atmosphere and around other people.
>> No. 447629 Anonymous
5th November 2021
Friday 9:55 pm
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>>447628
Yeah, you're right. Just need to get my girlfriend in the mood now that she's decided that because I've not been talkative this evening, I won't be talkative when we're out, and thus it's not worth going out. It'll be alright and we'll make up, but still ??????
>> No. 447630 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 1:13 am
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I took a lass out on a date, ended up paying for dinner after we did one of those London hipster activities and then we went for a romantic walk. This turned into her popping into a supermarket to pick up some breakfast fry-up items and then I offered to walk her home. Turns out this meant getting on the tube to her stop which is the opposite way to me so I asked if I could stay over - she said of course, if I wanted to, we were being very affectionate at this point. I walked her to her door quite chuffed that I was going to do some shagging and get breakfast as well. Then she kissed me and said goodnight and I had to spend 45 minutes going home.

This whole women malarkey is a load of bollocks if you ask me.

>>447627
You can solve it the same way you solve every medical ailment; you should have a good wank.
>> No. 447631 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 1:32 am
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>>447630
I've never had cause to tell you this before, m8, but frankly you come off as the kind of man who expects scrambled eggs at breakfast and I don't think she was ready for that level of commitment.
>> No. 447632 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 5:49 am
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My shoulder and neck are being a bit of a bastard so I have smothered them in Deep Heat, which seems to be doing the trick.

Should I be rubbing Deep Heat on my muscles and joints on a regular basis anyway? I'm assuming it must be good for them and would help me remain lithe, the main downsides I can think of are the smell and I think I'd be making myself a lot more flammable.
>> No. 447633 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 10:30 am
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>>447630

Think yourself lucky lad, it could have ended like the perilous tale of almost-rapist-but-not-quite-but-maybe-a-little-bit-lad.

She did take you for a bit of a mug mind. London isn't the safest place so it's understandable she wanted company, but she knew what she was doing there. Next time, make it clear you'll only act as a bodyguard if she sucks your knob after.

Womenrespecterlad might not like it but as a fisherperson I have to insist you treat her with the same mercenary transactional self interest as you would a man.
>> No. 447635 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 2:46 pm
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Anyone seen that Charlotte Tilbury ad on telly? I don't know what it is about it, it's just so busy. The shot cuts every second or so, everything's spinning and revolving, all the text is like, sparkling particles. I've never seen an advert like this before and I hope it doesn't catch on and is just the product of poor taste. It's like unironically using a star-wipe in powerpoint, on a human face, forever.
>> No. 447636 Anonymous
6th November 2021
Saturday 3:49 pm
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>>447632
Consider one of those percussive deep tissue massagers like a Theragun, they're really good.
>> No. 447641 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 2:03 pm
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I'm enjoying a couple of tins of Caffrey's having done a thorough clean of my flat this morning, then I may proceed to have a run of the mill, Wednesday 9PM wank at half 2 and have to clean up again.


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>> No. 447653 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 9:02 pm
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Snots, stuffy nose, aches & pains and no taste or smell.
Is it lurgy, or super lurgy?
>> No. 447654 Anonymous
7th November 2021
Sunday 9:09 pm
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>>447653

Probably best get a test just to be sure, it's the right thing to do. And score a week off work, but of course that's totally incidental.
>> No. 447660 Anonymous
9th November 2021
Tuesday 8:11 pm
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Moving back to London. I hate it. £1750 for a two-bed in zone 2 - and that was a very good deal.
>> No. 447661 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 11:42 am
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I find it quite hard to get animated about politcs lately, because the only things that really upset me are aspect ratios and copyright laws.
>> No. 447662 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 11:45 am
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>>447661
Why do people post 'ratio' online? That one has sailed completely over my head.
>> No. 447663 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 12:02 pm
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>>447662
It's about the number of replies-to-likes the post they're responding to has. Lots of replies (or quote-tweets) and few likes means it's very unpopular.
>> No. 447664 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 1:41 pm
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>>447663
Also "ratioed" when your reply gets more updoots than the parent.
>> No. 447665 Anonymous
10th November 2021
Wednesday 3:14 pm
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Out of coffee so I’m reduced to drinking tea. I don’t know what you see in the stuff, it just tastes like plants.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 447677 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 4:13 pm
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>>447661
copyright laws.

What in particular? Out of bored curiosity.
>> No. 447678 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 5:10 pm
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>>447665
Yeah, you know what. A normal cuppa is rank. There, I said it. Some green teas are nice if brewed correctly. But the tea 95% of us Brits drink is piss.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 447679 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 5:12 pm
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>>447678
Just coz you posted that I'm gonna make myself a nice cup of warm sweet tea and enjoy it with some biscuits.
>> No. 447682 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:11 pm
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>>447678
I bet you put the milk in with tea bag and then add tepid water. A lot with tea is down to how you make it.
>> No. 447683 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:14 pm
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I prefer coffee, but tea is also nice once in a while. As a long term smoker I have to make it really strong to taste anything, though, with two teabags usually, and at least two sugars.

I like a nice Earl Grey on occasion, and chai tea is phenomenal on a cold winter evening like these.
>> No. 447684 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:34 pm
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I recently made the switch to loose-leaf Yorkshire Tea, which I find to be altogether much more pleasant. Brewing the tea requires a level of presence of mindfulness which Big Teabag had stripped away from the modern teamaking experience. Highly recommend.
>> No. 447686 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:51 pm
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My regular tea is either Teapigs strong Earl Grey or their Breakfast blend. I will drink about 4-6 cups of coffee in a regular day and since working more and more days in the office recently I am getting fed up with having Gold Blend instant. I have become far too used to my cafetiere at home.
>> No. 447687 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:54 pm
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>>447686
If your office has one of those godawful Keurig machines, I've had great luck with a reusable K-cup and decent ground coffee. Just grind it coarse as if you're using a filter coffee machine, not fine as though you're making an espresso, otherwise you'll end up with sludgy dregs.
>> No. 447688 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 7:54 pm
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Lads. If you had just inherited half a million. What would you do with it? Seriously. Presuming you were a poor fuck beforehand.
>> No. 447689 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:01 pm
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>>447687
No suck luck, we've got a big commercial sized tub of instant coffee, which ends up with sticky lumps of coffee and sugar in it. The other choice is a terrible coffee machine in the canteen, which costs 30p for a thimble full of muddy brown liquid purporting to be coffee.
>> No. 447690 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>447688
What do you want out of life? That's the first place to start. The question should never be "I have [x] amount of money, what do I do with it?", it should always be "I want [x] out of life, how do I use the capital I have available to try to achieve this?"
>> No. 447691 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:02 pm
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>>447688
Buy property and become a slumlord landlord.
>> No. 447692 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:04 pm
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>>447688

I'd buy a house and a half decent car, maybe go on a nice holiday too as a treat, then stick the rest of it in some sort of mixed share portfolio pension scheme or something, and carry on going about my life as normal from that point.

With that sort of sum you don't want to suddenly try and live like the landed gentry. But if you control yourself and don't spunk it up the wall, it's just enough to remove any trace of financial stress from the rest of your life.
>> No. 447693 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:15 pm
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>>447688
Buy a house and new car outright.
No mortgage or finance fuckery.
The House means you have a stable paid for home, which if need be can be flogged down the line. A new motor should be reliable and come with a decent 3-5 years warranty which covers you for a while.

Otherwise, save and invest, don't suddenly think you can be LOADSAMONEY.
>> No. 447695 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:21 pm
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>>447688
Buy house, invest rest, possibly look into how I can use my new investments to violently bring down the establishment. Not all of it; just the housing market and the first-past-the-post electoral system.
>> No. 447697 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 8:37 pm
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>>447688
Probably offer to buy my parents a house. They're in Hull so half a million would buy a street if they wanted it.

After that I'm not sure. If I ever make a substantial amount of money, I plan to set up a scholarship to help kids from shit secondary schools get into researching hard sciences. PhD studentships and funded postdoc positions and all that.
>> No. 447698 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:33 pm
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I'm not boasting, I'm conflicted and it has cost me a lot of money. For the past 3 weeks I've seen a different (East) Asian woman every weekend, part of that is the Christmas rush where even women who stopped talking to me months ago are coming out the woodwork* but it's also a reflection of a growing exclusivity I seem to have.

I'm not quite sure what to make of that, Frasier. I've been sexually attracted to Asian women on some level since Noodle was telling me to get a cool shoe-shine and most of my romantic relationships have involved Asian women so it's not just a passing fetish. At the same time as a white guy it still feels a little wrong'un because of the stereotype - my first interracial relationship at 17 had an old couple come up to me and ask if I fancied wife swapping for the night.

Not really an emo because I'll do what I want, more talking codshit to strangers and imagining my dad struggling on my wedding day with the catering and wishing I'd married an Indian girl. The worst part is the attraction seems to be growing.

*fuck these women by the way, George Michael has warned me of their tricks.

>>447688
Buy an estate agent and make money off the otherlads who don't realise how hot the housing market is running at the moment. Maybe rope in our resident anarchist by promising the rig the system so the people buying investment properties are actually buying complete money-pits that force endless work on them.

>>447689
>which costs 30p for a thimble full of muddy brown liquid purporting to be coffee.

Anyone else quite like bad coffee for its industrial aesthetic? It reminds me of being young and working job I didn't give a fuck about where I getting my first hit of coffee in the morning after going out the night before. Just a tar-like substance with oil over the surface that would get me through dealing with awful co-workers and awkward interactions with customers.

I bet they're a dying breed and will slowly disappear as their plastic cups run out.
>> No. 447699 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:47 pm
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Ok so how exactly do I invest 500k? Overwhelmed.
>> No. 447700 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:47 pm
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>>447699
Invest it in what?
>> No. 447701 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:48 pm
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>>447698

There's a 21 year old chinese girl just started at my work who cosplays as a JoJo character and she's so bloody fit it's driving me mad, I swear to god. Somehow she's single too. I've been responsible for training her at various points and she even has that stereotypical Asian girl fear of making mistakes, presumably because her dad beats her if she ever fucks up the chores at home, but holy shit. I had to give her a little bit of a one-to-one talking to to calm her down and reassure her that when we highlight mistakes in our line of work, it's not about personal blame, but about consistency of standards, and oh my lord. I almost had to go rub one out in the bogs after.

Forgive me father, I know this is most impure and lecherous of me but why have you put this vile temptation in my path if not to test me where you know I will fail.
>> No. 447702 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>447700
I don't know, stocks and shit.
>> No. 447703 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:52 pm
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>>447702
For what purpose?
>> No. 447704 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 10:55 pm
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>>447703
I want the number in my bank account to go up and not down.
>> No. 447706 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 11:10 pm
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>>447704
What are you going to do with this extra money?
>> No. 447707 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 11:28 pm
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>>447706
Are you a Scientologist? Why are you talking to him like this?
>> No. 447708 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 11:44 pm
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>>447707

I think he's just trying to establish what sort of investing the lad should do. The answer to that question could be anywhere between "quit my job tomorrow and live off this" to "put it all into my retirement" and those different scenarios need different types of investing.
>> No. 447709 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>447704
The most basic way you can invest is to put the whole lot into tracker funds. I use Vanguard for all my investments; they're massive so they're not charlatans, and they're fine unless you have some personal philosophical opposition to them for having so much money.

Tracker funds are incredibly basic; you pick a stock market, and you effectively buy one of every share. If the entire stock market crashes, you will lose money, but over time, if you wait long enough, all stock markets always go up, so it's a great place to leave your money if you know you won't immediately need it. Even when you pay a financial advisor to use their incredible expertise to pick individual shares for you to buy instead, they are unlikely to beat the market as a whole. However, if you fancy it, you could just invest all the money in Tesla, or Amazon, or even share the money among every machine-learning company you can find, safe in the knowledge that one of those companies will presumably shoot up in value even if all the others fail. But now we're getting into actual financial advice, which I'm not good at.

Obviously you can invest £500,000 into basically anything if you know where to look. If you have a plan and it works, you will make more than a tracker fund will make. If you don't have a plan, invest £10,000 a month into the FTSE 100 for the next 50 months. You will kick yourself occasionally for missing big opportunities, but you will do reasonably well (single-digit percent profits per year) and if you spread the money out wide enough, it's almost impossible to fail.

You say you were "poor as fuck beforehand". If you have any debts, pay those off before anything else.
>> No. 447710 Anonymous
11th November 2021
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>447699
We have a thread for investment advice but broadly you find a reputable platform and put it all in several (different) index tracker funds. Doing several investments in different areas is called diversification where you're spreading bets. Don't look at your investments often because on the bad days you might panic and sell on a low, just play the defensive and inactive investor and you can't lose over the long-run. That's the simplest way you play stock market, if you get slightly more cocky then you move to active investment funds or 10% (MAX) in big or dynamic companies.

Think of a solidly diversified portfolio as playing roulette where rather than playing the numbers you know it will usually land black (for reasons) and can slowly accumulate capital by always betting black even if you get the odd streak of reds. Also there's a bomb where if it hits red too many times then the casino blows up and you die anyway. Some people take a bit more risk and earn greater rewards with a similar level of security but you don't know what you're doing and you need to drill that into your head unless you're willing to put serious work in.

>>447701
>Somehow she's single too

Let me tell you, either women are lying to me or one thing I've noticed is that Asian women are just perennially single. I've met so many who have never been in a proper relationship before, even those in their 30s - that includes ones born and raised here.

Best crack one out. Not that you would but because you could if you only gave some sweet talk about spending Christmas together.
>> No. 447711 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 12:01 am
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>>447710
I'll add what me and other-lad forgot which is that when it comes time to realising your profits (i.e. selling) you need to be aware that your allowance is £12,300 profit a year before you need to pay capital gains tax. That does not count what you're holding that has increased in value, only the realised profit when you sell what you're holding.

So when you're withdrawing your now 513k to loan to your Chinese wife for her family business in Shenzhen you will pay a little tax. It's insignificant at this stage of wealth but worth looking into maxing out your ISA limit every year to protect your money from being wasted on whatever it is governments do these days.
>> No. 447712 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 3:33 am
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>>447701
>>447710
There's a Chinese lass I've known since we were teens that I fancy the arse off. She's got massive wabs.

Also I'm a little bit stoned, and this juxtaposition of discussions about Asian girls and investment strategies is more than a little jarring.
>> No. 447713 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 3:51 am
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>>447710

>Let me tell you, either women are lying to me or one thing I've noticed is that Asian women are just perennially single. I've met so many who have never been in a proper relationship before, even those in their 30s - that includes ones born and raised here.

IME, East Asian women often have the same "don't you dare talk to boys"/"why aren't you married yet?" parental dichotomy as South Asian women, only without the arranged marriages. They also often have the same ingrained expectation that being in a relationship means giving up all their independence to become a subservient housewife. It's not that they don't want to be in a relationship, they're just so messed up and muddled up about the whole business that they steer well clear.
>> No. 447716 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 8:46 am
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We've got an intern who is an American Korean. She seems very plain and quiet whilst at work, but having seen the pictures she's posted on her Instagram of her at festivals and out on the piss she looks like a right sort.

She's only been here just over a month, but she's into her third year in Britain, so she went from puritanical America under the eyes of Asian parents at 19. Now she's living in a shared flat with her mates and out on the lash 4 nights a week. When she returns the States she'll be drinking the average septic frat boy under the table.

She's still very fastidious with her work, but she has to ask if she should be doing stuff and is constantly second guessing herself. I don't know if it's because she has to get everything perfect or if she has to always seek approval.
>> No. 447717 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 9:02 am
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>>447716

(South) Koreans are nothing like as puritanical as the stereotype; Orange Jok culture became fairly normalised with capitalism. I find it really only still applies with some Chinese and Japanese. Filipinos, Thai, Malaysians, Hong Kongese: all these people from places with high Western military presences or tourist traffic are all heavily influenced by that.
Even so, a lot of students and emigrants from very traditional families who choose to come here do it because they don't fit with their familial expectations - not all but a much higher than average number of them are LGBTQ+.
>> No. 447719 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 11:38 am
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>>447716
>She's still very fastidious with her work, but she has to ask if she should be doing stuff and is constantly second guessing herself. I don't know if it's because she has to get everything perfect or if she has to always seek approval.

I'd echo this that it really seems to be a common feature of the Asians I've met that they're very much on a track when it comes to life - "my dad is a lawyer so I'm a lawyer, sister became a dentist so I have a fascination with dentistry" kind of deal. It works in terms of success on a very set path (up until they join the workforce) but honestly even a lot of those that eventually rebel still carry the baggage that they've never been in a relationship before so have completely unrealistic expectations of love, dating and how life in general works - I'll be dating a 30 year old woman who talks like a teenager who has just started her BA in Drama. Although I should probably avoid stereotyping too much as obviously there's something going on that attracts me to them like a magnet.

I also notice the same problem in Asian-Asians. I'm really trying to ingrain in one of the people I manage at the moment that she's smart enough and has all the resources to take the initiative and it's really all she needs to do in order to progress in her career. But even then I'm still providing an example which she copies without realising they need to make a new spin for a different audience and task. Maddening stuff for a white boy who back when I was in her shoes would just do it my way and take a bollocking for it as part of the process.
>> No. 447743 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 3:40 pm
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>>447717
As I pointed out though she is also a Yank with Korean heritage, but her parents are religious Christians. So she had never drank alcohol before coming to the UK due to being a good Christian girl who wouldn't break the law. So coming from that to live in halls with a bunch of Freshers, who for the most part have been drinking most weekends from the age of 15 she was almost passing out at pre-drinks. So there was definitely a case of culture shock, especially from someone who grew up on Harry Potter and Dr Who. Her being an Anglophile is pretty much the sole reason for her coming to Britain to study.

>>447719
She's only been with us as an intern for just over a month now, so I can understand having questions and being unsure. She's picked up the majority of the day to day dealings quickly, but she will still come to see me to check she's doing the correct thing. I work in local government and her dad was involved in government in the States, so she's very much following down the families line of work.
>> No. 447759 Anonymous
12th November 2021
Friday 8:37 pm
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I've got two weeks left at my job and I can't be fucked.
>> No. 447773 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 8:01 pm
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My daughter's best friend's family are pretty rough. The dad has cheated on the mum many times, including when she was pregnant, and he went out drinking last night so she decided the best thing to do was get drunk and leave the kids home alone for about six hours whilst she went out and fucked someone else. He's subsequently kicked her out so she's been around here for the last few hours and it looks like she's going to be sleeping in our living room unless the council homeless team can sort her out with temporary accommodation. I'd really rather... not.
>> No. 447775 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 8:54 pm
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>>447773
Set her up with one of the online dating gang here. Not the rapist one, but one of the others.
>> No. 447777 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 10:15 pm
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>>447775
I'm not sure they'd tolerate that much hassle. The council have found her a B&B to stay in but she's coming back tomorrow to use our computer to apply for universal credit. It sounds like her ex is a piece of work, really controlling and doing things like putting up cameras all around the house so he can see what she's doing and making her ask for permission if she needs money to spend. She rang her parents and they called her a slag and they're not going to help her out whatsoever.
>> No. 447778 Anonymous
13th November 2021
Saturday 11:20 pm
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>>447777
>putting up cameras all around the house so he can see what she's doing

Sounds like bollocks to me. Brace yourself, if even her parents are sick of her then you can expect a lot of drama coming your way.
>> No. 447784 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 7:57 am
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>>447778
It's not bollocks, while he was here he got their kids to video call her and ask why she put blankets over the cameras and left them alone to go and see another man. I guess that's another generation that's going to be completely fucked up like they are. Either way, I can't be arsed with all the aggro and drama.
>> No. 447800 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 1:16 pm
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I see ARE LIZZY missed the ceremony despite intending to attend. Should I start digging out the mourning gear?
>> No. 447803 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 2:42 pm
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>>447800
She sprained her back. Officially, she is fine otherwise. She needs to last till February for the Platinum Jubilee, so I'm crossing my fingers that we aren't already into Weekend at Bernie's territory.
>> No. 447805 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 3:08 pm
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>>447800

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg
>> No. 447807 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 3:09 pm
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I think I've said this before, but despite being a republican since I knew what the word meant I hope she lives forever. The insanity of the country is going unbearable for a very long time afterwards, indeed it might just go more and more insane if the way Dianna is spoken about now is anything to go by.
>> No. 447808 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 3:19 pm
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>>447803
>She sprained her back

Has anyone seen her wearing a poppy this year? Maybe HRH posts here and the annual outbreak of poppyphobia has rattled her.
>> No. 447810 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 4:03 pm
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>>447807
I feel similarly, but partially because I feel like any modern coronation ceremony is going to be awful wank. The kind of thing this country does terribly (but believes itself to do well): the mixing of very very old traditions with a self-aware pretense of being modern, multicultural and hip. "Making the monarchy relevant" and all that shite. Worse, it will of course be followed by constant explanation and wanking itself off over how that's what it's doing, occasional controversy by people who're upset about this sort of thing but for the wrong reasons, and so on and so on.

That's before you get to how badly an official mourning period will translate to the internet age, with some people adopting the same kind of competitive mindset that's made a joke of remembrance day while others don't care at all and take the piss to the chagrin of the daily mail. All the while the BBC manages to completely fuck up finding an official balance between the two, managing to come across as both completely insane and deeply insincere, somehow not up to the task. (How much easier it must've been in 1952, when you could just broadcast the anthem and switch the transmitter off!)
>> No. 447811 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 4:09 pm
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>>447810
And now lets go to Hudderfield, where Jean has painted her entire house black in respect of the national tragedy.
>> No. 447813 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 4:22 pm
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>>447810
They said this about the London Olympics. I think we can do the kind of patriotism that is tongue in cheek when we want to.
>> No. 447816 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 4:41 pm
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>>447813

If there's anything I'll admit to our country actually being good at, possibly better than anyone else, it is taking the piss out of ourselves. Nowhere else seems to have such a grasp on how to be properly self deprecating in humour.

I think possibly more annoying than genuine patriotism is when you get cunts being competitively anti-patriotic, people who just endlessly go on about how much they hate Britain and being British and everything. Just shut the fuck up you maungy cunts, every country has its problems. When the queen does croak we'll see that lot out in force on the socials to loudly and proudly proclaim just exactly how little they care.

Everything has to be contrarian these days.
>> No. 447817 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 4:48 pm
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>>447816

Now I'm being contrarian about you being contrarian about their being contrarian about patriotism.
>> No. 447818 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 5:30 pm
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There'll be a week's holiday when she dies, for national mourning. A week off for everyone would be bad for the economy, which trumps everything, and therefore the Queen is going to live forever. QED. (Queen Eternallynot Dying).
>> No. 447819 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 5:40 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9J-dxEgY4
>> No. 447820 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 6:08 pm
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>>447818
>There'll be a week's holiday when she dies, for national mourning.

We won't even get a bank holiday - she's made her wishes very clear on the matter so we definitely won't get it. What we will get instead is a luxurious two minutes silence at midday on the funeral. Two minutes in which one might think thoughts of an acceptable level of gaiety, for example a favoured Christmas speech or a time you stayed late at work to perform an extra duty.
>> No. 447821 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 6:55 pm
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>>447820
>We won't even get a bank holiday - she's made her wishes very clear on the matter so we definitely won't get it.
What's the world coming to when we can't even get a week off when some old person dies?
>> No. 447822 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 7:55 pm
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Going to be stuck in a hotel on a work thing for 2 weeks in a couple of weeks time.

I no longer have a laptop that's capable of playing anything made after 2005, and whilst I could play Max Payne and Half-Life again, getting anything installed on my work laptop is a bit of a faff.

Is there anywhere I can borrow a PS4/XB1 from for 10 days? Iirc, CEX only does a couple of days on return policies for cash.
>> No. 447823 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 8:17 pm
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>>447822
An emulator might be worth the faff? Some of them are portable so you might be able to just install on a flash drive or external hard drive, then keep all the ROMs there as well.

Failing that, a GBA emulator on your phone is always a good shout.
>> No. 447825 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 8:36 pm
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>>447822

>Is there anywhere I can borrow a PS4/XB1 from for 10 days?

Any online retailer. As long as you return it in as-new condition, the Distance Selling Regulations entitle you to return an item within 14 days even if there's nothing wrong with it.
>> No. 447827 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 8:40 pm
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>>447822
Read a book?
>> No. 447828 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 8:51 pm
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>>447822

What's wrong with prostitutes?
>> No. 447829 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 8:57 pm
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>>447827
Already got my Kindle loaded up. Still, it's good to have variety.

>>447828
Do I look like I'm made of money?
>> No. 447831 Anonymous
14th November 2021
Sunday 9:45 pm
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Uber did it.
>> No. 447835 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 1:07 am
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Fuck it, I might just buy a PS3 off eBay; I have a controller about somewhere. I've been meaning to play the Ratchet and Clank games ever since they came out, so probably 15 years now.

That said, you're still looking at £60 for one in pretty nasty condition.
>> No. 447836 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 1:44 am
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>>447835
There's plenty of pre-2005 games to keep you occupied, even rollercoaster tycoon and theme hospital should be good enough for a night or two. If you can't manage that then there's GTA for mobile phones.
>> No. 447837 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 1:47 am
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>>447835
Are you staying in the most boring place on Earth or what? If so, drop me a line and we can do nothing, it’s very boring here, remember?
>> No. 447838 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 1:59 am
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>>447836
Sure. I could probably get old PC games running with a bit of effort, but I can play those here. It's more a case of my last console was a PS2 and I'd like to try some of the exclusives I've missed whilst I have a room with a decently-sized TV. Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted, etc.

>>447837
It will be in London, and I have a few mates with whom I'll be out drinking, but that won't be every day.
>> No. 447850 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 5:04 pm
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>>447835
I can give you mine for free if you want. Although I have not turned it on for 4 years and I am not sure if it even works anymore.
>> No. 447855 Anonymous
15th November 2021
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>447850
Thanks for the offer, but I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be giving my home address to a stranger on the internet.
>> No. 447859 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 12:03 am
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>>447855
PO Box?
>> No. 447860 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 12:32 am
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>>447859
Costs £40 p/m from Royal Mail. I've just bought one for £40 delivered with controller off ebay. It's jailbreakable so I'll throw in a hard drive and 'back up' some games onto it.
>> No. 447862 Anonymous
16th November 2021
Tuesday 1:58 am
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>>447860
But mine had a pinhole camera that can record and transmit via wifi. The game has to be turned on though.
>> No. 447892 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 11:21 am
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PS3 arrived. Forgot how fucking massive the original ones were. The controller it came with is a DualShock 3 though so better than the SIXAXIS without a battery I have lying around.
>> No. 447919 Anonymous
17th November 2021
Wednesday 8:07 pm
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>>447892
Jailbreaking it was surprisingly trivial; now I need a bigger HDD and to do it again.
>> No. 447978 Anonymous
20th November 2021
Saturday 8:05 am
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I don't think I can cook popcorn without making at least three times more than I intended.
>> No. 447979 Anonymous
20th November 2021
Saturday 8:27 am
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>>447978
The secret is that it gets three times bigger when it pops.
>> No. 447994 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 9:53 am
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I appear to have woken up with severe chest pains. How novel.
>> No. 447996 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 11:25 am
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Has Farmfoods gone up in the world? I know financing means just about anyone can get a flash car these days, but there was an awful lot of fairly new and decent model German cars parked outside when I went this morning.
>> No. 447997 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 1:05 pm
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>>447996
Or PCPs and car loans etc have allowed plebs drive such cars.
>> No. 447998 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 1:30 pm
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>>447997
Lad.
>> No. 447999 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 2:44 pm
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>>447996
I think the supermarkets that were once looked down upon, have become more widely adopted due to COVID hitting wallets and also food supplies. You go to Lidl or Aldi and you can get Wagyu beef products or game or upmarket booze. Iceland nowadays has more focus on its premium range rather than weird party food which was present during the reign of Katona and Donovan. Don't know much about Farmfoods, but maybe they're being gentrified too.
>> No. 448000 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 2:44 pm
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>>447996
I think the supermarkets that were once looked down upon, have become more widely adopted due to COVID hitting wallets and also food supplies. You go to Lidl or Aldi and you can get Wagyu beef products or game or upmarket booze. Iceland nowadays has more focus on its premium range rather than weird party food which was present during the reign of Katona and Donovan. Don't know much about Farmfoods, but maybe they're being gentrified too.
>> No. 448001 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 2:53 pm
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>>447999
>Don't know much about Farmfoods, but maybe they're being gentrified too.

They're definitely not being gentrified. The stores are still largely freezers full of turkey twizzlers with rows of biscuits, sweets and crisps above them, with about one-fifth of the shop floor dedicated to pallets stacked high of drinks cans.

That said, I picked up a bottle of balsamic vinegar for 29p so can't complain.
>> No. 448002 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 4:33 pm
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Our lass has been gone all weekend and all I've done is get intoxicated and masturbate, despite having quite a lot of work to do.
>> No. 448005 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 5:11 pm
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>>447996
Fuck posing. Fuck what people think. A bargain is a bargain. I haven't noticed Farmfoods getting any fancier, but then I don't buy their weird frozen pies with mice and pigeon feet in. The things I do buy, however, are cheaper than they are elsewhere, so I would be a mug to shop somewhere else.
>> No. 448006 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 6:27 pm
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>>448005
Yeah, fuck all those posers at Asda.
>> No. 448007 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 8:15 pm
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I'm just going to say fuck the posers in the flash cars that insist on taking up two spaces. Tempted to make a special effort to park next to them to dent their door next time I see one. Posing cunts.
>> No. 448009 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 9:07 pm
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I jazzed up some tinned chili con carne tonight with fried onion and bell pepper and by lighting up a few chips of beechwood from the back garden in the pot with a gas torch and letting them smolder for a few minutes under a lid before putting in the chili. A trick that I saw on a cooking show once, and which really adds a nice smoky flavour.
>> No. 448013 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 10:43 pm
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>>448009
You can also get a smoky taste by mixing in the contents of an ashtray.
>> No. 448017 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 1:13 am
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>>448009
I dumped a perfectly good rosemary plant earlier as I'm moving next week. I was tempted to keep hold of some to burn in an upturned glass to make a proper old-fashioned, but I realised all my glassware is already packed. What a waste. At least my bonfire will smell good.
>> No. 448019 Anonymous
22nd November 2021
Monday 9:03 am
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>>448017

It'll need to dry before being packed in glass anyway, just wrap some in loo roll.
>> No. 448096 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:37 pm
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I spent five days in hospital after posting this >>447994 You absolute sods didn't even reply once. After I've had my codeine shit we're having words.
>> No. 448097 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:40 pm
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>>448096

Was it the rona?
>> No. 448098 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 8:41 pm
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>>44809

Fucking hell, I can't speak for the other lad but I definitely missed that one. Glad you're not dead, are you okay now?
>> No. 448099 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 9:38 pm
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>>448098
In fairness I've probably made the same glib post a dozen times in the past and forgotten I felt even a little bit unwell by lunchtime. Looking at the time I made the Sunday post it was about ten minutes before I realised it was the kind of thing you could mock into unexistence.

The "thing" was a "spontaneous pneumothorax" which is a condition that's more likely to happen if you're kind of tall, thin and male. I'm absolutely fine now, and it was primarily a very weird week that seemed to pass in minutes long days and day long minutes all at once. Gave me a very interesting insight into the NHS I doubt many people my age get to see too. I still think it's grand, I'm just very aware I was at least two decades younger than anyone else recovering on the respiratory ward, and usually more like four or five. Hopefully it never happens again, as it's certainly unpleasant on it's own, let alone how boring the stay was. There was a chap in the same bay as me who freaked me out by telling me he was on his third collapse, but two days later I learnt he was still smoking so whatever. He claimed "three a day", but I believe that like I'll believe the next A&E doctor who tells me there may be some "slight discomfort".

Also, it's amazing how courteous people will be with pic related hanging out of you, especially if some blood gets pumped into the pipe. By that time I felt fine apart from the chest drain itself, and so it was twenty minutes before I realised why people five meters from me were stopping and saying "no, mate, you go first".
>> No. 448100 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:44 pm
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MY BIN HAS BLOWN OVER.
>> No. 448101 Anonymous
26th November 2021
Friday 10:51 pm
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>>448100
TEACON 2
>> No. 448106 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 12:00 pm
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It was very windy last night. 60 knot crosswind gusts at the airport I was at. Sadly our planes managed to get in before that, which meant nobody got a night off to go watch their fences get blown over or whatever.

Anyway, my fence all got blown over. I only put it up a couple of months ago, I think I'm going to just not bother doing it again.
>> No. 448115 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 6:44 pm
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It was so windy I had to close the little slots at the top of the UPVC windows. Unheard of.

When I woke up this morning (dead early, then went back to bed) it was covered in snow too, but I think I might have been the only person who saw it.
>> No. 448122 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 1:51 pm
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Might try making a website, because I keep complaining that this specific website doesn't exist. It's basically a random number generator, how hard could that be (actual question btw, no idea about any of this)?
>> No. 448123 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 1:58 pm
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>>448122

What's wrong with random.org?
>> No. 448124 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 2:49 pm
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>>448122

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Generate a random numbers between 1 and 10000</title>
</head>
<p id="rnd"></p>

<script>
let x = Math.floor((Math.random() * 10000) + 1);
document.getElementById("rnd").innerHTML = x;
</script>
</body>

</html>
>> No. 448125 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 3:02 pm
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>>448122

If this is a site for randomised masturbation instructions, they do already exist.
>> No. 448126 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 4:41 pm
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I think I'll have tomato soup pasta for my tea. I need some hearty comfort food in this weather.
>> No. 448127 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 5:00 pm
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>>448126

Hearty cum for food?
>> No. 448128 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 5:10 pm
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>>448127
Depends how hot and beefy it is.
>> No. 448129 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 5:38 pm
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>>448123
>>448124
>>448125
I want something to randomly select factions in a game, similar to how you can randomise teams in Fifa , you maniacs. When I said "basically a random number generator", I didn't mean it's literally that.
>> No. 448132 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 5:57 pm
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>>448129
Yes how stupid of them to not be able to divine your true intentions.
>> No. 448133 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 6:04 pm
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>>448129

Sorry, I missed the part where you explained anything beyond saying "basically a random number generator".

https://miniwebtool.com/random-picker/
>> No. 448201 Anonymous
3rd December 2021
Friday 1:14 pm
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We've put the issue to my demented paranoid granddad of him moving into care, as we can ill afford more incidents like the bin man shoving a few weeks ago. But my granddad was having none of it when my mum said to him that maybe it will be easier for him if he has other people doing all the little everyday things for him, and he just said to my mum in a watered down Geordie accent, "I wiped the shit off your bum every day before you could even walk!".

Note to self: Don't attempt to argue with a clinically crazy person. Even your most seasoned persuading skills will be no match for their twisted logic.
>> No. 448205 Anonymous
4th December 2021
Saturday 2:25 pm
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When I was at uni I ate like shit all the time and never felt any different for it.

Approaching 30 I've ate like shit for about 2 and a half days and then tried to do my usual gym and running routine and I feel like I might pass into the abyss at any moment. Currently lay on my floor just sipping water waiting for my energy to come back.

Eat properly everybody.
>> No. 448207 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 8:24 am
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>>448205
This.
I started making an attempt to lose weight with exercise and calorie counting a few months ago. And now I look at some of the stuff I used to just scoff without thinking and it turns out to be a single meal could use up my entire allowence for a day etc.
>> No. 448215 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 4:36 pm
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I've never been into piss, but I think that Sophia Urista thing might have awakened something in me.

https://www.redgifs.com/watch/internalharmlessgallowaycow
>> No. 448216 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 5:08 pm
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>>448215
I feel a bit bad about it; she's a fantastic singer and performer, I'm disappointed that her big break has come in the form of piss fetishists.


>> No. 448219 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 5:32 pm
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>>448216

It was an impressive piss, you've got to give her that.
>> No. 448221 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>>448215

I don't like how she just pulls up without so much as a wipe. That's asking for trouble. That said I wouldn't have ever said I have a piss fetish, but there's something very intimate about watching someone piss. It signals a lot of trust and ease in your company I guess.

Seeing it in that context doesn't do much for me, but if you've ever had a lass squat down and go against a tree in front of you while you're out on a long trek or something, that's quite... Yes.
>> No. 448222 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 6:10 pm
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>>448221

She was being punk on stage, you expect her to waddle to the side with her trousers around her thighs and wait for a roadie to bring her some loo roll?
>> No. 448223 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 7:09 pm
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>>448222

Yes, I know she's trying to be cool and BRILLIANT, but there's nothing cool about a bright red rash on your piss flaps. She'll regret it later on.
>> No. 448224 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 7:20 pm
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Maybe some of you aren't piss fetishists, but if she wants to wipe, there's always my face. I'll get her clean.
>> No. 448226 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 9:40 pm
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I see the appeal of piss, but whenever I taste my own it makes think I couldn't stomach a whole stream of it, even if it is from a sexy lady. Very bitter.
>> No. 448227 Anonymous
5th December 2021
Sunday 10:18 pm
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>>448226

It's probably fine if it's from someone as well hydrated as she was.
>> No. 448228 Anonymous
6th December 2021
Monday 2:23 am
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Don't know if I've ever been too miserable to go to sleep before, but it's great to know there are new experiences for me even in this bleak non-existence I call a life.
>> No. 448327 Anonymous
11th December 2021
Saturday 7:17 pm
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Today I had to go to Dewsbury. It smelled like poo because of that factory near Sainsbury's and I saw quite a few rats scuttling about.
>> No. 448346 Anonymous
12th December 2021
Sunday 5:29 pm
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Selena Gomez only has one expression.
>> No. 448422 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 12:08 pm
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I have a date later but didn't do my due diligence of internet stalking beforehand. Turns out my date is a Mormon, an Asian Mormon which is just confusing, how bad of a time am I in for? Should I just say that I have covid?
>> No. 448423 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 12:14 pm
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>>448422
You're going to get recruited so hard.
>> No. 448424 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 12:38 pm
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>>448422
Mormon missionaries, especially from the US, are fucking lovely. Their cultural conditioning produces very pleasant people. I'd like to mention the cult like aspect and how it's such a shame, but can I honestly say my life is better? Perhaps less deluded but who really decides what delusion is.
>> No. 448425 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 12:57 pm
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>>448422
Have fun but don't expect it to last if she's not thinking of leaving or you're not open to joining. Cults like to keep it in the family and will keep getting in the way.
>> No. 448426 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 1:19 pm
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>>448424

It's a shame they can't be lovely enough to understand that you are in a hurry to get to the train station, and you are too lovely to tell them to fuck off.
>> No. 448427 Anonymous
18th December 2021
Saturday 11:46 pm
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>>448422
My update is that she's pretty sexy, think Aubrey Plaza with a working class London accent who is chill but likes to wear the trousers. She's the classic hard Northern Chinese girl which makes for a strange break from Hong Kongers - she doesn't believe in democracy and thinks there's nothing wrong with what the Chinese communist party is doing. Her choice on the egg question is fried egg so she's a dirty girl deep down.

Such a shame that she's messed up with a cult, you can tell how it happened as well with some scumbag who friendzoned her so hard it destroyed her life and now she blames herself for not being able to read signs. Her 30th birthday is on Monday, should I hold off on the 'yeah it's not going to go anywhere good is it lass' dumping text until Tuesday?
>> No. 448428 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 5:30 am
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>>448427
How many timid Orientals have you dated now? I'm assuming it's all the same lad with yellow fever.
>> No. 448429 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 12:20 pm
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>>448428
>I'm assuming it's all the same lad with yellow fever

There were 3 of us in the /iq/ thread and therefore by the process of transubstantiation you're a yellow-fever lad too. What's wrong, did your wife catalogue get delayed by Christmas?
>> No. 448430 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 12:50 pm
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>>448429
Last time I checked, my hair isn't made out of pubes and I'm not wearing a Regatta/Craghoppers/Mountain Warehouse jacket so I can't be one of those creepy lads into Chinks.
>> No. 448431 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 4:01 pm
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>>448430
You actually might want to start wrapping up warm at this time of year with that new covid going around. I'm sure there's some Asian men about to cook you a vegetarian ready meal too, lass.
>> No. 448432 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 5:23 pm
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First time I won't be seeing my family around Christmas in my 29 years of life. Don't mind to be honest. My partner and I are both working, so fitting in a visit over New Years is just not viable. Also I don't particularly want to see them, as callous as that sounds. I'd rather sit in my underwear playing on my Xbox than have to put on my "I am a normal human being" disguise to interact with my family.
>> No. 448433 Anonymous
19th December 2021
Sunday 6:14 pm
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>>448432
I don't mind it either but you know what I do mind, people feeling sorry for me like I'm going to hang myself. It makes me question what normal people get up to when they're online if not getting up to cunt-offs. My boss is the worst because it's also overstepping bounds.
>> No. 448730 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 10:34 pm
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What is the appeal of Judi Love?
>> No. 448731 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 11:26 pm
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>>448730
She ticks at least two tokenism boxes, being simultaneously a woman and a black. And rather than being a scary and unpredictable one, she is the exact same sort of sassy that black women have been turning into a career since at least the 1990s and probably longer. She also presumably has the same celebrity agent that all the other boring fucks have, so whenever there is a celebrity version of any TV programme, you'll get all the same twats you see on every programme, now with a free bonus Judi Love.

There's some sassy black American woman who was on Live at the Apollo a few weeks ago, and she was fantastic. I've forgotten her name right now, but it's a shame the endless Celebrity Game Show You Would Never Normally Watch episodes don't get her instead.
>> No. 448732 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 11:29 pm
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>>448731
>don't get her instead

Yeah most of the panel / quiz shows that feature that familiar group of comedians have the same agent - she just isn't friends with the right people, sadly.
>> No. 448736 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 9:05 pm
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>>448730
She's just there as eye candy. Her actual comedy is dire, but she's very pretty.
>> No. 448737 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 9:51 pm
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>>448736

This is an almost perfect post. Genuinely no idea if it's bait or genuine, could easily be either here.
>> No. 448738 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 10:33 pm
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>>448737
It's got to be bait. Has to be.
>> No. 448739 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 11:36 pm
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Here's a tip for lassmates: If you're looking to get a bloke to message you back on a dating app you should avoid doing all your messaging on a Sunday night on January second. For me, tonight has been ridiculous for the traffic and how many women are obviously just bored.

Even a week ago would've been fine and I'd put up with all our superhero shit and "hi" messages on bumble but now I have a date at the weekend so I can be more picky.
>> No. 448740 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>448738
Dunno lad, you've seen some of the posts here. Who knows.
>> No. 448741 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 11:45 pm
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Pretty sure the Judi Love thing was bait by our new pal The Sun Reading Granddad.
>> No. 448742 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:03 am
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>>448741
How so?
>> No. 448743 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:10 am
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>>448742
Out of the blue, she wasn't even on telly when the post was made and let's be honest, there's nothing those freaks love more whinging about more than fat black lasses.
>> No. 448744 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:30 am
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>>448743
If you mean >>448731, then I wrote that post, and I sat through the entire Big Fat Quiz of 2021, which she was on, and I assume the other poster had seen her on that too. She was also on Strictly Come Dancing earlier this year. She is definitely doing the celebrity circuit, while I haven't seen her doing anything not as a celebrity, like presenting her own programmes or telling her own jokes or whatever. She's not offensively bad, but she doesn't contribute anything good either. She might as well not be there.

I have also posted several times in the latest clashes with Marxist Reductionist Poster, however, so you could be right.
>> No. 448745 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:35 am
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>>448744
I'm not reading all that, stop talking to me.
>> No. 448746 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 1:35 am
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>>448745
Okay.
>> No. 448753 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:36 pm
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>>448744
Also she's on Loose Women, and the panel show about black excellence, and Celebrity Masterchef last year. Her star seemed to rise very quickly and out of nowhere, particularly for an older woman.

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